This summer, Art of Writing held a writing workshop for rising high school seniors from local underserved communities. We partnered… Continue reading “Writing as Thinking” as Opposed to What?
Writing Category: Writers on Writing
Alex Creighton on Writing Habits and Community
It’s a foggy Friday afternoon when Alex Creighton and I bump into each other outside of Wheeler and breathlessly hike… Continue reading Alex Creighton on Writing Habits and Community
Year of the Animal in France
Nearly every Wednesday from 12-1, the Townsend Center hosts a causal lunchtime Book Chat where anyone can come listen to a UC Berkeley faculty member discuss their recent work.
A Book is Born
The Art of Writing is a program run by the Townsend Center that helps undergraduates enhance their writing skills and graduate students become strong teachers of writing.
Students Teaching Students
The Art of Writing at the Townsend Center is a program dedicated to helping undergraduates of various majors and at different stages of their academic career develop their written communication skills.
Francine Masiello’s Sensational Sense Work
On September 26th, the Townsend Center hosted the first of its seven Berkeley Book Chats this semester, a casual conversation series in which UC Berkeley faculty discuss the publication of their most recent books.
Why Berkeley’s Comparative Literature PhDs Have the Best Dissertations
Every year, the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) accepts nominations for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature in the country and bestows the winner with the Bernheimer Prize.
Ways of Reading Into the Holloway Series
The Holloway Series in Poetry is an English Department-sponsored poetry reading series on campus.
When Law and Humanities Intersect
On April 10, 2019, the Townsend Center for the Humanities hosted the authors and editors of Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places for one of its Berkeley Book Chats.
Faculty as Writers
On Friday, November 15th, English Professor Amanda Goldstein, Architecture Professor Andrew Shanken, and Sociology Professor Dylan Riley gathered with Cal undergraduate writers to discuss writing as an art form.