MFA 2021

 

Recent Submissions

  • Finding My Way 
    Matthews, Lakeisha (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    Born and raised on the westside of Baltimore City, Lakeisha Matthews struggles to find her way through girlhood, toward the woman she wants to become. From the perils of poverty, childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence ...
  • Young Americans 
    Authement, Perry (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    Young Americans is a collection of short stories that follows the youth, the young adult, those forced to grow up too quickly, into a territory somewhere between the familiar and the foreign. The collection explores themes ...
  • Peripheral Vision: A Novel 
    Warmbold, Carolyn (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    Novel: On a trip to Paris, Caroline recalls a long-ago marriage to a gay man who died of AIDS.
  • Dysfunction of Family Legacy 
    Torres, Aysia (Dysfunction of Family Legacy, 2021-01-16)
    Dealing with themes of mental health, self-harm, grief, and addiction, The Dysfunction of Family Legacy is a contemporary, three-part, multi-generational tale that’s set in the small island neighborhood of City Island in ...
  • First Lies, First Truths: The Oracle Rune Chronicles Book I 
    Ryan, James (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    Ultimate survival or destruction depends on a newly reorganized platoon just learning to work together, a prophetic witch with some deep psychological issues, a handful of demons, vampires, werewolves, cartoon characters, ...
  • Aurora 
    Perkins, Dixie (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    Aurora is the story of a seventeen-year-old orphaned fae hybrid, with the royal bloodlines to stop the bloodshed and unite the unseen races of the Mythian world. Living as an empathically gifted human, she hides her talents ...
  • Ahab: A Hockey Story 
    Huestis, Bradley (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    AHAB: A Hockey Story is a sports themed Bildungsroman featuring Corporal Will Foley, an injured U.S. Army paratrooper. After losing his foot, Will must fight to regain his old life—soldiering back, rekindling his passion ...
  • The Hell & the Halcyon & Pulp Ran with the Ghost: Poems 
    Hoffman, Laura (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    The Hell and the Halcyon is a documentary poem based on evidence related to the Columbine High School shooting. In keeping with the nature of documentary poetry, The Hell and the Halcyon is unabashedly subjective and ...
  • Peninsula 
    Benefield, Hannah (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2021-01-16)
    In this collection of short stories, four women's lives intersect at the local doctor's office situated in a small Pennsylvanian town near the Great Lakes. Cheryl grapples with her feelings for a handsome stranger who ...