{"id":24718,"date":"2026-02-09T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24718"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:53:29","slug":"creative-writing-collective-meets-feb-11-for-use-of-metaphors-in-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/02\/09\/creative-writing-collective-meets-feb-11-for-use-of-metaphors-in-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writing Collective meets Feb. 11 for use of metaphors in essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/CWC.png?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graphic with a pink background and navy blocks of text. Large headline reads \u201cCreative Writing Collective.\u201d Event details below read \u201cFeb. 11 at 5:15\u201d and \u201cBriggs 201.\u201d On the right, handwritten style text says \u201call are welcome\u201d next to an open book icon. Decorative illustrations of pens and pencils are scattered across the background. Detroit Mercy English logo appears at the bottom right corner.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/CWC.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/CWC.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/CWC.png?w=792&amp;ssl=1 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/english\/full-time-faculty\/amanda-hiber\">Amanda Hiber<\/a>, senior lecturer in the Department of English, will lead the Creative Writing Collective conversation on using metaphors in personal essays on <strong>Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 5:15-6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gathering will take place in Room 201 of the Briggs Building, with all students, staff, alumni, faculty and friends welcome for community and creative writing! No writing experience is necessary to join the CWC. You are welcome if you have an interest in exploring or developing your creative inclinations.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date for third and final Creative Writing Collective this semester, which will take place <strong>Tuesday, March 3, from 5:15-6:30 p.m.,<\/strong> in the Seibert Center for Innovation and Collaboration, Engineering Building first floor. This final installment will be led by Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall and Senior Adjunct Instructor Michael Lauchlan.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact <a href=\"mailto:english@udmercy.edu\">english@udmercy.edu<\/a> with questions or to join the CWC mailing list. Keep up with the Detroit Mercy English Department on Instagram and Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DetroitMercyEnglish\">@detroitmercyenglish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Hiber, senior lecturer in the Department of English, will lead the Creative Writing Collective conversation on using metaphors in personal essays on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 5:15-6:30 p.m. All Detroit Mercy students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[2299,6164,6165,7294,5626,3680,3684],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/CWC.png?fit=792%2C446&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6qG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24736,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions\/24736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}