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QUARTER AFTER EIGHT

A JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

Issue 10
The publication of this journal is made possible in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

The editors also wish to thank the following people and institutions: Robert DeMott, Marsha Dutton, Roderick McDavis, Daphne Metts, Joseph McLaughlin, and Dinty Moore. Special thanks to the Creative Writing Program and Department of English Department at Ohio University for their extraordinary support in recent years. >>>

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2010 QAE Conference

DEFINING THE NEW: EXPERIMENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN ENGLISH STUDIES

Guest Reader: Imad Rahman
Keynote Speaker: Anne Francis Wysocki

October 22 - 23 / Ohio University / Athens, Ohio

"Literature is news that stays news." -Ezra Pound

It was Alexander Pope who remarked “the sound must seem an echo to the sense,” while Ezra Pound admonished writers to “make it new.” This conference seeks to explore how theorists, critics, compositionists, essayists, fictionists, poets, and other writers have defined or used different critical paradigms, as well as experimented with different forms to make their writing new or to more perfectly echo their sense.

This conference will dovetail with a feature of critical essays on the history and future of experimental writing in Quarter After Eight, a literary journal focused on innovative writing. All conference papers will be considered for publication in this feature.

We are looking for work from the fields of Comparative Literature, Composition Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Folklore, Linguistics, Literary History, Rhetoric, and other disciplines related to literary study.

Possible Topics:
-New definitions of the term "experimental"
-The future of experimental writing
-Re-examining early literary experiments, e.g. the work of Alexander Pope, William Blake, Laurence Sterne, the Romantics, the Modernists, Magic Realists, etc.
-Pushing the boundaries of rhetorical traditions and/or pedagogies
-Pushing the boundaries of academic discourse
-Bridging or transgressing genres
-Post-colonial innovations in form
-The influence of critical theory on literary experiments
-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E or post-avant poetry
-Lyric Essays
-Prose poetry and flash fiction
-Technology's influence on form

Details:
Please submit a 1-2 page abstract or a 5-10 page representative sample of your creative work by September 26, 2010 to:

Defining the New: Experiments and Innovations in English Studies
Ohio University Department of English
360 Ellis Hall
Athens, OH 45701

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"You shall know us by our velocity: the centrality to me of speed, compression, brevity. The work that I espouse and try to embody is congruent wih the voilent rapidity of contemporary culture."

-David Shields

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Quarter After Eight has published notable writers including David Shields, Steven Millhauser, John D'Agata, Lia Purpura, Mary Ruefle, Susan Stewart, John Gallaher, Nin Andrews, Joe Bonomo, Amy Newman, Virgil Suarez, and many, many others. >>>