by Dr Davis on July 12, 2008
This is for writers and scholars who have works that are relevant to Texans. (I think they mean very particular to Texans. Obviously almost any regular discussion would be relevant to us.)
They are taking Texas-related creative writing as well as papers on any other English-related topic. I think I am going to go through my West Texas poetry and see if I can come up with enough to submit. I may have to do some major overhauling on a few of them, but there are some good ones in there.
You have to submit the whole creative writing work, but I don’t think that would be too hard. I mean, why would I want you to judge a story on something that isn’t finished yet. Too bad Texan Anti-Alien Militia isn’t a short story. That’d be cool to submit.
by Dr Davis on July 12, 2008
The conference is taking place in Austin and is being hosted by UT. It will take place March 5-7, 2009. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2008. They prefer the full paper, but will accept a 500-word abstract.
I’d really like to put a panel together for this conference too, but I have no idea what it would be on.
I have a paper on using fairy tales to introduce literary analysis that I would like to put together. But I don’t know if that is a literature paper or a composition paper. I’m having trouble finding this year’s program. That might tell me a little more about what they are looking for.
There’s a creative writing section. I wonder if life writing/blogging counts as “creative nonfiction.” Could I work that out?
Of course, there is the state of the profession forum. I could write about adjuncting. They said the topics could cover any aspect of the English profession. I really think I should work up a proposal/paper on adjuncts. I’ve been one at two schools, three by the time the paper is due. Surely I could write about the things I have dealt with there in an interesting way. Nope. That’s last year’s topic. Drats.
For some reason I can’t get the site to come up.
