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Creative Prompts for Writing

When you’re running short of ideas for your writing, there are a few methods via which you can try to get over the proverbial block that sits…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Writing.com

I know I frequently offer websites to you all that I think will be useful to writers. But today I found one that I myself am going…

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Writing about Writing

Writing Centers and Collaborative Learning: Only Evolutionary?

In a recent post on The Stone, the New York Times’ blog for contemporary philosophical issues, Notre Dame professor Gary Cutting takes a look at a recent…

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Scrawl Radio

The American Dream (Scrawl S1 E12)

Today’s Scrawl Radio show focused on performance and craft. Performances by host Devin of his award-winning video “the American Dream,” and by first-and-second-place winners of last week’s…

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Outreach and Events Peer Writing Tutoring Research

Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the English-est English of them all?

In preparation for a workshop this fall, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has been doing a lot of research on American accents and dialects.…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Camp is in Session

Hey there again, writers. I know I’ve already lobbied for the awesomeness that is Camp NaNoWriMo, but let me give you a breakdown of the tools that…

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Outreach and Events

Flask Fiction

Are you a writer? Are you twenty-one or older? Do you like to drink? Got some free time between 5 and 8 pm tonight?

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Writing about Writing

Workshopping Outside of School

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…

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Writing about Writing

Agents, Contests, Jobs, and Journals: Resources for Writers

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…

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NewTown Writers

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…