UMass Amherst English Graduate Conference 2007

Guidelines for Creative Submissions

This is your chance to participate in the Annual Graduate Student Conference by sending an abstract to the committee! As always, our Call welcomes any creative endeavor you are currently working on: poetry, short fiction or excerpts from a novel are welcome. This is a wonderful and fresh opportunity to connect with the English Department graduate community at large to showcase your work, see what others are doing, and gain professional experience. We hope the conference will continue to stimulate conversation between specialties and disciplines and enrich our experience here at the university. We plan to hold at least one Creative Forum, depending on the number of submissions, for writers in the MFA program. Below are the guidelines for submission to the panels on creative work. As always, you are also welcome to submit abstracts to the academic panels as well, as outlined in the General Call For Papers.

1. You may submit an individual creative reading (poetry, short stories, an excerpt from a novel) for our Creative Forum(s). An academic abstract is not necessary here, but rather a brief summary of the work to be read with a brief excerpt from the work or works proposed for a reading of no more than 20 minutes.
2. You may submit a complete or partial Forum (a complete Forum is 3-4 readers) all of whom wish to have their readings presented together. Please submit summaries and excerpts for each reader as well as a brief summary of the authors and works to be brought together. You may title the session, if you wish. You may bring along an Emcee, or ask us to provide one for the session. Please indicate which in your proposal.
3. If you have any material accomplishments (such as chapbooks, books, publications in a journal or magazine, or if you run a local press), send us an email; we may be able to organize a small display of published work if people are interested.