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English Department
News & Upcoming Events
Jimmy Santiago Baca Poetry Workshop
9/8/2008
“I practice being myself, and I have found parts of myself never dreamed of by me”
Please join the Center for Interpersonal Studies Through Film & Literature and the OCU English Department as we welcome back award winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca for a unique writing workshop. OCU Students, Faculty and Staff are welcome.
September 8, 2008 from 3:00-5:00 in Walker Center 151.
There is no cost for this event.
Center for Interpersonal Studies
Through Film & Literature
405-208-5472 hwinn@okcu.edu
OCU English Department
405-208-5127 dshaw@okcu.edu
English Professor Recognized for her Poetry
5/22/2008
An OCU professor was named as a Woody Guthrie Poet for 2008.
Dr. Abigail Keegan, who is an English professor submitted her work and was granted the honor.
The poets were organized three years ago by New York poet George Wallace and Oklahoma poet Carol Hamilton to help celebrate native son Woody Guthrie, whose music honored working men and women and drew attention to social injustices.
Poets from around the world submit their work to George Wallace who serves as the judge each year and the group of 20 writers selected reads their poems at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah.
Members of the group residing in Oklahoma are sponsored by state and regional arts councils to read their poetry around the state.
"I look forward to meeting poetry lovers around the state and representing the artistic endeavors of the OCU community," Keegan said.
Khoddam Co-Edits ‘Truths Breathed Through Silver’
4/15/2008
Oklahoma City University Professor Salwa Khoddam is the assistant editor of a new book that compiles a variety of papers on the works of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings scholars. Khoddam also contributed an article to the book entitled “From Ruined City to Edenic Garden in C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew.” The book, entitled “Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy” contains articles selected from papers read at the annual conference of the C.S. Lewis Society over a 10-year period.
Dr. Khoddam helped found that society. For more information, visit www.okcu.edu/english/cslis/home.html.
Annual Creative Writing Festival
1/29/2008
The English Department of Oklahoma City University Invites You to the
Third Annual Creative Writing Festival
 In Conjunction with the Ninth Annual Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poetry Series. With Special Guest Joy Harjo (more info)
April 11 - 14, 2007
Four Days of Workshops, Panels, Readings, and Conversations
Thanks to the Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Literature, all Wednesday events are free and open to the public.
Registration is required for workshops and panels held Thursday through Saturday. Register by calling (405) 208-5127, or via email by sending information to creativewriting@okcu.edu.
Registration for Full Festival (all events, all days) = $40
Registration for one day only = $25 Please let us know which day will you be attending (Thursday, Friday or Saturday). No charge for OCU students and faculty, but please register. OCU students and faculty can register at creativewriting@okcu.edu
Sigma Tau Delta Wins Big at Conferences
11/28/2007
2006 Individual Awards: Donna Gregory and Kassy Nicholson, Isabel Sparks, President's Writing Awards for screenplays; Aharen Richardson and Edwin Stockton, Jr., Outstanding Individual Website, Elva Bell McLin Senior Scholarship, and Best Convention Theme Essay.
2005 Chapter Awards: Outstanding Chapter and Outstanding Website Awards. Individual Awards: Avery Thompson, Junior Scholarship; Donna Gregory, Senior Scholarship; Jennifer Luckenbill, Study-Abroad Scholarship; Dr. Terry Phelps, Outstanding Regional Sponsor.
Virginia Goff Award for Outstanding Senior in English
11/27/2007
Congratulations to our recent winners of the Virginia Goff Award for Outstanding Senior in English - Carole Smith & Keating Donahoe (2007), Jennifer Luckenbill (2006).
Get Published in the Scarab
9/21/2007
All OCU students are invited to submit short fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art to The Scarab, OCU’s annual literary/art magazine. Submit it online to ocuscarab@yahoo.com or by placing an electronic copy in the Scarab basket in the LEC, Walker Center 235.
Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008.
Professor Salwa Khoddam presented a paper at the C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society
9/21/2007
 In March of 2007, Professor Salwa Khoddam presented a paper at the C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society (CSLIS). The title of the paper is “ From Ruined City to Edenic Garden in C.S. Lewis’s The Magicians Nephew.” The conference was held at John Brown University, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Professor Khoddam’s paper will be published in an anthology of selected papers of the conference by Cambridge Scholars Press in the United Kingdom in 2007 or early 2008.
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