Category: The Collaboratory

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    Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the Collaboratory

    Lauren Allen’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Student Edition is now starting to appear in the Collaboratory Circulation Library. This will be a long-term project perfect for anyone who wants to take Latin study to the next level. Lauren guides readers through the Latin text, assisting with vocabulary and grammar but allowing readers to read and translate…


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    New Serial Release from Verlyn Flieger!

    Verlyn Flieger has a new novel in the Collaboratory Circulation Library with the first several chapters available.  Chancer and the Orphan Child: A girl who doesn’t know her name and speaks only in jump-rope rhymes…  A young man washed up from apparently nowhere with no past…  An Inn with more than a hint of magic… …


  • A man of European descent is smiling at us and at the sunny summer day around him. His grey beard might suggest a calm and wise demeanor, but those eye-crinkles are all mischief, waiting to drop double and triple entendres on the unwary.

    A Fragmentary Mosaic

    New in the Collaboratory Ordinary people facing an extraordinarily complex world. Christopher Bartlett‘s collection of short stories pull individual lives into focus during times of trouble and triumph. He will add one story each month until the collection is complete — choose this project room with your Collaboratory subscription to read his work and then…


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    The Storyweb Podcast

    In this inaugural episode of the Storyweb series, Christopher Bartlett interviews Sparrow Alden about her history and process as a writer.  They discuss A Flash of Wings, Sparrow’s anthology of flash fiction that appears in the Signum University Collaboratory.  Link to Episode 1 Find all the Signum Scene podcasts here and look for the Storyweb…


  • News From The Signum Collaboratory

    Hello, friends, it’s time to check in at The Signum Collaboratory! The Collaboratory is dedicated to connecting users with creators. You’ll find a lot of content on the site and in various stages of development, so let’s talk about how this works! Getting Started The first step you will take is to create a Signum…