Good morning Scrawl Nation! Last Friday, Stephanie Klein from DePaul’s literary magazine, Crook and Folly, joined us to talk about writing and editing for a lit-mag!
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The Merits of Being Awful
Lit magazines are the heart of collegiate writing, especially for creative writers. Where else will self-conscious english majors be able to get their writing published? Getting published…
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Beautiful Lines
I’d rather not think about what this says about the world, but nearly a month later the universe is still abuzz with talk of Miley Cyrus and…
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…
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…
When you read a book, what’s one of the first things you notice? Is it the setting? Is it the use of concrete versus abstract details? Is…
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Suck It Up and Take It
I usually have no problem taking criticism. Well, not when it comes to my writing at least. I know the value of a workshop class and I…
In his essay “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said ‘Once Upon a Time,’” Steve Almond uses a trend among his creative writing students…
This week, the Chicago Public Library Foundation awarded novelist Don DeLillo the Carl Sandburg Literary Award
With Spring Quarter winding down and the weather approaching something we might be able to call “summery” (because, let’s face it, it’s the best we’re going to…