Keio SFC Creative Writing

Anthology Spring 2025

(selected writings from students)

Foreword

The Spring 2025 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 the photograph Learning to Live Free Again (2012) by Rachel Baran, Shinya Tsukamoto’s film The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo (1987), and algorithmicvideo’s Ball Bouncing Around the Screen for 10 Hours (2016). As our class discussions frequently touched on the topic of artificial intelligence, students were also asked to compose a story or poem commenting on its use.

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.

David F. Hoenigman

Visiting Lecturer

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

cover art: Heesoo Jung