July 2000

The winners of this year's Faux Faulkner Contest have been announced. Winning first prize is "Delta Drive-Thru" by Catherine Dupree of Los Angeles, with runners-up "Verbose in Tertio" by Mitch Globe of Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, and "William Faulkner Recites the Pledge of Allegiance" by Allan Kolsky of Salt Lake City, Utah. The winning entries appear in print in this month's Hemispheres Magazine. For now, the winning entries, along with the winning entries from the Imitation Hemingway Contest, can be read online at www.hemispheresmagazine.com/contest.html. The contest, now in its 11th year, is sponsored by Hemispheres (United Airlines in-flight magazine), the University of Mississippi’s Department of English and Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and Yoknapatawpha Press/Faulkner Newsletter.

New Internet Addresses

Several Faulkner-related web sites and mailing lists have recently announced new web site and email addresses. The William Faulkner Society web site is now located at www.acad.swarthmore.edu/faulkner/. The William Faulkner Foundation in France can be reached at www.william-faulkner.org/. The email addresses for the William Faulkner Email Discussion Group (mailing list) have also changed . To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" (without the quotation marks) to md@listserv.olemiss.edu. To post messages to the list, send email to faulkner@listserv.olemiss.edu.