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National Poetry Day was yesterday, (image by Jill Salahub).
  • The Rhetoric Society of America has accepted a panel organized by Doug Cloud titled “Tracing Effect in Social Movement Studies” for presentation at their biennial conference in Atlanta in 2016. The inter-disciplinary panel includes scholars from Kansas State University and Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. At that same conference, he will help present a white paper on social movements authored with over a dozen other scholars from English and Communication Studies.
  • Kathryn Hulings is happy to announce that her essay, “Light,” has been accepted to appear in the 18.1 issue of Fourth Genre which will be released in February of 2016.
  • Todd Mitchell will present the Saturday keynote address at this year’s Writer’s Retreat in the Rockies. Todd will also conduct a session on Saturday focused on developing character-driven plots. The retreat is taking place from October 16th-18th in Estes Park. It’s not too late to sign up if you’re interested in meeting editors, agents, and other writers, while having a brisk weekend in the mountains. Visit the Northern Colorado Writers (NCW) website for details.
  • Airica Parker’s poem “Earth” appears in Driftwood Press 2:4, which can be viewed on electronic page 16 here: http://media.wix.com/ugd/d32313_bacfd52dc9144aa5a842ef8ba547f4c4.pdf and purchased in print here: http://www.driftwoodpress.net/#!issues/cnec
  • The Community Literacy Center has been awarded a $500 grant from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association to support a special 10th anniversary retrospective issue of the SpeakOut Journal.  Representative writings from each issue published since 2005 are being nominated by our six community writing groups and the project is being coordinated by English major, Sarah Rossi.
  • The Center for Literary Publishing announces the release of two new books: The Business, by Stephanie Lenox, winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire, by Andy Nicholson, newest addition to the Mountain West Poetry Series. Cedar Brant, KT Heins, Melissa Hohl, Abby Kerstetter, and Katie Naughton each helped bring these books to publication by handling the copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, and cover design. Both books are available from the University Press of Colorado or from Amazon.

English Department Homecoming Event 

We hope you are able to join us for the English department Homecoming event next Friday, October 16th, 2:00-4:00 PM, on our very own third floor of Eddy Hall.  We will be having a *special presentation* at 3:00 PM, outside Eddy 300, and you won’t want to miss it!  Throughout the event, we will be welcoming alumni and other special guests.  Students will be providing guided tours of our newly renovated Eddy Hall.  Did I mention that we will have cake???

 

NCTE Presents: National Day of Writing At Colorado State University

Come joing NCTE@CSU to celebrate the National Day of Writing! The theme this year is #WhyIWrite. We will be hosting a writing blackout for middle school, hight school, and college students in honor of the National Day of Writing on campus. For 30 minutes, we will sit quietly without electronics and focus on writing. NCTE@CSU will provide snacks, beverages, and prompts. Please come prepared to share ideas and discuss wriitng. We look forward to seeing you there! October 15, 2015 5:30-6:30pm, Eddy 5 (in the basement of Eddy).

NCTE National Day of Writing