workshops
TagI Have To Go Now, My Planet Needs Me
As I write this, I’m trying to figure out the poems I will read tonight for the Creative Writing Manifest Showcase, thinking about whe..
Tracing Your Success
Everyone comes to Columbia at different stages in their writing career. Whether you’re fresh out of undergrad (like I was), or you’ve take..
Umoja Ni Nguvu (Unity Is Strength)
GAA’s incredible travel group in January 2016, with participants from the U.S., France, Germany, Australia, Kenya, and Tanzania
After ..
“Your confusion is more interesting than your perceived wisdom.”
Loitering, Charles D’Ambrosio’s 2014 essay collection that includes pieces from the cult favorite Orphans as we..
Bookbinding at North Branch
I recently took an Intro to Bookbinding workshop at North Branch Projects. “North Branch Projects is an independently run project spac..
Edible 3D Printed Sculptures
As mentioned in a previous post, I have been learning a bit about grant/proposal writing in our class..
Guest Blogger: Bernkopf Covers the Social Justice Curriculum Fair
Hey y’all. This week, I decided to give the blog over to recently blogged about Rachel Bernkopf, who attended the Teachers for Social ..
Thesis. Projects. Yeah.
OK. It’s totally thesis time. Us second-year students in the Creative Writing – Poetry MFA program just got our thesis adviser assignm..
Advanced Fiction: WTF Is A Steeplechase?!
Advanced is the fourth writing class in the Story Workshop. From my first semester, I heard people talking about the Steeplechase proj..
Elementary Education: Day of the Dead Workshop
One of the many benefits of going to school in Chicago is the plethora of not-for-profits that host FREE (or low cost) events and work..