Undergraduate Literary and Creative Writing Conference

Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (50 minutes north
of Harrisburg) invites undergraduate scholars and writers to participate
in its third annual Undergraduate Literature and Creative Writing Conference,
February 19, 2007. The conference is free of charge.

The keynote speaker this year is Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family
Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The poet John
Hoppenthaler, will conclude the conference with an evening reading.

Undergraduate scholars conducting research on any literary topic, and
creative writers working in any genre, are welcome to present their
work. Scholarship can take any number of forms: studies of individual authors
or groups of authors, individual works or groups of works, literary
history, literary form, the relationship between culture, politics, and
literature, or the production, circulation and reception of literature. All types
of literature and all methods of study, interdisciplinary approaches
included, are welcome. Creative writing can also take any number of forms,
including poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, and literary journalism.

To be considered for the conference, undergraduates should submit
either a 300-word abstract of a scholarly paper or a work of creative writing
appropriate for a 15-minute presentation. The deadline for submissions
is November 30, 2006.

Please email submissions as an MS Word attachment to englishdept@susqu.edu.Please include complete contact information and college or university affiliation. In the subject line of the email, please indicate:
Conference:
[Title of Paper].

For more information email englishdept@susqu.edu or call 570-372-4196.