Writer's Block Magazine

Erasure Poem: I Would Like to Know

February 9, 2016

by Erasure Poem, Film, Poetry, Stiftgedicht, Vincent Baptist

During the last winter months, I dedicated the majority of my time to the creation of my bachelor thesis, which concerned the enigmatic oeuvre of the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. Due to a remarkably minimalist and contemplative style, as well as the foregrounding of ‘time’ and ‘duration’ rather than ‘action’ and ‘motion’, his films are…
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Art on the Walls

February 5, 2016

by Art, Rachel Aisa-Bonoko, WB Column

Towards the end of January I completed a 3 month painting course that I had been taking at CREA (“Cultureel Studenten Centrum”). I took it partly because I felt like I needed to release my artistic ambitions and partly because I needed to shift my focus a little bit. Since the course that I…
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Celebrating Mental Illness

February 3, 2016

by Romy Verhoeven, WB Column

There is a new trend going on in Media Land, and it is called Mental Illness. Nowadays, in more and more movies and series our protagonists are haunted and troubled by one or another psychological disorder. Be it depression, autism, AD(H)D, or – a very popular one – social anxiety. Another common feature of our…
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Behind the Classic 2: The Madwoman in the Attic – A Postcolonial Reading of Jane Eyre

January 29, 2016

by Behind the Classic, Books, Literature, Roselinde Bouman, WB Column

In the ‘Behind the Classic’ series, editor-in-chief Roselinde takes you on a trip to well-known novels and their less well-known backstories. In this second instalment, she takes you through a postcolonial reading of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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Be Prepared When Study Meets Abroad-y

January 26, 2016

by Jules Schlicher, WB Column

Like many students I made the choice to pursue part of my degree abroad. Last year I submitted my resume alongside a letter of motivation and filled in a batch of forms for various institutions, in order to apply for a semester’s worth of studying at the University of Edinburgh. To my surprise and delight…
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Erasure Poem: I Would Like to Know

Art on the Walls

Celebrating Mental Illness

Behind the Classic 2: The Madwoman in the Attic – A Postcolonial Reading of Jane Eyre

Be Prepared When Study Meets Abroad-y