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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Category: New Media
Explorations of how media other than writing, especially new evolving media, overlap with and inform writing itself.
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…
Tomorrow, on June 29, Wikipedia will add a new way of giving feedback to its contributors. The ‘WikiLove‘ feature is modeled after Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, a medium…
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Live Mocha
Last week I told you guys about SharedTalk. Apparently, another free site with similar goals but different features exists as well, known as LiveMocha.com. Live Mocha is…
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The American Dream
The American Dream, a short film produced by UCWbLer Devin Leigh (History & African Studies, ’12) and directed by Marcus Deely (Digital Cinema ’11), won an award…
Hello there writers. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month—is an annual challenge for writers to write a novel (or 50,000 words of…
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Shared Talk
Are you studying a foreign language? Have you always wanted to become pen-pals with someone else who speaks the language, but don’t know very many people? And/or…
The UCWbL’s Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has just published the first issue of Global Voices, an electronic magazine that features creative and academic texts…
Some colleagues of mine at the UCWbL have written up a great piece to help those of you working on Digication e-portfolios. If you need some advice…
Stream the latest episode of Hot Topics in Writing, the UCWbL’s podcast, right below, while we take you behind the scenes of some of Chicago’s hottest literary…