Allie
Presented on a panel with other writing center faculty at the Conference on College Composition and Communication; made excellent progress on her PhD at Wayne State focusing on linguistic justice and multimodal composition, as well as narrative inquiry. Presented a paper on a panel with Wayne State colleagues at the American Educational Studies Association.
Angie
Started a zine about AI called botzine.
April
Helped organize the Ypsilanti zine festival Zine Jamboree and is planning Zine Jam 2026; presented at the Conference on Community Writing; served as a Write-a-Thon Reviewer for ComSci-Michigan; and ran a zine workshop for youth in Agadir, Morocco.
Cat
invited by UMMA to be a guest workshop collage artist for their event Behind the Zines held in conjunction with the La Raza Art and Media Collective; helped organize the first annual Zine Jamboree; attended Kolaj Fest in New Orleans and had a transformative experience.
Chris
Poetry manuscript, The Kin of Nakedness, set for release in March 2026 by Four Way Books; poems selected for publication in The Georgia Review, MQR: Mixtape, Mark, and The Boiler.
Dave
Published his third book, an essay collection titled Calling After Water: Dispatches From a Fishing Life with Lyons Press.
Geoffrey
In his second year back in Ann Arbor and at U-M, after 17 years teaching elsewhere, he has very much enjoyed opportunities to teach writing again for the Comprehensive Studies Program, EDWP, and the Sweetland Center for Writing. The return to friends and colleagues and the workings of such important programs at U-M has been as powerful as hoped and expected.
Jackie
Organized and coordinated the Celebration of Student Writing for the IU East campus, which included coordinating 50+ publications of student work in our pressbook and hosting guest speaker Rick McIntyre, retired Yellowstone National Park Ranger and author of five books about his observations of the Yellowstone wolves, for a day interacting with the students and discussing how he hopes his writing impacts perceptions of wolves and conservation work.
Jimmy
Edited Professor Audrey Bennet’s book Design: A Quick Immersion and worked as a peer reviewer for a science writing manuscript.
Julie
Final draft of a novel completed and out on submission; launched issues 3, 4, & 5 of Public School Poetry; art exhibition with Digital 200 students; received UMS course development grant for her Winter ‘26 course Writing 400: Field Research and Ethical Design.
Larissa
Received a grant from Academic Innovation to fund GraderGPT: A tool to improve the quality and consistency of student assessment across multiple graders.
Laura
Organized Honors Thesis Writing Groups—piloted by peer consultants—for the LSA Honors program; mentored two peer consultants presenting their research at the International Writing Centers Association Conference; and collaboratively developed a new partnership between the Peer Writing Program and the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships.
Louis
Presented at the Consortium on Graduate Communication’s Summer Institute, on Sweetland’s new series of workshops for first-year graduate writers.
Megan
Brought Iris Yanwei Ting into this world; published “Writing Before and Beyond Monolingualism: Vernacular Defenses in the First-Year Composition Classroom” in Pedagogy.
Monroe
Appointed Director of EDWP starting January 2026.
Naomi
Co-editing a special issue of Computers and Composition in honor of its 40th anniversary, titled "40 Years of Composing with Computers: Where Have We Come From? Where are We Going?” as well as a related edited collection invited for submission to the Perspectives on Writing series with the WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado. Presented research about the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative with DRC colleagues at the Conference on College Communication and Composition and at the Computers and Writing Conference.
Raymond
Awarded a residential fellowship from the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities; published the first big chunk of book project Nemo in At Length.
Scott
Second full length book of poems, Stegosaurus Moon, to be published in June 2026 by Dzanc Books; organized a free poetry variety show event as part of the inaugural Michigan Arts Festival; received the Lecturer Excellence in Inclusive Teaching Award.
Shelley
Recognized, for the third time, with an Honored Instructor certificate; organized a Student Scripts Reading with Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts students.
Simone
Published “The Dissertation ECoach: Supporting graduate students as they transition to dissertation writing” in Computers and Composition. Presented at the Provost's Seminar on Teaching and AI in writing classrooms.
Sunshine
Established a weekly protest outside of their previous congressman's office that led to running a few trainings on organizing nonviolent direct action around the city of Roanoke. Now that they've moved to Ann Arbor, they've joined a community chorus and have been making music with them.
T
Co-organizer of the first annual Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor Zine Jamboree; “Birds of Michigan: Field Guide,” poem, chosen as part of Poet TreeTown community project, displayed on window of Dawn Treader Used Books, Liberty Street, April 2025; campus Zine Mini Fest showcased work by Writing 201 students in the Hatcher Gallery; hosted Zine Happening with Writing 201 students at the PIE Space in Shapiro; Art of Podcasting students launched Seasons 6 & 7 of Michigan Voices Podcast; self-published The FLUMMOX zine, issues #3 & 4; Living Writers host on WCBN FM Ann Arbor.
Zeinab
Awarded a grant through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and the Flourish Fund for a collaborative project of visual and written works contained in an art box. Contributed poetry chapbook, The Only Tunnel, to be published by Press Here Projects. Received a fellowship from the New Arab American Theater Works to develop a play, which will receive a staged reading in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 2026. Attended the Tin House Autumn Workshop, where fiction writing was developed in a vibrant community of artists in Portland, Oregon.
