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Paul Lake Professor Lake Receives Richard Wilbur Award

Professor Paul Lake, the senior member of Tech's creative writing faculty has received the 2013 Richard Wilbur Award for his collection of poems The Republic of Virtue which will be published in the fall of 2013 by the University of Evansville Press. This will be Professor Lake's third book-length collection of poetry to be published.

Dr. Hoffman Receives Arkansas Arts Council Award

Emily_Hoffman Dr. Emily Hoffman, the newest member of our creative writing faculty, is a recipient of an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Award in the category of novels for 2013. Dr. Hoffman will be presented the award at a luncheon during ArtLinks, the Arkansas Arts Council's annual conference in Hot Springs on October 17, 2012.

Tech's Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Earns National Award

Arkansas Tech University’s chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society has been named an “Honor Chapter” for its outstanding activities in 2011-12. This is the first time that Arkansas Tech has received this award. Professor Alejandra K. Carballo, Arkansas Tech’s chapter adviser, was instrumental in earning this national honor that was awarded to only 14 of 385 national chapters in 2012.

Check Out Tech's new Online Writing Lab

Revised M.A. in TESOL

On November 14, 2011, The Graduate Council approved significant revisions to our M.A. in TESOL. Read more about the new more flexible requirements by clicking here.

Dr. Donna White Receives Award

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100, edited by Dr. Donna White and Jackie Horne, was named the 2010 Outstanding Ecdited Book of Literary Criticism in Children's Literature by the Children's Literature Association.

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Tech Creative Writers Publish

Nick Morris (B.F.A.2005), former Nebo Editor and Arkatech columnist, completed an M.F.A. at Naropa University and now his first book, Tapeworm, is being published by Monkey Puzzle Press. Nick visited Tech on Friday, November 19, 2010 to give a public reading from his new book. You can view the video of that reading by clicking here..

Dave Buhajla (B.F.A. '07, M.A. '08), an adjunct instructor at Tech, has published many stories and poems in the past two years. Read Dave's work by clicking here.

Other English Department News
	Stanley Lombardo Reads at Tech. On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, Dr. Stanley Lombardo, Professor of English at Tech, read from his new novel Paxton at Bosworth Field (2012) to an overflow crowd in Witherspoon Hall. View video of Dr. Lombardo's reading by clicking here. Dr. Lombardo has taught screenwriting, technical writing, British literature, film studies, science fiction, applied linguistics, and TESOL at Tech since 1977.
Laura Moriarty Reads at Tech. On Monday, April 9, 2012, Laura Moriarty, author of The Center of Everything (2003), The Rest of Her Life (2007), While I'm Falling (2009), and The Chaperone (2012), visited with creative writing students in a fiction workshop class and read from her most recent novel, The Chaperone. View video of the event by clicking here. Ms. Moriarty was the recipient of the George Bennet Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in 2000. She currently teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at the University of Kansas.
	Robin Becker Reads at Tech: On Thursday, November 10, 2011, Robin Becker, author of Brains: A Zombie Memoir conducted a Fiction Writing Workshop and read from her novel. View pictures and video from the event by clicking here.
Ms. Becker is waiting for the Zombie Apocalypse. In the meantime, she enjoys baking bread, fishing, and teaching writing at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the recipient of an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in short fiction for her story about her town's annual Stuck on a Truck contest. Brains: A Zombie Memoir. published in May 2010 by Harper Collins is the first literary zombie novel in the universe, It is also Robin's debut novel. She is hard at work on another book. There are no zombies in it. The Fiction Writing Workshop will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Witherspoon 127. The reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Witherspoon 126. Admission is free and the public, living or dead, are welcomed.