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English Epilogue: October 2026
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English Epilogue is a monthly CSU English community newsletter. Here, you can catch up on department news, faculty and student achievements, upcoming events, opportunities, and highlights from across our vibrant…
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Environmental Humanities and Summer Session: Explore the world at 9,000 feet, where the mountains are your classroom
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Read More: Environmental Humanities and Summer Session: Explore the world at 9,000 feet, where the mountains are your classroomThis summer, the College of Liberal Arts is excited to offer a 9-credit opportunity for undergraduate students to study the environmental humanities during Summer Session at CSU’s Mountain Campus.
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And to the West, Mountains
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Read More: And to the West, MountainsIn Fort Collins, the mountains usually mean west. As I walk to campus, I walk north, west, then north again. True north is usually Eddy Hall – home of the English department. I suppose I will not yet stop having the thought as I walk to campus, I am in…
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Authors Lauren Groff and Paisley Rekdal to visit CSU campus Feb. 24
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Read More: Authors Lauren Groff and Paisley Rekdal to visit CSU campus Feb. 24Two well-known authors will visit CSU and read their works at the University Center for the Arts.
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Candelaria Fletcher receives prestigious NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
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Read More: Candelaria Fletcher receives prestigious NEA Creative Writing FellowshipThe National Endowment for the Arts announced this month that Colorado State University’s Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, an associate professor in the Department of English, is among 35 writers around the country being awarded the prestigious 2022 Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose.
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When You Know, You Know
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Read More: When You Know, You Know“The biggest mistake you can make is going before you’re ready.” I remember feeling absolutely crushed when someone who I looked up to, someone who I admired, said those words to me. We were on the phone, I was asking her questions about the life she had made for herself…
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The Cold Shock
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Read More: The Cold ShockI received an email in March of 2021 from Andrew Altschul announcing that I had been accepted to the MFA program in Fort Collins, CO. I was more shocked than happy, and I’ll explain why. A month prior to that email I had sat my mother down and explained to…
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In Response To a Letter From My High School Self
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Read More: In Response To a Letter From My High School SelfIn August of 2020, I received a letter from my high school self. As an assignment for the first creative writing class I ever took in my senior year, our teacher had us write a letter addressed to the post-college version of ourselves, with whom she promised to one day…
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Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship Competition in Creative Writing
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Read More: Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship Competition in Creative WritingThe CSU Creative Writing Program is conducting its university-wide creative writing competition for arts scholarships. Click for submission details.
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My Pandemic Performance
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Read More: My Pandemic PerformanceIt’s been a long past 18-months, and a fast last three weeks. I spent the last year and a half living with my parents (although I don’t lead with that). And I’ve come to realize that, even in the middle of a pandemic, I was still being performative—I was “Tutoring…
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CSU English professor receives two NSF awards to study how language impacts the microbiome
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Read More: CSU English professor receives two NSF awards to study how language impacts the microbiomeAssistant professor of rhetoric of science Erika Szymanski received two NSF grants for her work on language and the microbiome.