‘Write the Night Away’ honors William Shakespeare, encourages student writers with comfortable environment

Shakespeare came alive last week for some students.

“Write the Night Away,” an event hosted by the Writing Center, took place April 1 from 8 p.m. until midnight. The event was in commemoration to the Shakespeare First Folio, which ended April 2.

The event was hosted in the Muenster University Center Pit Lounge, which, as explained by director of the Writing Center and coordinator of the event Michelle Rogge Gannon, acted as a space where the students would feel more comfortable writing.
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“The idea is you provide an atmosphere that is special and conducive to writing and conversations about writing,” Gannon said. “We wanted to make it relaxed and fun and different from the usual — a little less institutional.”

Students could work on anything, including essays, creative writing, reports and novels.

Some attendees participated in the sonnet writing contest, which was a competition between students who wrote Shakespeare-esque sonnets.

The winner, Caitlyn Deeignan, was announced April 2 during the closing of the Shakespeare Folio, where she read her sonnet and was presented a Shakespeare action figure as her prize in front of the visitors at the museum.

Senior Kerstin Tuttle, who was charge of collecting the sonnets, said she enjoyed the idea of Write the Night Away and found it very beneficial to students who participated in it.

“I think it’s a really cool idea,” Tuttle said. “It’s a really low-stress, low-key way to just work on writing and get help if you get stuck.”