Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Awards

The deadline for this year's Frostic Creative Writing Awards is Friday, January 28. We very much hope you'll consider submitting your work. This contest has both graduate and undergraduate awards.

Here are the details:

Submissions will be accepted in four genres: Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, and Drama. You may submit to as many genres as you would like; you may submit up to 3 poems, one story, one essay, and/or one play. Your submission should include a cover sheet with your name, the title(s) of the submission, your contact information, and whether you are a GRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE student. Submissions should be turned into the mailbox of Steve Feffer, spring Creative Writing Program Coordinator, on the 6th floor of Sprau.

Creative writing faculty will determine the finalists in each genre and classification (GRAD and UNDERGRAD), which will then be passed on to outside judges. Those judges will pick a SINGLE overall winner in each genre and classification. Fiction submissions will also be considered for the annual Gordon Prize in Fiction.

If you have questions, please drop Dustin M. Hoffman an e-mail at:

Dustin.m.hoffman@wmich.edu

Romanticism & Film

Chris Nagle presented his paper on “The Austenian Mis-en-scène” as part of a panel sponsored by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association at this year’s MLA Convention in Los Angeles. The panel was one of two related sessions devoted to the topic of Romanticism and Film. A revised version of the talk will be published later this year in a special issue of The Wordsworth Circle.

Schulman invited to write on Beowulf in Old Norse context

Jana Schulman has been invited to contribute an essay on teaching Beowulf in the context of Old Norse to a volume, edited by Chick Chickering, Bob Yeager, and Allen Frantzen, and entitled Approaches to Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-First Century. The volume will be published with the Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies book series at Arizona State University.

Remapping the American West

At the 2011 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (6-9 Jan.), Nicolas Witschi presented his paper "'Down These Mean Streets': Deadwood, Cinematic Space, and the Irruption of Genre Codes" as part of a panel sponsored by The Western Literature Association. This panel, "Remapping the American West," is one of two sessions presented by the WLA in its inaugural year as an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association.

New Issues Publication Wins GLCA Award

Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders is part of the AWP Award Series in the Novel, published by New Issues Press at WMU. Goldbloom's novel was selected for the series by Joanna Scott.

Goldie Goldbloom's novel Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders has won the 2011 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Winning writers receive invitations to visit GLCA member colleges, where they give readings, meet and talk about writing with students and faculty members.

The GLCA judges noted:

This novel includes stunning descriptions of place; it is interestingly grounded in the historical billeting of Italian soldiers in the Australian outback during the Second World War. Its characters are both quirky and well-grounded, and their many eccentricities make the novel both distinctive and compelling.

More information:
Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders
Goldie Goldbloom