The Science Fiction Foundation seeks entries for its annual graduate
essay prize.
£250 will be awarded for the best unpublished essay in science fiction
criticism.
The winning entry will be published in the journal 'Foundation'.

The judges of the competition are:
Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University College): editor
of 'Vector'
Elizabeth Hand: author and reviewer for 'The Magazine of F&SF'
Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University, Chicago): reviewer for 'Locus'

The deadline for submissions is 31st May 2004.

Entrants must be registered for a higher degree.
The judges reserve the right to withhold the award.

The deadline for the call for papers for this special issue has been
extended to November 15, 2003.

Call for Papers: The Sounds of Vision: Spectatorship and Aural Perception
Journal issue

The musical score, dialogue, and sounds of contemporary screen based
products of the past ten years have addressed a far more aurally
aware spectator, as demonstrated by the increasing complexities of
style and construction of the sound track. What might be some of the
methodological approaches that can account for the direction of the
spectatorial eye via the ear?

Original essays are invited for a collection entitled _The Re-Enchantment
of the World_. This interdisciplinary volume will explore a range of
secular strategies for finding enchantment in a desacralized and rational
world. The editors are interested in essays from a variety of fields,
including history, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, art history,
and anthropology. (Essays on manifestations of the "New Age" are unlikely
to be considered, however.) Send an abstract of 250 words to Joshua Landy
(landy_at_stanford.edu) and Michael Saler (mtsaler_at_ucdavis.edu) by March 1,
2004.

The electronic English Studies Forum invites the submission of innovative
critical studies and creative writing for its forum on "The Postmodern
Imagination and Beyond." This site explores the postmodern imagination as
well as the postmodern understanding of the nature/role of imagination in
contemporary literature and culture. What distinguishes the
post-postmodern imagination?

Send inquiries or submissions to:

Trey Strecker, Editor in Chief
English Studies Forum
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0460
tstrecker_at_bsu.edu

The online English Studies Forum invites innovative critical and creative
submissions for its "Image, Story, Conversation" forum. ESF's "Image,
Story, Conversation" site considers the ways we imagine our world in
archetypal patterns, three of which are image, story, and conversation.

Send inquiries or submissions to:

Trey Strecker, Editor in Chief
English Studies Forum
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0460

I am proposing an edited collection on the issue of intellectual work and
certification in American fiction 1865-1910. Many realist writers of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century were preoccupied with the value
of intellectual work, especially the profession of writing. This
preoccupation could be due to university reform which emphasized a more
practical education as opposed to the pre-Civil War moral education.

Essays in the collection should focus on the way "the culture of
professionalism" functions in the novels of the period.

I am proposing an edited collection on the issue of intellectual work and
certification in American fiction 1865-1910. Many realist writers of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century were preoccupied with the value
of intellectual work, especially the profession of writing. This
preoccupation could be due to university reform which emphasized a more
practical education as opposed to the pre-Civil War moral education.

Essays in the collection should focus on the way "the culture of
professionalism" functions in the novels of the period.