“If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin. If we are lucky, something is passed on.” -Ocean Vuong, Poet, Essayist, Novelist About The Event The UCLA Department of English and UCLA Writing Programs invite you to a special colloquium organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2022. In this...

"Always be a poet, even in prose." -Charles Baudelaire About The Event UCLA Writing Programs and the UCLA Department of English invite you to our second annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2023. In this series of panels, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an...

Based on the life of a Dominican immigrant and Brooklyn matriarch, Mercedes is a multidisciplinary arts, humanities, and healing program that addresses aging, mental health, and intergenerational trauma. Through community-based workshops, VR experiences, documentary film, theater, and a gallery exhibit, Mercedes celebrates and supports the resilience of seniors, caregivers, Latinx communities, and the broader public. Modesto...

“I write to discover what I know.” -Flannery O’Connor About The Event UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our third annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2024. In this series of panels, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present...

Our theme for the 9th annual Creating Connections symposium on writing pedagogy is “Collaboration and Community.” This theme invites us to think about the ways writing helps us connect with our students, colleagues, and communities at large. In the face of dehumanizing technologies and increasingly divisive rhetoric, collaboration becomes an act of resistance and care....

Event Overview Join us for the 5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium! "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." -Joan Didion About the Colloquium UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English are thrilled to invite you to our fifth...

OPEN HOUSE for analog writing, typewriter tinkering, and poetry-on-demand Presented by UCLA Library & Writing Programs Take a break from screens and explore analog writing. Drop by YRL to try typewriters from across the decades, from classic manuals to electric models. Writers will be on hand to compose original poems, typed on the spot and...