Over the DePaul summer term, the CMWR held a weekly Book Club in collaboration with the English Language Academy, and our selection was the teen-fiction thriller The…
Month: August 2011
Last week, Jay-Z and Kanye West dropped their highly anticipated joint album, Watch the Throne. Like any other pop culture event, the immense buildup to the release…
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Got It All (Scrawl S1 E17)
Hello, Scrawl Nation! Looking to break into the world of journalism but aren’t sure where to start? UCWbL Fellow Maureen “Mo” Clancy gives us the lowdown on life as an…
Here at the UCWbL, many of us believe in the value of “shitty first drafts,” an idea popularized by the writer Anne Lamott. When beginning a piece,…
“The World As Text,” an installation at Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, will run for just one more week, until August 12.
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Family Affair (Scrawl S1 E16)
It’s a family affair on today’s Scrawl, as we welcome not one, but two special guests from the UCWbL! Writing Tutor/Fellow Martina Mihelicova reads some short fiction…
“Talking and eloquence are not the same,” Ben Jonson once observed. “To speak, and to speak well, are two things.” In his new book, Microstyle, Christopher Johnson,…
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UCWbLers in the News!
And not only are they in the news, they’re writing it! UCWbL Writing Fellows Caylie Sadin and Maureen Clancy are making waves in the Chicago journalism scene…
Hot Topics in Writing, the UCWbL’s podcast, has released the second installment of a three part series about resources for writers in Chicago! In our last episode,…