Webinars & Events: 2024-2025
Submit to the 2025 Convention: Strategies and Tips
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 6:00 p.m. CT
Are you interested in presenting your critical essay or creative work?
Do you want to engage with hundreds of other students and faculty at the Sigma Tau Delta Centennial Convention, March 19 - 22 in Pittsburgh, PA?
This webinar will guide you through types of submissions and on how to successfully prepare and submit a paper for convention. The convention submission period will be open September 30 through October 30, 11:00 p.m. CT.
All active Sigma Tau Delta student members, Sigma Kappa Delta student members, and alumni members have the opportunity to submit critical and creative papers. Students may also submit Research in the Round proposals, and everyone, including faculty may submit a roundable.
Presented by:
Leigh Dillard, Shannin Schroeder, and Kevin Stemmler, 2025 Convention Chairs
Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award Winner and Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 6:00 p.m. CT
Jesmyn Ward has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award.
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
An Evening with Grace Paley Prize Winner E. P. Tuazon
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. CT
E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. They have work included in several publications such as The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Peatsmoke, and Five South. His work was chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are currently a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club at The Open Book, Canyon Country. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino seafood markets to gossip with the crabs.
We anticipate that this event will fill up quickly! Registration is now open and will remain so until September 9 or capacity is met, whichever comes first. Not only will Sigma Tau Delta student members and Chapter Advisors be able to hear Tuazon talk at this unique event, but there will also be a chance to ask your questions about A Professional Lola, the author's creative process, and their other works.
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
Tara Ann Carter, NEHS Advisory Council
