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After past strikes, writers with original scripts found themselves in demand. Will there be a boom in creativity in Hollywood?

Millie Peck peckcami@grinnell.edu After attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and living in Iowa for nearly 10 years, Jerald Walker was hopeful to stay in the state and applied for a job at Grinnell College. Unfortunately, he was not awarded the position and is now a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. Walker returned to...

Millie Peck peckcami@grinnell.edu After attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and living in Iowa for nearly 10 years, Jerald Walker was hopeful to stay in the state and applied for a job at Grinnell College. Unfortunately, he was not awarded the position and is now a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. Walker returned to...

Those from troubled homelands share a brand of hope, a desire for the violence to finally be over, coupled with the fear that it never will be.