North Star* Liberal Arts / Creative Writing & Literature vol Prizes given for best fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction!

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1 VOYAGER North Star* Liberal Arts / Creative Writing & Literature vol. 3.3 * Jinny Beyer Quilt Pattern THE 1 st ANNUAL VILLA CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST Open to all Students! Prizes given for best fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction! By request, we are adding short plays! Opportunities to be published in Villa s Creative Arts Magazine: SKALD 16 and to be nominated for the Association of Writers and Writing Program Intro Journals Project literary competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by students currently enrolled in AWP member programs. DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 20, Guidelines: No more than 3 poems; fiction and creative nonfiction lengths of 2500 words; one-act plays. Cover page with your name and contact info. Do not put your name on your mss. Submit to Joyce Kessel, Dr. Ann Rivera or Liz Battaglia. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. Ray Bradbury 1

2 Center for Inquiry / Just Buffalo Literary Café featuring Kerrykate Abel, Ryan Hartnett, Ann Rivera, Joyce Kessel, & students from the Villa Maria College Creative Writing program W EDNESDAY, N OVEMBER 4, :00 P. M. at the C ENTER FOR I NQUIRY 1310 S WEET H OME R OAD A MHERST, NY 2

3 OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS: PRIDE! Pumpkin 11 am in the Cafeteria FMSC Bake Sale help support Villa s Foodpacking Event Writers Circle 2 nd Floor, Felician Hall Halloween HiJinx Feed My Starving Children Foodpacking see Dr. Kim Kotz or Joan Mullin; Campus Ministry VILLA CORE VALUE : JUSTICE & PEACE BEING PRESENT FOR ONE ANOTHER Or one meaning of here is in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of, or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both recognizes and demands recognition. I see you, or here, he said to her. In order for something to be handed over a hand must extend and a hand must receive. We must both be here in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of. Claudia Rankine, Don t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word. Augusten Burroughs 3

4 A SAMPLING OF NEW & CYCLED LIBERAL ARTS OFFERINGS COMING THIS SPRING: ENG 103 COMPOSITION 2: A continuation of writing instruction with skills and processes necessary for success in a variety of disciplines. ENG 261 Advanced Composition and Research: More directed and intensive development of information literacy required of Creative Writing & Literature majors as research is an essential element of storytelling. Two Selected Topics Electives: ENG 393 Literary Criticism: The next step in learning to view literature through a writer s, critic s and reader s eyes. ENG 392 Exploring the Contemporary Superhero: From graphic novels to movies to video games to reworked mythology to novels the Hero is alive and in the fight. PSY 205 Cognitive Psychology: human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving. PSY 206 Social Psychology: how does society shape our thoughts and behavior? SOC 203 Sociology of the Family: the smallest structure in our society and the most essential. A POST-MIDTERM BIT OF ADVICE: In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad 4

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