pushing a publication.

So I know it's been a long time since I last posted, and I know that this post was due a while ago, but I wanted to wait until I knew for sure that I was going to submit my essay to a publishable venue rather than make a video.  I could make a video, but I feel that I would have more pride in my essay if I submitted it.  Not to mention, if I submit it, I think that it would be more improved than if I didn't submit it.

Professor Burton had emailed me about a week and a half ago regarding a venue I could submit it to.  It was through BYU's humanities program regarding women's studies.  Since I am writing about feminism and feminist writing by a male author, I think that this would be the perfect venue to submit to.  I know that a lot of you in the class are also writing about feminism, and so, I would like to include the email here for you to check out.  Maybe you'll also want to submit it here.

Best wishes!

Dear Colleagues: The Women's Studies Program is pleased to announce the new Susa Young Gates Award for Best Student Essay in Women's Studies. Please let your students know about this opportunity and as you read their papers at the end of the semester, please encourage your students to submit their best essays on Women's Studies for this award and our student journal. The BYU Women's Studies student journal, AWE: A Woman's Experience, is now accepting essays for next year's issue, as well as applications for new editorial staff members. Please see the information below and the attachments. Best wishes for a great end of the semester, Valerie

Funnies While Working/ Richard Enjoys His Paper

So...

I have been working on my paper and was on the topic of my thesis.  The general idea is that Jay Gatsby is not like everyone else in all works involved in my paper.  Can anyone guess what song popped into my head?

This song popped into my head.

By the way, I want to go off on a slight tangent right now fueled by my adhd perspective of everything and anything and all thing....s....

Did anybody ever watch Sesame Street when they were little?  I didn't realize how old all of that was or is.  When I was younger, the puppets/monsters looked more believable or realistic to me.  But I look at it now and I can't help thinking, "What kind of fabric did they use on Cookie Monster?"

I Came, I Sought, I Sherlocked!

Dear Technology,
You're great and all, but I think that you are too smart for your own, and MY own, well being.
Sincerely,
Gratified Student detective who has been hunting sources for her paper.

WEEKS!  weeks and weeks and hours upon hours have had me searching databases for sources that looked like they could be even a... tiny... bit relevant.  But there was always too much that seemed to cover too little and self preservation would kick in and I would shut down.

WELL NOT TODAY! {insert triumphal punch into the air like I'm a cool superhero or something!}

Harold, my dear library, today you just got Sherlocked! KAPOW!

... meaning, a computer wasn't giving me much, so I went to the shelves.

It's amazing what you can find when you do research the "old fashioned way"

Now I can fill my paper with the background it was so desperately needing!! 

Formal publications, here I come!

I have explored many different places where I could submit my paper about Gail Carson Levine' fairy-tale adaptations for publication, but I have come to the conclusion that the best place for it to go is to the BYU Scholars Archive. I have contemplated several guest blogs such as Interesting Literature but decided that my paper is too formal for that kind of blog, and the literature that I am analyzing is not "classic" literature which is what they seem to be looking for.

The other venue that I am seriously considering is called the International Student Journal. It accepts more formal papers and on a variety of topics. It's perfect for my Ella and Aza analysis! I am going to focus on those two venues now as I focus my paper throughout this week.

Addendum: I have also submitted my paper to AWE, the BYU Women's Study Journal since I am addressing topics of feminism in literature.

Two Outlets for a Paper on Faulkner

I am still very interested in submitting my paper to the BYU English Symposium. After attending, I know that it would be a great way for me to start small and learn how to present my ideas to a group of peers and professors. The English Symposium also accepts a wide variety of papers, which will give me a lot of freedom with what I want to say in my paper.

However, I also found a call for papers for May 1st. It is the Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference located in Mississippi. The graduate students are putting on this conference and calling critical and creative works focused primarily on Southern writers. If I submit my paper to this conference, I will have to focus more on the Southern nature of As I Lay Dying and how that affects Faulkner's portrayal of the family. The conference is on the 17th-19th of June. I think this would be a good way to focus my writing.

...

I just saw Kate's comment on my most recent post, and she gave me a great outlet for my paper that I hadn't found yet! It's the CFP Faulkner and Print Culture Conference, and submissions are due in January. I will definitely be considering how I can tie my paper into one of the topics suggested in the information for this conference! Thanks, Kate!

Where to Publish? Where to Present?

I've been struggling to find a venue to submit my paper to that is still accepting papers. Like Kate, I plan to submit my paper to the English Symposium (at BYU) next year, but I need something that I can submit to soon. However, with the English Symposium I can't simply submit my paper for publication, I would have to actually present it to an audience. While presenting in front of people is not my strong point, I think that it would be easier to explain my argument through a presentation rather than a paper. I think it could be more engaging that way.

Update:
I looked into a site that Tori posted about, the International Student Journal and I think that it could be a good place to publish my paper. Also, I had completely forgotten about the Scholars Archive at BYU until I read Tori's post. So, that might be an option as well. Basically, thank you Tori for posting about your possible venues!

Trying to Find An Outlet for My Morrie Paper

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As I've gotten further in my writing, I've been trying to find good venues for publication or presentation, and it's kind of super frustrating. All the interesting places I've found seem to have just finished accepting application or submissions. Grr. BUT I will find something, and I will find it really fast. I know I'm for sure going to submit it to the English Symposium for next year, but I can't do that right away, so I need to see if I can submit it to something sooner.

In preparing to submit it to the English Symposium for next year, I've found myself writing more consciously because if I present it at a conference like the Symposium, I'd actually be talking to people about it. I can write okay, but I really loathe talking to people. I'm just not good at it. So as I've been writing, I've tried to put a lot of legitimate emotion into it to make it easier for myself if I ever do get the chance to present it somewhere!