UPK, UK Authors Highlight Kentucky Book Festival Schedule
By Danielle Donham
2020 Book Prize
The editors of Early American Literature are pleased to announce the sixth annual Early American Literature Book Prize, which will be given for an author’s first academic monograph about American literature through the early national period (roughly 1830). EAL invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.
Early American Literature Book Prize for 2019
Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College, has been selected to receive the 2019 Early American Literature Book Prize, which is awarded in even calendar years to a first monograph published in the prior two years, and in odd years to a second or subsequent book. Brooks’s Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War was published by Yale University Press in 2018.
Kentucky Book Fair
Join our Creative Writing Faculty for a week of Kentucky Book Fair events:
Literary Luncheon
Tuesday, November 12 • Noon
ArtsPlace • Lexington
Enjoy a tasty Kentucky-themed lunch with Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall.
This ticketed luncheon will entail much laughter and fun conversation from these literary giants. They’ll read from their works, share
about recent projects, and take questions from the audience. Poet and novelist Crystal Wilkinson, Associate Professor of English at the
University of Kentucky, will act as moderator. Tickets are $40 and available at kyhumanities.org
Saturday, November 16, Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park • Lexington
10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
New Appalachian Woman, featuring author Rebecca Gayle
Howell in conversation with Jayne Moore Waldrop,
Jessica Wilkerson, Savannah Sipple, and Crystal Wilkinson.
2:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Adrian Matejka, author of Map to the Stars in conversation with
Frank X Walker, author of Last Will, Last Testament.
You can find the entire Kentucky Book Fair schedule here: https://www.kyhumanities.org/assets/files/Page-Editor-Files/2019BookFestivalcatalog_smaller.pdf
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EGSO Symposium: Noise & Silence: Everyday Politics of Erasure
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Alumni Gallery, WTY Library
Recent UK English Ph.D. Student Wins Essay Competition
By Madison Dyment
The UK College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that former English Ph.D. student, Deirdre Mikolajcik, has won the 2019 Trollope Prize graduate essay competition hosted by the University of Kansas.
Mikolajcik recently graduated from the English Ph.D. program in May of 2019. Some of her prominent research interests include Victorian literature, gender and women’s studies, romanticism and poetry.
English Professor and Author Hannah Pittard Featured as Local Luminary
Hannah Pittard, nationally acclaimed author and director of the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of English, was recently highlighted as a local luminary in the Chevy Chaser and Southsider. Read her Q&A here.
Arai Takako Reading of Recent Poetry
Arai Takako is the author of previous poetry collections, including Tamashii dansu [Soul Dance] which won the 2008 Oguma Hideo Prize. Since 1998, she has been an editor for the poetry journal Mi’Te; she has also edited a volume of poems about, and is producing a film connected to, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan. Arai teaches Japanese and poetry at Saitama University. She is currently participating in the 2019 University of Iowa International Writing Program.
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Niles Gallery