Nonfiction

Swallowtail

Zoe Hiemstra (she/her) is a graduating senior with a passion for nature, grief and love in her writing. She intends to pursue her MFA in creative nonfiction at UNCW starting in Fall 2025.

Ashley Denchfield (she/they) is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is pursuing a degree in English, studying creative non-fiction. Her writing explores an unconventional and painful childhood, and trying to find magic and connection through it.

Nazhat

Sadie Sawyer (she/her) is a sophomore at UNC studying computer science and information science with a creative writing minor. When she’s not hacking, she likes to write songs, play guitar and piano, and spend time outdoors.

As Long As You Still Wake Up At Five

Yitao Shen is quiet and introverted. She works to develop a calm and indifferent voice. She writes to sing.

Here

Samiha Bala is a first-year at UNC, studying English. She is obsessed with the liminal, the little, and the bizarre. In her free time, she likes climbing tall things and telling dad jokes.

Southern Appalachia

Katherine Verm is a junior studying economics and english. She is from Asheville and loves to hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Moth

Annabelle Oberst (she/they) is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill. They love to write, play music, and go to concerts.

Thoughts from the Wall of the Roller Rink

Jenna Gartland is a junior studying rhetoric and creative writing. She hopes to go to law school and visit every national park in America.

That One Time I Got a Papercut in the Sanctuary of Chestnut Grove Methodist Church, But It Was Ok Because I Knew It Was Coming Anyway (and Other Intriguing Tales of Injury)

Jack Spencer Gentry is a prose and screenwriter. He highlights the beauty of the mundane and satirizes the ironies that underpin it.

To say goodbye, we walk

Ruth Jeffers is a senior at UNC. Her life goal is to tell the story of Penguini, a young Italian-Antarctic penguin on a journey.