English Student Association is now accepting submissions for The Artery.  Submission deadline for the 2021 edition of The Artery is January 15, 2021.  Send your completed work to:  luartery@lakeheadu.ca

The DISQUIET Literary Prize

Submissions are now open for the DISQUIET Literary Prize! This contest is for writing in any genre, by a writer who has not yet published more than one book.  The first prize winners in each genre will be published:

• the fiction winner in Granta.com,
• the nonfiction winner in Ninthletter.com,
• the poetry winner in The Common.

One grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship including tuition, lodging, and a $1,000 travel stipend to Lisbon in 2021.

In the event the 2021 Lisbon program can't be held due to coronavirus restrictions, we offer an alternative cash prize: genre and grand prize winners can either choose to delay the prize trip to a future year or accept a substitute cash prize of $1,000 each.

Read the full contest guidelines or enter at Submittable.

Deadline: January 15, 2021. Reading fee: $15

The Denis Johnson STAGAYA & Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Scholarships and Luso-American Fellowship competitions will be paused for 2021. We look forward to resuming these awards in 2022.

The Department of English is happy to announce our new transfer program. Those who have completed the Confederation College Film Production Diploma, and have an overall average of 70% or higher, can be considered for admission to the HBA English program and could complete their HBA English in two years.

The Department of English announces the COLLABORATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAM WITH SPECIALIZATION IN SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDIES
All students in the specialization will be required to complete English 5770 (Advanced Scholarly Methods) and Social Justice 5030 (Theories of Social Justice) and select one of the following streams:

Coursework; Research Project; or Creative Project

See the Graduate Program, Department of English.

We invite all undergraduate and graduate students of English on both campuses to participate in the English Student Conference, held on April 6^th, 2020.  Students will present 7–8 page papers focused on all aspects of English studies, including:

• Literary texts
• Films and television
• Graphic novels and comics
• New media (i.e. webcomics, instagram, blogs, etc.)
• Visual texts
• Cultural texts (i.e. architecture, fandom, ideas of “nature,” etc.)

To participate: please submit applications (which can be based on essays or seminars completed or being written for English classes) that include the following:

1.  The title of your paper
2.  An abstract describing your proposed paper (max. 300 words).

 Applications should be sent to dhayes@lakeheadu.ca by Monday, March 2^nd, 2020.

The conference will be held in the telepresence rooms on both the Orillia and Thunder Bay campuses.  Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Papers of 15 minutes will be delivered in panels of three or four, with question periods to follow.