prospect Website

E-journal of selected student writing from Brown’s Creative Nonfiction courses.

In 1999, Creative Nonfiction was a relatively new course at Brown in which students who show potential for writing to professional standards explore the genres of literary journalism, historical narrative, personal essay, and short performance pieces. Prof. Beth Taylor asked STG to design and produce a website to publish an anthology of works by students in creative nonfiction course, which is called prospect. The work published in prospect is selected by the faculty teaching Creative Nonfiction classes each semester.
In 2005, STG worked with Beth Taylor again, to streamline the process of adding new issues to prospect. As originally designed and implemented, the site was tedious to maintain: each issue had to be populated by hand. In this faculty grant project, STG developed a web based submission tool and rtf converter so that student papers could easily be added to the journal. The initial intent was to allow students to upload their own papers, but that proved to be impractical, so the journal is still maintained by staff, but using a more efficient system.
The CDS currently maintains and updates the site.

prospect Website is a project of the English Department.

Contributors to this project include Elli Mylonas (CDS), Elizabeth S.
Taylor (Faculty lead), Sara Grady (STG), Kerri Hicks (STG), David Reville (STG)