UE LitFest

The annual UE LitFest gives undergraduates the opportunity to present creative and critical papers to audiences made up of their peers, their professors, and the members of the local literary community. Students also have the opportunity to win awards for their writing.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING

Melvin M. Peterson Literary Forum
Hemminger-Brown Lecture

Recovering Women Printers: Bibliographical Notes and Reflections

Friday, April 12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Room 162, Harkness Hall
Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building

Cait Coker, PhD

Associate Professor at the Univesrity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Associate Head of UIUC's Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Senior Coffee Hour Reading

Thursday, April 11, 2022
4:00 p.m.
Rooms 162, Harkness Hall, Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building

12th Annual Literary Conference

Saturday, April 13, 2024
Student Panels at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and Noon.
Rooms 271, 272, and 273, Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building
Attendance is FREE and open to the public.

The 2024 conference officially began on the evening of Thursday, April 11 with the Senior Coffee Hour Reading. This event was followed on Friday by the Hemminger-Brown lecture at the Melvin M. Peterson Literary Forum. Dr. Cait Coker, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Associate Head of UIUC’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, gave a lecture titled “Recovering Women Printers: Bibliographical Notes and Reflections.” The conference continued on the Saturday morning with a series of student panels. View the complete schedule.

At the end of the conference, the Department of English and Creative Writing presented its 2024 awards:

GRABILL AWARDS

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Third Prize: Collin Wilson, "Strife and Citrus"
Second Prize: Sam Tarter, "Why I Stopped Pursuing Marine Biology"
First Prize: Hayden Chrapek, "Don't Talk About It"

FICTION

Third Prize: Garrett Hale, "#24"
Second Prize: Alexis Carpenter, "How to Live in the Desert"
First Prize: Drake Sussaras, "Locker Room Talk"

POETRY

Third Prize: Alexandra Harris, "The Things I Think About at Night"
Second Prize: Garrett Hale, "Beacon"
First Prize: Alexis Carpenter, "holy are the lovers"

ACADEMIC ESSAY

Third Prize: Hayden Chrapek, “Representations of the LGBTQIA+ Community in the Lais of Marie de France”
Second Prize: Elle Hardoin, “The Role of Time in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
First Prize: Alexis Carpenter, “Election and Redemptive Power in Marlowe and Donne”