Vol. 6 Spring 2025

Vol. 6 No. 6

Brian Hotson, Editor, CWCR/RCCR

This is the final post from me as editor of Canadian Writing Centre Review / revue Canadienne des centres de rédaction, as I am retiring from the position that I said I would last year. As I am no longer working in writing centres, I feel that I’m no longer qualified to continue in this position.

I see CWCR/RCCR as a project, which has been rewarding personally, but more importantly, the project has been a venue for those in the field of writing centres in Canada to speak and listen. While no one has agreed to take on the editorship of CWCR/RCCR, if this is the end, I feel that the project is successfully completed — 80+ posts over 6 years, which we collectively as a community should be proud. Continue reading “A final post” →

Vol. 6 No. 5 (Spring 2025)

Christin Wright-Taylor

Manager, Writing Services, Wilfrid Laurier University

Vice-President, CWCA/ACCR

Today, the Ephesian agora doesn’t look like much—just an open field with slabs of exposed stone lining the grass. A row of headless columns tacks down the remains of an ancient mosaiced walkway, varied marble tiles wink back colour and light. Beyond those, stoas arch over shaded stalls where merchants sold their goods. To the left, the open market shakes out into a cluster of Junipers, and then the scrubby, rolling Turkish hills. For all its unassuming rocks and grass and marble, there is something striking about the simplicity of the ancient agora. Continue reading “Proximate Chaos: An Agora Model of the Writing Centre” →