Call for Papers: The 2017 Mary Evelyn McMillan Undergraduate Writing Award
Deadline (Postmark or Email): January 3, 2018
The McMillan Award is presented annually to the undergraduate student at an Alabama college or university whose informal essay is judged most outstanding by a panel of judges chosen by ACETA.
Requirements
ACETA solicits nominations for the 2018 Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship. This award is made annually to a living, outstanding literary scholar who is from Alabama or has worked primarily in Alabama or has focused mainly on Alabama writers …
Call for Papers for the 2018 William J. Calvert Award for papers on any scholarly or theoretical topic in English studies;
and Call for Papers for the 2018 James Woodall Award for papers on any pedagogical topic in English studies.
Deadline (Postmark or Email): January 3, 2018
College English teachers and graduate students may submit papers for one or both of the competitions. The writer’s name, along with the title of the essay and the writer’s institutional affiliation, should appear on a cover sheet but not on the paper itself. Papers may not have been previously read or published …
February 23–24, 2018
Troy University
Troy, Alabama
Sponsored by the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama and Troy University
In an 1817 letter to Benjamin Bailey, Keats writes, “The Setting Sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.” What he describes is the sympathetic imagination, how we acquire knowledge of the inner lives of others by extending the imagination …
Monroe County Museum, located in the Monroeville, literary capital of Alabama; and the Alabama Humanities Foundation will present a program titled “Getting to Know Eugene” on Thursday, October 26, 2017 in the famous courtroom of the Old Courthouse Museum. The program will explore the life and work of Eugene Walter, the highly acclaimed Mobile native who was a successful author, poet, artist, screenwriter, true all-around Renaissance man.
