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Dear students, instructors and local writing and editing community,

At the end of this month, I will be leaving the UC San Diego Extension Writing Program after almost seven wonderful years. It has been a pleasure working with such talented writers and editors. From the creativity of our novel writers to the preciseness of our editors, you have all inspired me and I have learned very much from you as well. My last day in the office will be January 24^th and we hope to have another representative for the Writing Programs very soon.  In the meantime, we will be retiring the Writing Program Blog to allow time for preparation and training.

Thank you for following our blog and I hope you have enjoyed our stories from instructors, news about our students and community event listings. I encourage you to check our program website often for information about new courses and our quarterly offerings at extension.ucsd.edu/writing. There are a couple of great ways to stay up-to-date on the Writing Program. The first is through our quarterly emails, where you get a heads-up on enrollment opening, specialized content and links of interest to writers and editors, and information on upcoming courses. Signup is available at: http://www.extension.ucsd.edu/signup. The second way is to visit the Extension blog, which is now getting rolling with lots of interesting articles on a variety of topics, from finding a job to how to live the literary life. You can find it at ucsandiegoextension.wordpress.com and they’re happy to get any feedback you would like to share.

Thank you all and best of luck with all of your future endeavors!

Best wishes,

Allison Maderia

Writing Programs, Program Representative

Arts, Humanities and Languages Department