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of Contents Volume
2 Requiem Arriving
at My Delfina Dream 8/6/99 Elephant
Chaser Throwing
Stones What's
in a name? Long
Running Something
Farther Away Naming
of Parts
Stealing
James Baldwin for The Price of [my] Ticket
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Submission Information Thoreau's Rooster is a national web review for undergraduate writers of creative nonfiction. The review is edited by students at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, about 40 miles from Thoreau's old haunts at Walden's Pond. Selections for the publication are made by a team of student editors, plus the advisor (nature writing teacher Mike Land) and English professor Jim Lang (founder of Assumption's creative nonfiction writing class.) The first two years the Editor's Prize contest was judged by essayist David Gessner, author of three books of creative nonfiction. The 2004 contest was judged by fiction writer Trudy Lewis. The prize includes a $100 check. The review reflects the commitment of Assumption College and the English Department to promoting the growth of the student in every dimension: Creative nonfiction challenges writers to connect their lives to a broader history of experiences and ideas, and to make those connections in a way that intrigues an audience of strangers. The genre thus helps the writers meet an essential goal of higher education: The evolution of student as meaning-makers. As undergraduates aren't the publication-mongers the rest of us can be
in academics, we encourage teachers to remind students repeatedly of this
opportunity, and even award credit to those who submit to the review.
Otherwise, we find that many students lack the confidence to submit work.
We will be happy to provide teachers with confirmation that the student
has submitted work, and we'll be glad to collaborate with writing teachers
in other ways as well. |
mland@assumption.edu
Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2005 |