If you're interested in publishing, be sure to check out the Printers Row Book Fair, in the South Loop, this Saturday and Sunday. Publishers from across the Midwest will be there.
An alum hinted that this was a good chance to put resumes in the hands of your dream employers, especially smaller local presses, so keep that in mind, too! And watch your e-mail: if enough people are interested, a few of us could meet up at the fair and see what we can find.
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5/21/2008
Baring It All
Come share your creative writing work at a year-end reading next Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in Hallowed Grounds. All work is welcome, including poetry, short stories, segments of longer fiction, plays, screenplays, and mixed media.
Co-sponsored by ENGL, SGFC, and Sliced Bread, the event will also feature campus music: Saturday Realism, and Claudie and Miles.
Uh, and there's going to be amazing catering from Fox & Obel. So you should go. Seriously, what could be better than listening to awesome writing by your peers (which you may have helped to critique), hearing great music, and noshing on upscale pastry? Come on now.
Make sure to bring friends, since a strong showing will indicate support for the creative writing community here, with which everyone is dissatisfied. Please also sign up to read as soon as possible, and if you can, include a short description of your piece, so that we can group pieces by theme.
Finally, what's the prevailing opinion on concluding the reading with an open mic?
Event details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41168560206
Co-sponsored by ENGL, SGFC, and Sliced Bread, the event will also feature campus music: Saturday Realism, and Claudie and Miles.
Uh, and there's going to be amazing catering from Fox & Obel. So you should go. Seriously, what could be better than listening to awesome writing by your peers (which you may have helped to critique), hearing great music, and noshing on upscale pastry? Come on now.
Make sure to bring friends, since a strong showing will indicate support for the creative writing community here, with which everyone is dissatisfied. Please also sign up to read as soon as possible, and if you can, include a short description of your piece, so that we can group pieces by theme.
Finally, what's the prevailing opinion on concluding the reading with an open mic?
Event details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41168560206
5/07/2008
Thanks
A huge thank-you to everyone who came and helped out last night. We had a great turnout, and lots of good questions. Let's do more of these!
Stay tuned for details about next week's meeting.
Stay tuned for details about next week's meeting.
4/23/2008
What we did, and what we'll do
In our last meeting, on April 22, we did a free-writing exercise that consisted of the following:
+ Write the sketch of a character.
+ Write the sketch of a character who is opposite to your first character in at least one significant way. It doesn't have to be obvious.
+ Write a scene in which these two characters interact.
For many of us, this exercise made us think differently about characters we'd already been working with.
And for next week, choose your response to one of the three prompts to read aloud. We'll talk more about character development and realistic scenes at the meeting.
Additionally, please spread the word to your classmates and friends about Nic's Q&A, which will be at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, in Rosenwald 405. There will be food. In case you're debating whether or not to attend, refer to Sara's account of an after-class talk with Nic, in which he decried UChicago's lack of support for writers who really would like to use their skills practically. A kindred spirit, he.
+ Write the sketch of a character.
+ Write the sketch of a character who is opposite to your first character in at least one significant way. It doesn't have to be obvious.
+ Write a scene in which these two characters interact.
For many of us, this exercise made us think differently about characters we'd already been working with.
And for next week, choose your response to one of the three prompts to read aloud. We'll talk more about character development and realistic scenes at the meeting.
Additionally, please spread the word to your classmates and friends about Nic's Q&A, which will be at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, in Rosenwald 405. There will be food. In case you're debating whether or not to attend, refer to Sara's account of an after-class talk with Nic, in which he decried UChicago's lack of support for writers who really would like to use their skills practically. A kindred spirit, he.
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