CWC @ BCC

We at the CWC believe creativity and expression enhance all parts of life. Our goal is to give the students of Bronx Community College an outlet to show parts of themselves they usually keep hidden, the parts that fall on to the page in written word.

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Professor Melissa Coss Aquino was on the panel for a talk titled The Bronx "Book Desert": Fighting Back through Public Libraries and New Bookstores. She shared her fondness of books as a child with...

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This past Saturday @bcccuny students performed their poetry at The Bronx Book Fair! 👏 @Regrann from @melissacossaquino - Gifted poets Sasha Smith, Rebecca Perez, and Oyindamola Shoola represent...

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One of our editors, Argenis expresses what Thesis means to him. 😊 @Regrann from @love___found - April 25th, 2017 — I along with 58 other college students got the opportunity to get his & her work...

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Our latest edition of Thesis has arrived! Isn’t it a beauty? Volume VI of the literary journal was a pleasure to put together with my fellow, amazing editors and talented supervisor, Melissa Coss Aquino. It will be made available next week at our Publication Event! More details on the event to come!

- Steph, Editor at Thesis

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Come see BCC students and alumni perform tomorrow at the BRONX BOOK FAIR located at The Bronx Library Center!

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Due to having been receiving a decent amount of questions regarding info dumps, I thought I’d make a post on how to avoid them.

First of all, what is an info dump? An information dump occurs when you give your reader a long chunk of information at once without it...

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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (via quotes-shape-us)

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PREPONDERANT

[adjective]

superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing.

Etymology: from Latin praeponderant- (stem of praeponderāns), present participle of praeponderāre “to outweigh”.

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Mountaintop: What Bronx Community College’s Campus Means

Mountaintop: What Bronx Community College’s Campus Means

Did you know that Bronx Community College occupies one of the highest points in the whole Bronx?  Do you know how this school came to occupy that location?  2014 is the 40th anniversary of Bronx Community College’s (BCC) first full year at the campus we know today.  A distinguished African-American educator oversaw the move from scattered buildings around Jerome Avenue to the high and…

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Try to tell a writer that their book will never be published, and you’re giving them an extremely valid reason to prove you wrong. They will write until their fingers no longer have prints.

"Proving Critics Wrong” (via journaling-junkie)

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Oregon Humanities magazine (est. 1971) is now accepting submissions from local writers on the theme of “start” for the Summer 2014 issue.

This issue will feature stories, essays, narratives, and discussions on different interpretations of “start”—what the word means to you. Examples include...

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Self-published ebooks: the surprising data from Amazon

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Hugh Howey, author of the bestselling, indie-original science fiction series Wool, has published an eye-popping, and important data-rich report on independent author earnings from ebooks sold on Amazon.

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My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack’ is available now: US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461043 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1770461043 Other stockists and info at www.tomgauld.com

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