In just over a year (April 19-21, 2012), Calvin College will hold its biennial Festival of Faith and Writing (www.calvin.edu/festival). This event hosts more than seventy speakers and 2,000 attendees on Calvin's campus. Past Festival's have welcomed such luminaries as Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Michael Chabon, Maya Angelou, Elie Wiesel, John Updike, Katherine Paterson, and Madeline LEngle, among many, many others.
In order to put this event on, we need a great deal of assistance from dedicated student volunteers willing to serve on the Festival's Student Committee. In return for this help, volunteers are given free admission to the Festival, and will have the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the writers involved in this event.
As a student interested in writing, you are invited to apply for the Student Committee for Festival 2012! Please pick up an application from the Festival office (CFAC 232). Students off-campus this semester may write to ffw@calvin.edu for more information.
Applications are due Friday, March 18, 2011. Applicants will be contacted after spring break for an interview. Questions can be directed to Shannon Jammal-Hollemans in the Festival office at ffw@calvin.edu.
Sincerely,
The 2012 Festival of Faith and Writing Planning Committee
Lew Klatt
Deb Rienstra
Dean Ward
Shelly LeMahieu Dunn, Director
Shannon Jammal-Hollemans, Festival Assistant
Kristin Otte, Festival Assistant
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Writers' Retreat Coming Up in March
Get ready to register for the Writers' Retreat, coming up March 11-13. Come join a group of serious student writers for a time of focus, flights of fancy, food, friendship, and frivolity.
The retreat takes place in northern Michigan at the University of Michigan biological station. Profs. Schmidt, Vande Kopple, Hull, Rienstra, and Fondse will provide leadership--or something like that. We'll leave on Friday afternoon and return Sunday afternoon. In between: writing, workshopping, relaxation, adventure, and the occasional stray snowball.
Cost will be $30, which covers everything, including meals and transportation.
Registration will open February 21 in the English Department. Be ready to sign up and pay right away, as space is limited (24 students) and we will accept people on a first pay, first served basis.
Dialogue: Submit!
The editors of Dialogue have asked me to remind you that they are always always looking for good submissions. Please rummage through your drafts, ideas, musings, and see if you have something that can be polished up for publication. They are looking for essays, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The Dialogue folk do a nice job of laying out your work beautifully on a printed page. Fame, glory: what's not to love?
For details on how to prep a submission, you can go to the Dialogue blog.
If you have questions, you can contact the editors at dialogue@calvin.edu.
For details on how to prep a submission, you can go to the Dialogue blog.
If you have questions, you can contact the editors at dialogue@calvin.edu.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Ruminate Nonfiction prize announced
Student writers of nonfiction, please consider this opportunity. The deadline is soon, so look through those English 301 essays and your other archives and see if you have anything that could work.
Here is the announcement from the magazine:
"RUMINATE Magazine is thrilled to announce our first annual Ruminate Nonfiction Prize. The first place essay will win a $500 prize and the runner-up will win a $50 prize. The entry deadline is February 15, 2011, and the finalist judge is award-winning author Al Haley (Haley is the published author of Home Ground: Stories of Two Families and The Land and Exotic: A Novel, winner of the John Irving First Novel Award, and his work has been published in publications including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.) For more details please visit our website.
We are also currently accepting short stories, poems, and artwork for Issue 20: Eat and Drink. The deadline for Issue 20 is also February 15.
Warmly,
RUMINATE Staff"
Here is the announcement from the magazine:
"RUMINATE Magazine is thrilled to announce our first annual Ruminate Nonfiction Prize. The first place essay will win a $500 prize and the runner-up will win a $50 prize. The entry deadline is February 15, 2011, and the finalist judge is award-winning author Al Haley (Haley is the published author of Home Ground: Stories of Two Families and The Land and Exotic: A Novel, winner of the John Irving First Novel Award, and his work has been published in publications including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.) For more details please visit our website.
We are also currently accepting short stories, poems, and artwork for Issue 20: Eat and Drink. The deadline for Issue 20 is also February 15.
Warmly,
RUMINATE Staff"
Monday, January 10, 2011
Poetry Prize: Time to Get Your Entry Together
The English Department sponsors a poetry prize for Calvin poets in connection with the Academy of American Poets. Please consider entering this year's competition.
The 2011 contest is open to any current undergraduate at Calvin.
To enter:
SUBMIT up to 3 poems.
MANUSCRIPTS should be typewritten (one side only, please), and each poem should be titled.
YOUR NAME MUST NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE ON THE MANUSCRIPT.
Instead, the manuscript should be accompanied by a cover sheet with the following information: author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address (if available), and titles of the poems submitted.
Submissions that do not follow this format will be disqualified.
DEADLINE: Friday, March 4, 2011.
LOCATION: English Dept., CFAC; turn in submissions to Becky Moon at the front desk.
The winner will receive a cash award and a one-year membership to the Academy of American Poets.
THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN APRIL.
The 2011 contest is open to any current undergraduate at Calvin.
To enter:
SUBMIT up to 3 poems.
MANUSCRIPTS should be typewritten (one side only, please), and each poem should be titled.
YOUR NAME MUST NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE ON THE MANUSCRIPT.
Instead, the manuscript should be accompanied by a cover sheet with the following information: author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address (if available), and titles of the poems submitted.
Submissions that do not follow this format will be disqualified.
DEADLINE: Friday, March 4, 2011.
LOCATION: English Dept., CFAC; turn in submissions to Becky Moon at the front desk.
The winner will receive a cash award and a one-year membership to the Academy of American Poets.
THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN APRIL.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Summer Writing Opportunity
We just received an invitation for Calvin Students to consider a summer-long writing residence. Great for folks who thrive on the outdoors in Michigan. Check it out!
From Director Matthew Dykstra:
Pierce Cedar Creek Environmental Institute is pleased to announce Nature in Words, an exciting writing opportunity for undergraduate students modeled after the Institute's science research program (URGE). This new program will provide an undergraduate student, in conjunction with a faculty mentor, the opportunity to spend the summer at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, utilizing the close interaction with the natural world available here to inspire and develop their writing skills. The undergraduate fellow is eligible for a stipend, on-site housing, and partial meal support during their full-time 10-12 week experience. Faculty advisors are also eligible for a stipend that can be used for time, supplies, travel, or other project support. More information about the program is found in the application, which is available at the Nature in Words webpage on the Institute website.
I or another Institute staff member will be contacting you by phone in early January to answer any questions you may have about the program. We hope that you will share this information with students and other faculty at Calvin. We hope that you will help us to ensure this new program is a success and look forward to working with a new group of students and faculty. Please feel free to contact me at dykstram@cedarcreekinstitute.org or 269-721-4473 if you have any questions about the Nature in Words Fellowship or about the Institute.
Sincerely,
Matthew Dykstra
Education Director
Pierce Cedar Creek Institute
701 W. Cloverdale Rd. Hastings, MI 49058
269-721-4473 dykstram@cedarcreekinstitute.org
www.cedarcreekinstitute.org
From Director Matthew Dykstra:
Pierce Cedar Creek Environmental Institute is pleased to announce Nature in Words, an exciting writing opportunity for undergraduate students modeled after the Institute's science research program (URGE). This new program will provide an undergraduate student, in conjunction with a faculty mentor, the opportunity to spend the summer at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, utilizing the close interaction with the natural world available here to inspire and develop their writing skills. The undergraduate fellow is eligible for a stipend, on-site housing, and partial meal support during their full-time 10-12 week experience. Faculty advisors are also eligible for a stipend that can be used for time, supplies, travel, or other project support. More information about the program is found in the application, which is available at the Nature in Words webpage on the Institute website.
I or another Institute staff member will be contacting you by phone in early January to answer any questions you may have about the program. We hope that you will share this information with students and other faculty at Calvin. We hope that you will help us to ensure this new program is a success and look forward to working with a new group of students and faculty. Please feel free to contact me at dykstram@cedarcreekinstitute.org or 269-721-4473 if you have any questions about the Nature in Words Fellowship or about the Institute.
Sincerely,
Matthew Dykstra
Education Director
Pierce Cedar Creek Institute
701 W. Cloverdale Rd. Hastings, MI 49058
269-721-4473 dykstram@cedarcreekinstitute.org
www.cedarcreekinstitute.org
Thursday, October 21, 2010
"And can you get a job with that writing stuff you do?"
Show the skeptics that good writing skills make the world go 'round. Or at least can help your employment prospects. Consider doing an internship next semester for course credit!
If you're interested, come to an information meeting for English 380 (the internship course) on Tuesday, October 26, at 10:30 a.m. in the English Department Conference Room.
Students in English 380 work at a variety of placements, from magazines and newspapers to publishing houses, from non-profit organizations to public relations firms. Prof. Hettinga is the supervising prof.
Join us for a snack and find out what you need to do to get an internship.
Please note that students wishing to take English 380 must fill out an application before registering for the course.
If you're interested, come to an information meeting for English 380 (the internship course) on Tuesday, October 26, at 10:30 a.m. in the English Department Conference Room.
Students in English 380 work at a variety of placements, from magazines and newspapers to publishing houses, from non-profit organizations to public relations firms. Prof. Hettinga is the supervising prof.
Join us for a snack and find out what you need to do to get an internship.
Please note that students wishing to take English 380 must fill out an application before registering for the course.
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