Congratulations to CRTW Grad Student Ned Randolph, who will present his creative nonfiction at the the Frontiers and Borders Conference held at Oklahoma State University this March. Way to go, Ned!
Get ready for the first BathHouse Event of Winter ’12 semester, featuring Dodie Bellamy reading from her work at the EMU Student Center Auditorium on February 7 at 2:00 p.m. This is a free event and is open to the public (and also counts as a General Education LBC credit).
Bellamy is the author of numerous works of fiction, essays, and collaborative projects with other writers and artists. One of the originators of the New Narrative literary movement, her work interweaves critical theory and poetics into narrative storytelling and often focuses on the body, sex, and sexual politics.
Read more about Bellamy here.
Attention current English graduate students:
GA Application Workshop
Friday, January 20th at 5:30 p.m.
Pray-Harrold Rm. 401
Wondering if you can handle being a Graduate Assistant while doing your MA? Wondering about how to pull together a strong application? Come chat with English faculty supervisors and current GAs about the English GA experience.
EMU Theatre is running a 5-Min (or Less) Sketch Writing Contest. Submit a 5-Min (or Less) sketch for the chance for it to be produced. All you have to do is provide the dialogue, scene, and characters. EMU Theatre provides directors, actors, and designers!
Guidelines:
Hear Creative Writing Undergraduate students Nick Compton, John Farmer, Chris LeBlanc, G. Matthew Mapes, Elizabeth Mikesch, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and Brenna York read their work when The Temporal Arts Collective presents Tilting Time: An Evening of Contemporary Poetry, taking place Wednesday, January 25, at 6:00 p.m. in the Halle Library, room 300 (note: this is a room change due to flooding on the first floor of the Library).
This is a free event, so don’t miss out!
RAWI: Forging the Future of Arab-American Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
RAWI Fourth National Conference
Dearborn, Michigan
May 31- June 2, 2012
RAWI, the Radius of Arab American Writers, has announced its Fourth National Conference. This conference will bring together Arab American writers of all genres in performance, critique, and conversation.
RAWI welcomes individual paper, individual performance, and full panel proposals. Individual paper proposals should include a presentation title, short biography, and 300-word abstract. Performance papers should include the same, with a five-page writing sample in fiction, playwriting, or poetry in lieu of an abstract. Full panel proposals should include presenter bios, both panel and presentation titles, and a description of each presentation, including titles.
In keeping with its mission to promote Arab American arts and mentor writers of all ages, RAWI plans to sponsor a number of creative writing workshops led by notable authors. The conference will also feature various literary and dramatic performances, cultural exhibitions, and critical panels.
The conference will take place at the Arab American National Museum, in Dearborn, MI, which is the very heart of Arab-America, with numerous Arabic food stalls, restaurants, and venues, as well as some entertainment options and cultural amenities. We invite all members of the Arab American community and our friends and allies to join together in spirit and conversation to celebrate and nurture Arab American art and culture.
Proposals will be accepted on a competitive basis. Please send proposals to info@rawi.org . Deadline for submitting paper, performance, or panel abstracts is February 10th, 2012.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All participants in the conference (presenters, attendees, workshop participants) must register for the conference. Participants are encouraged to become members and to register through the RAWI website. To register for RAWI 2012, go to http://rawi.org/register-
REGISTRATION FEES
Regular $80.00 ($105 after May 1)
(includes one-year membership)
Student $30.00 ($55 after May 1)
(includes a free one-year membership)
Closing Night Dinner
$30.00
CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will take place at the Arab American National Museum (13624 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI 48216). The nearest airport is Detroit Metro.
Check out CRTW Grad Student Margaret Leary‘s article, “Our Deer,” in the January 2012 issue of the Ann Arbor Observer (pp.33-35). Margaret describes it as “half journalism and half lyric essay,” and some of her fellow students will recognize it from the Lyric Essay class.
Way to go Margaret!
If anyone is still looking for a literature class this Winter, here’s an option (with only two seats left!):
NEW GRADUATE COURSE – WINTER 2012
LITR 578: Classy Postcolonialisms
Prof. Natasa Kovacevic
Struggles against European colonialism are inextricably linked to a contestation and/or adaptation of capitalist class relations that the colonizers established in their former dominions to manage colonized labor and resources. We will look at the myriad ways in which social class enters postcolonial literature and theory, especially at the historical intersections of anti-colonial wars of national liberation, Cold War discourses, and the dissemination of socialist ideas worldwide.
Major themes:
Cellar Roots, EMU’s in-house, juried literary and visual arts journal is now accepting submissions for its 2012 edition. The deadline for submitting is January 23, 2012.
Click on the following link for Cellar Roots 2012 Submission Guidelines.
Do you like classic literature? Consider the Ann Arbor Classics Book Group. This book discussion group meets twice monthly (Sundays and Wednesdays) to discuss selections from Peter Boxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
Find out more about this group by clicking here.