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Messiah University is a Christian university of the liberal and applied arts and sciences. Our mission is to educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership and reconciliation in church and society. www.Messiah.edu One University Ave. | Mechanicsburg PA 17055 English News November 27, 2007, Volume 6, Issue 3
and funding to American public broad- Department News casting. While at EO, Larry and other Professor Samuel Smith and Rebecca professors, including Mark Fackler of Buckham ’05 (who is currently enrolled Calvin College, were consultants to a in the MA program in English at Villa- program director, offering suggestions nova University) both presented papers at the 2007 Conference on John Milton for development of a new documentary on October 26 and 27 at Murfreesboro, series. TN, a national bi-annual conference at- Professor Crystal Downing presented tended by more than one hundred schol- ars. Samuel's essay, "The Son's Solitude a paper on the film The Queen at the in Paradise Regained," and Rebecca's international meeting of the American essay, "Eve's Fall and the Rise of Tech- Academy of Religion, held this year in nopoly: Milton's Prophetic Cri- San Diego. Also, two of her essays on tique," were both well-received. film were published last month.
Professor Peter Powers sang the lead "Deconstructing Herbert: The War of male role of Alfredo in Verdi's La the Worlds on Film" was published in in Traviata in a Capital City Opera of Har- Literature / Film Quarterly, and an es- risburg production at William Penn High say on Hollywoodland called "The Lost School, November 8, 9, 10, and 11. Action Hero," was published in The Professor David Dzaka gave a Presi- Cresset. dential Scholar’s Lecture on October 25. He presented a paper on his intellectual The Writing Center is looking for a hero, Ngugi wa Thiongo. few new tutors for the spring semes- ter. Interested students should contact Professor Larry Lake presented his David Dzaka ([email protected]) by paper "Teaching Faithful Observers: December 10 with an expository writing Literary Nonfiction and the Journal- sample of no less than 5 double-spaced ism Student" to an international confer- pages and the names of two professors who can attest to their excellent writing ence of journalism educators in the Neth- and interpersonal skills. Working at the erlands on October 2-6. His paper was Writing Center requires dedication and based largely on his teaching of literary ongoing training. Applicants may be nonfiction and memoir here at the col- short-listed for an interview.
lege, and proposed training journalists in Mackenzie Martin ’08 received a ethnographic observation skills. The con- Murray Library Research Grant. She ference was sponsored by CHE will visit Vassar College to study the (Christelijke Hogeschool Ede) and at- poem manuscripts and travel journals of tracted delegates from numerous coun- Elizabeth Bishop, focusing on how pa- tries including South Africa, Russia, and tience is exemplified in Bishop’s revi- Hungary. Conference activities included sion practices and how Bishop trans- a field trip to the headquarters of Evan- lated her raw observances during travel gelische Omroep, a large Christian radio into poetry. and television network similar in quality Alumni News Detailed information about the confer- ence can be found at http:// Carmen McCain ’99 published "The www.allegheny.edu/warehouse/ Heroism of Ordinary People: An In- redirect.php?id=1&id2=166 . terview with Helon Habila" in the Any questions or inquiries can be sent Abuja-based newspaper Leadership to Eric Boynton on November 19, 2007. Carmen [email protected]). wrote her MA thesis on Helon Ha- bila’s novel Waiting for an Angel. Nominate undergraduate student writing for inclusion in The Norton Melissa Driver ’07 was recently ac- Pocket Book of Writing by Students. cepted to the University of Pittsburgh This volume will include a variety of Law School. genres, including but not necessarily limited to literacy narratives, textual and literary analyses, reports, argu- Opportunities ments, reading responses, poetry,
The Cedarville Review is accepting memoir and other forms of personal submissions in fiction, nonfiction, essays, profiles, and mixed-genre poetry, and photography until Decem- pieces. Any excellent writing done for ber 5, 2007. Submit fiction and non- an English class will be considered. fiction of up to 4,000 words, up to The first round of submissions are due five poems, or 3-5 photographs. For by January 15, 2008. You can send more detailed submission guidelines submissions as a Word attachment to or to submit electronically, visit http:// [email protected] with "Student Writing Submission" in the subject www.cedarvillereview.com. line of your email. Please also include the following information in the body
of your email: name of student writer Allegheny College is pleased to host and contact information (email ad- a two-day conference on whiteness dress, home address, and phone num- and racism titled "Examining White- ber); title of the submission; name of ness: An Academic Conference on the school the student attends; the White Privilege and Racism in Amer- class for which the piece was written; ica" on April 4-5, 2008. Keynote instructor's name and contact informa- speakers will be Lucius Outlaw tion (email address, school address, (Vanderbilt University), Shannon Sul- and phone number); the assignment; livan (Pennsylvania State University), and any other information about why Charles Mills (Northwestern Univer- you believe this submission is exem- sity), and Linda Martin Alcoff plary. (Syracuse University). Undergradu- ate students are invited to present their own work either in the form of Shiny Media's U.S. fashion and complete papers or as a part of panel discussions. beauty blogs www.shinystyle.tv and www.shinygloss.tv are looking for interns. Student bloggers would not E-mail newsletter items to Mackenzie Martin: [email protected] receive a stipend, however, students Submit your papers to the 23rd An- Careers for Bookworms and Other could blog on their own hours from nual National Undergraduate Lit- Literary Types, Careers for Writ- home or campus. As added incentive, erature Conference, which will be ers and Others Who Have a Way with Words, Make Money Reading there would also be a chance of free held at Weber State University, April Books, and The Creative Writing beauty products to review. If students 3-5, 2008. Geoffrey Wolff, Eleanor MFA Handbook. Feel free to curl living in New York or Philadelphia are Wilner, and Bret Anthony Johnston up on a resource room couch, interested in the position, invitations to will be featured speakers at the confer- browse through these titles at your fashion events are also a possibility. If ence. Submission categories include leisure, and take some time to interested, contact Andrea Thatcher papers on American, British, and world think about your future. ([email protected]). literature, as well as creative essays,
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Spanish. Submit your paper or crea- The Ralph Flamminio Memorial tive work at weber.edu/nulc by January Scholarship, presented by The Penn- 18, 2008. sylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, offers $3,000 for undergradu- The deadline to submit papers for ates interested in a career in print jour- the conference “C.S. Lewis, the Ink- nalism. Applicants must be Pennsyl- lings, and the Call to Christian Com- munity” has been extended. The vania residents and currently enrolled conference will take place February 7- full-time at a four-year institution as 9, 2008 at Azusa Pacific University. well as have some journalistic experi- Dr. Tom Shippey and Dr. Diana Glyer ence (on-campus newspapers or pro- will speak. Papers are invited on top- fessionally). To apply, send a cover ics relating to Lewis’ life and work as letter describing your experience in well as the Inklings and their influence, print journalism, your interest in the the nature of Christian friendship or love, and the companionship and inter- field and what you might contribute to action between members of the Ink- our craft as a journalist; something lings. Abstracts of no more than 500 about yourself and your interests; a words should be e-mailed to Craig college transcript; up to five of your Boyd ([email protected]) by December favorite (non-returnable) clips; and a 15, 2007. letter of recommendation from a fac- ulty member or professional to Larry
Holeva, PAPME Scholarship Commit- In addition to visiting Messiah’s Ca- tee: reer Center for Vocation and Devel- C/O The Citizens' Voice opment, take a look at the new books 75 N. Washington St. located on the shelves in Boyer 201 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 (the resource room). The new books The application deadline is April 15, include: Careers in Journalism, I’m an English Major – Now What?, An In- 2008. sider’s Guide to Creative Writing Pro- grams, Great Jobs for English Majors, Samuel Smith and and spent the summer English Rebecca Buckham ’05 assistant directing at the presented papers at the Utah Shakespeare News Ninth International Milton festival. His wife Janel Symposium in London, (Miley) ‘00 England (July 7-11). More (Theatre major) is a than 250 Milton scholars company member at two from all over the world professional theatres in were in attendance to Los Angeles/Hollywood. celebrate Milton’s quarter centenary in the city of Melissa Driver ‘07 his birth. received an additional September 2008, Volume Rebecca’s essay, scholarship ($10,000) 7, Issue 1 “Becoming Georgic from the University of Readers: Laboring with Pittsburg Law School. Department News the Texts of Eden, Paradise Lost, and our Jamie (Moulthrop) Lewis World Today,” and ’04 and her husband, Crystal Downing Samuel’s essay, William, welcomed their has published several things “Refiguring Milton’s first son, Jake Matthew since spring. On film: 1) on Suspect Son: Samuel on August 10, 2007. Gone Baby Gone for the Wesley’s Orthodox Jamie was accepted in the Cresset 2) on depictions of Palimpsest of Paradise Master of Library Science the Amish in film, for a Regained,” were well- program at Clarion book published by John received. While in London, University Hopkins University Press. they enjoyed She also published, with performances of a Julie (Adams) Wu ’01 Sharon Baker, an essay Midsummer Night’s Dream completed a doctorate in surveying depictions of and King Lear at the Pathology in the Program Noah’s Ark throughout Globe Theatre and visited for Molecular and Cellular Christian history (for Milton’s cottage at Biology at the Uniformed Books and Culture); and Chalfont-St. Giles. Services University of the her work on Wuthering Health Sciences (USUHS) Heights, published in the in Bethesda, MD, where 1990s, has been Alumni News she received the 2008 republished in a critical Jim Knipple 00’ begins Board of Regents Award edition of Bronte’s novel his final year in a Drama at the commencement by Ignatious Press. This (Directing) MFA program ceremony. She presented summer she gave six talks at the University of some of her work at the at the Cornerstone California-Irvine. He American Society for Festival, a yearly recently assistant directed Reproductive Immunology gathering in Illinois of for Richard Greenburg’s Symposium in Chicago in 20,000 edgy Christians (Tony award-winning June. Julie’s dissertation from around the world. playwright) newest play at title is "Induction of pro-
South Coast Repertory angiogenic factors by pregnancy-specific glycoproteins and studies December. He’s currently They welcome broad on receptor usage." looking for a job teaching interpretations of this English, and hopes to go theme including back for doctoral studies discussions of setting, Marissa (Brown) Harris in religious studies in the place, home, the sublime, ‘04 has moved from not too distant future. urban and nature writing, Millville, NJ, where she identity, genre, social was teaching English and Sarah Ginolfi ’08 will be justice, ecology, coaching track/cross a NYC teaching fellow this aesthetics, and the like. country at the Millville fall. She’s started a new All types of literature are public high school to blog, Sarah in the Bronx, welcome including poetry, Pasadena, CA. She will be where she’ll keep us all prose fiction and non- teaching 9th grade honors informed of her goings on. fiction, and literary and 12th grade AP journalism. Please submit English at a Christian Alicia Watkins ’03 has either a 300-word school in Santa Monica been writing an op-ed abstract of a scholarly while her husband Jason column for three local paper or a work of pursues an MA at Fuller papers for the past three creative writing Theological Seminary. months or so. Her appropriate for a 15- columns have been minute presentation. Bethany Deitrick ’07 has appearing on the Include contact accepted a job at John New Britain Herald’s information and college Harris High School web site at information. Submissions teaching ninth and tenth newbritainherald.com, must be in a MS Word graders. but since the platform attachment to doesn’t support archiving; [email protected]. Pete Ramsey ’02 just she also has a blog with In the subject line please completed a Master of her work at indicate: Conference: Science degree in Library aliciawatkins.blogspot.co [Title of paper]. The fee Science from UNC Chapel m. (upon acceptance) is $30. Hill. He’s currently on the Deadline for submissions prowl for a job as an is Nov. 24. academic librarian Opportunities somewhere along the US Scholarship Available: East Coast. His thesis, Davies-Jackson “Social Networking Scholarship through St. Susquehanna Services: Library John's College, Cambridge University invites Collaboration 2.0?” can be is specifically designed for undergraduate scholars read at students of modest means and creative writers to http://etd.ils.unc.edu/ds who want to spend two participate in pace/handle/1901/567. years of study in “Environments of Cambridge on humanities Imagination,” its fifth Ryan Lauko ’04 finished or social sciences. It annual Undergraduate a Master of Liberal Arts results in a second BA Conference on Literature program at the University from Cambridge rather and Creative Writing. of Pennsylvania this past than a graduate degree, and the scholarship is The Minnemingo Review The English department worth about $50,000 is now accepting and Career Center will be total. Deadline is Nov. 14. submissions. Writers are sponsoring a Graduate See the following website invited to submit their School Informational for more details: fiction, poetry, literary Meeting for English http://www.cic.edu/proje nonfiction, and essays. Majors on Wednesday, cts_services/grants/davie Please submit no more Oct. 15, 4:00-5:00, in sjackson/ than two prose pieces of Boyer 231. This event is up to 2000 words in open to first year students length and/or three pieces through seniors. Faculty The Third Annual of poetry as an members and guest Moravian College and attachment created in MS speakers will talk about Undergraduate Word. Photographers are M.A., Ph.D., and M.F.A. Conference invites also invited to submit; programs -- how to select undergraduates to come please send no more than a program, when and how and present and hear four photographs, in to apply, and what to presentations. It will be black and white, as jpg expect when you arrive on held December 6, 2008 on attachments. All campus as a graduate Moravian’s campus in contributors should student. There will be Bethlehem, PA. Last years submit by sending an ample time for you to ask conference was attended email to questions about graduate by 200 people and [email protected] school, and refreshments featured presentations u containing a short, 2-3 will be provided. and performances by 90 line authors’ biography in people from 25 different the body of the email, a schools. Last year three line giving permission for Messiah English majors publication if their work is presented papers and the chosen. All submissions year before two presented. are reviewed The deadline for anonymously. The submission of proposals is deadline for submitting is Nov. 10. Registration is October 17. free for presenters and attendees. Registration Critically acclaimed and submission of poet Sharon Olds will proposals will be handled read at the Lefler Chapel later in the semester via and Performance Center the conference website. at Elizabethtown College You can visit the site at: on Monday, October 6 at http://www.moravian.edu 8 p.m. For more /medieval/. Any information, contact Dr. questions can be directed Carmine Sarracino at to Samuel Smith. 717-361-1237.
Scholarship. For more Alumni News English News information or to donate to October 2008, Volume 7, this fund please contact Bob Matthew Armes ‘05 is Issue 2 Brown at ext. 2260 or attending Graduate school at [email protected] Marywood University in Scranton for Education Minnemingo Release Party Counseling with the Wednesday, December 10 intention of becoming a from 4:30-6:00pm in Boyer High- school guidance
Department News 335. Come to the Release counselor. Party and support the The Paul W. Nisly authors, photographers and Opportunities Endowment for Literature, reviewers who worked hard Vocation and Reconciliation. to create this semester's Internship Opportunity In recognition of Professor Paul edition of the Minnemingo For Central PA magazine. Nisly’s distinguished career, Review! There you will find There is an opening for the The English Department is good food, a chance to last month of fall semester honored to announce the purchase the Minnemingo, and spring semester. The creation of the Paul W. Nisly and an audience of your internship would entail 8-10 Endowment. The purpose of friends and peers who would hours a week with duties this fund is to promote further love to hear you read, either including writing short understanding of the writing from this Minnemingo, a articles, proof-reading and and study of literature as a form past Minnemingo, your own fact-checking. Applicants will of Christian vocation. It work, or a favorite poet or need to submit a resume, especially promotes activities author. Contributors and cover letter, and two clips to that encourage inquiry into review staff will be given a noreen_livoti@centralpamag how this vocation is related to complimentary copy of the azine.com or mail it c/o the task of peacemaking, the Minnemingo at the review Noreen Livoti quest for social justice, and the party in thanks for their Central PA magazine work of reconciliation of work. Everyone is welcome, 4801 Lindle Road * human beings to one another so please come and enjoy a Harrisburg, PA 17111 and to God. The Fund will be brief but rewarding time to used to support the following appreciate all things creative! The Wall Street Journal programs: Symposium on Seeks Summer Interns Literature, Peacemaking and The Online portion of the Social Justice, The Paul W. Wall Street Journal is Nisly Writer-in-Residence looking for summer interns Program, and Student with strong multimedia skills and a keen desire to work sublime, urban and nature online. Interns will be paired writing, identity, genre, with and mentored by social justice, ecology, editors in a newsroom aesthetics, and the like. All environment, producing types of literature are sections of the site, building welcome including poetry, or designing interactive Enjoy Art and Writing? prose fiction and non-fiction, graphics, working in Flash or YorkArts is holding an and literary journalism. shooting and editing photos exhibition of art for writers Please submit either a 300- and video. Interns will also to come and write about. word abstract of a scholarly have the opportunity to You may write a poem or paper or a work of creative showcase their work. short piece of fiction in writing appropriate for a 15- Candidates must have prior response to the artwork in minute presentation. Include experience or a the “Art and Industry” contact information and demonstrated interest in exhibit. You will be awarded college information. news and the ability to work gift cards for 1st 2nd and 3rd Submissions must be in a under constant deadline prizes. You must submit your MS Word attachment to pressure. Pay is $700 a week, piece with the entry form [email protected]. In with internships running (To receive an entry form the subject line please from early June through mid- please email Samuel Smith). indicate: Conference: [Title August. Applicants for The deadline for submission of paper]. The fee (upon summer 2009 internships is December 6, and an acceptance) is $30. Deadline must have graduated from awards ceremony will be held for submissions is Nov. 24. college or a Master's program on January 31. or be slated to receive a IHS Journalism Internships degree between December IHS Journalism Internships 2008 and May 2009. Submit Susquehanna University provide a stipend, housing a cover letter and CV at invites undergraduate allowance, and travel www.dowjones.com/careers scholars and creative writers allowance. Placements are
Taylor University Calls for Papers. Taylor U. will be holding an Undergraduate conference on Literature and Writing Feb. 19-21. There are two The Third Annual categories you may submit Moravian College and under: 1.Critical Essay- topic Undergraduate Conference of your choice in Literature invites undergraduates to 6-10 pg. 2.Creative Writing- come and present and hear poetry, fiction, or creative presentations. It will be held non-fiction suitable for a 15 December 6, 2008 on min. reading. The cost is $75 Moravian’s campus in but with the following prizes: Bethlehem, PA. Last years $200 each for the best conference was attended by critical essay and creative 200 people and featured piece. Please visit the English News annual conference of Gordon-Conwell February 2009 the English Theological Seminary. Volume 7, Issue 5 Association of Pennsylvania State Rebecca Rodgers ’06 Universities, to be held has been accepted to at West Chester Chatham University's University. graduate program in writing. Katherine Sas and Lydia Ferraro have Lori Breighner ‘07 is been accepted to currently working present their Senior towards an M.A. in Seminar papers at the Literature at American 12th Annual University. Conference of the C.S.
Lewis and Inklings Lauren Bupp ‘08 Society, to be held at received a post Department th Calvin College. teaching 10 grade News English, and British Alyssa Lord has been Literature at Bible Crystal Downing accepted to present at Baptist High School. published essays on the East Central She sends her thanks to film in the last two Writing Center the department for issues of Books and Association preparing her to handle Culture: a piece on Conference, to be held this endeavor. "The Queen" for the at Purdue University. Sept/Oct issue, and a Jordan Windholz ’05 piece on "The was a finalist in the Counterfeiters" for the Omnidawn Poetry Nov/Dec issue. Her Contest for his work on Shakespeare's collection “Ruminant Hamlet was recently [psalms].” published in the Ignatius Critical Alumni News Rebecca Buckham Edition of Hamlet. ’05 had her essay
“Eden Voiced: Matthew Hahn ‘07 Devin Thomas has Milton's Dialogic has been accepted to a been accepted to Community of graduate program at present his Fiction to Creation and an Cinema paper at the Environmental Ethic of Partnership” published on the campus paper or www.bookjobs.com to in John Milton: have print journalism learn more. 'Reasoning Words,’ experience. published by Paid Summer Susquehanna To apply, please send: Internship! University Press. a cover letter Communications introducing yourself, internship in York, PA, your experience with available through BAE journalism, your Systems Ground interest in the field, Systems: applicants and what you hope to must be able to execute contribute to the field, employee a college transcript, up communication to five of your favorite strategies, work as a (non-returnable) clips, member of the and a letter of newsletter publication recommendation from team, coordinate and Opportunities a faculty member or maintain BAE’s professional. communications $3,000 Journalism website, and assist Scholarship: The Send to: Larry Holeva, internal groups or Pennsylvania PAPME Scholarship contribute to special Associated Press Committee projects as needed. Managing Editors will C/O The Citizens' Applicants must also present the Ralph Voice be enrolled for a Flamminio Memorial 75 N. Washington St degree in journalism, Scholarship to one Wilkes-Barre, Pa. public relations, state journalism 18711 communications or a student in May. Deadline is April 15. related field. Required Applicants do not have abilities: strong written to be journalism Looking for and interpersonal majors, but should plan Publishing Jobs? skills, proficiency in to pursue a career in Bookjobs.com indexes editing, public journalism. All entry-level jobs and relations, and public applicants must be year-round internships design, knowledge of Pennsylvania residents, from over 35 PC layout with Quark enrolled in a four-year publishers, along with Xpress and Photoshop, college, have an background and a basic knowledge excellent academic information about each of business and record, and be active company. Visit organizational systems. Pay rate is open, hours two prose pieces, efforts of writers who full time. and/or three pieces of have not yet achieved poetry; please submit major-market success. Apply Online: no more than four Writers will compete www.baesystems.com/ photographs (in both for a $1,000 first prize, careers Please refer to color and black and $500 second prize, and job code baehodes- white). $500 third prize in this 12499178 when internationally responding. Authors and artists acclaimed competition. must email Several honorable Tutor Wanted: submissions to mentions are also Kristin Bernick is minnemingo@messiah awarded each year. seeking a tutor to help .edu as Word her 12 year-old (7th document or .jpg Stories in all genres of grade) son with attachments, and fiction are welcome. grammar and math. include a 2-3 line Maximum length is She would like to have author’s biography in 3,000 words, and her son tutored in their the body of the email. writers retain all rights home if possible. Also include a to their work. The final statement granting or deadline is May 15, Contact: denying The Review 2009; winners will be Kristin Bernick permission to publish announced at the end Mid-State Lighting your work on the of July. 2955 East Market St. (forthcoming!) online York, PA 17402 archive in the event For complete that your work is guidelines, please visit ph: 717-600-8764 selected. www.shortstorycompet x200 ition.com, e-mail fx: 717-600-8154 The deadline for ALL [email protected] cell: 717-579-6774 submissions is March or send a SASE to the 13, 2009. Lorian Hemingway Calling all authors -- Short Story Submissions needed $2,000 Short Story Competition, P.O. Box for The Minnemingo Competition! Entries 993, Key West, FL Review! The Review are now being accepted 33041. accepts poetry, fiction, for the 2009 Lorian creative nonfiction, Hemingway Short essays, and Story Competition, photography. Please created to recognize submit no more than and encourage the English News English Department is English as a Second October, 2009 honored to announce the Language. Volume 8, Issue 1 creation of the Paul W. Nisly Endowment. The Please forward any purpose of this fund is to additional alumni news promote further to Ray Yaegle, understanding of the [email protected] , writing and study of under the subject literature as a form of heading “Alumni Christian vocation. It News.” especially promotes activities that encourage Opportunities inquiry into how this vocation is related to the Get published in The task of peacemaking, the Minnemingo Review! If quest for social justice, you’re an aspiring and the work of author, artist, or reconciliation of human photographer, we’ve got Department beings to one another just the thing for you: News and to God. The The Minnemingo following are the (Messiah’s biannual programs involved: Welcome back for literary journal.) We Symposium on publish poetry, prose, another exciting year of Literature, paper cuts and caffeine interviews, essays, and Peacemaking and Social black and white binges! We’re currently Justice, the Paul W. updating the department photography. If you’re Nisly an artist who works in a website, and looking Writer-in-Residence forward to fall break. medium other than Program, and a Student photography, take a Hopefully we’ll have Scholarship. For more even more exciting black and white photo of information please your work and submit departmental news for contact Bob Brown at you next time. that to The Review ext. 2260 or instead! Go to the [email protected] The Paul W. Nisly Minnemingo website – www.messiah.edu/office Endowment for Alumni News Literature, Vocation s/minnemingo/index.htm and Reconciliation. l – to learn more about In recognition of Rebecca Hyland ‘09 is how you can see your Professor attending grad school at work published in the Paul Nisly’s the University of Buffalo upcoming issue. Better distinguished career, The for a degree in Teaching hurry: this year’s scholarship presents a deadline is October 16. The selection process is unique opportunity for highly competitive, and an outstanding student NSAL Literature most previous interns (who is the first in his or Competition in Short held positions with other her family to graduate Story Writing – top newspapers and from college) to prize $10,000. The extensive experience on participate in a course of National Society of Arts a campus newspaper. study in the United and Letters is sponsoring The internships are for Kingdom at St. John’s its 2010 short story ten-week periods in College at Cambridge competition. June, July and August. University following Contestants must Pay is $700.00 a week. their graduation. The 2- compete at the chapter year, full scholarship to level, and chapter Internships Available St. John’s covers all winners go on to through the Dow Jones tuition and living fees, compete nationally. Newspaper Fund! The and is open to students Other cash prizes are Dow Jones funds four interested in: available in addition to internship programs each archaeology / the top prize. For a full year. To see what’s anthropology, classic list of requirements and available for college literature, economics, submission guidelines, students, visit English, geography, visit the NSAL website: www.newspaperfund.org history, art history, www.arts-NSAL.org /PageText/Prg_HomePa modern and medieval ges.aspx?Page_ID=Prg_ languages, music, Intern with the Wall CollegeIntern . The philosophy, or social / Street Journal in 2010. available internships are political science. To apply online, go to highly competitive, paid www.dowjones.com/car positions that come with Application materials are eers and search for job an additional $1,000 available at number 090264 - scholarship for all www.cic.edu/projects_se Summer 2010 WSJ students returning to rvices/grants/daviesjacks Interns. Applicants can school for another full on/index.asp ; the create a profile and year of undergraduate or application deadline is upload their cover letter, graduate studies in the November 2. resume and a text-copy fall. The deadline for all of their best 8 - 10 applicants is November Call for papers! writing samples. These 2. Moravian College is items should all be hosting their 4th Annual copied and pasted into Study abroad & Undergraduate one word document for scholarship Conference in Medieval easy uploading to the opportunity: the 2010 and Early Modern website. Davies-Jackson Studies. Several Messiah students considered for the www.susqu.edu/english/ presented papers at this conference, submit a UGlitconference.htm conference in the past, 300-word abstract of a so submit an abstract and scholarly paper or a 300- Are you a Mennonite register for the event word summary of a work artist, or an artist with online at: of creative writing strong ties to the www.moravian.edu/med appropriate for a 15 Mennonite ieval/registration.htm minute presentation. Community? The Abstracts should indicate Mennonite Artist Project Individual papers should a connection to the is open to artists of any be 15 minutes long, and conference theme; that discipline with an group projects no longer could include a understanding of, or than 45 minutes; discussion of literature interest in the Mennonite abstracts are limited to or creative writing from Community; they seek to 200 words. Abstract a literary, pedagogical, affirm that “art is indeed Deadline: November 9. or creative point of view. a Mennonite thing,” and Registration Deadline: All types of literature want to help members – November 30. and all methods of study, young and old alike – including explore their creativity interdisciplinary and experiences with the approaches, are Mennonite world. welcome. Creative Check them out online: writing may include http://mennoniteartistpro poetry, prose, fiction and ject.ning.com/ non-fiction, and literary journalism.
Email submissions as an MS Word attachment to [email protected] , placing “Conference: [Title of Paper]” in the Undergraduate subject line. The Literature & Creative deadline for submissions Writing Conference – is November 2, and there call for papers! is a $30 registration fee Susquehanna University for non-S.U. invites undergraduates to participants. th participate in its 6 annual Lit and Writing For more information, Conference on February visit: 15, 2010. To be English News and the work of Literature, a national reconciliation of human publication put out by December 2009 beings to one another and the NTCE. to God. The following Volume 8, Issue 3 are the programs Krista Soriano ’08 involved: Symposium on was recently promoted to Literature, Peacemaking Assistant Editor of and Social Justice, the ELLE.com, the website Paul W. Nisly Writer-in- of Hachette Filipacchi Residence Program, and a Media's leading Student Scholarship. For publication. She’s more information please incredibly thankful for contact Bob Brown at ext. the experiences Messiah 2260 or gave her, and would love [email protected] to give back. She would be happy to share her Department News Upcoming Guest Lecture: experiences with fellow Novelist, poet, musician Falcons seeking to break The Paul W. Nisly and AIDS activist Kwame into the media industry. Endowment for Dawes will come to Check her out here: Literature, Vocation and campus on Tuesday, http://www.elle.com/about- Reconciliation. In March 30, for an us recognition of Professor afternoon event, dinner, Kristin (Masters) Paul Nisly’s distinguished and evening reading. The Vazquez '04 career, The English evening reading will take graduated from Belmont Department is honored place in Hostetter Chapel University in August with to announce the creation (sanctuary) at 7:30. of the Paul W. Nisly an MA in English Endowment. The Dawes bills himself as Literature. purpose of this fund is to "the busiest man in promote further literature today." See Kurt Eisele-Dyrli '01 understanding of the here: has been hired in a senior writing and study of www.kwamedawes.com position as products literature as a form of editor at District Christian vocation. It Alumni News Administration, a especially promotes national K-12 education Danielle Sahm’s ‘09 activities that encourage magazine. Senior Literature Seminar inquiry into how this paper was accepted for vocation is related to the Mark Hubman ’98 publication in The task of peacemaking, the just published his first Journal of Children's quest for social justice, novel, Dearest Isabella. It tells the tale of Cassandra Stephen C. Slota ‘07 style/central-pa- Losch, a contemporary magazine/2113- woman whose life is completed his Masters announcing-the-2010- transformed by a set of last year and is now a central-pa-magazine- PhD candidate and old Civil War letters. writing-contest graduate research
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This is the task of peacemaking, the sixth essay of hers that quest for social justice, has been selected by and the work of Ignatius press for Department reconciliation of human inclusion in their series News beings to one another of "classic" works of and to God. The British literature. Welcome back! It seems following are the like the year just began, programs involved: Helen Walker was quite but autumn is already Symposium on busy this summer setting in with its crisp Literature, circling the country. She air and falling leaves. Peacemaking and Social presented at a We are in the midst of Justice, the Paul W. conference in Estes Park, updating the department Nisly CO ("Writer, Reader, website, and we hope Writer-in-Residence Text, and Context: the you’ll check back in for Program, and a Student 4th (visual) Dimension more news in our next Scholarship. For more of the Rhetorical issue! information please Situation"); painted, contact Bob Brown at danced, and wrote The Paul W. Nisly [email protected] during a 5-day artists’ Endowment for retreat in Melbourne Literature, Vocation Pete Powers became the Beach, FL; took a course and Reconciliation. Dean of the School of on Waldorf Early In recognition of the Humanities. He will Learning Education in Professor retain his title of Spring Valley, New Professor of English, and York; and then, returning close to home, Alumni News management, plays with co-led a weeklong his kitten, and reads a graduate seminar on Sarah Ginolfi ‘08 and lot. You can follow his Creative Expression at Andrew Bargh ‘09 are blog at http://el- Millersville University, living at the Sycamore leito.blogspot.com/ Lancaster, PA. House in Harrisburg, an intentional community Danielle Sahm ‘09 Christine Perrin gave a sponsored by St. wrote most of the talk at the Society For Stephen's Episcopal Teacher’s Edition of Classical Learning this Cathedral. 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English News inquiry into how this this impressive book the April, 2011 vocation is related to the week that they heard her Volume 9, Issue 6 task of peacemaking, the read. quest for social justice, and the work of Alumni News reconciliation of human beings to one another Since leaving Messiah, and to God. The Bonnie Kline Troxell following are the ‘71 has earned her programs involved: Master's in Reading and “And He departed Symposium on her Doctorate in from our sight that we Literature, Curriculum and might return to our Peacemaking and Social Teaching. She is heart, and there find Justice, the Paul W. currently the Director of Him. For He departed, Nisly Professional and behold, He is Writer-in-Residence Development and here.” ~St Augustine Program, and a Student Curriculum at the Berks Scholarship. For more County Intermediate Department information please Unit. News contact Bob Brown at [email protected]. The Paul W. Nisly Endowment for Poetry Reading! On Literature, Vocation, March 8th, Christine and Reconciliation. Perrin and 18 of the In recognition of Contemporary American Professor Poetry students traveled Paul Nisly’s together to Bucknell distinguished career, the University to hear Elizabeth Arnold ‘08 English Department is Pulitzer Prize winning finished an M.A. in proud to report that we poet Natasha Tretheway English from Arcadia are four-fifths towards read from her work University in May of our goal on the Paul W. “Native Guard” in which 2010 and is working Nisly Endowment. The she explores her own towards an MFA in purpose of this fund is to personal history against creative writing with promote further the backdrop of national The Rainier Writer's understanding of the history through haunting Workshop, a low- writing and study of images, formal delicacy residency program in literature as a form of and deftness, and an Tacoma, WA. She has Christian vocation. It unflinching gaze. The an essay entitled "Never especially promotes students were lucky Lost" forthcoming in the activities that encourage enough to be studying Bona Fide Books' anthology Permanent testimony about being Vacation: Living and the “other woman” in an Events and Working in our National extramarital affair and Opportunities Parks and is also her warning for other working on a book- people to guard Calling all poets! The length collection of lyric themselves against these Academy of American essays about her former relationships. She hopes, Poets announces the life as a wrangler on a by opening up about one Carrie A. Guhl Student Wyoming ranch. of the most painful and Poetry Prize at Messiah powerful experiences of College. There is a cash Kay ben-Avraham '08 her life and faith thus award of $100.00 and a finished her first year of far, she can encourage 1-year membership to work as a freelance people to avoid making the Academy of writer and editor where the same mistakes she American Poets. The she has done academic made. Visit winner will be editing, book thesis www.rebeccahalton.com announced on April 27 consulting, poetry for more information from 8-9at the editing, and copyediting about Halton and her Minnemingo unveiling. for a new publication of work. Submit up to 2 poems of the Bible due for release any length and send to this Easter. Currently, In the fall, Evan Helen Walker, Box 3017 she is undertaking a Cameron ’07 will be (no email submissions) ghostwriting contract to attending Lesley by Friday, April 15. The chronicle the University for their judge is Dr. Matthew experiences of a young MFA in Creative Roth, author of Bird missionary. See Writing. Silence and esteemed www.forwantofanail.net professor of English at for more information. Messiah College. Her husband David '08 will graduate with a Our English degree as a Nurse Department Only Practitioner this May variety show is on and has accepted a job at April 28th! There will Esperanza Health Center be exotic foods, some in Philadelphia working Please forward any made by „chefs- among the underserved additional alumni news extraordinaire-English- and poor of North Philly. to Marialana Gaetano major people.‟ But the
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Scholarship. For more 2012. Her current Department information please memoir has been on the News contact Bob Brown at New York Times [email protected]. bestseller list for over 40 The Paul W. Nisly Endowment for Rhoda Janzen’s Literature, Vocation, Reading at Messiah and Reconciliation. College weeks. In recognition of This spring, the English Professor department's Poets and Dr. Lake at CCCC Paul Nisly’s Writers Series featured Dr. Larry M. Lake distinguished career, the Rhoda Janzen, professor recently attended the English Department is of writing at Hope Conference on College proud to report that we College in Michigaan and Composition and are four-fifths towards author of the memoir Communication, known our goal on the Paul W. "Mennonite in a Little better by its abbreviation Nisly Endowment. The Black Dress." Besides "4 C's," in Atlanta. 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He has Another session, "The their mentors this chosen to attend Lyric Essay: Reading, semester (Sayers, Connecticut, not only Writing, and Teaching Tolkien, Lewis) and due to the quality of the “Beautiful Wild have tea at the Midtown their program, but also Child” of Creative Scholar in Harrisburg. because they offered him Nonfiction" was a substantial financial organized by Melissa Holy Week Events The package. Goldthwaite, Messiah Wednesday of Holy College class of '93. Dr. Week, the Intro to Ernestia Fraser ’07 Goldthwaite is the editor Poetry class celebrated received her MFA in of The Norton Pocket with a poetry liturgyy, Creative Writing with a Book of and on Maundy Concentration in Writing by Thursday, the British Screenwriting in 2009 Students Topics class compiled a from Chatham (2010) and radio drama of Sayer’s University in Pittsburgh, has taught Man Born to be Kinng. PA and won the MFA writing at Finalist for Best Thesis St. Joseph's Gardeningn ! in the Fiction category University On Service Day, Sigma for her screenplay Inside for ten Tau Delta (the English the Fallen Moon. In years. Honor Society) joined 2010, her first book, with the Grantham Carnival of Love, was Poetry Reading! Community Garden to accepted for publication Christine Perrin and the get the land ready for by Caribbean Studies Contemporary American summer! Workers Press and this past Poetry class took to the relished in the warm sun school year, she has road again to hear while planting been teaching Religious contemporary poet, flowerbeds and Knowledge, U.S. Stanley Plumly, read at preparing the herb History, and Bahaamian Gettysburg garden. Social Studies at Mt. College. 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English News writing and study of Alumni News October 2011 literature as a form of Volume 10, Issue 1 Christian vocation. It Nate Rosentrater ’11 is especially promotes beginning his studies at activities that encourage Asbury Seminary in inquiry into how this Kentucky this fall. vocation is related to the task of peacemaking, the Emily Thrush ʼ06 was quest for social justice, offered full tuition and the work of funding from American reconciliation of human University to pursue a beings to one another Masters in “Ethics, and to God. The Peace, and Global following are the Affairs.” Delicious autumn! My programs involved: very soul is wedded to Symposium on Tessa Silvestri ’03 and it, and if I were a bird I Literature, her husband, Chas, would fly about the Peacemaking and Social welcomed a baby boy, earth seeking the Justice, the Paul W. Jackson Charles Silvestri successive autumns. Nisly Higgins, on April 22, ~ George Eliot Writer-in-Residence 2011. He was 8 pounds, Program, and a Student 7 ounces at birth and 22 Department Scholarship. For more inches long. Everyone is News information please home happy and contact Bob Brown at healthy! The Paul W. Nisly [email protected]. Endowment for Natalie Urquhart ’08 Literature, Vocation, In June, Crystal received her certification and Reconciliation. Downing presented a in Resume Writing In recognition of paper on Dorothy L. (CARW/Certified Professor Sayers at an Advanced Resume Paul Nisly’s international conference Writer) back in October distinguished career, the held at Lille University from Career Directors English Department is in France. In July, she International. proud to report that we taught a graduate course are four-fifths towards for the University of Please forward any our goal on the Paul W. British Columbia on the additional alumni news Nisly Endowment. The subject of her soon to be to Marialana Gaetano purpose of this fund is to published book, [email protected], promote further Changing Signs of Truth. under the subject understanding of the heading “Alumni News.” Events and Opportunities
Reading and Lecture! The English Department will be welcoming Dr. Kent Gramm, author of award-winning historical non-fiction, as well as poet, novelist, and playwright, on Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00 PM in Frey 110 for a reading and lecture entitled “True Lies: Writing Fiction and Creative Non-fiction.” A book signing and refreshments will immediately follow.
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Department News Update on the Paul Nisly Fund Drive: We raised $1,962.32, and our anonymous donor matched that with $2,000. With these gifts, we added $3,962.32 to the Paul Nisly Fund! Thanks to all who gave so generously, and especially to our anonymous donor.
This past semester, Kira Wenger, senior, taught creative writing at Danzante, an after-school program in Harrisburg. Check out the Penn Live article to learn more about Danzante and to read Kira’s quotation at the end. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/12/pennsy lvania_council_on_the_ar.html.
Check out the Agape Center’s winter newsletter that highlighted service learning performed by students enrolled in Compositional Theory and Pedagogy and featured stories by students Kira Wenger, Michelle Day, Andrew Riccardo, and alumnus Heather Smith. http://www.messiah.edu/external_programs/agape/newslette r/documents/Impact-Winter2011.pdf
Alumni News David Russomano '06 had nine poems accepted for publication. Below is a list of the poems and where and when they were published. Surabaya: accepted by Write From Wrong Online Literary Magazine. Posted online June 15, 2011 Opa: accepted by This Great Society. Posted online September 1, 2011 Sukhothai, Crisis, and Go: accepted by Women in RedZINE. Available in print now. October: accepted by Red Booth Review. Posted online October 10, 2011 English News
Unidentified: accepted by Phantom Kangaroo. Posted online November 13, 2011 Seeds: accepted by Thoughtsmith. Posted online November, 29 2011 Leaving the Island: accepted by Poetry for the Masses. Forthcoming
Marissa (Brown) Harris '04 was published in the book Bound By
Love: Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950, a collection of essays edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, August 2011). Her essay "The Fragile Bond between Mother and Adult Son: The Evolution of Dueling Protagonists in A Raisin in the Sun" is a revision of a paper she presented at the 2010 Representations of Love in Film and Television conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Marissa teaches middle school English Language Arts in Rochester, NY.
Check out the Please forward any additional alumni news to Marialana Gaetano, English [email protected], under the subject heading “Alumni News.” Department’s
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‘04 March 2012
Volume 10, Issue 5 English News
Department News The Paul Nisly Endowment: We have reached enough funding to begin drawing on the endowment! We would still appreciate your support so that this fund can continue to grow.
Upcoming Event Sponsored by the Poets and Writers Series: A poetry reading with Jehanne Dubrow on March 8 at 7:00 pm in Frey 110.
On April 4, Janel Atlas ‘04 will talk about how she got her first book published at age 26. She will explain the process of publication and give a reading from her book. She will also talk about making money as a free-lance writer: something she knows well, having been paid by journals for over 300 articles and essays that she has written.
Save April 25 for the fourth annual Beyond the Margins, the wildly popular English major variety show.
Alumni News Daniel Webster '09 graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in January.
Melissa A. Goldthwaite '94, Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University, recently published two books with W. W. Norton & Company. She selected, edited, and wrote the apparatus for The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students (2010) and served on the editorial team for The Norton Reader, 13th edition (2011).
Please forward any additional alumni news to Marialana Gaetano, [email protected], under the subject heading “Alumni News.”
Opportunities The Cedarville Review, Cedarville University’s undergraduate literary journal, is currently accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art submissions from all CCCU students (which includes Messiah) for their 2012 volume. Please send submissions to their email address: [email protected]. All submissions accepted for publication receive a complimentary copy of the published journal.
20‘04 April 2012
Volume 10, Issue 6 English News
Department News The Paul Nisly Endowment: We have reached enough funding to begin drawing on the endowment! We would still appreciate your support so that this fund can continue to grow.
Career Event: On April 4 from 4:10-5:10 in Boyer 234, visiting author, Janel Atlas ’04, has graciously agreed to join us for a conversation about life as a free-lance writer. Please April is come join her for helpful tips, good conversation, and, as always, good refreshments. See the flyer (at the end of this National newsletter) to find out more about her talk at 7:30 in Kline Poetry 120! Month! Save April 25 for the fourth annual Beyond the Margins, the wildly popular English major variety show. The show will begin at 7:00 in Poorman Recital Hall.
In May, Helen Walker and current student, Katie Todd, are going to Kenya on a research grant. They will be interviewing children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS to study the difference that an opportunity for an education can make.
Alumni News The Midtown Scholar is about to inaugurate a monthly 'book pick of the month' with WITF TV/FM, and they jointly have chosen Kimi Cunningham Grant's ’02 lovely family memoir SILVER LIKE DUST as the selection for April 2012. As part of the book-pick programming, Kimi is going to be coming to the bookstore for a 'book salon'/signing on April 28, from 3-5. Everyone is invited! Go and support Messiah's authors!
Please forward any additional alumni news to Marialana Gaetano, [email protected], under the subject heading “Alumni News.”
Opportunities The Cedarville Review, Cedarville University’s undergraduate literary journal, is currently accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art submissions from all CCCU students (which includes Messiah) for their 2012 volume. Please send submissions to their email address: [email protected]. All submissions accepted for publication receive a complimentary copy of the published journal.
The new Young Writers Workshop is a summer writing program for students entering grades 9-12 and will be held on Messiah College’s campus. Running from July 15-20, the program will give students the chance to improve their skills as writers by participating in either the Creative Writing Track or the College-Prep Expository Writing Track. For more information or to register go to this link: http://www.messiah.edu/writersworkshop/index.html
The Academy of American Poets announces the Carrie A. Guhl Student Poetry Prize at Messiah College. The winner will be announced at the Minnemingo Review unveiling and will receive a cash award of $100 and a one- year membership to the Academy of American Poets. To be considered for the prize, submit up to two poems of any length to Helen Walker, Box 3017, by April 13.
Teachers Wanted! StudentsLife Inc. is looking for part time instructors specializing in ESL for its English Department. To apply, email your CV and cover letter to [email protected] or mail them to 355 N. 21st St., Camp Hill, PA, 17011. If you have further questions, contact Kevin Kim at 717-343-4141 or at the email address listed above.
Meet the Author!
APRIL 4 7:30 p.m. Kline 120
Janel Atlas, a recent Messiah grad, will discuss the process that led to the publication of her book and read passages from it. She will have copies to sell!