August 2000

Call for Papers

The 2001 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and War," has issued a call for papers. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2001. The conference will be held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford from July 22-27, 2001. Click on the above link for details.

The 2000 Faulkner Conference, "Faulkner in the 21st Century," has ended, but audio of some of the lectures may soon be available on the web within the Center for the Study of Southern Culture web site. Once I have the details, I will post them here.

Faux Faulkner Winners

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 the July issue of Hemispheres Magazine. For now, the winning entries, along with the winning entries from the Imitation Hemingway Contest, can be read online by clicking on "contests" at the magazines web site. 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.