Chris Terry | Marginalia

So you can get an idea of the writing that the Fiction Writing Department is producing, I am publishing excerpts from work by my fello..

I am sweating, because I am about to turn in my thesis, the project that is the culmination of my time and work here at Columbia Colle..

2nd Story events feature a hybrid of storytelling and theater. They usually take place at Webster’s Wine Bar in Lincoln Park, where pe..

Fiction 2 is the writing workshop that you take in your second semester of the Fiction Writing program. The big assignment is a Parody..

Proseforms is the Story Workshop writing class that you take during your third semester in the program. There is a focus on creative n..

“Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different region of North America in order to celebrate the outstanding au..

Kurt Kennedy is one of the closest friends that I made while at Columbia College Chicago. As I tiptoe into real life and my schedule b..

Kevin Kane has done a lot for Chicago writers, on-campus and off-, so interviewing him was a no-brainer. The fact that he’s a gr..

I’ve loved Jessie Morrison’s writing since the third week of class, when our teacher read our class a story she’d started two weeks be..

Grad school is not cheap. You’re paying to have a couple of years where you can devote your life to your particular artistic passion. ..