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Hasanthika Sirisena is the author of the short story collection, The Other One, which won the 2015 Juniper Prize for Fiction. She is also an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna University and an associate fiction editor for West Branch literary magazine. Her essays and stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, WSQ, The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Narrative, and recognized by Best American… Continue reading An Interview with Hasanthika Sirisena
This is something very new (and kind of scary) that I'm planning on doing. Anyway, this past summer, I had the chance to study memoir and creative nonfiction at two different writing workshops. Namely, the KWH Summer Workshop (July 5-15th, 2020) and the Susquehanna Summer Writers Workshop (July 19-25, 2020). It was during this stretch… Continue reading A Bit About these Interviews
Well, there really is no way around this American rite of passage for millions of high school students, is there? I feel like I've missed out on a lot of things part of the so-called "High School Experience" (at least, that's what I call it in my head based on what I've gleaned from movies… Continue reading College Apps… the torture has begun
Let's be real: If the quarantine never happened, today wouldn't be August. It awes and scares me how fast time flies by. Remember when I was still stressing that it was May? Sometimes I just want to reach out my hand to stop the flow of time, but I'm beginning to learn that if time… Continue reading The KWH Summer Workshop: A Reflection
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