Category: Literature

Literary studies student Sally Stewart has been selected to receive a University of Texas at Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. The award carries with it a $500 stipend for Stewart and an additional $300 in research support funds for her faculty advisor, Dr. Theresa Towner. Says Towner, “Sally won the research award to support her honors […]

UT Dallas dominated the recent Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) Student Competition, winning a total of four awards. In the Graduate Fiction category, Douglas Frank took first place with his short story, “The Last Summer of Fireflies.” For Undergraduate Fiction, first place was awarded to Paige Cunningham for her story, “Pens & Needles,” […]

The Richardson Reads One Book program has asked Jessica Murphy, assistant professor of literature at The University of Texas at Dallas, to interview the author of the 2010 selection, The Art of Racing in the Rain. Murphy will have a conversation with Garth Stein during a private luncheon at the Richardson Women’s Club on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Stein’s […]

Please join us for our Members Salon! 6961 Lakewood Blvd. Dallas, TX 75214 www.wordspacetexas.org Thursday, Sept. 16, 8pm to 9:30pm featuring Cindy St. John and Venus Opal Reese Cindy St. John is the author of City Poems (Effing Press 2009) and People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently (Dancing Girl Press 2009). Her poems have appeared […]

Two members of the Arts and Humanities faculty at UT Dallas will take part in the Late Nights program at the Dallas Museum of Art this Friday, Aug. 20. Frank Dufour will give a brief presentation about his favorite work of art at 9:00 pm, and Susan Briante will give a poetry reading at 9:30 pm […]