Essay Extravaganza

A Girl and Her Game
by Catherine Arbour
An origin story from Disc 1 to Disc 4

You're at Your Best When You're at Your Worst
by Sam Chilton
Visiting father at the funhouse

Journey to Bliss
by Tiffany Cuddy
A teenage girl struggles with bullying and making friends

A Symposium of Nothing
by Tyler Cooke
The good, the bad, and the ugly; it's all me

Fairy-ly Bad
by Meaghan Côté
Some errors are permanent

Rockwood
by William Cousins
Lunacy in the loony bin

Becoming Me
by John Cutland
To find himself, he had to become someone else

Ode to Divorce
by Joe Fitzgerald
What actually happens when you marry your best friend

Finding Your Family
by Ashton Heaps
A journey to find a place I belong

Noura
by Yushra Khodabocus
My most cherished memory

Reeling in a 30 Pounder
by Myryam Ladouceur
You never know what grows inside you

The Monster of Bowl Lake
by Madeleine Lange-Chenier
What a sea monster taught me about love

To Jeremy
by Marty Le Gallez
A writer and their muse

In Life and Death
by Cody Lirette
Finding meaning in mental illness and the death of a relative

College vs. University
by Anna Moat
My experience with post-secondary bias

Of Grandfathers and Guilt
by Stephane Moisan
Time heals everything, but guilt opens old wounds

Not About That Party Life
by Amanda Pereira
That one night that ruined all the others

The Day I Dropped Out
by Amanda Simard
A story about learning to live with anxiety

Refracted Visions
by Stephen Smith
Seeing the world in a different light

Jungle of Concrete
by Phoebe Strike
China, the land of the upside down

Courtyard
by Rob Sullivan
Nothing is quieter than a hospital at midnight

Smiley Face
by Alex Sundaresan
Killing loneliness one cigarette at a time

Nowhere to Go but Up
by Gennifer Taggart
How I found my rock bottom

Uprooted
by Allison van Maren
Houses, memories, and the inevitability of change

A LARP to Remember
Sharon van Wyngaarden
My adventure into the unreal

Tofino
by Nicholas Wrixon-Wood
A ride to hell

For the Win
by Marta Zwart
Being competitive hurts