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Submission due date: The Alan Miller Memorial Award for Writing on the Environment
  • Date: Friday, April 18th, 20142014-04-18
  • Time: 4:30pm
  • Location: English Office (Cherry Hall 135)English Office (Cherry Hall 135)
Description:

Submissions may include, but are not limited to, a scholarly and/or creative work that:

•    Emphasizes environmental issues

•    Supports agrarianism—promoting rural societies, the support of agricultural groups, and the
significance of the farmer

•    Addresses the current state of the environment and how it can be improved, be it locally, nationally, or globally.

•    Discusses the debate between conservation and spirituality of the human/non-human world

•    Offers a criticism of pro-industrial development versus destruction of nature

•    Discusses strategies in maintaining environmental sustainability

•    Exposes the presence of human beings and their role/impact in nature

 Previous Winner: Meghan Kennedy, “Their Land, My Land, and The Grapes of Wrath

 The winner of this award will receive $200.

DEADLINE: April 18, 2014.

Leave submissions in Cherry Hall 135 by closing time at 4:30 p.m.

Please contact Dr. Ted Hovet with questions.

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