Announcements
Langston Hughes Society Luncheon Information
PDF version of the Announcement / PDF Version of the Flyer
TO: Langston Hughes Society Members and Friends
FROM: Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Mr. Kevin Powell will be the keynote speaker at the Langston Hughes Society Luncheon on Thursday, April 10, 2008, at the Francis Marion Hotel, 387 King Street, Charleston, SC. The luncheon will be held in conjunction with the Sixty-eighth Annual Convention and Seventy-first Anniversary of the College Language Association hosted by The College of Charleston and cosponsored by Claflin University and South Carolina State University, April 9-12, 2008.
We must give the hotel a firm number of people who will be attending the luncheon. Cost: $39.00. Please indicate if you plan to attend the luncheon by March 31, 2008.
Please return the bottom portion of this memo to:
Dr. Sharynn Owens Etheridge
690 Wilson Street
Orangeburg, SC 29115
803-535-5520 (Office); 615-473-2070 (Cell Phone)
setheridge@claflin.edu
http://www.langstonhughessociety.org
Call for Papers: LHS @ MLA, 27-30 December, 2008, San Francisco, CA
Langston Hughes, American Intellectuals, and the Loss of Civil
Liberties in the McCarthy Era. Papers connecting Langston Hughes’s writing
with that of other American intellectuals who fell into the McCarthy dragnet
in the 1950s. One-page abstract and biographical profile e-mailed by 7 March
2008 to
Dr. Dellita Martin-Ogunsola (dellita@uab.edu).
NOTE: One must be a member of the Modern Language Association
and
the Langston Hughes Society by 1 April 2008.
We thank you for your continued support of the Langston Hughes
Society.
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Langston Hughes Society Luncheon
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.
Francis Marion Hotel (Colonial Ballroom)
Name: ___________________________________________________
Institution: ________________________________________________
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Please make check payable to the Langston Hughes Society.
(One does not have to be a member of the LHS to attend the luncheon)
Disclaimer: There will be no refunds. All sales are final.
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Langston Hughes, American Intellectuals, and
the Loss of Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era
Papers connecting Langston Hughes’s writing with that of other intellectuals
who fell into the McCarthy dragnet in the 1950s.
One-page abstract and biographical profile e-mailed by 7 March to Dellita Martin-Ogunsola (dellita@uab.edu).
NOTE: One must be a member of MLA and LHS by 1 April 2008.
CLA Creative Writing Contest
and
Margaret Walker Memorial Prizes in Creative Writing
Call for Judges
Greetings, CLA Colleagues. By now you’ve received my letter announcing the start of the 2006-2007 Creative Writing Contest period. As I write in the letter, I am excited about the challenge of growing the Contest to even greater heights. Central to accomplishing the goal is identifying Members who are willing to judge student submissions.
As you know, Official Contest Guidelines mandate that students submit three copies of their work to me. I send the copies to Judges with evaluation forms. These forms include three categories (Literary Worth, Originality and Voice--Poetry; Literary Worth, Characterization and Originality--Short Story; and Literary Worth, Characterization and Technique--Drama) and require the Judge to check a numeric score.
Judges return their ratings to me, and I tally the scores. I award up to four cash prizes in each genre to the students with the highest scores (first place, second place, third place and—sometimes--honorable mention), and I announce the names of the winners at the Conference Banquet. The names of winners are also published in the summer volume of the CLA Journal.
Probably I will be receiving the first set of submissions in the next few weeks. The goal is to evaluate all submissions by March, 2007.
I know that some of you regularly serve as Judges, and I invite
you to continue to serve. I also invite those of you who have never served
to consider doing so. Please write to me at Clarence.holmes@sbcglobal.net
to inform me if you wish to serve this year or in the future.
Finally, this special appeal: I ask students on the Official Entry Form to
indicate in which language division they are submitting. This is my effort
to increase the volume of submissions in French and Spanish. Given this, I
want especially to recruit as Judges those of you specializing in International
Languages.
I look forward to opening my mailbox and seeing a hearty response.
I also look forward to acknowledging Judges and announcing the names of Contest
Winners at the Conference Banquet in Miami in April.
Clarence Holmes, Chair
Creative Writing Contest Committee
Announcing
the start of the 2006-2007
CLA Creative Writing Contest
Professor Warren Carson, former chair of the CLA Creative Writing Contest Committee, has been elected English Representative. I now have the privilege of chairing the Contest Committee. I am excited about the challenge and look forward to working with you. I have no doubt that we can grow the Contest to even greater heights.
I am pleased to announce the start of the 2006-2007 Contest
period.
I anticipate and greatly appreciate your willingness to serve as Sponsor for
students who enter submissions.
You will receive by mail soon a flier, Official Contest Guidelines
and Official Entry Form. Contest Guidelines and Entry Form can also be downloaded
at
CLAscholars.org (Creative Writing Contest link).
If you have questions, please contact me at Clarence.holmes@sbcglobal.net.
I thank you in advance for the many contributions I know you will be making to the Contest program. I look forward to announcing at the Conference Banquet in April, 2007, the names of our talented Contest winners.
Clarence Holmes, Jr., Chair
Creative Writing Contest Committee
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CALL FOR PAPERS
19th SOUTHERN WRITERS SYMPOSIUM
Methodist College
Fayetteville, North Carolina
February 23-24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Trudier Harris
The theme of the 19th Southern Writers Symposium is NEGLECTED SOUTHERN WRITERS. We invite papers and panels describing the works of little-known southern writers and exploring their relationship to the southern literary canon.
A special focus of the Symposium will be the writings of RAYMOND ANDREWS. Conference highlights will include films, talks, and panel discussions on Andrews and his works. We solicit papers and panels exploring any aspect of Andrews’s life and/or writing. Publication opportunities for papers on Andrews will be sought.
Abstracts are due by October 15. They should be approximately 250 words long
and should be accompanied by a brief bio. of the presenter. Abstracts on writers
other than Andrews should present some evidence that the writer in question
has been neglected by the literary-critical establishment, the reading public,
or both.
Panel proposals should include three-four abstracts and presenter bios., along with a short rationale for the session as a whole and information as to who will moderate it.
For further information contact Emily Wright, Department of English and Writing, Methodist College, 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville, NC 28311. Phone: 910-630-7551. Email: ewright@methodist.edu. Fax: 910-630-7679.
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