Throwback Thursdays! We’re brining back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Assemblé Claire Mikeson – University of Montana, Missoula – 2012 I Maggie comes back from ballet rehearsal and finds the door to her apartment unlocked. Maggie does not leave doors unlocked; she remembers birthdays, lunch dates, dentist appointments. … Read More
The time has arrived. Scribendi 2017 has been released! Readers across the country are enjoying the 2017 edition. We received nearly 250 submissions from across the country. This year, we published six schools that were outside of Western Regional Honors Council! While these schools have previously been published, each of these schools help to prove … Read More
Renee Reeves won the WRHC short fiction award for her piece “Motherroad,”an American urban legend and horror tale about a young girl hitchhiking along the interstate. Renee is a senior at the University of New Mexico, where she’s majoring in liberal arts and minoring in earth and planetary sciences. In addition to writing, she enjoys … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Being Natasha Xenia Tashlitsky – University of California, Irvine – 2007 I’m posing in ankle-deep snow somewhere in Odessa, Russia, my fur coat, ushanka (cap with ear flaps), scarf, boots, and mittens warding off the biting cold. Behind me … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Brocade: a sestina Kristin Anderson – University of Washington – 2002 I. And her eyes have all the seeming of an angel That is scheming, or a hyacinth, tart With poison for the nose that’s breathing. He laughs … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Eating Wild Duck Anne Tillinghast – University of Oregon – 1997 What is it about eating wild duck with you that makes me feel I will never need to eat again: the tiny dark thighs, the deep red … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. The Doe Elizabeth Bradfield – University of Washington – 1992 My eyes bend to gray sand, are keyed to small, pink shells, not to hooves, not bone. At first I didn’t notice her. She lay as she must have … Read More
Last Sunday, all in a couple of hours, the Scribendi staff experienced love, nature, comradery, death, and democracy. We came as close to meeting Walt Whitman as I think we ever will. And we weren’t reading Leaves of Grass: we were living it. It was March 26 and exactly 125 years after the day of … Read More
If you’re reading this, you probably know that Scribendi’s charter was revoked last year, translating to the loss of a third of our funding—our entire printing budget. But if you didn’t already know, this is our reality. Because Scribendi serves as a longtime UNM ambassador that continues to foster the growth and strength of relationships among hundreds … Read More
The 2016 Marigold Parade was everything a first or long-time viewer could want. It was filled with everything from candy to live music, and had way too many dogs dressed in cute little skeleton outfits (if there can be such a thing as that). It even included a vibrant parade through part of the West … Read More