Authors/Judges
Lindsey Martin Bowen
University Affiliation: University
of Missouri-Kansas City English Department
Bio: I teach writing (composition
and creative), journalism and reporting for both the department and the university's
PACE section.
* Novels: In 1992, a
small publisher, Paladin Contemporaries released Cicada Grove. Portions of two
other novels that I've written have run in literary magazines, too.
* Law review: In 1997,
the UMKC Law Review published Words from a Teller of Tales: Can Storytelling
Play a Role in Feminist Jurisprudence?
I serve as a regular
columnist/staff writer for The National Paralegal Reporter, where I served as
editor and production editor from 1992-1997. You may see many features I wrote
from 1992 through 1997, 2001, at www.paralegals.org.
From 1987-2000, I served as a preliminary judge for New Letters literary magazine's
annual writing contest, and I did the same for BkMk Press in 2000 (The John
Ciardi Poetry Contest) and this year (The S. G. Sharat Chandra Fiction Contest).
Books/Writings Published:
Writer/editor/owner
of a free-lance writing/editing service. April 1985-present. Contracted with
local and national publishers, including the following:
The National Paralegal
Reporter, February 1992-present. Editor (1994-97), Production Editor (1992-96),
Staff Writer and Columnist (1992-present). Main accomplishments: Saved NFPA
$40,000 per year by connecting it with Banta Printers; redesigned magazine layout,
contacted professional writers to upgrade the writing quality; studied law (and
graduated from law school) to write stories incorporating legal philosophies
and research; hired a production editor who helped the magazine go online.
The Squire Publications,
(Overland Park, Kansas) March 1990-October 1994. Columnist/Features Writer.
Interviewed local therapists about psychological issues, such as dysfunctional
relationships, co-dependency. Research psychological materials. Main accomplishment:
Wrote a series about building healthy relationships through acquiring a healthy
concept of “self.” A number of local/national groups hired me to lecture about
this topic.
Inside Christ the King
newsletter, (Kansas City, Mo.) August 1989-May 1992. As Editor, I wrote, compiled,
and edited copy, performed layout and paste-up, and served as liaison to printers.
The KC View, February
1988-Janunary 1990. Writer/Photographer and Music Editor. Wrote features for
this local entertainment newspaper. Input stories with a Macintosh.
Number One literary
magazine (UMKC) February 1986-May 1988. Editor. Compiled, edited manuscripts,
performed layout and paste-up. Worked with printers.
New Letters, an international
literary magazine. Fall 1985-Summer 1994. Reviewed and critiqued submissions.
Served as a preliminary judge for the annual writing contest (1987-present).
College Boulevard News.
(Overland Park, Kan.) 1985-88. Wrote features, health guides, restaurant guides,
psychology stories, business profiles, and annual updates.
Free-lance Publications
Poetry/Fiction. Paladin Contemporaries published Cicada Grove in March 1992.
My poetry and fiction have run in New Letters (Spring 1987), Lip Service (1988,
1990, 1991, and 1994), Black Bear Review (Winter-Spring 1992-93), River King
Poetry Supplement (Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Summer/Autumn 2002); Thorny Locust
(Fall 2001, Fall 2002), Coal City Review (2002), Review (November 2000, February
2002), The Same (Spring 2002, Fall 2002), Show + Tell (an anthology (2000),
The Kansas City Star (October 2000, March 2001, November 2001, December 2001,
July 2002), Any Key (1999), Shorelines (poems placed fourth and fifth in the
1993 contest), The Missouri Poetry Magazine (1988), Down Peaceful Paths: An
Anthology (1991); The Gar Star (Summer 1986), Kansas City Outloud: An Anthology
of Kansas City Poets (1974), Dragonfly: A Quarterly of Haiku Highlights (1973,
1974), Bitterroot (1974), Boulder Community Free-School Catalog (1974), A Broadside
published by the Boulder Community Free-School (1975), Encore Magazine (1976),
Summit County Magazine (1979), Number One (1986, 1987, and 1988), Shorelines
(1990), and in Potpourri (July 1990). I have given public readings (fiction/poetry)
at The Writer's Place (1999-2002), at Prosperos, Whistlers, and Borders Book
Shop (1990-2001), at Riverfront Readings (1990-94, 1999-2001), and on KBCo-FM
in Boulder, Colorado (1977).
Additional Projects
Special sections editor for “Focus on Women,” Centralia Fireside Guard. Compiled,
wrote, and edited stories and performed lay-out.
Wrote and edited books
and features for individuals and companies.
A small publishing company
released my novel, Cicada Grove, which retails at Border's Book Shop, Rainy
Day Books, and at www.amazon.com.
Other information:
Judging: short stories, and poetry
From 1987-2000,
I served as a preliminary judge for New Letters literary magazine's annual writing
contest, and I did the same for BkMk Press in 2000 (The John Ciardi Poetry Contest)
and this year (The S. G. Sharat Chandra Fiction Contest).
Kevin Brooks
University Affiliation: North Dakota State University
Bio: I grew up on the
Canadian Plains, in Virden, Manitoba, and have earned degrees from the University
of Winnipeg, University of Calgary, and Iowa State University. I published my
own 'zine in high school, wrote for my college newspaper, and have been writing
academic and creative non-fiction essays for the past 10 years.
Books/Writings Published: My publications
most relevant to "Penning with the Pros" are an edited a collection of Canadian
poems about sports, _Thru the Smoky Endboards_, published in 1996, and two recent
essays in the _North Dakota Quarterly_, "Silence, Talk, and Speaking Out: Language
Use and Class on the Upper Great Plains" and "Border Radio: A Collection of
Notes to the Count of Eight." I also maintain a weblog: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/blog.
Other information:
Judging:
Pete Casagrande
University Affiliation: University of Kansas
Bio:
Books/Writings Published:
Other information:
Judging: combination of essays, short stories and poetry
Margaret Dawe
University Affiliation: Wichita State University, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of English
Bio: I
was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. I went to the University of Virginia and got my B.A. in English literature. There I studied with the
short story writer Peter Taylor and the novelist John Casey. After that
I went to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. I worked for five years as a newspaper reporter on Long Island at the _East Hampton Star_, quit and did gardening
and cooking for a restaurant so that I could write my book. I went to
Brooklyn College, which is part of the City University of New York, and I earned my MFA
there. After many rewrites my novel was published in 1992 by New Directions.
Its title is _Nissequott_, pronounced Niss-ah-kwat, which is a place name from
the Algonquin Indians. It's a mother-daughter story told from the young girl's
perspective. I am now at work on a novel set in East Hampton which is about a newspaper reporter who is haunted
by a murder she saw when she was five years old on a walk with her grandfather
Books/Writings Published: "Killers
We Knew" (story) and _Nissequott_, as well as some essays.
Judging: short stories, and poetry
Stephen Dilks
University Affiliation: University of Missouri – Kansas City,
Associate Professor, English
Bio: Born
in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, Stephen Dilks earned a B.A. Honours (first
class) in English Studies from Stirling University, Scotland in 1983. In 1992 he graduated with
a Ph. D. in English Literature from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Stephen
is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, where he teaches text-based discourse analysis and Modern and Contemporary
British and Irish Literature. In addition to Cultural Conversations: The
Presence of the Past (New York: Bedford, 2002), a composition reader edited
with Matthew Parfitt and Regina Hansen of Boston University, Stephen has presented
and published a number of essays on Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, the teaching
of composition, and the essay as a genre. He is currently writing a book
called Inventing Postmodernism: Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace.
Books/Writings Published: ONGOING
BOOK PROJECT:
Samuel Beckett and the Invention of the
Postmodern Writer. This
book argues that, contrary to his reputation as a writer “Damned to Fame,” Beckett
worked hard to establish himself as a professional writer. Using an approach
based on the sociology of textual production, the book treats Beckett as an
influential model of the “aestheticist” writer who writes in a context of commercialism.
Chapters analyze Beckett’s relationship with Joyce, his difference from Virginia
Woolf, and his influence on Doris Lessing, Edna O’Brien, Graham Swift, and Jeanette
Winterson. My approach is interdisciplinary and sociocultural, using cultural
studies and discourse analysis to explore relationships between and among authorial
personae, aesthetic theories, and marketing practices. I work with advertising,
economics, history, philosophy, politics, religion, and material/visual arts.
COMPOSITION
TEXTBOOK:
Cultural Conversations: The Presence of
the Past (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2001). With Matt
Parfitt and Regina Hansen. Juxtaposing important historical texts with archival
material and contemporary essays, this book actively engages students in scholarly
cultural analysis. With accessible “popular” prose by such cultural icons as
Keller and Gandhi, wonderfully lively personal essays by Silko and Slackjaw,
and more challenging academic work by Lane and Wittig, Cultural Conversations
represents a significant step forward in Composition Studies. In
addition to being solely responsible for chapters one (Woolf and Gender) and
four (Freud and the Unconscious Mind), I co-edited chapter six (Turner and the
American Frontier), co-wrote the Introduction, wrote the editor’s footnotes,
did the final revisions to the apparatus for all six chapters (this included
extensive re-writing of material in all chapters including headnotes, assignments,
ideas for research, etc.), wrote the instructor’s manual entries for chapters
one, four, and six, did the final revisions of Resources for Teaching
(this included extensive re-writing of material for all six chapters), and gathered
material for the web-site for chapters one, four, and six.
ARTICLES
AND BOOK-CHAPTERS:
“Samuel Beckett’s Samuel Johnson.” Modern
Language Review. April 2003 (14 pages).
“Selling Work in Progress.” James Joyce
Quarterly. Accepted in November 2002.
“Activating the Essayistic Imagination:
Word-Invention and the Transformation of Papers into Essays.” Forchcoming in
Teaching Essayism (Boynton/Cook, 2004).
“What’s the Point?: Changing the Composition
Curriculum in Response to Awkward Questions by Students.” Forthcoming in Learning
as we Teach: “Difficult Situations”in the Composition Classroom. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 2003).
“Putting Samuel Beckett to Work: Worstward Ho as a Catalyst for Collaboration
between Literature and Composition.” Included in proposal for Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education, edited by Linda
Bergmann (Purdue University) and Edith Baker (Bradley University).
“Dangerous Critique: Academic Freedom and
Institutional Constraint.” In Outbursts in Academe. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.
"Voices Out of the Air: Freedom, Death,
and Constraint in All That Fall." In Samuel Beckett: A Casebook.
New York: Garland Press, 1998.
“The Freedom To Be Silent: Billie Whitelaw
as Beckett’s Mouthpiece.” In The Beckett Papers. British Columbia: U of Victoria, 1996.
“Teaching College-Level Literacy: A Digressive
Introduction.” In Teaching College Level Literacy. Grand Forks: U of N Dakota, 1997.
“Worstward Ho in Victoria.” Review of Mabou Mines production of Worstward
Ho in The Samuel Beckett Circle Newsletter. Fall 1996.
Review of Eléutheria in North Dakota Quarterly. Summer 1996.
Beckett Bethicketted as Joyce's Pickthank
Agnus in “Text” and “Home Olga,” North Country, Summer 1996.
"Teaching Uncertainty: The Danger is
in the Neatness of Identifications." Praxis
III. Winter 1993.
Instructor's Manual for Essays 100, a collection of
essays for college writing courses. New York: Macmillan Press, 1989.
Other information:
Here is my collector's car
bought in honour of my Dad, Master Air Electronics Operator Maurice William
Dilks, DFM (1922-1997) -- the car is a completely original, unrestored 1967
E-type Jaguar, 2 plus 2.
Judging: essays
Nat Hardy
University Affiliation: Oklahoma State University
Bio:
Books/Writings Published:
Other information:
Judging: poetry and possibly
short stories
Palma Holden
University Affiliation: Kansas State University
Bio: I have been an
Expository Writing instructor at KSU for three years. Although I began my graduate
work at the University of Hawaii, I completed it at KSU with an MS in Education
in 1995. I received my BA in English and Education from Queens College, (CUNY)
in New York in the 80's where I served as a Writing tutor for the Queens English
Project. Later, I ran a workshop for elementary educators called, "What's in
a Name?" at the Paumanok Writer's Conference in NY.
I have nearly twenty
years of experience teaching, counseling, and facilitating groups of adults
and young adults for public, private and non-profit organizations. For a couple
of years I helped run a small doughnut business and owned rental property. Currently,
I have a strong interest in spiritual readings and in living simply. I am writing
my first book about women healers that have blessed my life in Manhattan, KS.
Books/Writings Published:
Other information:
Judging: essays and possibly
poetry
Bob Jansen
University Affiliation: North Dakota University System
Bio: Bob Jansen is the
North Dakota University System's common information services communications
coordinator. His office is at North Dakota State University. In addition to
earning an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead,
Bob has extensive experience as a reporter and editor with North Dakota newspapers,
as press secretary in the North Dakota Governor's Office and as public information
director at Minot State University.
Bob has written
hundreds of articles for North Dakota newspapers. Several of his short stories
and creative nonfiction pieces have been published in Red Weather, a literary
magazine at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He is working on his first
novel and is also currently writing creative nonfiction, essays and short stories.
Books/Writings Published:
Other information:
Judging: essays and short stories
D. K. Peterson
University Affiliation: North Dakota State University,
English Department
Bio: A playwright and fiction
writer, Peterson earned her MFA from Western Michigan University before deciding
to pursue a PhD in English. She embraced early on the maxim that the world is
a stage and her work has increasingly explored how humans use storytelling/narratives
to shape and create meaning in their everyday lives.
Books/Writings Published:
"The Hard-Boiled Monologue"
(drama), "Long Overdue" (drama), "Air Brushing," (drama), "In the Garden" (fiction),
Other information: Peterson's research
interests include 20th-century American culture, particularly the areas of animation,
Disney Studies, and postmodern fiction.
Michael Pritchett
University Affiliation: University of Missouri – Kansas City
Bio: Michael Pritchett is
an assistant professor in the English Department of the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, where he teaches fiction writing and literature courses to undergrad and
grad English/Creative Writing majors.
Books/Writings Published:
He is the author of THE VENUS TREE
which was a winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award (John Simmons Short Fiction
Award) and published by the University of Iowa Press in 1988. He is also the
author of THE FINAL EFFORT OF THE ARCHER, which won the 2000 Dana Award for
a novel-in-progress. His work has been anthologized in THE IOWA AWARD: THE BEST
STORIES FROM 20 YEARS, University of Iowa Press, 1990. He is also the recipient
of a $5,000 Kansas Artist Fellowship Grant and a $9,000 UM System Grant. His
stories have appeared in several magazines, including New Letters, Passages
North and Other Voices.
Other information:
Judging: short stories
Laura M. Stevens
University Affiliation: University
of Tulsa, Associate Professor, English Department
Bio: BA Villanova University,
1991 MA University of Michigan, 1994 Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1998
Books/Writings Published: “The Poor Indians”:
Missionaries and Transatlantic British Pity, 1642-1776 (University of Pennsylvania
Press, forthcoming 2004)
This book studies sentimental
depictions of American Indians in missionary writings from the English Civil
War to the American Revolution. By charting the transatlantic circulation of
religious feeling through these texts, it demonstrates how these writings influenced
later portrayals of Indians. It also argues that these writings helped their
readers develop an imperial self-image through self-consciously shared pity
for a racial and religious other. Establishing the importance of religion and
colonialism to the culture of sensibility, this book foregrounds the transatlantic
components of eighteenth-century sentimental literature and transatlantic British
culture.
Articles:
“’This Easier, Bloodless Crusade’: Masculinity and British Mission in Elkanah
Settle’s Pindaric Poem on the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.” 1650-1850:
Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, forthcoming 2005.
“Reading the Hermit’s
Manuscript: The Female American and Female Robinsonades.” In Approaches to Teaching
Robinson Crusoe, edited by Carl Fisher and Maximillian Novak, Modern Language
Association, forthcoming 2004.
“Approaches to Transatlantic
Study.” American Literary History, forthcoming 16.1 (2004).
“’Gold for Glasse’:
The Trope of Trade in English Missionary Writings.” In Spiritual Conversion:
Christian Mission in the Americas, 1500-1800, edited by James Muldoon. University
of Florida Press, forthcoming 2004.
“The Christian Origins
of the Vanishing Indian.” In Mortal Remains: Death in Early America, edited
by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2002), 17-30.
“Civility and Skepticism
in the Woolston-Sherlock Debate over Miracles.” Eighteenth- Century Life 21
(1997): 57-70.
Other information:
Judging: essays
Dale Sullivan
University Affiliation: North
Dakota State University, English
Bio: Dale
Sullivan has been a professor at Michigan Technological
University, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Northern Illinois University. He has served as Head of the department of Rhetoric
at the University of Minnesota and now serves as Head of English at North Dakota State University. He has publish widely in professional journals on
the topics of the rhetoric of science, the rhetoric of religion, and technical
communication
Books/Writings Published:
Books
Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators
On and Off the Job, co-editor with Jerry Savage. Allyn & Bacon, 2001.
Refereed Articles
"After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Epideictic
Exhortation to Responsible Action." Journal of Communication and Religion,
26 (2003): 28-50.
Primary author with Michael Martin as second author.
"Habit Formation and Story Telling: A Theory for Guiding Ethical Action."
Technical Communication Quarterly 10 (Summer 2001): 251-272
Primary Author with Christian Anible as second author.
"The Epideictic Dimension of Galatians as Formative Rhetoric: The Inscription
of Early Christian Community." Rhetorica 18 (Spring 2000): 117-145.
"Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in
Science." Technical Communication Quarterly 9 (Spring 2000): 125-146. Winner
of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year 2000 in Technical
Communication Quarterly.
"Beyond Discourse Communities: Orthodoxies and
the Rhetoric of Sectarianism." Rhetoric Review 18 (Fall 1999): 148-164.
"Identification and Dissociation in Rhetorical
Exposé: An Analysis of St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 49-76.
"Francis Schaeffer's Apparent Apology in Pollution
and the Death of Man."
The Journal of Communication and Religion 12 (1998): 200-229.
"Displaying Disciplinarity." Written Communication
13 (1996): 221-250.
"Migrating Across Disciplinary Boundaries: The
Case of David Raup's and John Sepkoski's Periodicity Paper." Social Epistemology
9 (1995): 151-164. Reprinted in Scientific & Technical Communication: Theory,
Practice, and Policy. Eds. James H. Collier with David M. Toomey. Sage, 1997,
330-349.
"Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy in The Letter to
the Grand Duchess Christina." Rhetorica 12 (1994): 237-264.
"Exclusionary Epideictic: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication
of Fleischmann and Pons." Science Technology & Human Values 19 (1994):
283-306.
"A Closer Look at Education as Epideictic Rhetoric."
Rhetoric Society Quarterly 23 (1993): 70-89.
"The Ethos of Epideictic Encounter." Philosophy
and Rhetoric 26 (1993): 113-133.
"The Epideictic Character of Rhetorical Criticism."
Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 339-349.
"Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius
as Epideictic Rhetoric." The Journal of Communication and Religion 15 (1992):
71-86.
"The Decline of Imitation in Nineteenth Century
Rhetoric." Platte Valley Review 20 (1992): 45-62.
"Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly
Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 317-332.
"The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science." Journal
of Business and Technical Communication 5 (1991): 229-245.
"The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's Algeny."
Rhetoric Review 9 (1990): 134-148.
"Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical
Communication as a Practice." Journal of Advanced Composition 10 (1990):
375-386. Reprinted in Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication, Paul M.
Dombrowski, ed. Baywood, 1994, 223-234.
"Attitudes toward Imitation: Classical Culture
and the Modern Temper." Rhetoric Review 8 (Fall 1989): 5-21.
"The Computer as a Two-way Medium in the Technical
Writing Classroom." The Technical Writing Teacher 14 (Spring 1987): 143-150.
Judging: essays and short stories
Eamonn Wall
University Affiliation: University of Missouri – St. Louis
Bio: EAMONN WALL (Ph.D. City
University of New York) is the author of three collections of poetry: The
Crosses (2000), Iron Mountain
Road (1997), and Dyckman-200th Street (1994). His book of personal and literary
essays, From the
Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish, was co-winner of
the Durkan Prize for 2000, given by the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Eamonn is a Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies at UMSL.
Books/Writings Published:
Other information:
Judging: poetry
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