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Hosted by: MSVU English Department and the MSVU English Society
When: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 from 5-8 pm
Where: Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street, the Mousetrap
To present: The Symposium is an event to showcase the creative writing of Mount students. Anyone from any program at any level is welcome to share their work. It can be something you wrote for a creative writing class or your own personal work. All we ask is that you keep your presentation under 10 minutes so that we have time to accommodate everyone. If you would like to present, please email hayley.bone@msvu.ca with your name and the title of your piece by Sunday, March 26th.
To bring: Admission is $10 cash at the door and includes a drink ticket and appetizers. As the English Society takes on larger-scale events, we must also expand our sources of funding. All funds collected from Symposium admission will go toward offsetting the cost of this and future events. If the admission fee is a barrier for you, please let us know at hayley.bone@msvu.ca, or via the English Society’s Instagram account @msvu_englishsociety, and we will be happy to make accommodations.
Transportation: Good Robot is a short bus ride from MSVU on the 8. Alternatively, students might be interested in arranging carpools from MSVU to the event.
Accessibility: The Mousetrap space at Good Robot is accessible by a staircase. Gender-neutral washrooms are available.
Thank you: This event is supported by the MSVU Alumni Association. Thank you!
The deadline is Friday, April 23 to submit your writing to the 11th Annual Creative Writing contest at the Mount. Cash prizes!
Poetry submissions may be up to 25 lines and prose (fiction or creative non-fiction) up to 750 words. You can submit up to 2 entries per category, each as a pdf or Word file, to writing@msvu.ca. The deadline is April 23, before midnight (Atlantic Time).
To ensure impartial judging, don’t put your name anywhere on the attached files. Please list the title of each piece you are submitting in the body of your email.
The contest is sponsored by the Mount’s Writing Initiatives Committee and the Mount Library.
This year, our Department organized a Grade 11 and 12 English Essay Writing Competition, and now we are pleased to announce the results.
Jack Farrell, winner of the 2017 MSVU English Essay Writing Competition, with English Department Chair Dr. Reina Green (left), and Dr. Janet Friesen (right), Halifax Grammar School
First prize:
Jack Farrell, Halifax Grammar School, “Creon as a Warning of Autocracy”
Honourable Mention:
Ciara Harris, J.L. Ilsley High School, “Contrasting Literary Styles in Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm”
Ruining Zhang, Sacred Heart School of Halifax, “Sweet Potato Nostalgia”
Evelyn Cormier, Halifax West High School, “The Birth and Destruction of Honour”
Jack Farrell won an iPad Mini as the first prize, while the writers who received an honourable mention were awarded gift certificates to a local bookstore.
The Mount English Department is pleased to highlight the work of young writers, from high school through university and beyond. We look forward to seeing participating students, their parents, and teachers at a reception in the fall.
English at the Mount
Our English courses feature small classes where students have plenty of opportunities to write with feedback from their professors, while our unique Writing Minor focuses not only on creative writing, but also on rhetoric, editing, and writing in various genres.
Two chances to find an a
udience and win applause and prizes:
Submit something for the second annual Speakeasy — a reading of original student work work. Deadline March 8th.
The fifth annual Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by the Writing Initiatives Committee of the University, with prizes donated by the University Librarian. Deadline March 20th.
This is the fourth Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the Writing Initiatives Committee of Mount Saint Vincent University and the Mount Library. it is part of the fifth annual celebration of all things writing — and this year, of publishing in particular — but that’s another post.
The deadline is close at hand: procrastinators be warned.
Submissions in any genre are welcome, but they must be short, no more than 3000 words. Send your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or drama as a WORD, pdf, or rtf attachment to writing@msvu.ca
Pseudonym: To allow the judges to read “blind,” please put a pseudonym on the attachment, but be sure to tell us in the covering email what your pseudonym is. Only anonymous submissions will be entered into the competition.
Contact information: In your cover email, be sure to include the following information:
DEADLINE: All entries must be received by 5:00 pm on FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2013.
PRIZEGIVING: The winner will be announced at the Celebrating Publishing Conference on Wednesday October 16th at noon.
Did I mention the prize is $100?
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