Writing Samples
My Professional Journey
February 2021
This is another very personal piece published on The Mighty. It again centers on anxiety and a specific approach to handling the day to day battle.
December 2020
This is my first ever published piece from outside of a university press. I am very humbled that The Mighty, an online mental health community forum, ran my review on their site. In the article, I applaud the writers of Big Mouth for adding a character to the show that animates a mental illness with perfection.
Published April 2019 in the Westfield Voice, Westfield State's student-run newspaper
I wrote this piece to show my appreciation for the many speakers on campus I was enlightened by.
2018
This ABC poem was published in Westfield State University's literary journal Persona. It was one of the first poems I wrote in my Creative Writing class that caught the attention of my professor, Leah Nielsen.
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Note: The italicized stanzas are lyrics from Kurt Cobain that I braided into the poem.
Spring 2017 and Spring 2019
These poems were written in my Creative Writing classes and was part of a campus-wide day of presentation called the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity or CURCA.
Also published in the Westfield Voice
This is a piece of creative nonfiction I wrote about my morning routine on campus with my roommate.
Janice Beetle is the founder of Beetle Press in Easthampton.
After interning for Janice, I wanted to know more about her incredible writing career and what was in store next.