Announcing:
Sigma Tau Delta has a book sale every first Monday and third Tuesday of the month from 9-3 in FH 108. And, they will have their new T-shirts on sale. Very nice!
Persona, the Texas State University student literary periodical that has published since 1963, is looking for students interested in serving in editorial positions – Managing Editor, Poetry Editor, Fiction Editor – and other possible staff positions, for the 2017-2018 issue. Please contact Roger Jones (RJ03@txstate.edu) by Wednesday October 18th if you are interested in serving in one of these positions.
The Children’s Literature Association’s annual conference will be in San Antonio June 28-30, 2018. The conference theme is “Refreshing Waters/Turbulent Waters,” and proposals for papers are due October 15. The call for papers and portal for submitting proposals can be found on the ChLA website: http://www.childlitassn.org/2018. For more information, contact conference chair, Marilynn Olson, mo03@txstate.edu.
Interested in spending the summer in Ireland? Join the English Department’s Texas State in Ireland program for five weeks in Cork. Contact Steve Wilson at sw13@txstate.edu for more information or to set up an application interview. The program’s 15 spots usually fill by mid-November.
Congratulations!
MATC alumna Dr. Susan Rauch has accepted an appointment as a Lecturer in Professional Writing in Science Communication & Technology at Massey University School of English and Media Studies, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Susan will teach, manage tutors in the writing for science communication and technology course curriculum, and redesign the writing for science communication course curriculum.
Professor John Blair’s poem “The Law of Unintended Consequences” has been awarded the 2017 Cultural Center of Cape Cod’s National Prize for Poetry. The poem and details of the prize can be found at http://www.cultural-center.org/submissions-proposals/#submissions
Senior Lecturer Keith Needham was featured in the September 28 issue of the University Star for his very special mentoring relationships in Bobcat Bond: http://star.txstate.edu/2017/09/28/bobcat-bond-program-forms-lifelong-friendships/
Lecturer Allison Grace Myers’s essay “Perfume Poured Out” was listed as Honorable Mention in the 2017 Best American Essays. The essay originally appeared in Image.
Three poems by Lecturer Meg Griffitts will be published in the #Ghost Motel Anthology by White Stag Publishing, and another poem titled “Prevention is the Best Self-Defense” will be in Crab Fat Magazine. Meg was a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize.
Lecturer Stephen Harmon’s painting, Abstract #2, has been accepted to the Austin Visual Arts Association Fall Show at Austin Art Space Studio & Gallery, 7739 Northcross Drive. The exhibition will be held Oct. 13-Nov. 4, and there will be an opening reception on Friday, Oct. 13, 6-8 p.m.