Amid the sea of gray newspaper columns, each with their bold blue headlines screaming for attention, one detail caught senior Grace Hu’s eye — it was her name printed in the byline. “It felt real,” Hu said. “I got to hold some of the stories that I ended up doing. And I was really happy. It felt really good.” Hu was one of the students chosen for a workshop with the Scripps Howard...

There is a magic to learning to love this world – not simply through our own lived experiences, but also by way of the stories that shape our perspectives. Heroes and damsels, verse and soliloquy – each narrative, fictional or not, is a subtle transformation of what we believe to be possible. “Reading essentially was a big part of my childhood growing up, and it opened avenues that I did not...