{"id":627,"date":"2015-02-02T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:06:58","slug":"wolves-celebrate-literary-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-celebrate-literary-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Celebrate Literary Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By AMANDA CLARKE\r\n Staff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>The Northwest Passage held the Fall Release Party on Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Calapooia room of the Werner University Center from 7 to 8 p.m. The event was DJed by KWOU radio.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six audience members heard published writers reading their works, including fiction by Jesse Poole and poems from contributors such as Stephanie Stuckey. A song by one contributor was also played, and contributor\u2019s photos were acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never shown my work to peers outside the classroom,\u201d Stuckey said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a way for fellow Wolves to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Passage has \u201cbeen ongoing twice a year since about 1961,\u201d said Bethany McWhorter, the editor-in-chief of the Northwest Passage, and its purpose is \u201cto display student\u2019s creative work and display a literary facility on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really enjoyable watching these pieces come to life,\u201d said Kristin Eck. \u201cI think it gives students and faculty an opportunity to share their work with campus and to work as a cooperative group of intellectuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the event, a copy of the Northwest Passage was signed by all contributors present.<\/p>\n<p>McWhorter said the Northwest Passage has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s evolved immensely from the time it started,\u201d McWhorter said. \u201cMy goal, as editor is no censorship, and to have more experimental stuff, within reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AMANDA CLARKE Staff Writer The Northwest Passage held the Fall Release Party on Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Calapooia room of the Werner University Center from 7 to 8 p.m. The event was DJed by KWOU radio. Twenty-six audience members heard published writers reading their works, including fiction by Jesse Poole and poems from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}