Academics Content By Nicole O’Connell This story originally appeared on the Writing Program’s website. The Writing Program has announced that the ENGLWRIT 111 Best Text Contest will now be known as the Marcia Curtis Best Text Contest, named for Marcia Curtis, who served as a teacher and administrator in the Writing Program for around 25 […]
Six months into the pandemic, I hadn’t written a word. When I finally returned to the page, in September 2020, it wasn’t with the clarity and intention required for the essays and stories I was used to writing. Instead, my thoughts and feelings and pen meandered and explored; I wrote in a generally unfocused, sometimes […]
For Shania Twain, the writing of the songs on “Queen of Me,” her latest album, was a form of music therapy to help her through the COVID-19 shutdown blues. It was during that period of pandemic isolation that she wrote this album “as a tool to hold on until it was over, if it was […]
Six months into the pandemic, I hadn’t written a word. When I finally returned to the page, in September 2020, it wasn’t with the clarity and intention required for the essays and stories I was used to writing. Instead, my thoughts and feelings and pen meandered and explored; I wrote in a generally unfocused, sometimes […]
