RADICAL WRITES: COMPOSITION, CREATIVE AND CRITICAL WRITING, AND NEW MEDIA Submission deadline extended to January 19
RADICAL WRITES:
COMPOSITION, CREATIVE AND CRITICAL WRITING, AND NEW MEDIA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, JONESBORO, AR
The Radical Writes Conference is a graduate student conference that highlights writers who produce innovative and distinctive creative and critical work in its multitude of forms. Students are welcome to submit poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction or works pertaining to composition and rhetoric, critical theory, literature, and related fields of study. In addition to conference participants' presentations, conference attendees can expect panels on topics related to professionalization and opportunities for networking with publishers.
We are proud to announce that best-selling author Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan will be our keynote speaker. Jennifer's 2013 release, Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders has received rave reviews from Publishers' Weekly, the L.A. Times, and many others. Her 2003 memoir, She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders was the first bestselling work by a transgender American.
Students who attend or present at the conference can expect the following:
Presentation Sessions: Friday and Saturday, March 13, 14 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: Thursday Night, March 12 at 7 p.m.
Creative Writing Open Mic and Mixer: Friday night after panels
Awards for Best Creative Work and Best Critical Work
Another great line for your CV to help you compete in today's hiring market!
Students can propose a 15-minute individual presentation or a three-person panel. The deadline for proposals is January 19, 2015.
For more information, check us out on the web at: http://www.astate.edu/college/humanities-and-social-sciences/departments...
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
To Submit an Individual Proposal, send an email to RadicalWritesatAState@gmail.com on or prior to January 19, 2015.
In the email, include the title of your proposed presentation, your main area of study (it's fine if your paper is unrelated), school affiliation, student classification (for example, 1st year M.A. or fourth-year Ph.D.), mailing address, and phone number.
Indicate whether or not you plan to attend the Open Mic and Mixer on Friday, March 13 with 3-10 minutes of reading.
Attach your abstract, without any identifying information, as a Word Document.
Title your email with the appropriate category and your last name (i.e., Critical Submission: Smith).
To Submit an 3-Person Panel, send an email to RadicalWritesatAState@gmail.com send an email to RadicalWritesatAState@gmail.com on or prior to January 19, 2015, that includes the following:
the title of your proposed panel, and then, each presenter's main area of study (it's fine if your paper is unrelated), school affiliation, student classification (for example, 1st year M.A. or fourth-year Ph.D.), mailing address, and phone number.
whether or not any of the panelists plan to attend the Open Mic and Mixer on Friday, March 13 with 3-10 minutes of reading.
an attached document, which includes the title of each presenter's presentation above each presenter's abstract (and samples, if Creative Writing) without any identifying information, as a Word Document. See below for more information.
lastly, title your email with the appropriate category and your last name (i.e., Critical Submission: Jones, Mendez, and Smith).
Critical Proposals: Critical Proposal abstracts should include a unique title and be a maximum of 300 words. Works may cover any topic as long as they challenge the status quo or challenge, inform, and expand our existing knowledge or practices, such as, but not limited to:
Contact zones and cross genre writing
Blurred boundaries in writing
Issues and trends in visual rhetorics
Queer rhetorics
Flipped composition classrooms
New media
Code Meshing and composition
Affective rhetorics
Creative Proposals: Creative Proposals should include a unique title, a brief 150-300 word abstract that describes the work, and a sample of the work to be presented (3-5 pages).
A Note to Faculty Mentors: We appreciate the efforts that mentors make in aiding their graduate students in their path to professionalization. As we understand the demands of mentorship, promotion, and tenure, we are more than happy to work with mentors who decide to attend with their students to ensure that they can, if they choose, participate in the conference in a way which can be reflected on their C.V.s and Annual Reviews.