Grad School is Not Out for Summer!
Shannon Webb-Campbell is one of many English graduate students with a busy summer schedule. Shannon is an award-winning Mi’kmaq poet, writer, and journalist. (Breakwater, 2015), recipient of Egale Canada’s Out In Print Award, is her first collection of poems. She was Canadian Women In Literary Arts critic-in-residence 2014, and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia, a BA from Dalhousie University, and currently studies English Literature at ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University. This summer she is reading at PetaPan First Light Symposium in Moncton, New Brunswick (June 16-19), at Winterset in Summer in Eastport (August 12-14), and Atwater Poetry Reading Series in Montreal sometime this fall. Since October 2015, she's been part of the inaugural Playwrights Unit at the Arts and Culture Centre, where award-winning writer and playwright Meg Coles is ACC artist-in-residence, has shown her the theatrical ropes.
Collin Campbell and Mandy Rowsell are two PhD students who are, once again, presenting papers at Congress with . Collin's paper is "Asian Identity and the Faces of TISH: Reading Frank Davey’s and Fred Wah’s Critical Histories as Biotext" and Mandy's is "'His Author, His Father': New Models of Newfoundland Patrilineality in Paul Bowdring’s The Strangers’ Gallery." Like last year, Collin and Mandy will do ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ proud with their conference action.
Kate Lahey (MA) is involved in a supremely cool summer project:
This wouldn't be a proper news story if we didn't offer a shout out to two MA alumni: Laura Barron (MA, 2015) and Dane Gill (MA 2008) for their big wins in the . Laura was awarded the Senior Non-Fictional Prose category for "Riding With the Red Baron" and Dane won in the Senior Short Fiction category for "The Astronaut's Dog." Congratulations to all!