Note:  Brian Oliu is the Commissioner of the University of Alabama English Department Football League, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Here, Oliu revisits an e-mail sent to the Eng[...]

I don’t remember if it was before, during, or after the first, second, or third Genesee Cream Ale tallboy, but someone in a squatters’ mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, was bleeding. I d[...]

The Spin Class and Other Egocentricities Cycling is so not us.  The act of self-propulsion is something that we haven’t been too keen on:  give us a mechanism where the energy we p[...]

Note:  Brian Oliu is the Commissioner of the University of Alabama English Department Football League, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Here, Oliu revisits an e-mail sent to the Eng[...]

There is a struggle. There is a struggle and I emerge downtrodden, feeling like I have been stabbed in the chest with, no, not an ice pick, though that would be appropriate.  I hav[...]

First and foremost: the rumors are true. Casa Bonita is a real place.  And, not only is Casa Bonita a real place (6715 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, Colorado), but I have been in[...]

For all who like talking about writing, here’s another exquisite corpse (a hybrid piece of prose traded back and forth). Below we briefly explore what it means to write the &[...]

Note:  Brian Oliu is the Commissioner of the University of Alabama English Department Football League, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Here, Oliu revisits an e-mail sent to the Eng[...]

This, like all things important, begins in West Alabama on Butt Day.  Each year, Melinda, the Senior Office Associate for the University of Alabama First-Year Writing Program, rais[...]

The exquisite corpse is a writing exercise.  The corpse is created when someone writes a paragraph and then passes the sheet of paper off to another writer. The cycle is then conti[...]