Grad School is Not Out for Summer!
Shannon Webb-Campbell is one of many English graduate students with a busy summer schedule. Shannon is an award-winning Mi’kmaq poet, writer, and journalist. Still No Word (Breakwater, 2015), recipient of Egale Canada’s Out In Print Award, is her first collection of poems. She was Canadian Women In Literary Arts critic-in-residence 2014, and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia, a BA from Dalhousie University, and currently studies English Literature at Memorial University. This summer she is reading at PetaPan First Light Symposium in Moncton, New Brunswick (June 16-19), at Winterset in Summer in Eastport (August 12-14), and Atwater Poetry Reading Series in Montreal sometime this fall. Since October 2015, she's been part of the inaugural Playwrights Unit at the Arts and Culture Centre, where award-winning writer and playwright Meg Coles is ACC artist-in-residence, has shown her the theatrical ropes.
Collin Campbell and Mandy Rowsell are two PhD students who are, once again, presenting papers at Congress with ACCUTE. Collin's paper is "Asian Identity and the Faces of TISH: Reading Frank Davey’s and Fred Wah’s Critical Histories as Biotext" and Mandy's is "'His Author, His Father': New Models of Newfoundland Patrilineality in Paul Bowdring’s The Strangers’ Gallery." Like last year, Collin and Mandy will do Memorial proud with their conference action.
Kate Lahey (MA) is involved in a supremely cool summer project: St. John's Women in Music.
This wouldn't be a proper news story if we didn't offer a shout out to two MA alumni: Laura Barron (MA, 2015) and Dane Gill (MA 2008) for their big wins in the 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition. Laura was awarded the Senior Non-Fictional Prose category for "Riding With the Red Baron" and Dane won in the Senior Short Fiction category for "The Astronaut's Dog." Congratulations to all!