CFP: Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Poets, Writers, and Filmmakers.
The 37th Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature will be held at Michigan State University May 10-12, 2007.
The submission deadline is December 1, 2006.
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature is devoted to the study and production of Midwestern literature in whatever directions the insight, imagination, and curiosity of its members may lead. Proposals of criticism, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, films on Midwestern literature for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and reading of creative work-and screening of films with Midwestern subject matter. Filmmakers are encouraged to propose the screening of films with Midwestern subject matter.
Please include the following information in the proposal: The title of the proposed paper or reading; your name; university or other affiliation; mailing address and e-mail address; audio-visual needs; and times during the conference that it would be impossible for you to present. If a student, please let us know if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. If you are a new
participant, please provide an abstract, or if you are proposing to read creative work, please submit a short sample of recent work.
All presenters must be members (or must become members) of the Society. The Society offers prizes of $250.00 for the best creative work and literary criticism read at the conference. Writing presented at the conference is eligible for inclusion in MidAmerica or Midwest
Misceollany. Scholarships to fund conference attendance are available to graduate and undergraduate students; there is a prize for student work.
Please submit proposals (and queries) to the program chair, Mary
Obuchowski at obuch1mc@cmich.edu, or to SSML Program Committee,
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures, Michigan State
University, E. Lansing, MI 48824.
Further information about membership, conference registration, travel
and lodging are available at www.ssml.org.
