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Discover Your Voice at ECC’s Writers Center — Workshops for Every Writer

ECC’s Writers Center is a place where creatives from all corners of ECC gather to ponder, write, revise creative writing in its many forms. From songs to poems to personal narratives to screenplays to short stories to plays to graphic novels, the Writers Center fosters a love for all things writing. It fosters and cultivates ECC’s literary community through various programming.

Writers Center Events

Registration for our free events is optional, but it helps us plan and send you reminders. Choose a date from the list to start the sign-up process.

Readers Series

Each year, critically acclaimed writers are invited to campus to offer a public writing session and a public reading. Students are granted the opportunity to grow and glean from professional writers. All Reading Series events are free and open to the public.

Open Mic Coffee House

Join us to celebrate writers in the community! This is a public reading event where people come together and share their poetry or shorter work (4-7 minutes each), or they even read the work of other writers to inspire us. We meet once a month on Tuesday from 6-8pm. For the first thirty minutes, we mingle, drink coffee, and eat food. It’s so fun to meet fellow creatives and learn about their work. During the first half-hour, people sign up to read, but it is NOT required. You can also attend JUST to listen, applaud, and support others. Stay informed about the next one! Join our newsletter by clicking the link above!

Spire Literary Journal

Spire is an annual publication featuring students’ literary and visual art including poetry, prose, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Students play an active role in selecting the works featured in the publication and designing the journal.

Deadline: December 13

Find submission details and submit your art .

Writing Contests

The Writers Center facilities multiple, annual writing contests that provide various prizes for students.

List of contests and scholarships.
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Scholarships

The ECC Board of Trustees awards up to three full-tuition scholarships, renewable for up to two years. Students with a love of creative writing and community have the opportunity to work weekly in the Writers Center and help plan and execute all Writers Center programming. Creative writing includes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - it is also applicable to personal narratives, songs, and scripts.

Deadline: ongoing; Priority Deadlines: Oct. 31 and March 31

For questions, please email Writers Center Director at writerscenter@elgin.edu 

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