Writing
November 15, 2012
Writer’s Corner: Logan Miller
Logan Miller is a junior interdisciplinary major studying journalism, writing and business. —- YYZ was the first song I taught myself when I learned to play guitar back in middle school, while kids watched the riff I was playing containing a key only Rush could have known. To Toronto every note pulled me with the rhythm pulsating in Morse code. My hand would fret notes in asymmetrical tempo. Rush still plays it; I do too sometimes when I feel My fingers trying to take me to the airport, tag my bags, and fly to Toronto, Y Y Z —– I...
November 8, 2012
Writer’s Corner: Armarlie Grier
You, now, will be branded into the flow of time. I begin to change, and it melts into layers of white day by day. A toast to you! You hide underneath that smile until the very end. Even dreams crumble and future breaks: the gloomy morning has died, but the scattering flowers spill from the palm of my hand. I question in vain. Thank you! In the dreambox are my hopes turned freezing cold. It brings to life my new dream in my heart. Will my true self be there? In another incarnation I will search for you … —...
November 1, 2012
Math major turned ‘hipster-homemaker’ releases cookbook
Rosanna Nafziger Henderson graduated from Goshen College in 2006 with majors in English and math, not the most obvious path to becoming an authority on food. Henderson herself admits that she could not have predicted that six years after leaving Goshen she would be a cookbook author and food blogger. On Oct. 2, she celebrated the official publication day of her second book, “The Lost Arts of Hearth & Home,” which Publishers Weekly called “an utterly charming collection of recipes and how-tos for the 21st-century hipster-homemaker.” Henderson described the slow process of writing at her home in San Francisco, where she...
October 18, 2012
Q&A with Luis Urrea
Yesterday, The Record spoke with Luis Urrea, Mexican-American author and S.A. Yoder Lecturer about his work and the convocation he gave on Monday. Q: Why do you choose what you write about? A: I try to write about the human spirit; that’s what I’m interested in. The particulars of the book or the subject matter may change, but I’m always interested in our relationships to each other and to God. That’s what every book I write is about. Q: When did you start writing? A: Oh man, you know, I probably started goofing around with it when I was 13...
October 11, 2012
Urrea to speak on borders
Luis Urrea, a Mexican-American poet, author and novelist, will speak in convocation this Monday, Oct. 15. Urrea has authored 14 books, including mysteries, historical novels and non-fiction narratives. Urrea, who was born to a Mexican father and an American mother, often writes on issues of love and loss through a dual-culture perspective. Last spring, students in Ann Hostetler’s Latino Literature class read Urrea's “The Devil’s Highway,” a 2005 Pulitzer finalist in non-fiction writing. The novel follows 26 Mexican men as they travel through the Arizona dessert. The men encounter heat, Border Patrol and for some, death. Steph Swartzendruber, a senior,...
October 11, 2012
Writer’s Corner: Rikki Entrekin
Bailey Stanton stopped in the middle of the sidewalk to stare at the old woman. She was sitting on a bench across the street, but it was the old woman’s outfit that caught Bailey’s attention. The old woman was wearing a purple cloak– no, a green cloak. Even as Bailey took in the the change of color, the cloak turned electric blue. Atop the head of the old woman was a silver crown in the shape of an adder, coiled with its head raised and its fangs bared. In the snake’s mouth was an oval-shaped emerald, flashing in the sun...
November 30, 2011
“Goshen Graphix” book release at First Fridays
A collection of student graphic novels will be released on Friday at Better World Books. The second edition of "Goshen Graphix" contains seven graphic novels created by students in the May 2010 Graphic Novel class. Better World Books will be hosting a release party at 5 p.m. on the same day. Four student novelists—Nate Day, Josh Delp, Mary Roth and Elspeth Stalter—will present their favorite pages and reflect upon their work. The two editors, Mary Roth and Anna Ruth, will also share their experience piecing together the book—a process which included scanning, photo editing and final corrections. Light refreshments will...
April 21, 2011
Red Cents features campus creative talent
Do you know how creative Goshen students are? The latest issue of Red Cents, a Goshen College student publication, will be released on May 2, and it may be the best way to find out. Red Cents is a creative arts journal that was first published in 2005 as an opportunity for artists and creative writers to be published and find recognition on campus. It has since continued to be published through the interest of students. Red Cents contains a variety of creative works including poetry, short stories, two-dimensional art images, and memoirs. The pieces are submitted voluntarily by student...
April 13, 2011
Three seniors release Pinchpenny Press books
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...
November 3, 2010
Brende offers link between music and technology
It took almost two years of living with an old-order Anabaptist community in Tennessee for author Eric Brende to find the reality that he was looking for. Brende, author of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, visited Goshen College on Sunday, Oct. 31 to speak on how technology has distorted humans’ view of reality and what he has done to make peace with such technology. Sitting at the piano in the Music Center, Brende used musical metaphors to illustrate how important music had been in his development and understanding of life. Early in the event, he took two volunteers...
September 15, 2010
Reflections on faithful living – retired professor publishes collection of essays
J.R. Burkholder had aspirations of joining the U.S. Air force when he was in high school, even making a painting that depicted an airplane dropping bombs and shooting another plane. Somewhere in the 65 years between his high school days and now, his mindset shifted from a militaristic viewpoint to a focus on peace. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the retired Bible and Religion professor published “Prophetic Peacemaking,” a collection of essays on faithful living. Through his essays, dating from 1956 to 2004, Burkholder tackles the question of what it's like trying to be a faithful Christian in the 20th...
April 21, 2010
Upcoming media people
Alysha Landis Record Editor-in-Chief, Spring Semester Experience: Alysha is a journalism major who has served as news, local and arts editor of the Record, as well as being a contributing writer. This semester Alysha had an internship with the Elkhart Truth, and was a writer for mPress at the 2009 Mennonite Church USA convention. Goals: “I want everyone to look forward to Thursdays when the Record comes out! I hope students will want to be part of putting it together so we’ll cover issues people really care about.” Fun Fact: Alysha is going on SST to Senegal this summer. Chanuk...
November 11, 2009
Pen-dueling to publication: writing opportunities at GC
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...
November 11, 2009
A Portrait of Goshen’s People
The following is an excerpt from “A Violin Professor Going on 17,” a profile of Solomia Soroka written by Alysha Landis. Solomia Soroka, an assistant professor of music at Goshen College, knew her career path when she was only 6 years old. Despite her childhood dream to become a biologist, her mother enrolled her in music school. Ever since then, it has always been about music – and the violin – for Soroka. For a child growing up in L’viv, a large city in western Ukraine, learning an instrument at age 6 was considered a late start. Soroka...
October 28, 2009
Trio of student essays selected to air on WVPE
Three students from the Writing for Media class have had their essays selected to be on air on 88.1 WVPE. Brett Bridges, a junior, Chase Snyder, a senior, and Kelsey Shue, a junior, each articulated a conviction of their own through an essay entitled "This I Believe," which will be aired later in November. Every year, Duane Stoltzfus, professor of communications, assigns students in his Writing for Media class the essay fashioned after a National Public Radio (NPR) program entitled, “This I Believe." He then sends these essays to WVPE, the NPR affiliate station for the Michiana area. Lee Burdorf,...