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Call for Entries: Ruminate Magazine's 2012 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize

Ruminate Magazine is pleased to announce our 2nd annual creative nonfiction contest--the 2012 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. The entry fee is $15 and the winning prize is $1000 and publication in the Summer 2012 Issue. The deadline has been extended to February 1st.

Writers may view the full guidelines and submit their work via the Ruminate website.


Why Major In English?

Sidney Harman, multimillionaire CEO of Harman Kardon says he doesn't find it all that valuable to hire MBAs: "Get me some poets as managers. Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obliged to interpret and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world turns. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."

And this quote from Disney CEO-turned-venture capitalist Michael Eisner in a recent edition of WSJ Magazine:

“A lot of people can learn to write computer code and understand the inner workings of the technological revolution we’re going through, but if you’re going to be in content, I would rather you understand what makes a good narrative. To find people who can make you laugh or cry or smile or get upset or learn something about yourself. Those people are rare. They are rarer, frankly, than the others. We always talk about the lack of engineers in America. I would say we lead in what is most important to create all this, which is the education system for liberal-arts students. To me, that’s key.”


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Check out the latest edition of the English Department's newsletter, Et Cetera

November 2011

We've started to archive some of our editions of Et Cetera.

Check them out here!