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Notes from Crew Quarters: Literary Halloween Costumes

Notes from Crew Quarters: Literary Halloween Costumes

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This week, we asked our editors and interns what literary characters they would like to dress up as for Halloween.

Jennifer Howard, Editor-in-Chief

None of you better say Harriet the Spy because she's mine.

Ethan Brightbill, Associate Fiction Editor

Kylo Ren counts as a literary character, right? Right.

Krys Malcolm Belc, Associate Fiction Editor

I would love to do a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory group costume with my family but they are way too cool for that.

Willow Grosz Managing Editor

I think I dressed up as Bunnicula three different times as a kid. Vampire fangs and bunny ears forever.

Jacob Hall Associate Fiction Editor

When I was young, I got a hooded mask with a dark face cover, so you couldn't see what was inside. I picked up a stick from the yard and draped what might have been a purple tablecloth over my shoulders. I was the coolest Voldemort around. I think I'd do that again.

Sara Ryan Associate Poetry Editor 

It would be cool to go as Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf or like Mary Shelley because they’re all creepy/badass lady writers. But most Sylvia costumes I’ve seen are kinda... oven-y and slightly tasteless. I’m going as a triceratops instead. Jurassic Park reference?

Skyler Sars, Intern 

The March Hare.

Melissa Orzechowski, Volunteer Reader

For years I've wanted to dress up as a hambone (more specifically as Scout dressed as a hambone). Maybe this year I'll actually get around to making the costume.

Mixed White/Filipino poet Anthony Sutton Accepts that He Is Often Read As “Latina” And Then Interrogates the Basic Notion of “Passing” by Anthony Sutton

Mixed White/Filipino poet Anthony Sutton Accepts that He Is Often Read As “Latina” And Then Interrogates the Basic Notion of “Passing” by Anthony Sutton

Textbook Endings by Kelsey Englert

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