NEA's Big Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God Creative Writing Workshops Submissions
This series of three workshops invited participants to explore creative writing through the lens of nature, memory (both communal and personal), and humanity. Drawing inspiration from Central Florida’s landscape, unique history, and literary voices—especially Zora Neale Hurston’s. The works below were submitted by students to be published online.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
By Ethan Hoyt (1st Week) Tell me why death wrought with the form of stamped love won’t unflow this world’s water and wind? It informs me it does. Coercively
The last lesson
By Gio Quezada Looking for coffee at four in the morning, I knew my life would never be the same. That coffee was a preparation, a small rite for
By Sarah Lockard
Walking along the beach yesterday with my sister and parents, we saw a Portuguese Man of War jellyfish washed up on the shore. We used to see them often when