Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine Did you know that Qua has a NEW submission process?? You can now upload your art and writing on a rolling basis! To be included in their Fall 2014 publication, the deadline to submit is October 6th at midnight. Sharpen those pencils!! For more information and to submit your work:
Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway! (July 21, 1899)
Probably the most famous American novelist of the 20th Century, Hemingway was born in affluent Oak Park, Illinois, but before he was more than a few month old already was in northern Michigan, where his parents were arranging the construction of a family cottage near Petoskey. His “Nick Adams” stories of childhood and young adulthood
Maya Angelou Tribute – June 26 @ 6:00 p.m.
The Black Student Union (BSU), in conjunction with the Genesee County Healthy Sexuality Coalition (GCHSC), will be hosting a tribute event, Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Life, this Thursday, June 26, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM in the UCEN Happenings Room. This is a free event, open to all. Come and help celebrate the Phenomenal Life of a
Happy Birthday, Dorothy Sayers! (June 13, 1893)
Best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey novels, Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the first women to graduate from Oxford and also completed her Master’s degree there. Although remembered for her fiction she was most proud of her academic work and her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy is still the most-used translation. Sayers was
Happy Birthday, Louise Erdrich! (June 7, 1954)
Prolific writer Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota. When she was a child, her father gave her a nickel for every story she wrote, and he recently gave her a roll of antique nickels, saying “I owe you,” as she told The Paris Review in an interview in 2010.
Come teach with us . . .
The Department of English at the University of Michigan-Flint is seeking a Lecturer I to teach in the Writing Program for the Fall 2014 semester beginning Wednesday, September 3. The lecturer will be expected to teach and hold office hours for two face-to-face courses with the following class schedule: ENG 252 Advanced Composition (MW 2:30-3:45pm)
The Return of Summer Reading – a Who Are These People, Anyway? Exclusive
Last year around this time Who Are These People, Anyway? focused on summer reading: ours and (we hoped) yours. The results are here. Deciding that nothing succeeds like success, this year we’re doing the same. Read on for English faculty choices – what we want to read this year and what we want you to
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! (April 23, 1564)
Because Shakespeare.
New This Fall: Women Mystery Writers!
ENG/WGS 337: Women Mystery Writers Instructor: Jacqueline Zeff W: 4-6:45 p.m. Women have had a complicated relationship with detectives and detective fiction, depicted frequently as victims or femme fatales. But not in their own tales of murder and mayhem. While “horsing around,” women writers of crime fiction dominate the best-seller lists and expand this most