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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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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 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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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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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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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…

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New Media Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Camp NaNoWriMo

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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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Naperville Advanced Project Forum

Discuss your Advanced Project with Writing Center Tutors, SNL faculty, and a librarian. Share tips and get advice from others who have been there! Naperville Campus—Wednesday, June…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

DePaul Summer Writing Conference

Hey there, lovers of writing. Summer is underway (despite what the ambiguous weather may suggest), which also means that DePaul’s Summer Writing Conference is going to be…