This website
is a collection of students' literary pieces written at Akita International University (AIU), Japan, from Professor Joel Friederich's Creative Writing course.
In Fall of 2020, seven students including from Norway and Vietnam joined, and in Fall of 2021, nine students joined from Taiwan, Tokyo, and Akita. For those years, the course was online because of Covid-19. In fall of 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 the class was once again fully in-person, with many students joining, exchange students from all over the world coming to Akita along with AIU students.
Click the links listed on the left or below to read students' selected literary writing creating during four-months of learning about the craft of poetry and stories.
2022 Edition
Click the links below for poems, stories, and other creative work from fall of 2022.
2021 Edition
Click the links below for poems, stories, and other creative work from fall of 2022.
2020 Edition
Click the links below for poems, stories, and other creative work from fall of 2020.