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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…