The Keynote address will be "Toward Symbolism: Gustave Moreau and the Masters of the Past and his Contemporaries" by Madame Genevieve Lacambre. Click here for more information visit the conference website.
On Friday, May 2, poet and professor Dr. Pamela McClure of Columbia College in Columbia, MO will address a Brookens Auditorium audience at 6:00 pm. Snacks and a social hour will take place after the address, followed by the unveiling of the 2008 edition of The Alchemist Review, which will include readings and short presentations from this year's contributors.
On Saturday, May 3, Dr. McClure will lead a poetry workshop beginning at 11:00 am. Writers from the UIS community who are interested in participating in the workshop must apply by sending two poems and their contact information to literati@uis.edu.
At 12:30 lunch will be provided in the PAC Restaurant.
At 1:30, a Reader's Theater will take place in Brookens Auditorium with plays written, directed, and performed by UIS students.
Join the UIS writing community for all these festivities.
Any questions? Contact the English Department Graduate Assistant.
"The Purpose(s) of English: A Conference on the Future of English Studies" will be held at UIS on Friday, October 19 and Saturday October 20, 2007. Keynote Speakers will be John Schilb and Christine Farris, University of Indiana, Bloomington. To see the original CFP and for more information on the conference, click here.
The Alchemist Review Celebrates its 30th year!
As part of the 2007 Verbal Arts Festival, past contributors of The Alchemist Review were invited to attend a reunion and selected contributors read excerpts of current and past work. Additionally, this spring saw the release of The Alchemist Review Through The Years Online Library. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the English GA, Tiffany-Anne Elliott, interested readers can now view the cover art for all 30 years of The Alchemist Review and selected pieces from each year's issue are available for download.
Congratulations to Joshua Alan Doetsch, who received the UIS Outstanding Master's Thesis Award for the 2005-06 academic year for his creative writing project, a novel titled Souls Unsure: A Dark Epic in Prose and Poetry. Doetsch's horror novel Strangeness in the Proportion also recently won a national competition sponsored by White Wolf Publishing, and his short story "Snow, Blood, and Sparrows" will be appearing in the upcoming anthology Book of Dead Things.
