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English News
College Confidential Cartoon Book
Chris Manno’s cartoon book College Confidential: A Cartoon Anthology (ISBN-10: 1724359347) is his firsthand cartoon account from the perspectiv...
“A Shambles” won the William Faulkner Society Prize in Short Fiction
A new work of fiction by Matthew Pitt, “A Shambles”, won the 2018 William Faulkner Short Story Prize. The work was selected by John Biguen...
Rhizcomics Wins Best Webtext of the Year Award
Over the summer, Jason Helms‘ digital monograph Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition received the Best Webtext of the Y...
Student Spotlight: Joel Hulseman
Joel Hulseman is part of the second cohort of the English Accelerated MA program, and the current Betsy Colquitt scholar. He credits the entire Unit...
These Are Our Demands is the winner of a Midwest Book Award
Matthew Pitt’s newest book, These Are Our Demands, won first prize in the Fiction: Short Story/Anthology Category of the 2018 Midwest Book Awar...