In English Volume 20 #1

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IN ENGLISH Occasional Newsletter of the Whittier College Department of English Language and Literature Volume 20, #1, November, 2019 Dr. Charles S. Adams, Editor Professor, English

On-Line Presence Some of you may be aware that the Whittier College English Department has a Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WhittierCollegeEnglishDepartment And our college-based site is: http://www.whittier.edu/Academics/EnglishLanguageAndLiterature/ This Newsletter will be up on that site and will be updated as more information comes in and your editor gets around to it.

The English Department Writing Awards (Keep your work!)

Every year we offer a set of prizes for the best work submitted by students in the areas of poetry, creative prose, and scholarly writing. Be sure to stay tuned for the announcements asking for submissions for the next academic year’s awards—the deadlines are always fairly early in Spring Semester. You cannot win if you do not enter. All Whittier students are eligible to enter. The prizes are cash (well, checks actually). You could win more than some of your professors have made on their books and articles! In addition, look at the same time for notices of the deadlines for submissions to the Literary Review, which publishes work in all genres by Whittier students. Again, any student can submit. We need to thank lots of donors, alumni, faculty, friends, and students, for help funding these prizes and the Review.

What Have We Been Up to Lately? Charles S. Adams: My main occupation these days has been preparing for retirement at the end of spring semester. As most of you know, I might not have chosen to do this now had it not been for some health challenges. But I have things I want to do while I know I can do them. I have started a term on the board of the Whittier Public Library Foundation. 1


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