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  • A painting of a crow on a branch in a shady woods.

    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… …


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    Signum Tutorials are OPEN!

    From help with a paper to a mentor’s expertise directing your independent research to a writing coach giving you feedback on your novel, the day has come. Our Tutors have been signing up enthusiastically — so how do you get matched with the right ones?


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    Answering Lucy’s Mythmoot Questions

    By Michael Raymond Astle Once upon a time, not so long ago, Sam was walking the hallowed halls of Signum University when he spied young Lucy. Knowing it was her first year, he thought he’d go chat with her. “Hey Lucy,” said Sam. “Hi,” Lucy replied. “Are you going to Mythmoot this year?” he asked.…


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    Year of the Novel

    Is this the year for your novel? In the Creative Writing sector of SPACE, we conceive of our written work developmentally: Welcome to Launching Your Seedling Story, a series of three modules designed to support writers in the seedling stage of creating a novel. In June, it’s Character and Voice with Christopher Bartlett — click…


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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…