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January 14, 2007
ICFA 28 Grad Paper Award
A reminder for all graduate students who will be presenting at IAFA in March, 2007.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is pleased to continue its annual award and stipend to the graduate student submitting the outstanding paper at the Association’s 2007 Conference, to be held at the Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 14-18, 2007. The award, and a cheque for $250, will be presented to the winner at the Awards Banquet on Saturday evening.
Deadline: February 1, 2007
CRITERIA & INSTRUCTIONS
1. The student will have had a paper accepted for presentation at the Conference. The paper submitted for the competition should be essentially the same as that presented at the conference. The maximum length for entries is 3500 words (about 2 pages over the recommended reading length of 8-9 pages). Students should be aware that funds are limited and that only one award will be given. The paper selected will be published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and therefore must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Please note that acceptance of a paper for the Conference does not guarantee an award.
2. It is the responsibility of the student to send a copy of the paper by 1 February 2007 to the IAFA Student-Support Committee’s Chair, as well as a copy of the letter of acceptance and verification of student status. Submissions may be in WordPerfect, MSWord or rich text format (rtf) files, sent as e-mail attachments to Robin Anne Reid, at:
Robin_Reid AT tamu-commerce.edu
Support documents may be sent as attached files to the same address or sent by mail to:
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
3. The committee is looking for good writing: clear, coherent, and interesting. Essays should be solidly grounded in scholarly tradition, showing awareness of previous studies and of historical contexts. Essays may use any suitable method of analysis, including historical and sociological approaches as well as those which originate in literary theory. Judges tend to value the ability to examine materials from a theoretical perspective without simply plugging in a particular critical method. Essays should give a clear idea of the critical/theoretical framework within which the discussion will be situated, as well as identify primary and secondary texts for the discussion.
Posted by ChrissieMains at January 14, 2007 05:12 PM