The Call for Papers for the 2012 International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference in Las Vegas, NV, USA is now online:

http://narrative.georgetown.edu/conferences/2012_Narrative_Flyer.pdf

Additional details will be forthcoming.

For books published in 2010, please send inquiries or informal, brief written nominations to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Suzanne Keen: skeen@wlu.edu.  Please send a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the addresses listed below.  Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate.  Deadline for nominations is June 1, 2011.  Books received after June 1 will be at a disadvantage. The winner will be announced at the Seattle MLA Convention in January 2012, and the prize will be presented at the Narrative Conference in Las Vegas in March 2012.  The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.

Professor Susan S. Lanser
Comparative Literature and English
MS 023
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453-2728 USA

Professor Priscilla Walton
Department of English
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottowa, ON
K1S 5B6
CANADA

Project Narrative at the Ohio State University is now accepting applications for self-funded visiting scholars for the academic year 2011-12 and beyond.  They will review applications for the academic year 2011-2012 any time between now and November 15, 2010, and will notify all applicants by December 15, 2010.   For more information about the visiting scholar program and about the application process, go to http://projectnarrative.osu.edu/aboutUs/potential.cfm. Please contact Robyn Warhol (warhol.1@osu.edu) with any further questions.

Nominations are invited for ISSN Second Vice President and for the Executive Council, for positions that will run from 2011 to 2013. Candidates should be members of the ISSN and regular attendees of the annual conference. Please send nominations to Brian Richardson (richb@umd.edu), chair of the Nominations committee, by September 20.

Next year’s Narrative Conference will be held April 7-10, 2011, and is sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis.  For further information please visit the conference website: narrative.wustl.edu. Please send proposals to narrative.conference@wustl.edu.  The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2010 (10/30/10).

Because we hope each year to attract new participants to the Narrative Conference, we would greatly appreciate your forwarding our CFP to any interested colleagues and directing those on any appropriate listservs to our web site (narrative.wustl.edu), which includes a downloadable flyer.

The organizers of the 2012 Narrative Conference have suggested compiling a list of listservs that would reach people interested in attending a narrative Conference.  To make this possible, the group kindly suggests to post any listservs of interest to the ISSN list (narrative@georgetown.edu).  Please feel free to suggest names and addresses of listservs on topics including any of the many dimensions of narrative theory and practice that Narrative Conferences welcome.

For any questions, please email the 2011 Conference organizers: Emma Kafalenos, emkafale@artsci.wustl.edu, or Erin McGlothlin, mcglothlin@wustl.edu

For books published in 2009, please send inquiries or informal, brief written nominations to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Walton: pwalton@rogers.com.  Please send a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the addresses listed below.  Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate.  Deadline for nominations is June 1, 2010.  The winner will be announced at the MLA Convention in December, and the prize presented at the Narrative Conference in St. Louis next April.  The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.

Professor Priscilla Walton
Department of English
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottowa, ON
K1S 5B6
CANADA

Professor Margaret Homans
Department of English
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511

Professor Carol Colatrella
Department of Literature, Communication & Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, 30332

All graduate students who present papers at the 2010 Narrative conference in Cleveland are invited to compete for the prize for the best graduate student paper of the 2010 conference. The winner will receive a copy of a Perkins Prize-winning book of his or her choice and will be invited to expand the winning paper and submit it for consideration by Narrative.

Submit your papers electronically as attachments (Word PC-compatible files) to both of the judges by Monday, May 17: Hilary Dannenberg, hilary.dannenberg@uni-trier.de; and Tony Jackson, tejackso@uncc.edu.

Be sure to submit the paper actually presented at the conference, not an expanded or edited version.  The judges understand these are conference papers, not publishable essays, and so will be read accordingly.

Thanks to all who voted and thanks to our other worthy candidates, Ellen Peel (San Francisco State), Ruth Page (Birmingham City University), and Coleman Hutchinson (University of Texas), for being willing to serve.

The ISSN will have one special session at the 2011 MLA Convention, January 6-9 in Los Angeles. All topics and approaches are encouraged. Any current member of the Society wishing to propose a topic and organize the panel should send a brief proposal (100-150 words) to Brian Richardson at  richb@umd.edu by November 15.