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Annual St. Petersburg Times: Festival of Reading

-October 23rd.  It should be of interest to English majors in general.

Schedule of when and where on USF St. Petersburg

Thomas Hallock is one of our professors in our own English department, for those not in the know.  He'll be featured at 10 AM where the above schedule says (though as the PDF says, the line up is subject to change between now and then).  I think this is a great and fascinating opportunity, though, for the general public (and it's free).

LLS NOFO Workshop: September 24th, mandatory for LLS students

N.A.T.U.R.E Club first Fall 2010 meeting, Wednesday September 8th, 9:00PM @ Campus Waterfront (behind Davis)

facebook page with event details

wiki page with a script

Sigma Tau Delta

9/9:  From our current brochures:

"Sigma Tau Delta & The USFSP Reading & Writing Club:  Meet jointly every Thursday at 6 PM in the FCT Lounge outside of FCT 110.  Everyone welcome!  Food and refreshments provided!"

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Submit!  Send us your literary creations! 

We're looking for poems, flash fiction, short stories, and papers for publication in the USF St. Pete Literary Journal. 

For more info, email litsubmit@gmail.com   Deadline November 8, 2010.

-So this is a chance for you guys to send work you've done in and out of class to get published.  Though it won't be a huge journal, so we have talked about giving preference for early submissions.

Also important: with many of our prose pieces, we will be cutting them down and so will be publishing many excerpts of works.  So if you have a piece, you can think of sending a portion of it versus the whole thing.  This is a bonus, I think, to those who have unfinished pieces they would like to send in.  With permission, of course, we hope to feature full/fulller pieces of those prose submissions on a blogspot we are doing.

8/23:  The English Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta, is open to all.  STD, in this Fall 2010 semester, will be meeting weekly on Thursdays in the FCT building (Florida Center for Teachers).  In room 109.

Last semester we were proud to publish our collaborative poetry compilation, Seven, which featured our workshopped poems which were read aloud to student and faculty by the fountain which the compilation gave tribute to along with the benefactors who made the installation possible.  We are proud in that the work holds its own ISBN number and is also, thanks to the kindness of James Schnur, added in with USFSP Library's special collections.

I expect it to be like last year where a constructive, friendly, and democratic atmosphere prevailed through our consistent meetings. 

It might be a great opportunity as it was last Spring semester and we would really welcome new faces.  There is no need to formally become a member to attend meetings.  Feel free to come and check it out.  Our agenda, thus far, is to publish into a literary journal called Sands which can include a lot of types of writing (poetry, short story, essay, academia, etc).

P.S. There will be refreshments most of the time.  At least that is the plan.

- Heidi I. MacLean