Ovid publishes writing from Butler University's First Year Seminar students and shares exemplary work produced in FYS courses. We aim to empower students' understanding of writing. We hope that this resource serves as a learning tool in classrooms and in the community at large.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Ovid’s Ovid 2025-2026 is now open for submissions from Butler students currently enrolled in a FYS course. Send us your best work produced in these classes. Work from the fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters are eligible. We look forward to reading your writing!
Essays
Front Matter
Ovid Staff
Letter From the Editors
Ovid Staff
The Luggage I Carry
Madison Thompson
Wardrobe Whiplash
Grace Connell
We Should All Be Feminists
Olivia Lacke
On the Universality of Music
Rayna Moiz
Where the Hills Meet the Sky
Kinsey McAndrews
The Quiet Geography of Fear
Edgar Opsahl
Against the Tide
Eleanor Corbett
Pine Needles and Powerlines
Grace Connell
A Future to Dream Of
Samuel Gonzalez
The Winter They Went Quiet
Edgar Opsahl
What Would Seneca Do? A Stoic Perspective on Social Pressure
Eleanor Corbett
Where am I? Where am I going?
Cooper Owens
In Opposition To Time
Madeleine Russell
Learning to Ride Through the Cracks
Brooke Gallivan
Feels Like: Too Late
Eleanor Corbett
A Storm with No Release
Prabhleen Kaur
The Pinball Machine
Grace Connell
The House That Knew Me
Edgar Opsahl
Literary Empowerment Through the Usage of Poetry
Kate Wischmann
Coagulation
Eleanor Corbett
The Hunger Games Trilogy: A Mental Bloodbath
Riley Turner
Under the Same Colors
Edgar Opsahl
Love, Life, Where Am I?
Bernardo Leal Sierra
Melody, Gloucester, Pegasus: The Limits of Protective Rhetoric in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in a Castle
Madden Beriault
Binary Star
Eleanor Corbett
Fitting the Pieces Despite the Curves in the Path
Eve Zaczepinski
Back Matter
Ovid Staff
Indiana Collegiate Press Association Winner 2025-2026
December 21st
Megan Broviak
First Year Experience 2025-2026 Letter Award Winners
First Place - Love for Squirrels
Vinny Worsley
Second Place - Box of Legos
Audrey Black
Third Place - More than Nothing
Brooke Baker-Watson
