新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis shows off its writing chops at all levels with the Prized Writing awards ceremony for undergraduates tonight (Sept. 27) and 鈥淥pening Night鈥 with creative writing faculty members next week. In addition, the Creative Writing Program announced its 2016-17 series of readings by visiting writers.
Prized Writing
Tonight鈥檚 ceremony marks the publication of the 27th edition of The selected 23 works for the new edition (covering 2015-16), out of more than 400 entries.
The competition is open to any nonfiction work from any course, so each year鈥檚 entries range considerably in form and content. The newest collection, for example, includes a personal essay and a laboratory report, and topics that range widely from experimental pieces on gender and race, to deeply researched articles on colonialism, the politics of war and the history of coffee, to algorithm-intense reports on helicopter blades and soil compaction.
A reception at 5:30 p.m. will lead into the awards program at 6 in the AGR Room at the . The student authors will be introduced by mentor faculty and receive prizes.
Prized Writing 2015-16 will be available for purchase at the ceremony and will also be available at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Stores.
RSVPs requested for the awards program, by email to Shai Nielson, assistant editor.
鈥極pening Night鈥 and other readings
The Department of English and its hold their 10th annual 鈥淥pening Night鈥 鈥 this year featuring faculty members Lucy Corin, Margaret Ronda, Katie Peterson, Jacinda Townsend, Joe Wenderoth and Joshua Clover, reading from their newest works. The program, free and open to the public, is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, on the .
The Creative Writing Program also will host visiting writers to read from their works throughout the new academic year. All of these readings are also free and open to the public.
The 2016-17 series will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, with Rae Armantrout, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010 for her volume of poetry Versed. She鈥檚 the author of 15 poetry collections, the most recent of which is Partly: New and Selected Poems, published this year.
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