N E W S   &   E V E N T S


Black Heritage Month is a busy one at SIUE; check out the extensive list of related activies here.

This Week in CAS features an article on the Faculty Writers Read series, created and overseen by our own Prof. Stacey Brown.

The Special Commemorative Issue of Drumvoices Revue (#17), edited by Professor Emeritus Eugene Redmond, will be available in February 2012. Order your copy today!

Contest Season is upon us: writers of fiction, check out the Mimi Zanger Fiction contest, and poets & dramatists should be preparing submissions to the William Carlin Slattery contest; info on these is at our Contest Information page.

Already thinking of summer? If so, make plans now to enroll your child in the Dept of English Writing Camp. Sessions tend to fill up, so don't delay. Here's all the info you'll need.

The English Dept's own Chay Lemoine is interviewed in This Week in CAS regarding his work on Nobel-Prize-winning Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness and his misfortune in running afoul of J. Edgar Hoover.

Visit the This Week in CAS website for an article on the late Prof. Fred Robbins and his contributions to Sou'wester.

Get Paid for Writing Poems! Hard to believe? Then check out this business model as described in "How Do You Price a Poem?" by Kavita Kumar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

New Advising and Mentoring Procedures are in place in the College of Arts and Sciences, so if you're an English major or English Minor, this means you! Find out who your advisor (in the CAS advising office ) and your mentor (English Dept. faculty) are with this handy guide.

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