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                       Department of English Newsletter
                                                                         
                                                             Thursday, March 4, 2010                 
                                               Deadline for submissions: 3:00 pm the preceding Wednesday 
                                                 To: Laura Nother  lnother2@uwo.ca  UC 184 ext. 85800 




Message from Christopher Keep, Chair of Undergraduate Studies:

Two Undergraduate Essay Prizes

A) New Requirements - Please take some time in your marking this month to set aside the best papers from English students,
Year 2 or above, for the English-Speaking Union Book Prizes.

B) To those who teach courses in Canadian Literature and/or Canadian Drama, please set aside the best papers for considera-
tion for the Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature.

Criteria for Submissions: Eligible essays should receive a mark of AT LEAST 85%. Please submit a photocopy of the essay
(with the mark and instructor’s comments included) to the English Undergraduate Studies Office, UC 182. The deadline for sub-
mission is Thursday, April 15th, 2010.


Announcement from The Gazette

The Gazette’s annual Art Issue is coming up on March 12th. We're looking for submissions (needed by March 8th) such as art
photography, short stories, and poetry. For more information email the Arts & Entertainment Editors at the below address.

Thank you.
Arts & Entertainment Editors
gazette.entertainment@uwo.ca
(519) 661-3580 ext. 2, Room 263, UCC Building, UWO
www.uwogazette.com/category/ae


Events Announcement from Penn Kemp, Department of English Writer­In­Residence

As Western's writer-in-residence for 2009-10, I host Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary radio show on Radio Western, archived on
www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Listen live on chrwradio.com/listen!

My interview with Barbara Godard, co-editor of Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry, aired on
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, and will be repeated Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 6:30-7:00 am. My blog on http://
chrwnewsandspokenword.chrwradio.com/ will include Barbara's further comments.

Sometime after March 10, the show will be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. The whole interview will be available as
podcast on http://previous.ncra.ca/exchange/index.cfm?seriesID= 92319. All 2009 Gathering Voices programs are now podcast there.

To celebrate the London Reads event on March 11, where I am presenting Gil Adamson's The Outlander, we are also airing part of my inter-
view with Gil on the March 3/10 show. See also www.londonreads.uwo.ca. You can hear our full interview on http://www.chrwradio.com/
talk/gatheringvoices/20070801GatheringVoices.mp3 . See you at Central Library if you're in London on March 11!

Upcoming shows feature an interview with Bonnie Burnard, (Suddenly) on Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6-6:30 pm (repeated Wednesday,
April 7, 2010, 6:30-7:00 am). And an interview with Barry Dempster, author of new books from Brick Books and Pedlar Press. Celebrating
National Poetry Month and Brick Books!
                   The Western Early Modern Society
                                   presents

                           Richard Moll
“Translating a Defective Ovid: William Caxton and the Ovide Moralisé”
                                     And

                           Lindsay Reid
  “Lines, Full Fraught with Gall”: Dido's Epistle in Ovid's Heroides
            and “The Wandring Prince of Troy”(c. 1564)




                       Tuesday, March 9, 2010
                      1:30-3:00 pm in UC 224a
                            All Welcome
   Richard Moll (PhD Toronto) is Assistant Professor of English at UWO, and
   currently editing Caxton's Ovide Moralisé.

   Lindsay Reid (PhD Toronto) teaches at the University of Western Ontario
   and is completing a book called Bibliofictions: Ovidian Heroines and the
   Tudor Book.
DEADLINE—MARCH 20, 2010


                   ALFRED POYNT AWARD IN POETRY
In the spirit of stimulating the imagination, promoting creativity, and fostering appreciation of
English language skills and the art of poetry, , the Department of English is pleased to announce a
competition for the annual Alfred Poynt Award in Poetry. This award is made in accordance with
the wishes and through the generosity of Alfred R. Poynt of London, Ontario, and will be pre-
sented in May of each year. The competition is open to students registered full time in any under-
graduate program at the University of Western Ontario. The winning entry will receive a prize of
$250.00.

Poetry Contest Rules

1. Participants must be registered in any undergraduate (baccalaureate) program at the University
of Western Ontario.
2. Poems must be in English and may use any style of poetry. Poems will be judged for their
originality, and for their use of form and technique, traditional or contemporary, in a
skilful and creative way to create or intensify themes or effects.
3. Total entry not to exceed 4 pages. Maximum 150 lines. Entries might be one longer poem, or
several shorter poems.
4. Entries must be original, titled, and previously unpublished.
5. Poems must be typed on 8.5 x 11 paper in 12 point type.
6. Entries cannot be returned. Entrants retain their copyright.
7. Poems must be submitted and postmarked no later than March 20.
8. Submission: On a cover page marked Poynt Competition, please include your name,
permanent mailing address, telephone number, email address and titles of poem(s). Do not
include your name on the poem page. No staples. Poems will be numbered and coded before
the judging by a contest organizer who is not a judge.
9. The winner will be named no later than May. All contestants will be notified by mail.

Please submit entries to
                           Poynt Competition
                           Department of English
                           University College 173
                           University of Western Ontario

Adjudication will be done by a volunteer panel selected by the competition organizer and will
include at least one published writer from London and/or the University community. The decision
of the judges will be final. Past adjudication panels have included John Tyndall, Cornelia
Hoogland, Frank Davey, Gerry Shikatani, Emma Donaghue, Susan Downe, Monika Lee, Penn
Kemp, and Don Gutteridge.

Past Winners:
2007 First prize: Kevin Shaw           Honourable Mention Laura Krahn
2008 First prize Amy Sanders           Honourable Mention Brooke Nolan.
2009 First Prize Saiyid Hasan          Honourable Mention Malory Smith