Thursday evening from 8 – 10 pm, The Bourgeois Pig Cafe will be hosting an open mic for poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Anyone interested in hearing and/or reading some original creative work is welcome!
For those of you who don’t know, we’ve been mixing it up this quarter in the CMWR’s Book Club. Rather than read a single book throughout the quarter with our group of multilingual participants, we’ve been reading a different piece of flash fiction each … Continue reading
Hello Scrawl Nation! This week the Scrawl team focused on the First Year Writing Showcase. Our hosts interviewed DePaul student Michael Barry, who will be presenting his paper on fracking and the Colorado River Basin at the showcase. His reflection … Continue reading
Gil Tanner, an UCWbL tutor and veteran of the DePaul Theatre School’s playwriting program, will premiere his newest work A Tribute to Thick Leonard at the Greenhouse Theater (2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago) on May 10th. The Theatre School has this … Continue reading
I recently discovered this lovely blog consisting of pictures of authors scribbling advice for aspiring writers on their hands. The authors are mainly fantasy authors, but even if you’re not into genre fiction, it’s a nice little boost of … Continue reading
Hello True Believers! This week’s episode focused on the DePaul Spring English Conference. Tracey read a selection from a personal narrative that she wrote and prepared for the conference. Conference co-chair Maria Hlohowskyj also came to the studio to read one … Continue reading
If you’re planning on coming by Chicagoland this October for the Midwest Writing Center Association’s 2013 national conference, we’re happy to announce that hotel registration is open. The conference will be at the North Shore Holiday Inn at 5300 W. Touhy … Continue reading
Wikipedia tells me that the Pacific Gray whale swims between 10,000 and 14,000 miles a year, but in Samuel D. Hunter’s play The Whale we never go so far as outside the protagonist’s soiled living room. That’s because Charlie, the play’s hero, … Continue reading
At this year’s Spring Conference presented by the Department of English, there are no less than nine UCWbL tutors scheduled to present both creative and scholarly works from DePaul’s English programs. You’ve read their writing here on UCWbLing; you’ve heard them on … Continue reading
Anyone who enjoys live readings of scholarly and creative writing should attend this year’s Spring English Conference. Reading panels will take place between 1pm and 7pm this Friday May 3rd in the Arts & Letters Hall (2315 N. Kenmore Ave). … Continue reading