Events

Spring 2010 English and Writing Events

Feb 11: Valentine Card Making Party. 7-9 pm, Writing Center

March 4: Dale Brumfield, author of Three Buck Naked Commodes, will discuss "Novels, short stories, blogs, cartoons: The Long and Short of Writing" 7 p.m., Writing Center.
Contact Prof Gayla Mills 

March 17: Deadline for submissions to the R-MC Spring 2010 Writing Contest:

For academic papers in any discipline written during the 2009-10 academic year. The purpose of the competition is to recognize and promote quality nonfiction writing in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences.

Rules:

1. Papers are limited to 15 pages in length.

2. Students are limited to 2 submissions each.

3. Papers must have been written in the 2009-10 academic calendar year.

Prizes will be awarded based on discipline and class year. Finalists will be published online. The judges will be faculty from various disciplines at R-MC.

Submission guidelines:

1. Format papers including citations in the style of the discipline (MLA, APA, CMS, etc.) except that only the title of the paper should appear on the first page. Do not include your name in headers or on the first page.

2. The paper should be accompanied by a cover page listing:

• The title of the paper

• Your name, email address, and class year (freshman, sophomore, etc.

• The name of the dept, class, and professor for whom you wrote the paper.

Please email your contest submission or questions to: gmills@rmc.edu by March 17, 2010.

April 22: Book Bowl sponsored by the Washington Literary Society 7 pm. Contact Chris Lambert