English Department Calendar

This social documentary based around the lives of garbage pickers at the largest landfill in the world, at the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Here the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, rooted in New York, decides to make a difference and travels there with the intention to help the pickers improve their lives using the garbage they collect to express themselves artistically.

Essential Cinema Series Presents:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

7:00 p.m.

Mass Media Technology Hall Auditorium

All students and faculty are welcome to join.

Spring Colloquium: Terry Elliot and Chris Ervin will be sharing their research. Refreshments will be served.

WKU Libraries Presents:

Faraway Flix

The First Grader (Kenya)

6:30 p.m. Faculty House

All students and faculty are welcome to join.

Dr. Jane Fife and Dr. Christopher Ervin worked together to plan the next Writing Talk around next year’s English 100/200 conference theme: Identity/E-dentity. They would like to use the Writing Talk to brainstorm specific approaches to using the theme in English 100 and 200, including specific writing assignments one might use.

If you have existing assignments that might be used in English 100 or 200 for this theme, please bring a couple of copies to share if you wish. And if you have any regular readings you’d like to encourage others to try, bring a list to share.

Dr. Jane Fife and Dr. Christopher Ervin worked together to plan the next Writing Talk around next year’s English 100/200 conference theme: Identity/E-dentity. They would like to use the Writing Talk to brainstorm specific approaches to using the theme in English 100 and 200, including specific writing assignments one might use.

If you have existing assignments that might be used in English 100 or 200 for this theme, please bring a couple of copies to share if you wish. And if you have any regular readings you’d like to encourage others to try, bring a list to share.

The Henry Fiction Award is a $500 award specifically for

Creative Writing majors and minors. Applicants must:

1. Be full-time undergraduate students at WKU

2. Be Creative Writing majors or minors

3. Have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or above…

4. Submit a writing sample of his/her fiction (only short stories, not novel excerpts) no longer than 20 pages

The story is due to the English office in CH 135 by Tuesday, April 15, by 4:30 p.m.

Led by Dr. Jane Fife, Writing Center Director

This presentation explains typical attitudes and behaviors that prevent writers from getting started (and getting finished) as well as attitudes and practices that promote productivity.

For those who are interested but unable to attend, the presentation will be recorded (courtesy of DELO) and a video will be added to the Writing Center website.

Essential Cinema Series Presents:

Tokyo Story

7:00 p.m.

Mass Media Technology Hall Auditorium

All students and faculty are welcome to join.

Please join the WKU English Club for an

Open Mic Reading

Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m. at Half Price Books Outlet

Bring original or published poems or short works*

* Please keep in mind Half Price Books is a family-oriented business and will be open during this event. Children may be present, so Please keep your reading PG-Rated.

Submissions may include, but are not limited to, a scholarly and/or creative work that:

•    Emphasizes environmental issues

•    Supports agrarianism—promoting rural societies, the support of agricultural groups, and the
significance of the farmer

•    Addresses the current state of the environment and how it can be improved, be it locally, nationally, or globally.

•    Discusses the debate between conservation and spirituality of the human/non-human world

•    Offers a criticism of pro-industrial development versus destruction of nature

•    Discusses strategies in maintaining environmental sustainability

•    Exposes the presence of human beings and their role/impact in nature

 Previous Winner: Meghan Kennedy, “Their Land, My Land, and The Grapes of Wrath”

 The winner of this award will receive $200.

DEADLINE: April 18, 2014.

Leave submissions in Cherry Hall 135 by closing time at 4:30 p.m.

Please contact Dr. Ted Hovet with questions.

So You Think You Want to Go to Graduate School in English?

Are you thinking about applying to graduate school in English next year? Do you think you
might be interested in grad school sometime in the future?

Join Professors Wes Berry (English Graduate Advisor), Jane Fife (rhetoric and
composition), Tom Hunley (creative writing), Alison Langdon (literature), Alex Poole
(linguistics), and Jeff Rice (professional writing) for a roundtable discussion and Q and A
session. Topics will include why you should go to grad school (and why you shouldn’t),
what to consider when choosing a program, the different types of degree programs, and
what you can do now to have a strong application.

Tuesday, April 22
4-5 pm
Cherry 120

The English department office staff will be selling handmade bookmarks and buttons. 

The English department office staff will be selling handmade bookmarks and buttons. 

This is an all-day conference of free creative writing workshops with published authors.

Free and open to the public

http://www.sokybookfest.org/KYWritersConf

Please join us for breakfast with Angela Spady, author and former Kentcuky teacher. She developed the Channing O'Banning series to help students connect to art and other subjects.

The $35 fee includes breakfast and the presentation. Pre-registration is required. Register online at www.wku.edu/wp.

This is an all-day book festival featuring panels and talks by dozens of published writers and a book fair with hundreds of writers selling and autographing their books; this year's headliner is Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood series.

Free and open to the public

http://www.sokybookfest.org/