Goshen College’s printing press will soon be on the move. By early December, the Vandercook SP15 press will be taken out of its current home at The Local, an art gallery and artists’ collective on Main Street in Goshen, and will be moved to a studio between Fables Books and the hardware store. This move was prompted by the sale of the building that housed The Local. “We’ll be housing the press in a studio located downtown, between the bookstore and the hardware store,” Ida Short said. Short is a 2015 GC graduate with a degree in Studio Art and...

By Kristin Jantzen • November 19, 2020 • News

For CC Lilford, storytelling thrives in a multitude of mediums. The film production and creative writing double major also has a minor in theater, which recently received its capstone in the form of a staged reading of Lilford’s latest one-act play, “Ray Gun Blues.” Lilford will also be a part of the upcoming senior film showcase in December. However, one of their greatest labors of love will soon be delivered in the form of a book from Goshen College’s Pinch Penny Press, entitled “Temple to the Alien Gods.” Read on to hear more about what makes science fiction writing so...

By Olivia Smucker • November 29, 2019 • Arts

At a release party Friday, Feb. 15, two Goshen College students– Elsa Lantz and Christi Sessa — will release their Pinchpenny Press books. Pinchpenny Press is a publishing opportunity on campus that publishes chapbooks written by GC students, faculty and staff. For both students, the chapbook serves as their senior writing practicum. Elsa Lantz, a senior double major in writing and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), has collected short stories and prose poetry that she has written while at Goshen College. This book has two sections: Fragments of Reality and Figments of the Imagination. “I really like...

By Emily Cummings • February 16, 2019 • Arts

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Goshen College’s pioneering program in international education, the Study-Service Term, Pinchpenny Press is publishing an intercultural guidebook, drawing on the experiences of faculty, staff and students who have participated in SST. A release party for the book, “The Goshen College Guide to Studying and Serving Abroad: Essays on Intercultural Learning,” will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 in the Koinonia Room of the Church-Chapel. The 18 essays address subjects like learning languages, serving as a form of accompaniment, tracking time, framing stories, giving and receiving resources and money, dealing...

By Record • April 13, 2017 • News

This Tuesday, March 31, three more Pinchpenny Press chapbooks were released to the public. One of these was the award-winning Red Cents, the college’s literary arts magazine comprised of short stories, poems, and art, edited by seniors Kate Yoder and Hayley Brooks. The other two were works from Kolton Nay, senior English writing major and TESOL minor; and Hayley Brooks, senior English writing major. Tuesday’s release party was a chance for more student work to be recognized. This is Red Cents’ tenth volume, comprised of selections by students from all disciplines across campus. Students were encouraged to submit works throughout...

By Armarlie Grier • April 2, 2015 • Arts

On Tuesday, Goshen College’s Pinchpenny Press released three student chapbooks at a party held in the Koinonia Room of the Church-Chapel. To a full room, six students read excerpts from the books, and then sold and signed copies for the public. Pinchpenny Press publishes chapbooks for students, faculty and friends of Goshen College. The program began in 1969 and has since produced 188 books. Dominique Chew, a senior English major, wrote a book entitled “The Meaning of Grace,” which features poetry and prose centering around themes of race and her experiences on Study-Service Term in Senegal this past summer. “I...

By Drea Mast • March 19, 2015 • Arts

Not many people can say they published a book by the time they graduate from college, but four Goshen College seniors will soon be able to. Rikki Entrekin, Abby Hertzler, Mary Roth and Nathan Vader, all senior English writing majors, each have a book coming out through Pinchpenny Press. The press, which publishes chapbooks written by students, faculty or others with connections to the college, is overseen by an editorial board made up of English department professors and students. Once the board approves a book proposal, the board members work with the author on editing and polishing the manuscript. The...

By Lauren Stoltzfus • March 13, 2013 • Features

Three Goshen College English majors have written, published, and as of last night’s Pinchpenny Press gathering, released their work to the public. In a dimly lit and casually elegant Newcomer 19, the release party gave student writers a chance to display the literary efforts that they have been working on since the fall. Pinchpenny Press, a campus enterprise, seeks to introduce student writers to the publication process through organizing a structured yet realistic simulation of how an author’s idea becomes a producible written work. Headed by a faculty board of students, staff, and community members, Pinchpenny Press normally assists with...

By Liz Core • April 13, 2011 • Arts

Fiction writers and poets have been crawling out of the Goshen College woodwork in the past few weeks. The Broadside board recently hosted a short fiction contest, which received almost 30 submissions written by students. Abe Pauls won the contest with a short story about a little boy who tries to travel to a parallel universe through the toilet. The English department also held a poetry slam on October 30. The winning poem, written by Nathan Stoess, was inspired by the Biblical passage in which God tells Moses, “I am what I am.” For writers on campus who missed these...

By Sarah Rich • November 11, 2009 • Arts

Using words, photos, drawings and cartoons, students presented bits of themselves to the public in two recently released Pinchpenny Press publications. The book “Goshen Adventure Comics,” was released at Better World Books downtown on Friday. The comic book was edited by Jessica Baldanzi, assistant professor of English; Jacob Schlabach, a sophomore; and Emily Taylor, a junior. “Red Cents,” Goshen’s creative arts journal, was released on Tuesday at Goshen College. The arts journal was edited by Whitney Philipps, a senior, and Chase Snyder, a junior, who also designed the cover. “Goshen Adventure Comics” is an anthology of a handful of final...

By Alysha Landis • April 8, 2009 • Arts

Recent world history will soon be coming into clearer focus for Goshen College students when Sheldon Good, a senior, releases his Pinchpenny Press book, “Surviving the Khmer Rouge: Stories on the Struggle to Stay Alive,” this weekend. Accounts of the impending tribunals and sentencing for Khmer Rouge leaders of the genocide in Cambodia in the late 1970s made world news headlines at CNN on Monday. Good’s edited volume tells the stories of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Most stories in the book are gathered from host parents of Goshen College students from the spring 2007 Cambodia...

By Ben Noll • April 1, 2009 • Arts