Only two more small things left with Vol. 1 of the Invictus writers before we begin anew next Monday. The second will come later this week, but tonight Ms. Kelly Shea sent along the behind-the-scenes book, a compilation of the posts arranged thematically to tell the story of our young writers’ journey. This is...
It’s been a long journey but the day has finally arrived. The Invictus Collectin Vol. 1 book, If I Leave Here Tomorrow: Tales of Risk and Rebirth is now available for purchase. In the coming days, we’ll add more formats to the mix. For now, you have three options: You can read each individual...
My former graduate assistant Rhett Umphress is currently nestled somewhere in North Carolina, working as a copy editing intern after two years in the Ball State University’s graduate program. He came to us with zero journalism training; he majored in music and education before this. In the course of his two years with us,...
Kelly Shea is the kind of woman that I’d want to have as a daughter. She is this wonderfully bright, eclectic, frolicky, and geeky young woman who has the work ethic of a lion that’s masked by an unusual quietness. She is brilliantly quirky, full of the complexities of human-ness that give her a...
My relationship with Tiffany is unlike any other I’ve had with a student. She is a quiet, private, young woman and probably dreads this essay more than the others. This, however, is the reward for finishing her essay, Blessed Be the Ties That Bind, a rumination on her life in a Tampa church after...
Writing the essay for Invictus Writer Laura Rose Allen as we publish her essay Ugly Little Monster has proven to be more difficult than I thought. Laura, for me, was an enigma. At some point as a teacher, you realize it’s impossible to predict the trajectory of each individual student relationship. Sometimes it’s very...
Now that Kyle’s collegiate career is near its end, I’m going to give him the Dr. Cox-like hug that my J.D. has so wanted. I will do this on the very special occasion of the completion of his Invitus Writers essay, The City That Stopped The Cynic, a travelogue that traces his trip to...
Now that David has finished his essay, Waystation, for the book, I thought it time to share my first impressions of him with the rest of you. This seems fair to me since all my students love to tell their story about their first impressions of The Mean Professor King. David was part of my...
We are slowly assembling the components of this book, but we’re inching ever closer. Today we’d like to present to you the Introduction, which was written by David C. Ake. He’s the unofficial ringleader of the student group, and in this piece, he’ll explain what this project means to the students and he’ll introduce...
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