English

In November 2010, Johanna Skibsrud’s novel The Sentimentalists was announced as the winner of the Giller Prize, which promptly embroiled the work, its author, and its publishers in a clash between different modes of book publishing.

“The novel’s publication as a limited-run book from a small press, then as an e-book, then as a mass-market paperback sparked public interest in the kinds of questions usually asked by bibliographers,” says Alan Galey.

The English Undergraduate Student Association and Generation magazine are looking for submissions for their upcoming zine, Salt.

Think of blood, sweat, tears, oceans, salt mines and table shakers; anything your mind can create!

The editors will accept up to five pages double-spaced of prose, poetry or artwork on the theme and especially encourage submissions from new Canadian writers of all ages and backgrounds.

A pair of University of Windsor professors will lead discussion of Jane Austen’s Emma during a combined lunch and lecture preceding the University Players performance on Sunday, February 5.

Let’s Talk Theatre is a luncheon-lecture series produced jointly by University Players and Uni-Com. Attendees will enjoy a three-course meal featuring either beef stroganoff or a vegetarian platter, as well as presentations by English professor Suzanne Matheson and drama professor Erica Stevens Abbitt.

UWindsor students have the upper hand among Canadian universities when it comes to the publishing process, thanks to a creative writing professor who involves them in his publishing company.

Black Moss Press founder Marty Gervais presents two manuscripts each year to the students in his editing practicum course. They have to go through the complete editing process, giving them a real feel for what the industry is like.

Gervais said it is the only course in Canada that allows students to work with real manuscripts they marshal through the entire publishing process.