'I think my personages could be reactivated if the times were right: I hope so' --Anita Brookner

17-18 March, 2017

Keynote speakers: Associate Professor Patricia Juliana Smith (Hofstra University) and Professor Peter McPhee (University of Melbourne)

The work of Anita Brookner occupies an ambiguous place in the literary field. Brookner has a cult status, was a Booker-Prize winner and best-selling novelist, and yet her work received what she herself deemed 'censorious' reviews and limited critical attention. Brookner's death was accompanied by conflicted accolades that appeared to celebrate her life while restating the predictable (and vexatious) reading of her identity as a lonely, single woman.

The Invisible Bear is a poetry and visual art magazine partially funded by the poetry working group at Duke University. We are currently seeking quality poetry and/or visual art submissions for our next issue on or before our submission deadline, December 31st, 2016. We welcome the zany, the underrepresented, the hybrid, and the unconventional. We seek works that press genre definitions as well as fresh perspectives within familiar modes of expression. Please submit 3-5 representations of your work via e-mail to thebearinvisible [at] gmail [dot] com as an attachment and include one title of your work and the category of your piece (ex: "Title, Poetry") in the subject line of your message.

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association 39th Annual Conference

 Albuquerque, NM February 7 - 10, 2018

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

Phone: 1.505.842.1234

Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Panels are now forming for presentations regarding all aspects (historical, literary, cultural, etc.) of Captivity Narratives. All topics and approaches to the genre are welcomed. Graduate students/future teachers are particularly welcome to participate (with monetary awards for the best graduate student papers) - or to simply register to attend the conference and its captivity narrative panels.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND FORM

2016-2017 Tau Deadline: January 31, 2017
Submission dates: September 1–January 31

Submissions to The Tau can include poetry (up to 5 poems per author), short stories, and creative non-fiction (up to 3,000 words per entry). All submissions will be considered through a blind review process.

Please use the form found on the following website for submissions:

http://www.lourdes.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/publicatio...

Written entries: