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June 18-20
University of Rhode Island
Kingston Campus
The conference features readings, panels, seminars, and workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and publishing. Attendees can also reserve a mentorship with one of our visiting writers that will center on a submitted manuscript of no more than 10 pages. The deadline for registration is June 14, but registrants will be accepted until the start of the conference if space allows. Send an SASE, call, e-mail, or click here for more information.
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Rachel Smith, a URI '06 alum, has received the Providence Prize in the RI International Film Festival Screenplay Competition for her original screenplay My Own Private Myocardial Infarction. In this script Smith compares the effects of a physical heart attack to the effects of separation, pain, and loss. Since his mother's death, the protagonist has written off his heart as broken. When he meets someone who challenges this diagnosis, he must choose between his head and his heart, between who he is and who he can be. In addition to short-listing at the RIIFF, Smith's screenplay was also a finalist and semi-finalist at this year's Writers Place Screenwriting Competition, SoCal Film Festival, Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards, Blazing Quill Screenwriting Competition, and the London International Film Festival.
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| Stefanie Head, English PhD candidate, joint recipient of the Mary Kelley Prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student or non-tenure track scholar at the annual Northeast American Studies Association Conference held at Yale. The title of her paper is: Framing Freedom: Nation, Empire, and the Renovation of the National Archives Building. |
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Call for Essays: Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
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| Matthew Frankel, Assistant Professor in the English Department, has been awarded for 2008 the prestigious Hennig Cohen Prize for his article, "Tattoo Art: The Composition of Text, Voice, and Race in Melville's Moby-Dick," published in ESQ, 2007. Click here for a list of faculty awards. |
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| Josie Campbell, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, is the 2008 recipient of the Graduate Mentoring Award for the College of Arts and Sciences. |
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