As the first welcome party designed to introduce students to others in their program, Sept. 13 marked a change in the Creative Writing and Literature department’s usual welcome routine. Rather than hosting a reading by returning students, writers instead engaged in rapid-fire speed chat to introduce themselves, competed fiercely in games of Taboo, mingled over cake and jumped in a character-building exercise.

Read about the Creative Writing and Literature department’s welcome party at Jackalope Magazine.