Creative Nonfiction – E. A. Young Writes

Rollercoasters

I have two favorite kinds of rollercoasters—the Freak Out and the Gravity Wheel (I’m not sure what the actual names are, but that’s what we’ll call them.).

How “Frances Ha” Saved My Life, Or at Least My Summer of 2020

This is a piece I wrote for my “Writing for Publication” class I took in senior year. This was at a point in my college career where I very lost in terms of my future and career plans (still am frankly), and that hesitancy and fear (along with having to re-train myself to be social again after many, many months of Zoom classes) reflected in my writing. This assignment was called “The Long Form Essay.” After weeks of writer’s block, I came up with my topic–an analysis of one of my favorite films, Frances Ha.

Why I Collect Books but Never Read Them

In my senior year of college I took a class called Writing for Publication. It was such a fun class and I learned a lot about writing. This was one of the first pieces we wrote for the class, for the prompt “Why I.”