Tag: writing workshops

Creative Strategies for Supporting Writers with Mental Illness

By J.A. Grier

You know a writer with mental illness, even if you don’t realize it or know that person by name. Maybe the writer is a friend, or someone in your critique group, or someone you met at a writer’s convention. Maybe it’s someone you are working with on a publication.

Or maybe that writer is you.

The Undergrad Writer: Oh, So You Want to be a Teacher?

By Cassandra Capewell

Being an English major combines many of the things in life that I enjoy deep down to my core: I love reading, which is nice because most of my assignments are lengthy portions of text. I love writing, both creatively and academically, so hunkering down to bang out an eight-page paper, if I have enough… Read more »

The UnderGrad Writer: On Vulnerability and The Workshop

By Cassandra Capewell

The Writers’ Workshop is one of the most important lessons in writing. Workshops are designed to offer writers an array of critiques in order to improve a specific piece. Most college programs, to some extent, incorporate a workshop aspect. As I mentioned in my first blog post, when I initially walked into a class called… Read more »