Announcements

Wondering who to donate to this holiday season?  We've been asked to solicit support for our locale Pet Food Pantry Drive-Thru, FAPS, located at 3927 Bragg Blvd.  Hours to drop-off food include: Tuesday through Saturday 9 AM to PM; Sunday and Monday, 8 AM to 12 PM. Recently, FAPS was able to feed 705 animals and shared they are "deeply grateful for everyone who donated, shared their posts, and volunteered" to make the animal food drive a success. Also, organizers are asking for small bags of dog and cat food in the three (3) to five (5) pount range. Larger bags are welcome too and are broken down and then placed into gallon bags that cost $7 per bag.  If enough food is collected, vehicles are loaded and driven to areas where people experiencing homelessness live with their pets.

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 meet again in February. 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 about our spring activities. Interested in socializing and creating with like-minded folks? 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