Images from May 2024 Heterogeneous Ireland Symposium.

Poet and Professor Harryette Mullen of UCLA

Denise O’Shea of Sprague Library and Ellen Flanagan, Vice Consul General of the Consulate General of Ireland, New York

Ashim Dutta ’13, Associate Professor of English, Dhaka University, Bangladesh (M.A. , ĚÇĐÄvlog)

Four Creative Writing Awards (open to all Montclair State undergraduate and graduate students):

1. Ěý submit one story or excerpt from a longer piece (must be labeled as such), limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced. $1000
2. Ěý submit a maximum of three poems. If you are submitting more than one poem, the limit is 60 lines per poem. If one long poem, the limit is 150 lines. $300
3. Ěý submit a single piece of fiction under 1,000 words, not including the title. It must be self-contained, not part of a larger work. $300
4. Ěý submit one piece of nonfiction writing, limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced. $300

Deadline for all submissions: 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3. Decisions by late April.

Creative Writing Awards FAQs

1. May I submit material for a ĚÇĐÄvlog creative writing award that wasn’t written for a class? Yes!
2. May I submit material for a ĚÇĐÄvlog creative writing award I have won in the past? No. We have limited prize money and would like to reward as many different writers as we can.
3. Do I need to include a personal statement? No, not for creative writing awards.
4. Do I need to be an English major or minor? The awards are open to any undergraduate student at Montclair State.

For any questions about the contests themselves, contact David Galef, Creative Writing Program Director.

“Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses is one of the most well-known works of the last four decades. The first of McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, it won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Taking place in 1949, the novel explores the intimate story of relationships while at the same time presenting a global consideration of the American economic expansion that would set the tone for the second half of the twentieth century.

The novel also highlights a homogenization of North America thanks to the increase in jobs across the continent as well as the expansion of the transportation system. With America and Mexico sharing an unprecedented period of growth, Americans like McCarthy’s sixteen-year-old protagonist, John Grady Cole, and his best friend Lacey Rawlins could cross the border with ease, bringing into focus how both countries alternatingly accepted and resisted assimilation. As a sociocultural, political, and economic tour de force, McCarthy’s novel remains compelling and provocative thirty years after it first captured the attention of the literary world in 1992. This collection examines McCarthy’s book from various perspectives—historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary.

The book opens with an essay by editors Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia titled, “All the Pretty Horses: McCarthy’s Breakthrough into the American Canon.”

MSU English Prof. Melinda Knight’s essay is the lead historical context piece for the volume. It provides the necessary socio-cultural background for frontier literature and for McCarthy’s corpus. Prof. Knight’s scholarship has been integral for several volumes the Nicosias have published with Salem, including works on Steinbeck, Notable American Women Writers, Joseph Heller, and Willa Cather.

The article is available , or can be accessed through Sprague Library.

McDiarmid’s research focuses on writing by Yeats, Lady Gregory, Maeve Brennan, T. S. Eliot, Auden, and Stevie Smith, among others. Her current project is a book on 21st century Irish poetry.

Join us for a conversation about the ins and outs of careers in academic publishing. Britton will discuss:

• How academic publishing works
• Jobs available in academic publishing
• How to get started
• Skill sets employers seek
• The state of the profession

For More Information: Prof. Tricia Matthew Co-op/Internship Coordinator
patricia.matthew@montclair.edu

The program aired on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.