We are moving (together)! If you haven't heard, the Department of Literature and the Department of Writing and Linguistics are joining forces as the Department of English! Please follow our new accounts @gasouthernenglish @gasouthernengl

Fledge is Georgia Southern's Journal of Outstanding First-Year Writing. It highlights the way our first-year writing classes equip our students. We have a variety of categories, including rhetorical analysis, literary analysis, memoir, research essays, poetry etc. #w&l #english

Please join us for the Department of Literature's Senior Seminar as students present their research projects. The first panel will be held on Tuesday, November 29, at 3:30 pm (Newton 1111), and the final panel will be held on Thursday, December 8, at 3:30 pm (Newton 1111)#gs #eng

Professor of Writing and Linguistics and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Dr. Lisa Costello invites you to celebrate our LBGTQ+ graduates at Lavender Graduation on both the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses. Well done, grads! #gsu #w&l #english

On Monday, December 5, from 3- 5 PM EST in Ogeechee Theater on the Armstrong Campus, the Department of Literature (with whom W&L is joining) presents a senior seminar showcase—Different Worlds: Understanding Octavia E. Butler. Please come out to support our students! #english#gsu

The Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD) provides scholarships for career-related internships. The OCPD has awards of up to $3,000 to offset the cost of professional internships with no or little financial compensation. Find out more by visiting their website

Congrats to the winners of Georgia Southern's Scary Story Contest! Please congratulate our winners Nina Petiot (for "Babysitting Gone Wrong"—tied for first place), Elsie Lappin (for "I Love You"—tied for first place), and Anonymous (for "The Scary People"—tied first runner up).

Want to learn more about getting work experience and utilizing your communication skills as a W & L major? Interested in the process of applying for and securing an internship? Join Professor Mroczek next Monday to learn more!

Georgia Poetry Circuit is bringing Ashley M. Jones to Statesboro campus this Thursday at 6:30 PM (with a book signing to follow). The first Black poet laureate of the state of Alabama, Jones' poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, and The Oxford American.

It is W&L's great honor to announce that Professor Michael Pemberton has been awarded the 2023 International Writing Centers Association Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award. Michael is a true exemplar of writing center theory and practice. Congratulations, Dr. Pemberton!

Writing & Linguistics is working with the College of Education counseling program to destigmatize mental illness and suicide in the military. Come check out a special Burning Swamp this Friday when students can read their own work or something related to the theme. See you soon!

Last week, Professor Christina Olson had her fabulous poem, "What I Learned from the Gympie Gympie Plant," selected as The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week. Congrats, Professor Olson! Link here: ow.ly/zuTu50LoG1W