{"id":14182,"date":"2023-04-05T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:03:19","slug":"elizabethtown-college-academic-advising-staff-member-publishes-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/elizabethtown-college-academic-advising-staff-member-publishes-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Academic Advising Staff Member Publishes Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Assistant Director of Academic Advising, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/offices\/advising\/staff.aspx\">Curtis Smith<\/a>, recently published two short stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/newworldwriting.net\/curtis-smith-this-heart\/\">\u201cThis Heart\u201d in New World Writing<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newflashfiction.com\/a-list-by-curtis-smith\/\">A List by Curtis Smith\u201d in New Flash Fiction Review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both stories focus on the darker aspects of love, touching upon themes such as expectation, loss, and regret.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cPublishing means much less than process,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWhat I enjoy is the sitting down to work on a new piece. Publication is nice\u2014and validating\u2014but the real gift of creating art is the engagement it offers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith has published over 125 stories and essays in literary journals and magazines. Both stories are part of his current cycle of short fiction works.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also has coming works in West Branch and The Maine Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope my readers will feel respected\u2014and feel that the time they put into reading my work was worth it,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Assistant Director of Academic Advising, Curtis Smith, recently published two short stories, \u201cThis Heart\u201d in New World Writing and \u201cA List by Curtis Smith\u201d in New Flash Fiction Review. Both stories focus on the darker aspects of love, touching upon themes such as expectation, loss, and regret. \u201cPublishing means much less than process,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":14183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,774,7],"tags":[490,197,1350],"class_list":["post-14182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus-community","tag-achievements-2","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}