EGSA Conference Call for Papers

1st Annual English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Spring Conference

EGSA is pleased to announce its first spring student conference, to be held late afternoon and early evening of May 21 in McGaw Hall at the Lincoln Park Campus.  All students in the MAE and MAWP are invited to submit academic papers and creative work for presentation to fellow graduate students, faculty, and undergraduate students.  This event is an excellent opportunity for MAE and MAWP scholar-writers to showcase their work, to prepare for Ph.D. programs and publication, and to promote fellowship and intellectual exchange among graduate students. Please view this flyer if interested.

We invite submissions for panel sessions in the following categories:

      Poetry

      Short Story or Excerpt from long fiction

      Literary Nonfiction (magazine writing, memoir, literary essay, humor/satire, travel writing, science writing, etc.)

      Literary Analysis/Critical Approaches

      Pedagogical and Literary Theory

      Publishing, Professional, and Teaching Practices

Poetry submissions should be a selection of poems that can be introduced and presented in no more than 12 minutes. All other submissions will be presented, in full or in abbreviated form, in 15-minute time slots (a 15-minute paper is about eight double-spaced typed pages). Works accepted for the conference will be grouped into panels according to genre and/or theme, and a 15-minute question and answer session will conclude each panel. All works submitted must be original, and we encourage writers to submit recent work.

In the spirit of academic fellowship, we encourage all attendees to stay for the duration of the conference and to celebrate at the reception following.

Please email your submissions (in MS Word attachment) to egsaconference2010@gmail.com.  The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 19.  All submitters will be notified of acceptance decisions no later than Monday, April 19.

Guidelines for Paper Submissions

• Each writer must include an official submission form. Download and fill out the form, and save as a MS Word document. When submitting your work, attach both the submission form and the work(s) in an email to egsaconference2010@gmail.com.

• Do not include your name or any other identifying information on the work you plan to submit. Insert your 7-digit DePaul student ID in a header that appears in the upper-left corner of every page. Include a page number in the upper-right corner of every page.

• You may submit up to 2 works, but each submission must be in a different category.

• For poetry submissions, put each poem on a separate page.