Charleston’s Student Writing Consultants Connect
On November 14, 2015, five consultants from the College of Charleston Writing Lab directed by Dr. Bonnie Devet, visited with their cohorts at The Citadel’s Center, led by Dr. Pat Hendrix. Dr. Hendrix’s Center, located inside the Academic Support Center, offered…
Literary Events: Fall 2015
Fall 2015 Friday, September 11 @ 7:00 PM: Poetry Readings by Rhett Iseman & Raena Shirali Poetry Society of South Carolina The Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street (just before Queen) Thursday, October 8 @ 7:00 PM: Fiction Reading by…
Alumna Publishes Essay On the Ten-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath ravaged the city and the surrounding environs of New Orleans, Christina D’Antoni (’14) reflects on her hometown and her coming-of-age years marked by incalculable loss in the Washington Post‘s “Post Everything” blog site. …
Prof. Eichelberger talks about Eudora Welty at Mississippi Book Festival
On Saturday, August 22, the Mississippi Book Festival will take place in and around the state capitol building in Jackson, MS. Dr. Julia Eichelberger is honored to be among those talking about Mississippi and its writers during this event. She’ll be…
The Writing Lab Helps Students Flourish
It’s just around the corner: a new semester complete with new courses and a whole new round of research papers, essays, summaries, reports, stories, and poems to write. Luckily, students can take advantage of the Writing Lab in the Center…
Literacy in Composition Studies 3.2 Released
Literacy in Composition Studies, an open-acesss journal co-edited by Chris Warnick (with editorial assistance provided by CofC M.A. student Colleen Etman), recently released a bonus summer issue featuring the following articles: In “Composing Agency: Theorizing the Readiness Potentials of Literacy Practices,” Clay…
And They’re Off!: Students Accepted into MFA Creative Writing Programs
Congratulations to the following English alumni who will continue writing as graduate students in an MFA Creative Writing Program in the Fall: Owen Hardy (’15) was accepted into the MFA Program for fiction at Queen’s College/Charlotte. Lauren Krouse (’13) will…
Sailing the Arctic Circle
Congratulations to CofC alum and English major/CW concentrator Alexander Lumans, who recently received an Arctic Circle Residency for his creative writing. The competitive—and highly unusual—residency offers writers an opportunity to pursue their work while sailing aboard a three-masted tall ship…
