Notes From Crew Quarters: Writing as Music

This week, Ethan Brightbill asked our staff what their writing would be if it was a genre of music.

Willow Grosz, Managing Editor

Nostalgic 90s alt-rock. Think tragic hearts in tragic blenders...

Jackson Keller, Associate Fiction Editor

Overdramatic anime theme song!

Hayli Cox Associate Nonfiction Editor

Instrumenals, maybe Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

Jacqueline Boucher, Managing Editor

Scary orchestral music, but like, with a really sick beat?

Ashley Adams Associate Nonfiction Editor Emeritus

Melancholic prog metal.

Ethan Brightbill Associate Editor, Fiction Allentown, Pennsylvania

Something like Massive Attack–eclectic, but frequently dark and atmospheric and recognizable as coming from one source despite all the variance.

E. Flores Associate Poetry Editor

Downbeat symphonic polka. Think just because.