Worldbuilding with Ursula Le Guin
The 50th anniversary of The Dispossessed , the utopian novel by Ursula Le Guin, brought faculty and students together to share the importance of public humanities.
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Madeleine Roux’08: Writing with purpose
Madeleine Roux’08, bestselling author of the young adult horror series Asylum , credits Beloit English professors Steve Wright and Francesca Abbate with being the support that she needed to pursue a budding interest in creative writing .
“[Steve Wright] was such a huge part of…
“O My Floating Life”: In Search of the Elusive Wisconsin Poet Lorine Niedecker’26
Lorine Niedecker’s poetry was on the cutting-edge of 20th century modernism, but it was largely unknown and unrecognized until years after her passing in 1970. Passionate advocates hope to raise her profile on campus and throughout the Midwest.
moreAlmuna Brita Sauer’97 wins prestigious poetry award
Brita Sauer’98 is the recipient of the 2022 Ruth Scott Poetry Award, sponsored by the American Academy of Poets. Brita majored in Creative Writing at Beloit and earned master’s degrees from Temple University (Creative Writing) and Rutgers University (Library Science). She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Alumni Share Knowledge at Festival of Careers in Writing
Students explored how writing skills translate into a variety of careers at a daylong festival with returning Beloit College alumni working in journalism, editing, translating, marketing, communications, and more.
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How persistence, a pandemic, and the New Yorker magazine spurred a degree at 61
“I’m like a lot of people who are sort of reassessing their existence during the pandemic.”
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