Reading Time: < 1 minute This summer, the National Writing Project’s digital writing marathon series – Write Across America – invited the Nebraska Writing Project to host a marathon stop.
Category: Writing from Marathons
As writers, we need to get out into the world, without an agenda except to “be a writer.” Writing Marathons help us step into the practice of writing and sharing our writing, of being surprised at what is in the world and inside of us.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Author’s Note: This is the second part of the garden saga, introduced in this post. I hope this gives a little encouragement to engage with
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Author’s Note: This writing came from a virtual writing marathon, where we were encouraged to write around our place of residence. Since the day was
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Writing Lincoln Initiative is proud to invite you to the WLI Spring Writing Marathon. Following in the tradition of our NeWP collaborators, this writing
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Reading Time: 4 minutes by Jan Knispel Slowly you enter the double doors of this old building and step up the stairs where numerous students have stepped before. You
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On Sat. October 16th, the Writing Lincoln Initiative met up in Pioneers Park for a 3-hour long writing marathon. The marathon included six UNL graduate
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Crossing the state line to see my grandparents meant crossing into a new world. It required a mental shift, shelving the knowledge I’d accumulated from
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Author’s Note: Much of this writing began on a writing marathon at St. Benedict’s Retreat Center in Schuyler, Nebraska in late July, 2020. While out
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I have written in the city and in the country, in kayaks, buses, bars, restaurants, cafes, bookstores, art galleries and museums, next to rivers –