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<p class="MsoNormal">Please remember the deadline for submissions to the Sigma Tau Delta Conference is MONDAY, October 26. The conference will be March 2-5 in Minneapolis, which has an amazing skywalk connecting the city, so there is no need to go outside.
The chapter, department, and university will pay for your attendance if you are accepted. Submissions of scholarly and creative work (fiction, poetry, drama) are all accepted. See
<a href="http://www.englishconvention.org/conv/2016/submissions/">http://www.englishconvention.org/conv/2016/submissions/</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A list of speakers have been proposed for the 2017 conference in Lexington, Kentucky. I would appreciate your input on who you would like to hear if you were attending a conference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Vander Meer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aimee Bender<br>
Cynthia Kadohata<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Silas House<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Feel free to make other suggestions as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Diane Dowdey, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society<br>
Sam Houston State University<br>
Box 2146<br>
Huntsville, TX 77341<br>
936-294-4217<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that
you really want to say.<br>
- <i>Mark Twain's Notebook</i>, 1902-1903 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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