Re: slow days

["Hatton-Montoya, Sharon" <hatton@uscolo.edu>]

Here I go again.  First I just have a tendency to lurk and then I can't shut 
up.  The writing center at the university of so. co. is the home of our 
literary magazine, The Hungry Eye.  This seems to be a perfect partnership 
because it gives the magazine a home base, and it means the writing center 
generally has creative writers hanging out talking about writing.  The 
magazine staff also holds their open writing workshops in the writing center 
so it really creates a writing atmosphere.  We also sponsored a writing 
contest last fall in conjunction with the English Dept. and had an excellent 
response.  Sharon Hatton-Montoya
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From: owner-wcenter
To: wcenter
Subject: Re:  slow days
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 7:56PM

Yes, they came for lunch with a comma.  Some of the sessions got 50-75 
people
(I think the comma lunch was around 25-30).

Others on the list have given you some great ideas.  One other possibility
occurs to me (we haven't done this yet)--if your department has some 
creative
writers on staff or if you have creative writing majors, you might draw a
bunch of poeple in by staging a reading event in the Center (with some 
subtly
scattered Center publicity on the tables and a brief "ad" before the reading
for the Center might work--an informercial?).  Or, you might organize a 
panel
discussion among a few teachers of writing and invite all the faculty to 
come
hear (or a discussion on some sexy WAC topic with your own Center 
staff)--that
might get them inspired?

Good luck,

Steve

Steven Strang
MIT
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617-253-4459