The Department of English and Foreign Languages of Southern Arkansas University hosted the annual Creative Writing Festival on Saturday, April 7, and several local students took home awards. The Festival, which is held every spring, has grown from 345 entries in 1995 to more than 1,100 entries. Students from schools across south Arkansas submit poems, [...]
Jermaine McDonald will present spring Mallory Lecture
March 2, 2012 By
Dr. Jermaine M. McDonald, a Ph.D. candidate from Emory University, will present the spring 2012 Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, in Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. McDonald was formerly the associate minister of Christian education at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, [...]
Plans underway for Creative Writing Festival
January 19, 2012 By
The Department of English and Foreign Languages at Southern Arkansas University will host the annual Creative Writing Festival (formally the Youth Writing Festival) on Saturday, April 7. Deadline for entries is March 2, 2012. The festival, which is held every spring, has grown from 345 entries in 1995 to 1,153 entries last year. Students from [...]
Mallory Lecture will focus on jazz
October 12, 2011 By
MAGNOLIA – Michael Borshuk will present “How to Look at Jazz and Why it Matters” in an upcoming installment of the Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series. The presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, in the Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at Southern Arkansas University. Borshuk [...]
Homecoming book signing will feature alumni author
October 12, 2011 By
MAGNOLIA – Jenny Wingfield, a 1969 graduate of Southern Arkansas University (then Southern State College), will sign copies of her debut novel during the University’s homecoming festivities this weekend. Wingfield will present a workshop titled “So you want to be a writer? Writing screenplays and novels and how to get them published” at 7 p.m. [...]
