Category: Creative Writing
Original creative writing including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction edited and published by the Institute
“Distant Men Will Praise Him”: Chad Chisholm Discusses Marc Ridge’s Literary Legacy Pt. 2
In Part 2 of this two-part interview, Chad Chisholm discusses the details of Noble Stories and what they revealed about his friend, Marc Ridge.
“Distant Men Will Praise Him”: Chad Chisholm Discusses Marc Ridge’s Literary Legacy Pt. 1
In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Chad Chisholm discusses the literary legacy of his friend, Marc Ridge.
“I just feel different about something I’ve created”: A Conversation with Dr. Paul Schleifer
In the following conversation, Dr. Schleifer reveals his son’s role in helping him complete his new book, why the novella is and isn’t a mystery, and whether or not his main character would read a book like this one.
Learning To Love The Process: Introduction
As a tribute to the exemplary students who graduated this year and last, we’ve put together an ebook of the best work they produced in an upper division English course. You can download the ebook here. The following is my introduction to the collection.
Pilgrimage: An Elder Scrolls Tale
Written by Grayson Schrader and Josh Johnson He was here. He had made it. There before him were the steps he so long dreamed of. The very steps his father […]
Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, Literature, and Life
CIFC Staff Dr. Chad Chisholm, professor of English and Director of the Carolina Institute for Faith and Culture, has published a collection of his essays, Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, […]
A Top
Rev. Ken Dill Tightly wound and held safely in the hand potential energy quiet and still poised Violently flung in space centrifugally exploding in the tension of the movement away […]
Eat Your Bret Harte Out
We read a lot of different stories and most of them are short stories that seem to have an end where everyone just has to feel empty inside. Here’s a […]
The Crisis of Independently Writing a Blog Post
KIT SCHLEIFER THESE are the times that try men’s souls: the blog posts and blog replies, in this semester, become ever more incoherent, but they that read this […]
Lucid
Miranda Alexander All is quiet, all is still All is filled with wonder and might, Life gives pathway to his will Fair winged creatures take flight, Golden beams benevolently stare […]
Surrender
Miranda Alexander Ashamed, she cowers in her crying corner The blame, oh the brutal blame falls upon a single name, She is far too weak to tame, Tangled temptations alone […]
Learning to Forgive
Marc Ridge, Guest Contributor This is the author’s sequel to his earlier story. Growing up semi-poor in southern Indiana in the 1960s wasn’t so bad. My friends and I spent […]