Sessions will be in Dewing 103, Dewing 210, and Dewing 305.
Session 1
2:15-3:15pm
Panel A: Coming of Age
Dewing 210
Allison Klinger
Home to Me: A Personal Exploration of the Definition of Home
Jena Kendro
The Journey under Pressure
Anna Modlinski
Sacrament: Seeking the Sacred: A collection of short Stories of Semi-Girlhood
Jonathan Townley
The Very Hairs on my Head Are Numbered
Panel B: Love
Dewing 103
Addissyn House
Glass Slippers and the Power of Transformative Storytelling
Micah Hudgins-Lopez
Diversity in Love: Defining & Sharing the Medlies
Lizbeth Lopez
A Garden Made of Stones
Aarzoo Qureshi
I’d Kill a Man for You
Panel C: Gender & Sexuality
Dewing 305
Savannah Dobreff
Ill-fire
Lily Gross
Manipulation && Mobility” Analyzing Discipline and Post-War Discourses of Liberation in Seventeen Magazine
Brianne VanderBilt
The Cushion Book
Session 2
3:30-4:30pm
Panel A: Cultural Critiques
Dewing 210
Haley Crabbs
Is Public Education Worth Saving?
Amanda Dow
“Growth”: Musings on Milkweed and Accessible Science
Tyler Sakalys-Moore
“The Fight for Recognition”: A Journalistic Look into the Inequities between Men’s and Women’s Sports within the NCAA
Samantha Silverman
Blurring the Divide: The role the Internet and the Surge of Online Magazines Have Played in Conflating Matters of Academia and Popular Culture
Panel B: Identity & Community
Dewing 103
Francesco Giusseppe-Soto
Besco con Brown Baba: Poetic Writings of Queering Familial Space and Fostering Queer Consciousness
Nionni Permelia
Coiled Hair, Garden Guerrillas and Purple Spacesuits
Nilah A. Seals
Vulnerability of a Quiet Storm
Koyan Sidibe
Multimedia Poetry: Racial Identity and Consciousness
Panel C: Trauma and Healing
Dewing 305
Jessica Chaidez
“See You, See Me”: A Set of Stories
Emma Fergusson
Art as We Know It
Donna Li
Restart: A Novella
Miles Muirhead
You Can Only Live So Long