Keio SFC Creative Writing

Anthology Spring 2023

(selected writings from students)

Foreword

The Spring 2023 creative writing students quickly established our

classroom as a space to share their imaginative ideas, and encourage

their classmates to do likewise. Through regular in-class readings of

their work, I watched the students’ confidence deepen and their

creative abilities expand. I am proud to present a small fragment of the

amazing work done this past semester here in this anthology.

Among other assignments, students were asked to produce writing that was

a conceptual or emotional extension of: Luka Khabelashvili’s Breakthrough,

algorithmicvideo’s Ball Bouncing Around the Screen for 10 Hours,

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Moki’s Untitled 09, and Samuel Beckett’s Not I.

We will hold a small, on-campus event to celebrate the release of this

anthology. Each student will read his or her own works aloud from

the book. Grouper’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill will be played

sofly on a suitcase record player in the background as they read.

David F. Hoenigman

Visiting Lecturer

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

cover art: Ran Zhang