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You can read a profile at Web del Sol both here and here.

Full Effect is a new, web-centered magazine that’s a bit hard to pin down. It is part multimedia, part flash-based animation mixed with blogs and feature essays. They seem to want to create a big wind and are looking for staff and contributors.

This Friday’s first annual Potter College Undergraduate Research Conference will feature an impressive number of panel presentations by folks tied to our WKU English community. Have heard that the conference bulletin will appear shortly, but here’s what I have so far:
Opening reception on the lawn of FAC from 11:30-12:20, featuring free food and a steel drum band. From 12:40 to 1:40 a panel called “Film Theory and Criticism” will feature Brooke Shafar, Whitney Saffel, Emmett Barton, and John Owen; and Bethany Pastoral will appear on a concurrent panel called “American Political Culture.” From 1:45-2:45, Amanda Schneider will be on a panel called “International Studies.” Fropm 2:50 to 3:50, Matt Bitner will be on a panel called “Performance Art and Analysis,” and Ike Wassom, Joanna Elrick, Rachael Manley, and Dustin Meyer will all appear on a concurrent panel called “Literary Criticism.” The panels will all be held somwhere in FAC.

I just returned from Ogden, Utah the other day, evacuating at the end of the National Undergraduate Literature Conference along with everyone else. There was quite a turnout of undergrads, many different papers. For those whose creative demons demand poetry and fiction, I recommend submitting work to next year’s conference (http://departments.weber.edu/ce/conferences/nulc/default.asp), as the conference seemed very much directed towards creative writing rather than scholarly discourse. Only three students from Western got into the conference: me, Tina Barnt, and Jesse Cantrall; only Tina and I were able to attend. I don’t know, however, how many of us submitted, but I imagine that the three of us were all. Everyone should submit as much work as possible, for the conference was a wonderful experience, a pause in the general maelstrom of deadlines and late papers to talk to students and faculty from other universities around the country. I was able to establish correspondences with graduate students in a creative writing program at Wichita State, professors at two universities in Texas, as well a numerous fellow undergraduates from universities and colleges from all over. The Conference offered numerous readings and discussions by authors Alice Sebold, Glen David Gold, Terry Gifford, and Bret Anthony Johnston. The latter two delivered excellent advice to writers, both creative and critical alike. I hope for Western to be represented again next year, so get writing!

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