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NEWS & NOTESGraduate School Information Session Thursday, April 17 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM 131 English Building Thinking about a Graduate Degree in English? Check out our Graduate School Information Session hosted by Stephanie Foote, Director of the English Graduate Program at UIUC. Professor Foote will cover the basic application steps and offer helpful hints as to how to prepare well and in (relatively) stress-free fashion. 2008 UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS FICTION Fifty-five writers submitted stories. The winners: John L. Rainey Prize, $1,000 (sponsored by Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity): Rafael Ibay , "Seizing the Day." Charles and Susan Shattuck Prize, $500: Ann Holland , "Cecil Adams Says." Josephine M. Bresee Memorial, $400: Isaac Tan , "Saffron Drey." Leah Trelease Prize, $300: Will Kurlinkus , "Doing the Windows." POETRY Forty-eight writers submitted poems. The winners : Folger Adam, Jr. Prize, $1,000 (sponsored by Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity): Caleb Curtiss , "Common Roots."Thatcher H. Guild Prize, $500 : James Knippen , "Brookside Mine." American Academy of Poets Prize, $100: Rafael Ibay , "Conquistador." The Traveling Quinn Awards recognize achievement and potential in Creative Writing by Junior and Senior Creative Writing Majors. The winners this year are Ann Holland and Leanne Kutzer (prose); Rafael Ibay and Precious Angel Kelly (poetry). Recipients of a Traveling Quinn Award will receive a scholarship to one of several predetermined writing workshops the following summer or, if approved by faculty, to a workshop students have researched and chosen for themselves. This scholarship, worth up to $2,000, will be applied toward tuition of the workshop, travel, room and board. Congratulations go to these four writers and thanks to all of the students who applied. Look for news in the fall for the next round of applications. Congratulations to Ian Clausen who received the prestigious Marshall scholarship! See link below. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING HONORS IN RHETORIC: The Creative Writing Program is in the process of phasing out its honors program. As of the end of this academic year (2007-2008) , the Creative Writing Major will no longer accept new students into its honors option. Students who will have completed at least one departmental literature honors seminar THIS academic year will be allowed to complete the honors program. Creative Writing Majors who want the opportunity to pursue Departmental Honors in Creative Writing must have completed their first honors literature seminar by the end of this coming semester (SP08) to pursue honors in Creative Writing. As always sign-up for honors seminars begins the first day of advanced registration. CAREERS AND GRADUATE SCHOOL INFORMATION ROOM An entire room in our office has been reserved for students thinking about careers in English or Creative Writing or going to graduate school. The room has computers available to use for browsing bookmarked URL's we've found useful to our majors. There are also paper copies of job descriptions and vocational biographies among many other paper references. Please stop by to take a look.
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