Creative Writing

I love reading dystopian literature, historical fiction, romance, and sometimes poetry. What I read reflect what I write, and I experiment around a lot with different genres.

Below is a link to a drive with all my creative writing pieces, including "Where Thoughts Can Grow," which won an Honorable Mention in the Scholastics Writing Competition, and "The Beginning of Our Sisterhood," which also won an Honorable Mention in the Scholastics Writing Competition.

I also plan to write a book consisting of various ancient mythology/texts retellings. This started with my retelling of the Aeneid in Dido's perspective. Dido, the powerful African queen, is often overlooked as the "crazy lady" for her suicidal story yet I think there is more to her character than that. She is mighty, intelligent, and a great queen before the gods mutilated her thoughts, which led to her downfall. In many ancient texts, women are often seen as temptresses and are not dynamic characters. I want to change that. The retellings focus on stories from ancient Rome, West Africa, China, etc.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-WU9ZCck0Sdbnd9ETPfZuHUO5z-B0_CO?usp=sharing