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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic Press Release: Modern Language Association Leadership Refuses to Allow BDS Resol in the forum RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/press-release-modern-language-association-leadership-refuses-to-allow-bds-resol/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:10:10 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contact Information:<br />
Anthony Alessandrini: <a href="mailto:tonyalessandrini@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">tonyalessandrini@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>David Palumbo-Liu: <a href="mailto:djpl.2008@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">djpl.2008@gmail.com</a><br />
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
<strong>Modern Language Association Leadership Refuses to Allow BDS Resolution</strong></p>
<p>The leadership of the Modern Language Association, a scholarly organization representing scholars of languages and literatures, has, arbi&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1904066"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/press-release-modern-language-association-leadership-refuses-to-allow-bds-resol/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic JML 47.4 (Summer 2024) is now LIVE! in the forum RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/jml-47-4-summer-2024-is-now-live/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:19:50 -0400</pubDate>

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<em>JML</em> 47.4 (Summer 2024) with clusters on Virginia Woolf and literary misfits is now LIVE on Project MUSE at <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53384" rel="nofollow ugc">https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53384</a></p>
<p>Content includes:<br />
Woolf<br />
Kate M. Nash</p>
<p>The Ecology of Virginia Woolf’s <em>London Scene</em></p>
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<p>Gabriel Quigley</p>
<p>Moments of Rupture: Woolf, Whitehead, Deleuze</p>
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<p>Timothy O’Leary</p>
<p>Years and Years: The Dist&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1901405"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/jml-47-4-summer-2024-is-now-live/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic RCWS Creative Writing at MLA 2025 in the forum RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:12:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>83</strong> <strong>&#8211; Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser</strong></p>
<p>Thursday, 9 January 2025</p>
<p>4:30 PM &#8211; 5:45 PM</p>
<p><em>Hilton Riverside New Orleans &#8211; Kabacoff (Riverside Complex)</em></p>
<p>Harnessing the cross-disciplinary energy that characterized Muriel Rukeyser’s work and career, this session gathers distinguished poet-scholars contributing to a hybrid ant&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1899864"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/rcws-creative-writing-at-mla-2025/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic JML CFP: Caribbean Literatures &#38; the Environment, Due 12/1/24 in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/jml-cfp-caribbean-literatures-the-environment-due-12-1-24/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:14:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>Journal of Modern Literature</em> Call for Papers</strong><br />
Caribbean Literatures and the Environment<br />
Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction. <em>JML</em> publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1888580"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/jml-cfp-caribbean-literatures-the-environment-due-12-1-24/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic RCWS Creative Writing: Calls for Papers, MLA 2025, Jan 9-12, New Orleans in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/rcws-creative-writing-calls-for-papers-mla-2025-jan-9-12-new-orleans/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:13:59 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consider submitting an abstract!<br />
Cite, Incite, Recite<br />
Through citation, we make our intellectual/artistic debts or histories visible. Who do we cite? Who don’t we cite? In this panel, we ask creative writers to discuss/make/perform work that plays with citation. 250 word abstracts.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline for submissions:</strong> Thursday, 28 March 2024</p>
<p>Vidhu Ag&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1877963"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/rcws-creative-writing-calls-for-papers-mla-2025-jan-9-12-new-orleans/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Michael Leong started the topic Petition to the Executive Council of the MLA to Honor Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-to-the-executive-council-of-the-mla-to-honor-delegate-assembly-vote/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:59:13 -0500</pubDate>

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<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZlXP1lEaYin3t3Ye2f4sH58Ot7fecHWITuSYK7QydasxRnQ/viewform" rel="nofollow ugc">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZlXP1lEaYin3t3Ye2f4sH58Ot7fecHWITuSYK7QydasxRnQ/viewform</a></p>
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				<title>Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-3/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:28:37 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as <strong>“Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl”</strong> in the <em><strong>Journal of International Women&#8217;s Studies </strong></em><em><strong>(</strong></em><strong><em>JIWS.)</em></strong> We present the link and the info to the short story bel&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1874151"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-3/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-41/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:09:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1862059"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-41/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lauren Russell started the topic Suggestions for Forum Executive Committee (by 1/14) in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/suggestions-for-forum-executive-committee-by-1-14/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:42:18 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>I hope everyone had a good conference, whether in person or virtually. If you would like to suggest someone for the RCWS Creative Writing Forum Executive Committee, please message me by 12 PM ET/ 9 AM PT <strong>this Friday, January 14th.  </strong>There is more information about the role and responsibilities of forum executive committees <a href="https://www.mla.org/Convention/Planning-a-Convention-Session/Policies-for-Forums-and-Allied-Organizations" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1765519"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/suggestions-for-forum-executive-committee-by-1-14/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lauren Russell started the topic RCWS Conference Sessions in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:25:03 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>Happy New Year! If you are attending the MLA conference this week, whether virtually or in person, please check out <a href="https://t.co/rrWp92vWbt" rel="nofollow ugc">this list of RCWS-related sessions.</a> There are many interesting panels!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re free this evening at 7 PM, please join us for  <a href="https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12361" rel="nofollow ugc">Neurodivergent Poetics: Extending the Choreograph</a>y, a virtual roundtable with Chris M&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1765067"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/rcws-conference-sessions/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lauren Russell started the topic CW Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/cw-forum-executive-committee-candidate-statement/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:01:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>I am honored to be nominated for the Creative Writing Forum Executive Committee. As I said in an interview once, I was a poet with a GED long before I was a poet with an MFA&#8211;and like many creative writers who have found a kind of home in academia, it is sometimes an uneasy one. Five years ago, the first executive committee of&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1669174"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/cw-forum-executive-committee-candidate-statement/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: "What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?" in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665790/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:31:00 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1665790"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665790/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Lupe's Story: Lupe Gallardo Marshall @ the Memorial Day Massacre (Republic Steel) 1937 in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640797/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 16:28:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pages from a local East Chicago, IN, publication commemorating the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre at South Chicago&#8217;s Republic Steel. Lupe Gallardo Marshall (Mexican immigrant social worker at Hull House) gave this testimony to the La Follette Committee of Congress investigating the events of that day, May 30, 1937.</p>
<p>I am thinking about writing a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1640797"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640797/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:48:50 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is another tale of life in the famed Rust Belt and how denizens of the &#8220;Belt&#8221; fare when they attempt to enter the world beyond its boundaries to the university. this is more autobiographical than most so should probably be called &#8220;creative non-fiction?&#8221;<br />
How can a student escape from the confines of an industrial home town or neighboring town&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1637587"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637587/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627132/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:04:54 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two-Act Play</p>
<p>Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune &#8220;Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana&#8221; during _The Music Man_. Don&#8217;t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1627132"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627132/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Louis Bury started the topic Women &#38; Language CFP in the discussion RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/women-language-cfp/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:38:46 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>This CFP, which accepts submissions of creative work, might be of interest: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language</p>
<p>Call for Papers | Women &amp; Language<br />
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University</p>
<p>Women &amp; Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1625247"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/creative-writing/forum/topic/women-language-cfp/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Do we live in postmodern times? in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586601/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:27:24 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The discussion of postmodernism involving modernity and its ramifications requires contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives.</p>
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				<title>Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571420/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 20:14:29 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate.  This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams</p>
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				<title>Fabiana E. Martínez deposited 12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549194/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:18:05 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter Pan helps Rita solve the mystery of a stray puzzle piece. Aldo looks at the clouds and decides to quit. A little girl insists on making everything in her coloring book orange. Eve defies darkness turning past dreams into future memories.</p>
<p>12 Random Words / 12 Palabras al Azar is a bilingual collection of interior vignettes told in both&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-549194"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549194/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Natalie Berkman deposited Exercices de Style Activity in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:07:37 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This PowerPoint can be used to accompany a creative writing workshop in an intermediate or advanced French language class. It serves as an introduction to French literature and notions of style, which will be important once the students have satisfied their language requirements, as well as a tool for creative student production in the target language.</p>
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				<title>Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer.  Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:59:15 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)<br />
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				<title>Jason A. Schneiderman started the topic Proposal for the Creative Writing Forum Submitted in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/proposal-for-the-creative-writing-forum-submitted/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:43:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings from the executive committee proposing the Creative Writing Forum! Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. We wanted to update everyone and post the proposal letter that we have submitted. The letter is very much a group effort. Trent Hergenrader has also been a member of the committee, and we hope he&#8217;ll serve as the 2019 chair;&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-81352"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/proposal-for-the-creative-writing-forum-submitted/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>W. Trent Hergenrader replied to the topic Volunteer in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:19:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would also like to volunteer for the initial executive committee of the Creative Writing forum.</p>
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				<title>Kathi Inman Berens replied to the topic Volunteer in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:59:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would be delighted to serve on the initial executive committee of the Creative Writing Forum.</p>
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				<title>Elizabeth Mathews Losh replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:57:50 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I strongly support this initiative to recognize Creative Writing as a vibrant field that is integral to the mission of the Modern Language Association.  Elizabeth Losh, UC San Diego</p>
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				<title>Katina Rogers posted an update in the group RCWS Creative Writing: The Program Committee will evaluate those prospective forums [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:24:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Program Committee will evaluate those prospective forums that obtained at least thirty-five signatures and five leadership volunteers by 15 June. Though that deadline has passed, we still encourage you to join groups that interest you and voice your support by signing the petition and volunteering. Support for prospective forums will be&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-73679"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/73679/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Maria C. Zamora replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/3/#post-4973</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:48:36 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>I support the RCWS Creative Writing Forum.  The conversation and collaboration between artists &amp; scholars is crucial to the dynamism of our collective work in Literary Studies.  In particular, I am thinking of new literary explorations conducted within a &#8220;digitally-born&#8221; context (i.e. Electronic Literature).  &#8211; Mia Zamora, @MiaZamoraPhD</span></p>
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				<title>Lee Skallerup Bessette replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/3/#post-4972</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:47:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I, Lee Skallerup Bessette, support the formation of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Jessica Pressman replied to the topic Discussion in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:52:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope this is the right place to sign in favor of the initiative.</p>
<p>-jessica pressman</p>
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				<title>Patrick Williams replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:57:24 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the creation of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Chuck Rybak replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/3/#post-4951</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:59:48 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am adding my name in support of this group and forum: Chuck Rybak</p>
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				<title>Amy Rubens replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/3/#post-4950</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:45:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the creation of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Stephen A. Ross replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:32:43 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the establishment of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Ruben Quesada replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4891</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:39:48 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the creation of the Creative Writing forum.</p>
<p>Ruben Quesada</p>
<p>Eastern Illinois University</p>
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				<title>Louis Bury replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4849</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:59:28 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the formation of this forum and I volunteer to be on the committee.</p>
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				<title>Stuart Moulthrop replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4845</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:40:03 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support formation of the forum.  Stuart Moulthrop, UW-Milwaukee.</p>
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				<title>Marshall B. Toman replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4839</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:59:22 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the formation of the forum.  Marshall Toman, UW-River Falls.</p>
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				<title>Jack Halberstam replied to the topic Discussion in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/discussion-29/#post-4803</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:06:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support this group. JJH</p>
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				<title>James J. Brown replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:48:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am writing to support this petition.</p>
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				<title>Reed D. Wilson replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4760</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:38:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the creation of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Jesse Stommel replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-rcws-creative-writing/forum/topic/petition-18/page/2/#post-4676</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 18:15:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sign to affirm that the Creative Writing group should be started at MLA this year.</p>
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				<title>W. Trent Hergenrader replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 14:25:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support this petition.</p>
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<p>Trent Hergenrader<br />
Rochester Institute of Technology</p>
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				<title>Robert R. Machado replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 13:07:33 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I endorse this petition.</p>
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				<title>Jason A. Schneiderman replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 02:07:38 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support this petition, and I volunteer to be on the committee.</p>
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				<title>Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 18:05:51 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the creation of this forum.</p>
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				<title>Francesco Levato replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 17:32:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m writing to support the creation of the Creative Writing forum, and to volunteer for the executive committee.</p>
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				<title>Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 16:05:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support this petition. Hania</p>
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				<title>Ellen Cecilia Mayock replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 16:01:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support this petition.</p>
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				<title>Margaret Vallone Gardineer replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 14:24:33 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the formation of this group.</p>
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				<title>Benjamin Miller replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: RCWS Creative Writing</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 13:41:14 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wholeheartedly support the creation of a Creative Writing forum within RCWS, and hope that it leads to fruitful conversation among students and scholars of writing across genres.</p>
<p>Benjamin Miller<br />
The Graduate Center, CUNY</p>
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