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Now Hiring Editors

Now Hiring Editors for 2013-14 Student Publications:
Analecta, New Views on Gender, and the Undergraduate Research Journal

The Publications Board is now accepting applications for the position of Editor for each of our student journals: Analecta, New Views on Gender, and the Undergraduate Research Journal. Duties include: advertising for submissions, reading and deciding on submitted work to be included in the issue, finding and working with an artist on the cover and design, creating a file of the final issue to send to the publisher, working with the publisher to make sure the journal is available in April, etc. This is a paid position. Editors must be current IUSB students.

Deadline to apply: Wednesday April 24, 2013

To apply, please submit a formal letter of application that describes your interest and experience. Email the letter to the faculty advisor of the appropriate journal:

For New Views on Gender, please contact Prof. Christina Gerken at: cgerken@iusb.edu
For Analecta, please contact Prof. Clayton Michaels at: ctmichae@iusb.edu
For the Undergraduate Research Journal, please contact Prof. Peter Bushnell at pbushnel@iusb.edu

It is no accident that slaves were forbidden to read and write, or that women were long kept out of universities. Knowing this so early on made me believe that being a writer was the best thing one could be and that writing literature was the most revolutionary, dangerous, powerful, empowering and important thing a human being could do.
-Amina Gautier

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Please join us at the 2013 Student Writing Awards in Honor of Lester Wolfson featureing Amina Gautier. Her collection of stories, At Risk, won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for fiction. The event takes place on Sat. April 13 at 7:00 in DW 1001. All events are free and open to the public:

4:00 Q&A WITH AMINA GAUTIER, DW 3001 – this is a chance to meet with this year’s guest author in a smaller venue and to have a conversation about writing and publishing.

5:00-7:00 FREE PIZZA, DW 3001

7:00-8:30 STUDENT WRITING AWARDS FEATURING AMINA GAUTIER, DW 1001

8:30 RECEPTION, BOOK SIGNING, RELEASE OF ANALECTA, DW 3001

Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 IUSB English Department’s Student Writing Awards, selected by Amina Gautier:

Fiction
1st Place “Blood and Rain” Erin Britt
2nd Place “Elusion” Diane Passero
Hon. Mention “Fray” Krista Cox
Poetry
1st Place “Without Cloud” Joshua Stump
2nd Place “Alexithymia”  Kristin LaFollette-Samson
Hon. Mention “In a Bed After a Star Burns Out” Cody Miller
Nonfiction
1st Place “Untitled Essay” Joe Eggleston
2nd Place “This Isn’t Your Story”  Hannah Cross
Hon. Mention “Life is a Stage” Ahlam Alhallafi

 

Check out this interview about poetry with all the 42 Miles Press poets. Carrie Oeding and Erica Bernheim, winners of the first two contests, have already been published by 42 Miles Press, and Bill Rasmovicz and Allan Peterson have forthcoming collections due out from 42 Miles Press in fall 2013 and fall 2014, respectively:

http://www.prickofthespindle.com/interviews/7.1/writer_round-up.htm

Thanks to Prick of the Spindle for this excellent interview!

Allan Peterson‘s fourth book, Fragile Acts, is the second title in the new McSweeney’s Poetry Series and a finalist for both the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Oregon Book Award. His last book is As Much As from Salmon Press, 2011. Other books are All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize), Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Prize 2001) and five chapbooks, notably Omnivore, winner of the 2009 Boom Prize from Bateau Press. His next book, Precarious, is forthcoming from 42 Miles Press in 2014. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The State of Florida. Visit him online at www.allanpeterson.net.

Erica Bernheim was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 2008, she has been an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Southern College, where she teaches creative writing and directs the Honors Program. She is the author of The Mimic Sea (42 Miles Press, 2012) and the chapbook, Between the Room and the City (H_NGM_N B__KS, 2006). Her poems have appeared most recently in The Laurel Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Saw Palm.

Carrie Oeding‘s book Our List of Solutions, which won the Lester M. Wolfson Prize, was published in 2011 by 42 Miles Press. Her work has appeared in such places as Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, PBS News Hour’s ArtBeat and elsewhere. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University.

Bill Rasmovicz is the author of The World in Place of Itself (Alice James Books, 2007), a 2006 Kinereth Gensler Award winner, which also won the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. Publishers Weekly likened the poems to “the haunted generalities of Franz Wright and the hunted, bomb-damaged villages of Charles Simic,” in its review of the book. Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program and the Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Third Coast, Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast and Mid-American Review.

Not sure how to behave at a poetry slam? Notre Dame has your back on that one–national champion Marty McConnell will teach a workshop in poetry slam nuts & bolts in the afternoon, Friday March 22, 2:30, 101 DeBartolo Hall, [ http://events.inthebend.com/notre_dame_in/events/show/303736185-poetry-slam-workshop-with-marty-mcconnell ] so people have their chops in order for the first official poetry slam hosted by the university at 5:00-7:00 pm on April 18 at the Snite Museum [ http://www.southbendtribune.com/entertainment/inthebend/sbt-ready-to-slam-notre-dame-with-workshop-20130321,0,6405163,full.story ].

THIS WEEKEND:

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Visiting 2012 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion, Marty McConnell offers a workshop for all interested participants in the nuts & bolts of Slam Poetry. Depending upon the class size there will be a lecture and writing prompt for hundreds of people, or intensive work with just a few. You can find more information about McConnell via a YouTube search and via her website: www.martyoutloud.com. This class is in anticipation of Notre Dames first official poetry slam hosted by the Snite Museum on April 18th 5-7 pm. Get ready to slam.
The workshop will be on Friday from 2:30-3:30 pm, March 22 in 101 DeBartolo.
IF you are not a member of Notre Dame [and therefore cannot register online] but want to come to the workshop THIS IS YOUR INVITATION. Please send hoover.14@nd.edu an rsvp…YOU are welcome to attend.

Faculty poets Nancy Botkin and David Dodd Lee have been selected to participate in the Indiana Borderland Project Readings next week. Should be a cool event!

ImageIndiana Borderlands Project Readings

March 27, 2013
129 DeBartolo Center,  University of Notre Dame
7 pm
Indiana Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik has planned a series of four readings on each of the statelines called the Borderlands Project. The readings will bring together Indiana poets with writers from neighboring states to share poems about immigration, migration, borders and home.

Kovacik, also a professor of English at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, said, “Immigrants and migrants have had a profound effect not only on American history but on our literature. Think of Emma Lazarus’ poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty, Langston Hughes’ ‘Let America Be America Again,’ or Rita Dove’s Pulitzer Prize-winning sequence Thomas and Beulah about the Northern Migration of her African-American grandparents.

The northern reading at the University of Notre Dame, featuring Hoosier and Michigan poets, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The western reading will occur at the Swopes Gallery in Terre Haute on November 1, 2013. An eastern reading is in the works, but no date has been selected yet. Further details will be announced later.

The following authors will read:

Francisco Aragón

Nancy Botkin

Curtis L. Crisler

Jacqueline Dickey

Gail Griffin

John D. Groppe

Elizabeth Kerlikowske

Karen Kovacik

David Dodd Lee

Kimberly Renith-Joy Licorish

Orlando Ricardo Menes

Susan Blackwell Ramsey

Kirk Robinson

Diane Seuss

Mary Sexson

Links for Writers

IUSB Creative Writers and Scholars should consider presenting your work at IUSB’s annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Submit individually, or consider submitting with friends and classmates to create a Creative Writing panel. The event will be April 19, 2013. Deadline to submit is April 5, 2013. LInk: https://www.iusb.edu/undergrad-research/undergrad-research-conference.php

Proposals for the Undergraduate Research Conference are due by 5pm on April 5, 2013. To submit a proposal, please fill out the form below.  If you are proposing a presentation, you should summarize that presentation in the “Abstract” section.  If you are proposing a pre-formed panel, you should describe the subject of the panel, summarize your own contribution to it, and list the names of the other panelists (no more than 4). Each of the other panelists should then fill out the form separately.

The Elkhart Truth is looking for interns. Visit the IUSB Career and Internship Fair on March 27 for more info (and free t-shirts!). Link: https://www.iusb.edu/career-events/career-fair/index.php

2013 IU South Bend Career and Internship Fair
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
2 – 5 pm

Student Activities Center (SAC)

Professional Dress Required for Entry to the Fair

Submit to the Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards: http://www.ncte.org/awards/student/nmwa?roi=echo4-22193046956-20016473-1d2807f2ced550f3598171cc821cdfa3&

Students may submit work in any of the many subgenres of creative non-fiction: memoir or autobiography, essay, literary journalism, or profiles of people or places. Submissions may be “conventional” or “experimental” and may represent any creative non-fiction tradition. However, the best work will demonstrate compelling literary merit. Open to high school and college levels. Submissions not falling within the guidelines outlined below will not be considered. Late entries will not be accepted.

Entries accepted March 1–April 30, 2013, Noon CST.

Track your writing progress: http://750words.com/

And a link to a short Harper’s article on the origins of stories – and all the stories that feed the stories we write:

http://harpers.org/blog/2013/03/on-the-origins-of-stories/

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