One afternoon, scrolling Instagram, I saw a post from my university creative writing program announcing that our school’s literary and art journal, Colonnades, went digital. Now the last ten years of Colonnades have been archived online, including Issue 65, in which a short story I wrote was published during my junior year.
Seeing this made me smile. At a time when I’ve finally come back to a consistent fiction writing practice after years of abandoning it, trying to return, and feeling like I’ve lost it, it was a nice reminder that anything you were once good at, anything that once brought you joy, will return to you if you are patient, and if you want it to. Archives are there for us to revisit, to come back to the things we felt were worth saving for later, and to remind us that we are capable of doing something worthy again.
So thanks creative writing & Elon U. That was really dope.