Virginia Tech Undergraduate Creative Writing Majors

Submit a Poem to the Steger Poetry Prize Competition! http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/notices/030711-clahs-stegerprize.html

Submissions for annual Steger Poetry Prize competition to be accepted through April 1 | Virginia Tec The Steger Poetry Prize was established when university president Charles W. Steger and University Distinguished Professor Nikki Giovanni discussed ways of showing Virginia Tech's commitment to the arts.

Creative Writing Majors, if you anticipate graduation someday, you need to attend the Dept of English Career Weekend!! The deadline to apply is tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 17th).

It is a great opportunity to prepare for your future, no matter what that is.

For those who have graduated, if you did participate in the career fair last year or the year before, what can you say to encourage others to sign up?

Here is a link to information, schedule, and the application:
http://www.english.vt.edu/career-weekend.html

Sign up right now!!!

Career/Leadership Weekend 2010 | Department of English | Virginia Tech We invite you to apply for participation in the third annual English Department Career/Leadership Weekend. Students from all majors are welcome, without application, at the Friday panels. Saturday events are limited to English majors by application only.

Creative Writing Majors: Please take this one minute (or less) survey and please forward it to your friends: https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1256670251865

Hey Majors: Come to the UG Conference Kick-Off Party on Friday, Oct. 30th from 12:30-2 in 370/380 Shanks. Lots of information about how to submit a proposal to the conference, which happens in late March, 2010. There will be food and decorations and your favorite Engl faculty members in funny costumes! Stop by and have some pizza and start planning to be a part of this HUGE day on the English Dept. calendar.

The Hollins University award-winning annual literary magazine, Cargoes, is calling for submissions for our National Undergraduate Competition in Fiction and Poetry. There is a $200 prize for the winning entries in fiction and poetry, as well as publication in the 2010 issue of Cargoes. The deadline is December 20th, 2009. Please email [email protected] for more details regarding rules and guidelines.

Fiction Writers: If you would like to attend a writing workshop with November's visiting writer, Melanie Rae Thon, (most likely on Thursday November 5th from 10-12 in Shanks 370/380), contact Aileen Murphy at [email protected]. I have materials to send to you to prepare for the workshop.

Hey Creative Writing Majors: Come to Ed Falco's Reading this Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Volume II Bookstore! He will be reading from his new novel, St. John of the Five Boroughs. Tell your friends! See you there!

Aileen Murphy invites all CW majors who are graduating in December or May (or some day soon) to come to a panel about how to apply to grad programs in creative writing. Today 12:15 in Shanks 370/380. Bring your lunch!