Event: Publishing Panel – Publishing Your Academic & Creative Work (05/27/15)

PUBLISHING PANEL: Publishing Your Academic & Creative Work
Wed, 5/27
3:30 – 5:20pm
Odegaard 220
Free and open to everyone
(Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/837239456313064/)

Undergraduates of all majors: ever wondered why you would want to publish your work? Ever wondered how?

Come hear a panel of speakers from a range of academic and creative publishing experiences speak to the process. They’ll share their tips and answer audience questions. University of Washington journals will be on site to help you get plugged into all of the great publishing opportunities right on campus!

Featured panelists on academic publishing:
Faye Christenbery, UW research librarian
Carolyn Allen, UW professor and author/editor of several academic volumes
Jenny Halpin, Director of the Odegaard Writing and Research Center

Featured panelists on creative publishing:
Scott Driscoll, novelist, freelancer, and fiction teacher
Andrew Feld, Director of the UW Creative Writing Program and editor of the Seattle Review
(Plus more to be announced!)

Featured journals:
Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal (literary & arts journal)
BLIND GLASS (poetry)
Intersections (interdisciplinary journal housed in the CHID department)
Plenum: A Journal of Undergraduate Geography
Grey Matters Journal (neuroscience)
and others

This event is jointly sponsored by UW English Undergraduate Programs, Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal, BLIND GLASS, and the Write Away! creative writing circle.

Job Opportunity: Peer Tutors – Odegaard Writing and Research Center

The Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC) is now hiring for peer tutor positions for Fall quarter 2014. The OWRC is an interdisciplinary writing and research center that aims to support UW students, staff, and faculty in their diverse writing and research projects through 45-minute, one-to-one tutoring sessions.

Overall, we are looking for applications from both undergraduate and graduate students in all fields who will be enrolled at UW during the 2014-2015 academic year. Paid positions include both part-time and substitute peer tutor positions. Pay rates depend on academic status: undergraduates and pre-MA or pre-MS graduate students start at $10.46/hour; post-MA or post-MS graduate students start at $15.00/hour.

If you are interested in applying, please visit our hiring page at http://depts.washington.edu/owrc/hiring.html and follow the instructions provided.

If you have any questions, please email Peter Freeman, OWRC Coordinator, at owrc@uw.edu.

We look forward to reading your application.