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Nurturing Neurodivergent Students

By Ellie Smith
November 21, 2022 01:00 PM
Find out how you can help support neurodivergent students.
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A Community’s Story

By Simon Laraway
November 18, 2022 10:00 AM
Kimberly Garza discusses bringing a community to life at the English Reading Series.
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Turning an English Degree into a Job

By Ellie Smith
November 14, 2022 02:04 PM
Worried about getting a job post-graduation? Find out what these alumni did to land jobs they love.
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Party Like It’s 1813!

By Ellie Smith
November 09, 2022 11:00 AM
Have you ever wished you could enter a Jane Austen novel? Students did just that.
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From Trash to Treasure

By Lauren Walker
October 27, 2022 09:56 AM
Siân Griffiths turns rejected prompts into short story masterpieces.
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The Immortal Poet

By Simon Laraway
October 26, 2022 10:00 PM
A reading series lecture becomes an accidental funeral for poet Jay Hopler.
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Building on the Past

By Ellie Smith
October 21, 2022 01:00 PM
Studies on Dorothy Wordsworth show we have a lot to learn about women in the 19th century.
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Reading beyond the Pages

By Lauren Walker
October 18, 2022 08:00 AM
John Bennion’s innovative approach to crafting books engages readers in exceptional ways.
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Nurturing Young Writers

By Ellie Smith
October 05, 2022 02:00 PM
Teens turn a new chapter at Young Authors Academy.
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Teaching the Teacher

By Ellie Smith
August 24, 2022 09:51 AM
Teachers of every subject and grade improve their teaching through writing.
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Breaking the Academic Stigma Surrounding Pop Culture Studies

By Ellie Smith
July 08, 2022 04:33 PM
Joe Darowski argues that pop culture can have as much literary value as traditional canon.
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YANCON 2022: Just Keep Writing

By Ellie Smith
June 17, 2022 10:40 AM
BYU’s Young Adult Novelist Conference (YANCON) introduces aspiring student novelists to published authors and professional writing techniques.
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Surviving Apocalypses Past, Present, and Future

By Ellie Smith
June 14, 2022 04:35 PM
Barbara Newman gives annual Nan Osmond Grass Lecture on the meaning of the book of Revelation in the Bible.
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Chifir Wins Long Story Short Award

By Ellie Smith
April 20, 2022 10:56 AM
Jesse Richmond’s Chifir becomes Juried Winner in the Short Fiction Category and is being published by Short Edition along with Kath Richard’s The Widow Interim and Braden Robinson’s roses.
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Mothers as Feminists

By Ellie Smith
April 19, 2022 04:53 PM
You don’t have to choose just one.
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Witnessing and Fixing the Archives

By Hannah Scott
March 31, 2022 12:13 PM
At the 2022 P. A. Christensen Lecture, Dr. Kristin Matthews analyzed the focus of contemporary Black American women’s poetry on historical archives and documents.
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Dave Farland: Writer, Teacher, and Lifelong Mentor

By Hannah Scott
February 07, 2022 02:01 PM
BYU has so many wonderful alumni and emeriti who have served the community; it would be impossible to recognize everyone. But from time to time, we recognize a few individuals who have lived particularly exemplary lives of service, mentorship, and impact. Dave Wolverton (Farland) was such an individual—not just to the Latter-day Saint writing community but to any aspiring writer—and is worthy of mentioning as an example to us all.
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Identifying and Rooting Out Racism in Writing

By Hannah Scott
January 11, 2022 11:31 AM
Adjunct Professor Madeleine Dresden highlights common racist tropes and stereotypes in writing and offers solutions and alternatives for more diverse and inclusive writing for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities.
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