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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

WRITE CLUB will infuse your life with meaning

I can see you now: despondent, lonely, doubtless trundling unlikely amounts of ice cream into your trembling food hole. You reach weakly for your notebook/laptop/what have you…

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New Media Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Narratives for the Earth

Tuesday marks the second day of Earth Week 2012, which leads up to Earth day on the 22nd, and the world is abuzz with talk about the…

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Writing about Writing

Submit Your Work to Threshold – Submissions Deadline Now Extended!

Hi all!  Threshold, DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, is still accepting submissions for its Spring 2012 issue.  Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or dramatic literature to…

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Writing about Writing

“Very Short Stories”: Composing and Prose on Twitter

Comedian Sean Hill is bringing new meaning to the term “short story.”  His tiny tales (all of them under the 140-character limit imposed by Twitter) are strangely…

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Writing about Writing

Looking to Get Published? Submit Your Work to Threshold!

Threshold is DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, and they’re accepting submissions now for the Spring 2012 issue!  If you’re a poet, a writer, or just someone interested…

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Writing about Writing

Writers Guild Shindig for National Day on Writing!

Greetings all! As some of you may know, the National Day on Writing is rapidly approaching. We’ve got a lot of great things planned. Who’s sponsoring this…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Creative Writing Tutorials: Don’t run for the hills just yet

Lurking in the shadows of walk-in tutorials, obsessing over sections of the UCWbL Handbook, guzzling Starbucks coffee by the pot, the new tutors wait to be unleashed…

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New Media

To Tag, or Not to Tag

There has been a great evolution in my mind concerning the concept of graffiti. When young, I associated it with a disrespectful ugliness that surfaced on trips…

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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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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…