Alchemy’s “Write Like a Human” Student Contest: Judge’s Notes

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This Fall, Alchemy challenged FHASS’s CW&P students to engage with the looming threat of AI. THey were invited either to write stories that engaged with AI, or to go head-to-head against a Large Language Model AI program by… Read More

Write Like a Human Contest Winner: Project D

By Filomena DeRose . Prompt: Write a 1000-word story about a wife who builds a stay-at-home husband after her husband is killed in a fishing accident. . AI Attempt: Building a Robotic Companion, By Chat-GPT 3 In the… Read More

Write Like a Human Contest Runner Up: Doctors Vs. AI

By Kara Woodburn Composing email… Hello Impersonal Hello [[firstname]] Generic Ciao [[firstname]] Too familiar Expanding database Searching… Searching… $TIME= 4:16 am $START= 1:23 pm Calculating time passage… 14 hours and 53 minutes Estimated time till next death… 23… Read More

Write Like a Human Contest Runner Up: Webworld

By Sophie Walsh . November 1st, 2055. My wave trackers arrived today. Deirdre convinced me to order them after my last meeting at the hospital. She keeps telling me nothing will really change. I’ll still be able to… Read More

Announcing: The Fall CW&P 3×3 Screenplay Competition!

Sheridan is in search of very short screenplays that can be used by students in the new Virtual Production program!  If selected, your screenplay will get made by Sheridan students, and you can be involved in the process… Read More

Alchemy Announces the Fall 2023 WRITE LIKE A HUMAN Contest!

In 2011, after attending an annual Turing test competition, journalist Brian Christian wrote: “I think that while the first year that computers pass the Turing test will certainly be a historic one, it will not mark the end… Read More

The CW&P Students at Word on the Street and Pitch Day

CW&P students and faculty found lots of ways to connect this summer—most notably at Toronto’s Word on the Street Festival. Professor Paul Vermeersch was there to promote The Ampersand Review, as well as his imprint, Buckrider Books, with… Read More

Student Memoir from Stories of Home

Ayssar Habeeb responded to the Stories of Home call for submissions. This is a fragment of her memoir, Day 26 The bombardment echoed in the neighbourhood, long night with ambiguous possibilities. The rumbles shuddered my bedroom window, cracked… Read More

Impressive student work from Professor Marshall’s Creative Problem Solving course

In this assignment for Creative Problem Solving, students are asked to choose a new creative experience and report on it; the second part of the assignment is reflective practice through structured questions. For Professor Patsy Marshall, these student… Read More

Stories of Home: An Update

In the Fall 2021 Alchemy edition, we introduced a new project set up by a team from the English as a Second Language (ESL) department: Nataly Shaheen, Claudia Daniela Cirip, Sara Cordeiro Alexandre, Suzanne Soares, and Diana Catargiu…. Read More