Hollen

Hollen Reischer is the Assistant Director of the Neighborhood Writing Alliance. She is the Editor of the Journal of Ordinary Thought.

  1. A Senior’s Sense of Freedom of Expression
  2. Wench: Launch of Virtual Book Club with Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  3. Words=Change Writing Workshop Showcases Survivor and Advocate Stories
  4. Writing to Create Change: Advocating for an End to Sexual Exploitation
  5. Let My Freedom from Fear Be Heard
  6. Twinkle Toes
  7. What Kind of World Will They Grow Up In?
  8. My First Library: Zrmanjska #6 Belgrade
  9. NWA’s Albany Park Workshop presents: The Booben*
  10. Verse Journalism Seminar with Quraysh Ali Lansana
  11. Reflections on A Long Walk Home’s SOARS Performance
  12. Verse Journalism: Observing Today, Constructing Tomorrow
  13. Do You Love a Veteran? – A Writing and Community Building Project
  14. “Tipped Over the Edge” Restaurant Opportunities Center Says Women in Restaurant Industry Face Systematic Discrimination, Poverty Wages
  15. Write to Woo Your Love—or Wow Your Friends—This Valentine’s Day
  16. Why Democracy Needs News Literacy
  17. Upcoming Events: “Exploring Radical Vulnerability” and “A Senior’s Sense of Freedom of Expression”
  18. Freedom in the News
  19. NWA Albany Park Writing Workshop’s Statement of Solidarity with Chicago Public Libraries
  20. Library Cuts Displace Community-Based Writing Programs
  21. We Are Everywhere: A Cento Challenge
  22. What Will You Remember from 2011?
  23. You Invest. I Write. Our Communities Thrive.
  24. Disability in Chicago Part 4: State Compliance to Olmstead Decision Increasing
  25. We Wish You Were There! A Recap of NWA’s Annual Holiday Party
  26. Disability in Chicago, Part 3: Domestic Violence in the Disability Community
  27. Together, We Open Minds
  28. Write On! NWA’s New Monthly Giving Program
  29. Chicago Book Expo 2011!
  30. Every Person Is a Cartographer
  31. Happy Bloggiversary to Us!
  32. A New Season Is About to Begin: A Memorable Program Committee Meeting
  33. Connecting Cultures: An Artist’s Pilgrimage
  34. Meet the Philosophers: Sue Eleuterio
  35. My First Internship…..EVER!
  36. Why Do We Believe Urban Legends?
  37. Fiber Artist Bonnie J. Smith Reflects on “Thoughts of the Mind”
  38. Interview with Fiber Artist Susan Shie
  39. Borders and Boundaries
  40. Pedgagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference Recap
  41. Neighborhood Writing Alliance joins Sunday Salon Chicago for an evening of literary fun
  42. An Urgent Need for Clean, Safe Water in the Great Lakes
  43. A Visualization of Creative Resistance
  44. Audio Slideshow: Earlene Strickland on “The Defining Line”
  45. Intern Mark Shares His Top 5 “NWA Moments”
  46. Socializing on Telephone Wires: A Year with the NWA
  47. When My Pen Rains
  48. I Am a Writer: Writers We Love Talk about the Neighborhood Writing Alliance
  49. NWA Reading and Reception Delivered More than Food for Thought
  50. Timuel Black Remembers the New Deal with Guest Sharon Warner: Event Recap
  51. Advancing Carly Simon
  52. Meet the Philosophers: John W. Zeigler
  53. How Does Location Affect Relationship? Guest post by Brian Golden of Theatre Seven of Chicago
  54. Printers Row Lit Fest: “JOT Yearbook – The Best of NWA”
  55. Traveling Music: A Writer’s Reflection on “Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line”
  56. Release Reading TONIGHT, and “Tribute to Marvin Gaye”
  57. Lessons Learned from the Freedom Riders
  58. NWA Benefit: A Smashing Success
  59. Buy your tickets to NWA’s Annual Benefit June 1!
  60. Artists and Art Educators as Engaged Citizens
  61. Community Writing: The Founding of NWA, a guest post by Sunny Fischer!
  62. Exploring the Works of Malcolm X
  63. Black History 101 Mobile Museum: “Necessary!” Malcolm X Exhibit Recap
  64. We All Want to Be Heard – New Audio!
  65. Haiku of Devastation
  66. Creating Art in the Service of the People: A Tool for Eradicating Prisons
  67. Hello from Lisbon!
  68. Community Participation in Urban Development—a guest post by Joyce Fernandes of archi-treasures
  69. Interview with Mindy Faber of Open Youth Networks
  70. Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
  71. The Bandana Project: A Public Presentation, Performance & Creative Workshop
  72. The True Cost of Coal: Conversation with a Beehive Collective Artist (Part 2)
  73. The True Cost of Coal: Conversation with a Beehive Collective Artist (Part 1)
  74. Power to the Peeps
  75. Audio: Doris Arrington, “Spin from Within”
  76. Taking it to the Streets
  77. Release Reading Tonight!
  78. A Visual Feast – Guest Post by Jason Reblando
  79. The Index: March 4, 2011
  80. Writers and the Labor Movement: Lessons in Creative Resistance
  81. The Index: February 25, 2011
  82. NWA’s Weekly Writing Workshops: Where the Magic Happens
  83. The Index: February 18, 2011
  84. The Personal as Political
  85. An Exercise in Living
  86. The Hard Realities of Life in Chicago
  87. “Don’t Forget the Mentally Ill”
  88. The Index: February 11, 2011
  89. Poetry in the Egyptian Uprising
  90. Change and Release: An Intern’s Autumn at the Neighborhood Writing Alliance
  91. The Index: January 28, 2011
  92. Theme Launch: Creative Resistance!
  93. What If?
  94. The Index: January 21, 2011
  95. The Index: January 14, 2011
  96. Cuffed Heart
  97. Voices From These Times: Edsals
  98. The Index: January 7, 2011
  99. The Index: December 31, 2010
  100. My Walk Around the Sun
  101. Voices From These Times: Do the Math
  102. The Index: December 24, 2010
  103. December
  104. Drop the I-Word
  105. The Index: December 17, 2010
  106. Meet the Philosophers: Donna Kiser
  107. A Strange Object
  108. Voices From These Times: Looking for Work
  109. The Index: December 10, 2010
  110. Meet the Philosophers: Barbara Govednik
  111. Boundr-o-Mat
  112. Meet the Philosophers: Yvetta Logan
  113. The Index: December 3, 2010
  114. I Believe That Peace is Possible
  115. “Nigger” Will Never Be a Term of Endearment
  116. A Truly Advanced Society
  117. Chicago Loses a Great Activist: Dr. Margaret Burroughs
  118. I Believe We Live Amidst Peace
  119. Voices From These Times: Mike Bryant
  120. Meet the Philosophers: Ellen Bernstein
  121. “An African American Boundary Line” & The DREAM Act
  122. Words Have the Power To…(Blog Launch Party Recap Part 3)
  123. Exquisite Corpses (Blog Launch Party Recap Part 2)
  124. The Index: November 19, 2010
  125. NWA Writers’ Poetry on the BP Oil Spill
  126. Voices From These Times: Temporary
  127. The Index: November 12, 2010
  128. Every Person Is a Philosopher Blog Launch Party Recap—Part 1
  129. Blog Launch Party TONIGHT!
  130. It’s a Neighborhood Affair
  131. The Index: November 5, 2010
  132. Blog Launch Party!
  133. I Was Born in Chicago
  134. Voices From These Times: Employment Inferno
  135. The Index: October 29, 2010
  136. To the Healthy Wealthy Wise
  137. Welcome to Our Blog!