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SJU Writing Studies Summer 2023 Courses

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Here’s a peek at what’s coming in summer 2023.

Summer I: CRN 20146

 

ENG 600: Poetry Today (Area I)
Online Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 p.m. & asynchronous classes
Instructor:  Dr. Kay Gomes

 

This course will serve as an exploration of the current poetry scene in America, beginning with Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, and reading through the High Modernist period to present day. We will focus in particular on how 20th and 21st century poets seek to define a distinct American poetics through experimental form and narrative structure. We will undertake a close study of the schools and theoretical concepts that define these centuries. Movements covered will include Imagism, the New York School, the Harlem Renaissance, the Neo-Confessional, the Contemporary lyric, and Language Poetry. We will practice our own creative imitations in an effort to understand how to “make it new” as Ezra Pound suggested the modern American poet ought to do. We will have a ball. Note: This class will meet synchronously on Thursdays only; Tuesdays, there will be asynchronous work scheduled.

Summer II: CRN 20324

 

ENG 635: The Writing Teacher Writing (Area II)
Online synchronous classes Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 p.m.
Instructor:  Dr. Owen Gilman

 

Development of a strong, clear, and natural voice is the goal for writers in any profession, and exercise in writing–from freewriting to development of sustained multiple draft projects–is especially important for teachers working to guide students in moving toward achieving what Peter Elbow calls “vernacular eloquence,” the title of his most recent book. This course involves frequent freewriting, reading drafts out loud, and in-depth reflections on Elbow’s 50 years of practice as a writing teacher writing.

New Pages Submission Opportunities – Have a Look!

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Some submission opportunities!

African Poetry Book Fund. Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Poetry. No Fee. 12/1

Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival. Creative Writing Competition. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama. No Fee. 12/1

American Library Association. Schneider Family Book Awards. Children’s/YA Fiction, Children’s/YA Nonfiction. No fee. 12/1

American Library Association. W.Y Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Fiction. No Fee. 12/1

Breakwater Review. Breakwater Fiction Contest. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/1

Briarpatch. Writing in the Margins. Nonfiction, Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

december. Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

The Fiddlehead. Poetry Contest. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

Five Points. James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

The Heartland Review. Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

The Langum Foundation. David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction. Fiction. No Fee. 12/1

The Masters Review. Novel Excerpt Contest. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/1

Morehead State University. Thomas & Lille D. Chaffin Award. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. No Fee. 12/1

Reed. Mary Blair Award for Art. Art. Entry Fee. 12/1

Regal House Publishing. W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/1

Slipstream. Poetry Chapbook Competition. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1

Smith College. Poetry Prize for High School Girls in New England. Poetry. No Fee. 12/1

University of Evansville. Richard Wilbur Award. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/1 [even-numbered years]

Waywiser Press. Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Poetry. 12/1

Mono. International Short Story Competition. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/1

Invisible City. Nonfiction Flash Contest. Nonfiction. No Fee. 12/5

Mslexia (UK). Poetry Competitions (Single Poem & Pamphlet). Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/6

Columbia Journalism School. J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize. Nonfiction. Entry Fee. 12/9

Columbia Journalism School. J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards. Nonfiction. No Fee. 12/9

Friends of American Writers Chicago. Literature Awards. Fiction, Nonfiction. No Fee. 12/10

Sarabande Books. Flo Gault Student Poetry Prize. Poetry. No Fee. 12/11

Daisy Pettles. Older Women’s Writing Residency & Grant Application. Entry Fee. Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Screenwriting, Comics. 12/12

Center for Kansas Studies. Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. No Fee. 12/15

Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua Prize. Fiction, Nonfiction. Entry Fee. 12/15

Columbia Journal. Winter Contest. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, Art. Entry Fee. 12/15

Gival Press. Poetry Award. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

Interim. Test Site Poetry Series. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

Longleaf Press. Book Contest in Poetry. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

Meridian. Editors’ Prize. Fiction, Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

MUSE Literary Journal. Holden Vaughn Spangler Memorial Award for Poetry. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

Poetry International. C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/15

Story. Story Foundation Prize. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/15

Sunspot Lit. Culmination Contest. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art. Entry Fee. 12/15

Sweet. Flash Nonfiction Contest. Nonfiction. Entry Fee. 12/15 (extended)

Voyage. Best Chapters Contest. YA Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/15

Toasted Cheese. Dead of Winter. Fiction. No Fee. 12/21

StoryShare. Story of the Year Contest. Fiction, Nonfiction. No Fee. 12/27

Virginia Commonwealth University. Cabell First Novelist Award. Fiction. No Fee. 12/30

Burnside Review Press. Book Award. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Center for Book Arts. Poetry Chapbook Program. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31 (extended)

Chestnut Review. Poetry Chapbook Contest. Poetry. 12/31

Cleveland Foundation. Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. No Fee. 12/31

Do Wha(TS) Write. Creative Writing Contest. Flash Fiction, Short Stories. Entry Fee. 12/31

Dynamo Verlag. Book Contest. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cross-genre, translations. Entry Fee. 12/31

The Florida Review. Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. Fiction, Nonfiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

Hub City Press. C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/31 [even-numbered years]

Kallisto Gaia Press. Acacia Fiction Prize; Saguaro Poetry Prize. Fiction, Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

The Kenyon Review. The Short Nonfiction Contest. Nonfiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

The Lascaux Review. Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

LitMag. Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

Livingston Press. Tartts Fiction Award. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

The Lyric. College Poetry Contest. Poetry. No Fee. 12/31

The Moth. Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Poetry Quarterly. Rebecca Lard Award. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Poetry Society of America. Robert H. Winner Memorial Award; George Bogin Memorial Award; Chapbook Fellowships; Four Quartets Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Press 53. Award for Short Fiction. Fiction. Entry Fee. 12/31

Rollick Magazine. Fiction Prize. Entry Fee. 12/31

The Society of Classical Poets. Poetry Competition. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Third Coast. Jaimy Gordon Fiction Prize/Poetry Prize. Fiction, Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Tofu Ink. Art Prize. Entry Fee. 12/31

Tofu Ink. Poetry Chapbook Prize. Entry Fee. 12/31

Tupelo Press. Dorset Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

Two Sylvias Press. Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize. Poetry. Entry Fee. 12/31

 

Writing Studies Spring 2023 Course Offerings

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Here is the lineup!

 

 

 

 

ENG 620: Bestsellers and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace

Dr. Kersti Powell

Mondays, 6:30-9:15 pm Online

CRN: 10696

Area I

Bestsellers and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace will give you an opportunity to explore the most recent trends in contemporary British and Irish fiction. By focusing on marketing and the literary canon, this course will give you an opportunity to reconsider contemporary literature from a new and exciting perspective. Each novel on our reading list will facilitate a case study of a different marketing issue. Thus, we will read John Banville’s Booker-Prize-winning The Sea in order to study literary prizes and their effect on marketing and to highlight the crucial part that literary reviews can play in the “making of an author.” Arundhati Roy’s first novel will help us to investigate literary celebrity culture, race and gender; Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016) to explore the rise of small publishing houses; and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) to illustrate how daily talk shows can promote a difficult text to the status of a bestseller. We will end the course with the most recent sensation from Ireland, Sally Rooney’s Normal People, which topped the bestseller list during the lockdown in spring 2020.

 

 

 

ENG 560: Rhetoric Then and Now

Dr. Melissa Goldthwaite

Tuesdays, 6:30-9:15 pm Online

CRN: 10695

Core Class

How do writers use rhetoric? How do we balance attention to genre, purpose,
audience, context, and our own sense of style? In Rhetoric Then and Now, we will
consider these and other questions, exploring rhetoric’s classical origins and studying
the work of 20th and 21st century rhetorical theorists and writers in order to understand how rhetorical concerns shape our own writing practices, approaches to education, and ways of communicating. This course will be discussion-based and include a workshop component. In addition to short weekly assignments, students will conduct a semester-long project exploring the relevance of rhetorical theory to their own writing or area of interest.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 670: Fiction Writing Workshop

Professor Tenaya Darlington

Wednesdays, 6:30-9:15 pm Online

CRN: 10697

Area III

This class is designed to make you a better fiction writer – to teach you about the craft, to give you a space in which to explore your voice, and to push you beyond the familiar. There is also a workshop component, which will give you the chance to receive feedback from the group about your work. You’ll write hard, read widely, and learn stylistic devices that can be used in many areas of your writing. This is a portfolio-based class; you’ll write two major short stories and revise them for final submission at the end of the term.

All classes will take place online. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Tenaya Darlington at tdarling@sju.edu. Thanks.