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  • UNCW Writers' Week 2018
    Posted: October 25, 2018
    UNCW Writers' Week 2018

    Each year, Writers' Week brings together visiting writers of local and national interest, UNCW students and members of the general public with an interest in literature and writing. Activities throughout the week include workshops, panels, and readings.

    Learn more about Writer's Week: https://uncw.edu/writersweek/index.html

    Randall Library is proud to support the UNCW Department of Creative Writing's 2018 Writers' Week! In support, we have created a digital gallery to find books from this year's featured writers in the library catalog.

    Visit our gallery: https://library.uncw.edu/gallery/writers_week_2018

     

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  • Randall Library Halloween Costume Contest 2018
    Posted: October 22, 2018
    Randall Library Halloween Costume Contest 2018

    Randall Library is hosting an Instagram Halloween Costume Contest from Oct 22nd – Oct. 31st. The first 3 students with the most “likes” by the end of the contest will win one of our three ULTIMATE TRICK OR TREAT BASKETS full of candy and goodies!

     

     

     

     

     

    How to enter:

    1.) Take a photo/selfie in costume inside the library starting (today) Oct. 22nd and ending Oct 31st at midnight. (Please, no inappropriate costumes.)

    2.) Share your photo/selfie with the library via Instagram using @uncwlibrary and the hashtag #RLhalloween2018.

    3.) The top 3 posts with the most “likes” by the end of the contest will be declared the winners.

    4.) All votes will be tallied on Nov 1st and all winners will be notified via a Direct Message to their IG account.

    5.) You must be a UNCW student to participate.

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  • Graduate Student Workshops
    Posted: October 15, 2018
    Graduate student workshops promotion image

    For Graduate Students

    Randall Library is offering a workshop series for graduate students that starts this fall and ends in the spring semester. The series is intended to help graduate students along the road to research success! Workshops will cover an introduction to Randall Library; an overview of literature reviews; how to search for literature by your discipline; citation managers; data and statistics; and intellectual property, fair use, and copyright. There are six workshops included in the series and students can attend any number of workshops either in person or virtually. Registration is required. For more information about each workshop and to register: https://library.uncw.edu/graduate_student_workshops.

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  • Randall Library welcomes NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
    Posted: October 08, 2018
    A portrait of Jaki Shelton Green

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Meet NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green

    A portrait of Jaki Shelton Green

    In honor of NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green's UNCW visit, Randall Library will be displaying books authored by Green from our collection along with past works of previous NC Poet Laureates. The display is located on the first floor of Randall Library.

    Green will be giving a presentation at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18 in the Cultural Arts Building Mainstage Theatre, Room 1069 as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series in the Humanities. She will discuss “The Poet as Documentarian, Historian and Agitator.” Free and open to all. 

    Green's work includes Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, Blue Opal, a play. Feeding the Light and i want to undie you (both published by Jacar Press). She is the co-editor of two anthologies: Poets for Peace, Immigration Emigration and Diversity published by Chapel Hill Press, Inc. and currently serves as editor for the Jacar Press New Voices Series. 

    To learn more about our current NC Poet Laureate and past NC Poet Laureates stop by Randall Library and check out our display!

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  • Wentworth Fellows Showcase
    Posted: October 04, 2018
    Fall 2018 Wentworth Fellows Poster Session
    Wentworth Fellowship Poster Session

    Randall Library is proud to host the Fall 2018 UNCW Wentworth Fellows Poster Session, Wednesday, November 7 through November 9.

    Please stop by Wednesday, November 7 between 3-5 PM to meet the fellows in person and to find out how Randall Library can help you with your travel and research projects.

    About the Wentworth Fellowship

    The Wentworth Fellowship, a gift of Mr. Charles F. Green III, was established in 2001 to enable a select number of students to travel to sites in America and abroad that are associated with literary authors and texts.  Each year, students work with faculty sponsors to submit applications detailing journeys inspired by and connected with a specific text, author, or movement in an effort to explore the relationship of artistic production to geographic space. In the past, Wentworth Fellows have travelled to places as diverse as Beijing, Moscow, Oxford, Berlin, Prince Edward Island, and Providence, Rhode Island. 

    This Year's Wentworth Fellows

    (Photo above) Zijun Bu stands next to her poster at the 2018 Wentworth Fellows Spring presentation in Randall Library. She showcased her journey to New York City where she visited the sites important to horror writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe. - Photo by Hanna Wickes

    Zijun Bu 2018 Wentworth Fellows Spring presentation in Randall Library. Photo by Hanna Wickes

    A complete list of the 2017-2018 Fellows, the authors they researched, and the places they traveled: 

    Shannon Bradburn, Eastern Seaboard of U.S.

    Mary Claire Childers, New York City

    Angela Ciarletta, Geneva, Switzerland

    Spencer Conn, San Francisco, U.S.

    Becka Jackson, Prince Edward Island, Canada 

    Ashley Merkingler, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Trae Toler, Warsaw, Poland

    Be a Wentworth Fellow

    If you’re an English major or minor and would like more information on the Wentworth Travel Fellowship, please see https://uncw.edu/english/eia/awards.html

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