UCSB’s 2025 Raab Writing Fellowship Showcase featured student writing projects that blended personal storytelling with broader social themes. From poetry to investigative multimedia, the event highlighted a year of independent writing and mentorship.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won third place in the prose category.
Shane Book, a poet and filmmaker, spoke at An Evening of Film and Poetry with Shane Book last week. Co-sponsored by the College of Creative Studies, Film and Media Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research, Book spoke about his poetry books, his two short films, and his time spent learning and living in a myriad of different cities.