Join us this fall for a series of engaging webinars. On October 1, the Convention Chairs presented strategies and tips for successful submissions to the 2025 Convention. Learn about the types of submissions available to student, alumni, and faculty members and how to ensure you put forth your best work in the on-demand video or on the webinar recap page on the convention website. Sigma Tau Delta is also teaming up with NEHS to offer interview-style webinars with featured authors Jesmyn Ward and Aneesa Marufu. Submit questions for these authors when you register and they may be asked during the webinar!
Submit to the 2025 Convention: Strategies and Tips
Are you interested in presenting your critical essay or creative work?
Do you want to engage with hundreds of other students and faculty at the Sigma Tau Delta Centennial Convention, March 19 – 22 in Pittsburgh, PA?
This webinar will guide you through types of submissions and on how to successfully prepare and submit a paper for convention. The convention submission period will be open September 30 through October 30, 11:00 p.m. CT.
All active Sigma Tau Delta student members, Sigma Kappa Delta student members, and alumni members have the opportunity to submit critical and creative papers. Students may also submit Research in the Round proposals, and everyone, including faculty may submit a roundable.
Presented by:
Leigh Dillard, Shannin Schroeder, and Kevin Stemmler, 2025 Convention Chairs
Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award Winner and Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 6:00 p.m. CT
Jesmyn Ward has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award.
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
Webinar with Kickstart Prize for Underepresented Writers Winner Aneesa Marufu
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. CT
Aneesa Marufu lives in Manchester, UK, and was the winner of the Kimberley Chambers Kickstart Prize for underrepresented writers in 2019. The Balloon Thief and An Emerald Sky are part of a fantasy duology inspired by her South Asian heritage and her obsession with hot air balloons, though she is yet to fly in one! When she isn’t dreaming up stories set in the clouds, she has both feet on the ground, running after her two children or hunting for her next fantasy book to escape into.
Presented by:
Chris Lockwood, NEHS Director
Elizabeth McLaughlin, ELA Honor Society Advisory Council
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