Welcome to French Creek

French Creek: The Journal of Undergraduate Environmental Writing and Art is an online journal that publishes original essays, poetry, fiction and artwork focused on place-based or environmental subject matter. Environmental or place-based writing and art ask us to reevaluate the ways in which we construct our relationship to the natural world. They often move us to take action and to participate in the stewardship of both the local and larger natural and human communities.

As author William Kittredge has remarked, "Stories help us find intimate, imaginative connection with one another and the world-the environment, other creatures, and the biosphere, the living thing that we are part of, without which, we are nothing." French Creek publishes writing and art that foster such intimate, imaginative connections .

French Creek, published at Allegheny College, reflects the generous support of the Center for Environmental and Economic Development (CEED) and Allegheny College, but neither their opinions nor their policies. Published works are selected solely by the student board and editors.