We want to congratulate Regina Sirois on winning the 2012 Young Adult Fiction Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, Sirois, a past Creative Writing minor from our department, was getting national recognition through the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) competition. Her book, On Little Wings, was one of three finalists selected out of … [Read more...] about UPDATE: Missouri State English alumni is in national spotlight
Author Regina Sirois, a past Creative Writing minor from our department, is excited about publishing her book and wants to share the glory with her alma mater (and she needs our votes!). Sirois is getting national recognition through the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) competition. Her book, On Little Wings, is one of three finalists selected out of the original 5,000 … [Read more...] about Missouri State English alumni is in national spotlight
May, 2, 2012, The Illinois State Historical Society announced the recipients of its 2012 Annual Awards program last Friday evening, April 27, during the 32nd annual Illinois History Symposium, held at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in East Peoria. The Awards were presented in several categories: Publications, Scholarly and other; Public Programming, Educational … [Read more...] about Henson receives award for book from Illinois State Historical Society
On Monday evening, April 23, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Springfield’s Barnes & Noble Bookstore will host an event, “Remembering Michael Burns: A Reading from ‘Night of the Grizzly.’” Free and open to the public, the evening will begin with music by renowned local folk musician, Julie Henigan. Clark Closser, Missouri State University emeritus professor of English, will give a … [Read more...] about Missouri State University English Faculty, Public Library and Barnes & Noble join in remembering poet Michael Burns
Springfield, Missouri—March 27, 2012—D. Leigh Henson, professor emeritus of English at Missouri State University, is pleased to announce that he recently accepted the invitation of the Society of Midland Authors to join its ranks. Membership is by invitation only from the Society’s Board of Directors. Henson taught technical communication in MSU’s English Department for … [Read more...] about Missouri State University Professor Emeritus of English invited to join prominent literary society