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Outreach and Events

One more week to see “The World As Text”!

“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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Scrawl Radio

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…

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New Media Writing about Writing

How to Write Very Little

“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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Outreach and Events

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…

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New Media Outreach and Events

New Hot Topics in Writing Episode: Literature After Dark

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,…

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Scrawl Radio

Flask Fiction (Scrawl S1 E15)

Do you like listening to Scrawl? Check out the latest episode here! This week’s episode featured readings by Flask Fiction winners Stella Martin and SCRAWL’s own Devin…

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New Media

This Is Your Brain Online

“When people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access…

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Scrawl Radio

Having a Pyknic (Scrawl S1 E14)

On today’s show Mark, Devin and I learn the meaning of the word “pyknic,” offer sage advice to a writer concerned about her missed deadline, and debate…

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Scrawl Radio

Beat The Heat (Scrawl S1 E13)

Beat the heat with an extra-special and extra-long helping of SCRAWL!  Give it a listen below. Devin, Mark and I had so much fun recording last week’s…

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Scrawl Radio

Flask Fiction: Round 2!

Are you a writer? Are you twenty-one or older? Do you like to drink? Got some free time between 5 and 7 pm tonight? (Come on, it’s…