Hey, all--
Has anyone volunteered for the Exploring Majors Fair February 22? I believe it runs from 4 to 6 PM in Shriver. If we're serious about our efforts to recruit and promote, someone should be there. If no one else can do it, I'm willing to trade my Make it Miami days (3/30 and 4/20). Lemme know.
Margaret
Margaret Luongo
Associate Professor, Creative Writing
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5221
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From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tuma, Keith W. [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Bowling for Writers
I think I can probably make bowling on Thursday evening if it goes
forward, deadlines be damned.
On a separate note, I need to be reassured very soon and by more than one
of you that we are collectively prepared and able to support the MU Press
novella contest next year, as we'll want to be printing something for AWP
very soon if so. Last I heard Margaret was heroically willing to serve
again as final judge if we go ahead with the contest, and when I mentioned
that it didn't seem like anyone wanted to arm wrestle her for a turn. So
speak up now or forever hold your bowling elbow. If we do go ahead I think
we might want to move the deadline for submission back a little, perhaps
to mid-November, and do the reading at a slightly more leisurely pace that
uses the break and part of January: I'd like to hear your views about this
too. I'm thinking this because our schedule has been pushed back a little
this year thanks to the Peter Manson/Mallarmé book due in a few weeks and
our work on the Freedom Summer monument book, which makes for an extra
project thrown into our mix. The Men Beware Women novella that Margaret
picked as a winner and is now editing will likely be printed first thing
in September, though the work on it should mostly be completed by the time
Dana ends her year in June. I hope that the Freedom Summer book will then
be published in late November or early December. I have very tentative
plans(have had preliminary discussions) for the next poetry collection,
which if things go well will be an anthology of recent British & Irish
poetry edited by three people in the UK. I have a range of backup options
if this plan falls apart, as it might.The time frame for the next poetry
publication is open and will depend on the fate of these conversations.
One reason I ask about continuing the novella contest or taking a year off
is the fact that several of you have leaves scheduled for next year, which
means fewer faculty readers, and David is stepping into a new role. I am
also a little fuzzy about the date of short form conference--whether
that's next year or the year after. If it is next year and we want to do a
book out of it that one or possibly two of you will edit, I think we might
do best to plug that book into the novella slot.
It goes without saying that the flier for the conference that cris was
working on also needs to be ready for AWP.
Cheers,
Earl Anthony
On 2/13/12 2:53 PM, "Goodman, Eric" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Braindeadedness is well-known to increase bowling scores by an average of
>2.9%
>
>On 2/13/12 2:48 PM, "Luongo, Margaret M. Ms." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I am free to bowl, to my limited abilities, this Thursday. I suspect I'll
>>be brain dead, but I don't think that will affect my bowling one way or
>>another.
>>
>>
>>Margaret Luongo
>>Associate Professor, Creative Writing
>>Department of English
>>356 Bachelor Hall
>>Oxford, OH 45056
>>513-529-5221
>>________________________________________
>>From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty
>>[[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goodman, Eric
>>[[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 2:20 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Bowling for Writers
>>
>>Writers,
>>
>> There was some chatter this week about wanting to get in another
>>Writers Bowling Night (WBN) before spring break.
>>
>> Since Dana is reading on the 23rd, that would mean our only
>>opportunity would be this Thursday, the 16th.
>>
>>What say you?
>>
>> Eric
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