Volume 4 of Writing across the University of Alberta is now available

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Writing across the University of Alberta (WAUA), a journal of undergraduate student writing in writing studies courses across campus.

Our volunteer editorial team (Nancy Bray, Anna Chilewska, Anita Parker, Karly Coleman, Melissa Haynes, Alp Cevirme and Lexi Lalonde) produced this issue, which features a wide variety of undergraduate student writing. 

• The opening piece, A meme about writing by Felix Wang, visually depicts the agony of a never-ending series of writing deadlines.
• The Mountain of Writing by Tieyang Zhang explores the similarities between the worlds of nature and writing in a fairy tale.
• The Flaming East by Veronika Ivanytska is a fictional account of a Ukrainian journalist covering the war in Ukraine. This evocative piece describes the difficulty of finding words for the horrors of war.
• The fourth piece in the issue -- The Journey from a Single Sentence to a Well-Written Essay by Atem Dang -- recounts how the writer overcame language barriers in his native South Sudan through hard work.
• In As The Boundaries Blur Between Games and Reality, Chenoa Kaufman analyzes her own experiences playing video games and considers how violence in video games might affect us in the real world.
• The final piece in the issue -- Tutoring with the Vampire by Anya Smolny -- is a fictional piece that imagines what would happen if a vampire became a writing tutor. 

With the publication of this issue, WAUA continues to build our exciting repertoire of student writing at the University of Alberta. We invite our colleagues who teach writing to share these pieces with your students as models.

We are now seeking submissions from writing studies students for the fifth issue of WAUA, which will be published in late Fall 2024.

Thank you to our great editorial team for their efforts. We can't believe we've reached the fourth issue already!

Nancy Bray and Anna Chilewska
Co-Editors, Writing across the University of Alberta