Nature is Medicine: The practice of falling in love with the world

October 16, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Jana Richman and Nalini Nadkarni, the authors of “Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness”, came to UVU to read and share their writing about the affinity between human and nature on Oct. 11. The event began with the three writers reading some excerpts from their essays to give the audience […]

Published author encourages others to pursue writing

July 25, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah native Scarlette Pike reflects on writing her first novel and encourages others to pursue authorship. Becoming a published author had not initially been Pike’s goal. “I went from working 60 hours a week managing Marriott hotels to nothing. I thought I was pregnant and none of the hotels would hire me. The week after […]

Club Spotlight: Creative Writing Club

November 3, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes The creative writing club is a place where students can get feedback on their writing, make friends and build confidence. “When you aren’t published, you feel like your writing just isn’t that good,” said Grace Melville, club member and senior at UVU. “The only way to be a better writer, is to keep writing.” The […]

‘Peculiar’ People

January 11, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Julie Ostler Missy Jensen Senior Staff Writer @missyjensen19 UVU students Aaron Gates, an English Writing Studies major, and UVU alumni Jack Garcia who majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Studies, have successfully created their own LGBT literary journal, peculiar. The two are looking forward to the second issue, to be published […]

Regardless of our positions, we are still students

June 18, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my freshmen year of college here at Utah Valley, I was only enrolled in one communications class. It would be the start of my college career and a class that secured my thoughts of where I wanted to go in life. I always knew that I wanted to do something with the news, which […]