The Writing Center at Evergreen

It's only two months until Graduation and we KNOW you still need to work on your Academic Statement. Join us for an Academic Statement Workshop this spring to get the focused support and detailed info you need to start, work on, or complete this important piece of your transcript.

All Evergreen students and all years are welcome. See you there!

🌎 Hey Greeners, are you interested in studying abroad but don't have the funds? Apply for the Gilman International Scholarship! Join us this Wednesday in Purce 2 from 3 - 4pm to learn more about this scholarship and how to craft a winning application.

Richard Blanco was the Inauguration Poet for Barack Obama. To try to keep the US democracy afloat, I think we must continue to love the parts we love. There are other terrible parts in our history and present, of course. Blanco’s is a tremendous antidote, reminder, and call to keep working together with those who have the capacities to love and heal within intergenerational and historical traumas. Poetry also reminds us that the personal is political (thanks, Adrienne and others).

✍️ Join us for our upcoming Academic Statement Workshop on Weds, February 5th from 3:00-4:30 in Purce Hall 4! You'll gain essential info about how to create an Academic Statement that fits your focus and goals. Bring something to write with and all of your Academic Statement questions! We'll see you there in-person or over Zoom.

Yes! And Marie Howe will be joining us in December on Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry…what a gift to anticipate…

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, 2 new retrospectives to savor April always brings some of the years' biggest poetry collections. So as it wraps up, we wanted to bring you two favorites — retrospective collections from Marie Howe and Jean Valentine.

Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Downtown Olympia Join me and the Olympia Poetry Network Board for an evening of poetry at the amazing Orca Books Cooperative, Olympia's oldest independent bookstore. Light refreshments provided! p.s. Don't let the typo in the word "partnership" distract you!

Happy Valentine's Season from everyone at the Writing Center! Come pick up a zine for you or a valentine! What is a zine, you ask?📖 A Zine's broadest definition is any self-published writing and art, printed using DIY methods. They vary in their reproducibility-- from easily printed on a copy machine by anyone with an original or pdf , to individually crafted zines with unique folding, binding, and printing processes.🪡 Zines lend themselves well to creative risk, and amplify the voices of people who might not have access to publishing mediums.📣 Always wanted to dabble in laying out a collection or your friends' photos, print it and never look back? Publish your own chapbook of poetry, art, music critique, or polemics? Want to make a sweet scrapbook for your friends and family, or just get over your crush? You, too, can make a zine! Check out or watch for zine-making workshops!❤️🖤❤️

On the zine menu, we currently have:
Seepage: 's own art and poetry zine
Vestal Effloresence: Weirdo romance poetry by the WC's own Fern
Tree of Many Fruits: Miranda Mellis's Writing as Experimental Practice's in-program publication
The Cutting Waters: Dark 3D poetry and prosaic essay

In case you missed it: our schedule for Winter Quarter has been posted!❄❄❄❄❄ To view it, head over to https://buff.ly/3Xlz8fv. Once you're there, you can make a tutoring appointment for help with your classwork, personal creative writing, academic statement, or anything in between!

Happy (belated) Halloween from Evergreen’s Writing Center! Here are some themed prompts to feed your muse. Halloween is a time of Harvest, of allowing for release, to make room for the quiet, calm entrance into the New Year. It’s a time of extravagance in our identities, making room at our tables for the dearly departed, and sharing treats among our communities. Fears and sweets, loss and abundance, flight and descent, live alongside each other this time of year. 🖋🎃

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Trick (the frightful prompts, oh my!) As writers, what are you shedding to go into this final stage before the New Year? What is “dying” to make room for the next stage of your writing life? A project or tendency? An outmoded habit or pattern with other writers?

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Treat (the funny, cute prompts! Yum!) If you’re writer’s self, or project, had a Halloween costume this year, what would it be? What are you experimenting in being this year? What writerly masks are you trying on? Costumes… of objects? Historical Figures? Animals?

Word of the Week:

sesquipedalian (ses-quih-puh-DAY-lee-un), noun

Appropriately, this word describes someone who uses really big, ponderous words. From the Latin meaning "a foot and a half."

- The Big Book of Words You Should Know, 2009, Adams Media

What's your sentence for sesquipedalian?

Word of the Day/Week🦇🎃👻SPOOKY EDITION:
MIASMA (my-AS-mah), noun
An atmosphere that is dangerous and foreboding.

- The Big Book of Words You Should Know, Adams Media, 2009


Do you have a spooooky sentence for miasma?