The newest edition of Mississippi Review, a 30-year retrospective honoring former editors Frederick Barthelme and Rie Fortenberry, is now on sale through our online store.  Click here for details.

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We're proud to announce the winners of this year's creative writing awards!

• Garth Avant Award: Damian Dressick
• Ben Mounger Rawls Award: Courtney Watson
• Joan Johnson Award, Fiction: Claudia Smith
• Joan Johnson Award, Poetry: Greg Weiss

Congratulations to the following Alpha Nu Gamma members of Sigma Tau Delta who will be presenting papers at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention and Conference in New Orleans on March 1:  Hannah Ryan, Dana Woodcock, and Blakely Owens.

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The 10th edition of Dr. Philip Kolin's popular textbook Successful Writing at Work has been published by Cengage.  Read more  in the Hattiesburg American.

• Monday-Friday, March 26-30 Advising Week
• Monday, April 2 Enrollment begins by enrollment appointment. (Check your SOAR page for your window.)
• Friday, April 6  Good Friday
• Friday, May 4 Last day of spring semester classes.
• Friday, May 11 Commencement
• Monday, May 14 Final grades due.

The Department of English at the University of Southern Mississippi invites members of the Southern Miss and Hattiesburg communities to a discussion panel on Suzanne Collins’s bestselling dystopian series, The Hunger Games, on Thursday, April 19, from 5:30pm to 7pm, in LAB 203.  The panel, composed of students and faculty from the English department, will take questions from the audience following a brief presentation.

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Sunday, April 22, Dr. Charles Sumner will give a free pre-performance talk on The Grapes of Wrath at 1:00 pm in the Martha Tatum Theater.  The talk will be followed by a matinee performance of the play at 2:00 pm.  Click here to purchase tickets for the play.

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Wednesday, April 25, the English Graduate Organization will sponsor a talk entitled "Monster Parents, Normal Kids?" on Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and The Graveyard Book.  The talk is by international children's literature scholar Dr. Marek Oziewicz from Idaho State University, and will be helf at 7:00 p.m. in LAB 203.

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The Friends of the University Libraries and the English department are hosting Susan Haltom, co-author of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place on Thursday, April 26, at 4pm.  The presentation will be held in the art gallery on the first floor of Cook Library, next to Starbucks.