News and Events
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English Department News
- February 15
Canadian Poet Lisa Robertson will be the guest judge for the 2012-2013 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize. - October 31
The double English and business major’s pieces appear in Alice Blue Review. - November 30
“Hunting is Painting” by 2009 winner of the Lake Forest College Madeline P. Plonsker Prize, Jessica Savitz, is the third book in the newly established Lake Forest College Press/& Now Books. - February 8
The theme of the 8th Annual Lake Forest Literary Festival is “The New Nature Writing.” We’ll host a bevy of poets and prose writers whose work explores, often from surprising angles, questions of place, the nature of home, and ecology. - January 3 Professor of English, Bob Archambeau commented on the controversial review of an anthology of American poetry in the Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Bloodletting Over an Anthology.”
- September 20
She and Lake Forest students will give a public reading on October 4 at 7:00 p.m. - September 8 Professor Davis Schneiderman, head of the English Department at Lake Forest College, joins us on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm with counter-intuitive tips that parents can give their college kids as they start the new year. (WTTW)
- August 8 Lake Forest College is pleased to recognize fiction writer Elizabeth Gentry as the fourth winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, awarded annually.
- April 1 (PRWeb) He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books, editing The &NOW AWARDS: The Best …
- March 21
A 206-page novel, Blank contains only chapter titles. The story is – as it has always been – up to the reader. - September 7
José Perez Beduya has been named the winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize. - July 30
English professor Davis Schneiderman recently released his book Drain, a fictional novel about when Lake Michigan is completely drained in 2039. - July 14 Davis Schneiderman appeared on Connecticut’s NPR station.
- June 16 Hi all, this is a test post of the new &NOW Tumblr/Twitter/FB feed.
- May 25 Poet Jennifer Moxley will be the guest judge for the 2011 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize
- August 31 Professor of English Davis Schneiderman was mentioned in an August 31 Crain’s Chicago Business story about a recent event honoring author William S. Burroughs.
