English Students Nominated for 2012 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize

Daphne Horton, undergraduate English major, and Kaya Arnoux, graduate student in English, have been nominated for the 2012 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize, which is given by the Brooklyn Film and Arts Festival.

Congratulations, and good luck!

Horton and Arnoux will both be reading on Friday, December 14, 2012, as part of an event to be held at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights.

The evening will begin with a discussion with Evan Hughes about his book Literary Brooklyn and will conclude with a reading by all the prize finalists and the announcement of the winner. The program will take place from 7-9 PM.

Read more here.

Sigma Tau Delta Book Drive

The English Department's Omicron Zeta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (the international English honors society) is holding a book drive to collect donations for Better World Books, an organization that redistributes books to promote literacy and friendly environmentalism. There are two donation boxes. One is on the second floor of the Humanities Building by the Writing Center. and the other is by the English Department reception desk on the fourth floor of the Humanities Building..

Please make donations if you can, and spread the word!For more information, contact Jake Matkov (English-Department graduate student).

Spring Course for English Majors or Minors

In Spring 2013, Professor Deborah Mutnick will be teaching 
ENG 163 Explorations in Nonfiction Writing 
(topic this time: zines and digital storytelling).

This course will satisfy a writing-and-rhetoric workshop requirement for writing-and-rhetoric concentrators, or the one-course, writing-and-rhetoric requirement for literature concentrators or creative-writing concentrators.

Lewis Warsh Reading

CECILIA VICUNA and LEWIS WARSH

Broadside Reading Series organized by Steve Clay of Granary Books

Wednesday, December 5, 6:30

Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street (3rd floor)
New York City

New Chapbook from Barbara Henning

A Slow Curve,  a new chapbook of poems by Professor Barbara Henning (English Department), is coming out very soon from Monkey Puzzle Press.

More info.

The English Department's 2012 Holiday Party

Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:30 PM

Faculty Activity: Jonathan Haynes

Jonathan Haynes (Professor of English) is in Brazil at the invitation of a film festival in Rio de Janeiro, Nollwood: O caso do cinema Nigeriano.

He will be on a panel on November 14, Nollywood no contexto do cinema africano, and on another one on November 15, Nollywood: discursos e formas estheticas.  On November 19 he will present a talk, "Nollywood: Fundamentals of the Nigerian film industry", to graduate students and faculty of the Sociology Department of the Universidade Federal Fluminense.

MFA Reading Series Events

Two readings by students in the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA Program.

at The Sidewalk Cafe
94 Avenue A (Manhattan)
corner of E. 6th Street

DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL I GET THERE #1

Friday, November 30, 5-7

Felice Belle
Michael Grove
Elspeth Macdonald
Tiani Kennedy
Tina Barry
Evan Thomas
Harry Ewan
Desiree Rucker
Kyle De Ocera
Shari Seraneau
Michael Atkinson
Julianne Lavallee
Kaya Arnoux

DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL I GET THERE #2

Friday, December 7, 5-7

Asja Parrish
Kia Mills
Lisa Rogal
Amyre Loomis
Daniel Owen
Jon Jenkins
Marita Downes
Wendi Williams
Chia-Lunn Chang
Liz Dalton
Sarah Anne Wallen
Pamela Arnett
Joey Infante

Barbara Henning to Read as Part of Poets for Pets Thanksgiving Reading

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Readers are Dana Bryant, Sharon Dolin, Marcella Durand, and Barbara Henning. 

Suggested donation $10. 

All money will be donated to Animal Haven Shelter / http://www.animalhavenshelter.org/.

More info.

LIU Brooklyn / Hurricane Sandy Relief