Hello there, I'm Clare, a Creative Writer and Book Lover.

Graduating in 2026 with a Bachelor's degree in English, stories and storytelling has always been part of my life, and I have enjoyed creative writing for some time. While I do hope to be published someday, I mostly write for myself and hope that others will enjoy the stories, poems, the occasional personal essays and analysis essays I write. Welcome to The Unorthodox Writing Nook, and I hope you enjoy my writing, inspirations and more.

A little bit about me and my inspirations.

When trying to decide what major interested me the most for university, I decided on English as I have always loved reading and have a passion for creative writing. I started writing creatively in high school and have taken a few workshop classes over the years. As I went through my classes at the University of Portland in Oregon, I continued to write on my own and for assignments, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in the Arts for English in 2026.

This page is meant to serve simply as an online portfolio of my writing and a way for me to share it with others who will hopefully enjoy it. My writing tends to be on the darker side, I seem to often find inspiration and beauty in the darker parts of life as someone who identifies as goth and that shows in my writing, whether it is my poetry or short stories. There can also be a supernatural, mythological, criminal element in my work which I know isn't everyone's cup of tea, but hopefully you'll still give it a try.