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2016 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize Winners Announced

March 21, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

First Place winners receive $150.00; 2nd Place $100, and 3rd place $50.00.Thanks to all who submitted work to the contest! Many submissions were received.  

Holly Smith Moderating Plenary Session at Washington Writers Conference

March 10, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Holly Smith will be moderating the morning plenary session, "Books and Books: Industry Overview" during the Washington Independent Review of Books' annual Washington Writers Conference on Sat., Apr. 30, in Bethesda, MD.

Updates from PWP

March 09, 2016 English

Alexandra Calloway was named a 2016 Stamp Service-Learning Faculty Fellow. Mark Fitzgerald was invited to the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.

Writing for Change Skypes with Northwestern High School

March 09, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

English 292/388C: Writing for Change students Skyped with students from Northwestern High School last week.

Amanda Fiore of AWP Publishes in New Madrid

March 09, 2016 English

Amanda Fiore's short story "One Millimeter, Either Way" was recently accepted for publication in New Madrid, which is a literary journal out of Murray State University.

Kyle Bickoff Presents at ACLA, has Review Published

March 09, 2016 English

Kyle attended ACLA 2016 at Harvard and presented a paper “Building Empty Archives and Constructing Cultural Memory Based on Societal Metadata,” in March 2016.

Stephen Rojcewicz Publishes Three Poetic Translations

March 09, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Stephen Rojcewicz, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, has recently published three poetic translations

Linda Kauffman Attends Don DeLillo Conference in Paris

March 07, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Linda Kauffman was an invited speaker at an international conference in Paris in February on Don DeLillo, who attended.

Joshua Weiner Explores Refugee Crisis and German-Language Literature

March 07, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Joshua Weiner was the IES Berlin Centre's research associate fellow in October, where he delivered the W.E.B. Du Bois lecture at Humboldt Universität.

MFA Student Meg Eden Awarded 2016 Ian MacMillan Award

March 07, 2016 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

Meg Eden's poem "Radium Girls" won the 2016 Ian MacMillan Award for poetry, and will be published in a forthcoming issue of Hawaii Review.