by Emily Gillette It’s Friday, April 21st at 1:04 p.m., and we are just sitting down on the fifth floor of the Lamont School of Music. In one of the practice rooms nearby, I can hear a French horn player practicing for their recital, and even further away someone is warming up their scales on …
by Isla Lader …please archive your stories and use another platform This is the second part of a project diary involving my work making a Choose Your Own Adventure! I recommend you read my previous post and artist statement on the nature of this project, its history, and what Castle Gormenghast is. There’s a wonderful …
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by: Isla Lader Map of Isla Lader’s Choose Your Own Adventure game, developed on the text-based storytelling software Twine. ‘Gormenghast? Like Goncharov?’ I have heard this joke four times now from my partner. One of the properties in the joke above is a real novel about fictional events, and the other is a non-existent film about …
By Jordan LeeOriginally published January 21, 2023 Ey Cuz! Howzit! Where you stay? You like go beach? Long time since da kine, we go talk story. Shoots, den. A hui ho! As you read the sentences above, I want you to take note of your reaction. Did you grimace? Did you scrunch your brow together, …
By Rishi Ling Throughout the spring quarter, I have explored a few different ways to record and mix a podcast for our Center Voices episodes. As a self-taught producer, much of my knowledge about audio production comes from online tutorials, readings, and trial and error. In this blog, I would like to talk about the setup that …
By Mario MeloOriginally published November 21, 2022 I’m writing my grad school application’s writing sample on masculinity in Dracula. As a result, I’ve been looking for how male characters perform masculinity in all the media I consume. Usually, that means I end up thinking about Zoro from One Piece. There’s something interesting to me about the way Oda …
By Caroline ConroyOriginally published March 11, 2022 When I first started on my research project, investigating faculty perceptions of code meshing in classrooms, myself and others at the Writing Center kept saying to ourselves something along the lines of “change does not happen in a vacuum; it is important that we involve others at DU, …
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By: Joe PonceOriginally published November 4, 2022 Imagine an undergrad creative writing workshop. Usually, it hasn’t been updated in a while: whitewashed walls, an unused dry erase board with incoherent smears and squiggles. You’ve given a piece of fiction to be critiqued by a group of other would-be writers, led by a professional, someone with …
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By Kristen WallaceOriginally published October 28, 2022 Voice is not a gift. It is a democratic right. It is a human right. -Donaldo Macedo, Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed I am currently obsessed with gifts. In part, this obsession stems from my current thesis work on pedagogy and gift …
A Creative Writing Exercise: What Does a Linguistically Equitable World Look Like? By Jasmine Saucedae Originally published February 25, 2022 photo of host, Jasmine Sauceda, conducting an interview during a recording session of the Writing Center’s inaugural podcast series, “Center Voices.”Imagine a world where communication is not hindered by paradigms of the English language. A group …