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.
Our friends at Troy University have an exciting opportunity for us.
Please see the attached call for papers for an essay collection on Literature and the Sea to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press. The deadline for submissions is March 17 for ACETA members.
Discover our latest The Light newsletter, which provides an overview of this year’s conference as well as upcoming events of interest!
There’s still time left to register via email if you would like to join us in Montgomery this weekend:
Forms sent in by 11:59 p.m. on March 1st will get the early registration rate.
Please pass along any work your school is doing with English studies and with the teaching of writing and literature that you think our members would be interested in. We’d love to include it in our next newsletter!
Information should be sent to Rebecca Duncan, ACETA Vice-President and The Light editor, at rduncan@lawsonstate.edu.
