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Month: June 2011
Can you count on one hand the number of people outside of school who have read your work? This is a shame. You may be thinking, “talk…
Sifting through the clutter of literary contests posted online or catalogued in different publications can be a very daunting task for writers who wish to submit their…
Still painfully sunburnt from the Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, I thought I’d take some time to promote an LGBT writers’ association based here in the Windy…
Tomorrow, on June 29, Wikipedia will add a new way of giving feedback to its contributors. The ‘WikiLove‘ feature is modeled after Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, a medium…
Americans will choose their next president on November 6, 2012. Although this is many months away, the campaign for the presidency is already in full swing. Each…
Sustainable Scrawling
For those who don’t know, Scrawl–the UCWbL’s radio show–is live every Friday at 11am on Radio DePaul. When you’re told to listen to a writing center’s radio…
Live Mocha
Last week I told you guys about SharedTalk. Apparently, another free site with similar goals but different features exists as well, known as LiveMocha.com. Live Mocha is…
The American Dream
The American Dream, a short film produced by UCWbLer Devin Leigh (History & African Studies, ’12) and directed by Marcus Deely (Digital Cinema ’11), won an award…
Writing can be a maddening process, as many writers will attest to. Finding the right word or the right sentence that captures perfectly the ideas in your…
