Every month, the New Voices Fellowship cohort gathers to discuss upcoming writing projects, get feedback on their drafts, build community, and do creative exercises with our Editor. During our October meeting, fellows were asked to write brief reflections on any memory from this past Tishrei, a holiday-packed month filled with the High Holidays, Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah. New Voices Fellow Rebecca Tauber shares her process from this year’s hut building festival and a photograph of the final product.
How to Build a Sukkah on Your College Dorm Porch:
1. Attempt to reach a dead branch dangling off a tree.
2. Fail because you’re too short, then get on your friend’s shoulders and try again.
3. Succeed and get applauded by the person mowing the grass nearby.
4. Borrow your roommate’s duct tape to hang up your third wall, which is actually a picnic blanket.
5. Put the branch on the awning and decorate with one dining room chair and string lights from your room.
6. Hang up your hammock and enjoy (until the fall wind blows it apart).
