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ICYMI: Congratulations to our various department award winners! 👏👏👏👏👏

Outstanding Critical and Creative Work Awards ✍️💻🖼️
Creative or Digital Project: Raine
Poetry: Sam Yaziji
Fiction: Ben Bird
Graduate essay: Coco Rosales
Undergraduate essay: Ashley Sims

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ICYMI: Congratulations to our various department award winners! 👏👏👏👏👏

Outstanding Graduating Senior: Amber Worden
Most Influential Faculty: Professor Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Outstanding Graduating MA Student: Coco Rosales
Outstanding Graduating MFA Student: Sam Yaziji

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Congrats to Prof Lashon Daley & TFF Prof Dani Bedau for their successful class collaboration "Adapting Girlhood: Taking 'Merci Suarez' from the Page to the Stage." The dramatic reading was performed in the DH Center & included a talkback feat. the student actors, dramaturgs, etc.

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Congratulations to Professor Tishna Asim and the Honors Students who presented their pieces last week! The range of work was a real testament to the dynamic offerings available in our classes.

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Congrats to Jessica Pressman, Lashon Daley, & the ECL students who participated in the Digital Humanities showcase last Friday.

Congrats to Em Teaze, MFA student, who won this year’s e-lit competition & to Luca DaVersa, undergrad ECL student, who received an honorable mention!

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Congratulations to Sara Canelon (left), Joseph Galvan (center), and Coco Rosales (right) for completing their Advanced Certificate in Children’s/Adolescent Literature!

For more info about our children's literature program, visit https://t.co/4iRO1cKxAv.

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Celebrate the 2026 MFA Poetry Graduates at a special reading on Friday, May 15, 7:00–9:30 p.m. in Scripps Cottage. We encourage all MFA students to attend and support your classmates on this accomplishment!

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Celebrate the 2026 MFA Fiction Graduates at a special reading on Friday, May 8, 7:00–9:30 p.m. in Scripps Cottage. We encourage all MFA students to attend and support your classmates on this accomplishment!

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Mark your calendars! The next Living Writers Series, featuring Blas Falconer, will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29 in LL-430! Blas Falconer will share poems from his newest book, "Rara Avis."

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The SDSU Book Celebration, held every 2 years, is to honor and elevate the achievements of SDSU scholars who have published a book within the last 2 years.

At the celebration on April 9, 2 ECL faculty were among those honored, Professor Bill Nericcio and Professor Shouhua Qi!

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ALUMNI SHOUT OUT!

Daisy Scott, recent MA grad, had work published in The Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (50.2).!

Mariam Ahmed will be a featured reader at the Sacramento Poetry Center’s “celebrating poetry month in the community” event on Saturday, 18 April!

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Need help with a writing project? The Dept. of English and Comparative Literature offers free tutoring sessions with our Writing Fellow, Vide Sale-Reed.

Hours:
Wednesdays: 12 - 3 PM
Thursdays: 10 AM - 12 PM
ECL Writing Center, AL 232

Email [email protected] for questions.

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Digital Humanities Showcase - Friday, May 8, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.

SDSU students, faculty, staff, and recent alumni are invited to submit projects by 4/30/26.
https://t.co/YWrdwj3EiW

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Workshop today (4/8/26)!

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Upcoming E-Lit Workshops:

March 23 - Intro to Electronic Literature for Creatives
April 8 - Intro to Twine for Creative Writers
April 16 - E-Lit Playdate

These will take place in the Digital Humanities Center (LA-61).

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Join us at 7 p.m. on April 15 in Love Library Room 430 for the next Living Writers event where Piotr Florczyk will share selections of his most recent poetry and work in translation. Florczyk’s writing has been celebrated as “…ruminative, bold, personal, vision-changing.”

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Call for submissions for the Electronic Literature Competition!

Submit your work to Prof. Jessica Pressman ([email protected]) by April 25 w/the following: name, email, program (grad/undergrad), title & short description of your work, & info on how to access your work.

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Amaranth Borsuk reads from her new work, W/\SH , at a Living Writers event on Wednesday 18 March!

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Each year, the ECL dept recognizes writers of the best essays & creative works. There are 5 categories w/a $250 prize each. Submit papers to [email protected]. Include details of the class for which you wrote the essay & the category. Only submit to 1 category. DEADLINE: 3/31/26

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ECL’s Graduate Student Conference, Networked Narratives, has begun! Stop by the DH Center between 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. today. Keynote address by MALAS graduate and Stanford PhD scholar Kennii Ekundayo at 12.30 p.m.!

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Call for submissions for the Electronic Literature Competition!

Submit your work to Prof. Jessica Pressman ([email protected]) by April 25 w/the following: name, email, program (grad/undergrad), title & short description of your work, & info on how to access your work.