Announcements
Interested in a Post-Grad English degree? Wheeling University could be a way forward. Zachary Ramey, the Director of Operations at Wheeling University writes, "We have our Masters in Educational Leadership beginning on October 20th. We are looking for seven more people to join our cohort." Wheeling University is located on 316 Washington Avenue in Wheeling, West Virginia. For more information, feel free to call (724) 986-2700.
The Writers Club will held their well-attended introductory meeting on SEP 30; much fun was had by all. Participants penned group plots of stories through staging together three distinct genres. Please plan on attending our next meeting; the more the merrier. The October Writers Club event will be held in the upstairs room at Starbucks in the center of FSU's campus. Please consider joining the Writers Club by signing up on the Writers Club member page on Bronco Advantage today! Feel free to contact our President Annica Funchess or Vice President Brooklyn McInnis with any questions or just attend. Details will be forthcoming. Sign-up for Writers Club through Bronco Advantage today.
Calling all writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and prose, the Vincent Brothers Review, an independent literary magazine in Chapel Hills, is accepting submissions. The Vincent Brothers Reveiw has a open submission policy. While TVBR editors do not post a min/max word limit for non-fiction pieces, the editors favor nonfiction pieces that are up to 5,000 words. TVBR operate a paying market, paying a minimum $25 per flash and short stories that appear on their online publication and in our print issues.
Eastern Illinois University, EIU, located in Charleston, IL, has written us, seeking appllicants into their Master's Program. EIU's Master's program in English is known for offering: small class sizes, a fully face-to-face format, a fully online format, or a combination of the two. EIU's fully online program is popular with working professionals, including English Language Arts teachers who seek the MA as professional development. In addition, EIU offers many on-campus graduate assistantships (GAs) who begin their program with taking a first-semester practicum in Writing Center Pedagogy and working as writing consultants. Afterwards, GAs take a Mentored Composition Teaching seminar in whicch they shadow a veteran writing instructor for an entire semester. This experience qualifies them to apply to teach solo during their second year in the program. EIU's MA English graduates have many options to choose from, including: tenure-trak jobs at two-year colleges, admission to good Ph.D. programs, and in various other professions. EIU provides indiviualized, in-person advising to help students meet their academic and professional goals. If you are interested, please contact Professor Marjorie Worthington. Dr. Worthington is also happy to meet with interested students via Zoom.
North Carolina Central University, located in Durham, NC, welcomes graduate applications in their Master's English program. The Department of Language & Literature at North Carolina Central University is recruiting graduating undergraduates into its English Master's Program. As the nation's first state-funded college of liberal arts for African Americans, NCCU has a long tradition of educating some of the country's brightest students. The English MA program provides a comprehensive education in literary study; the program is designed to foster thorough scholarship and to develop a student's ability to pursue independent research. To learn more information or to apply to the program, please contact Dr. Nathan Dixon