Dear Graduate Students, Hope you all had a restorative spring break! Please read on for some important updates. NANCY COMLEY PRIZE We have extended the submission deadline for our annual Nancy Comley Prize to this *Wednesday, April 27*. Please do consider submitting something, whether it's an essay you wrote for an MA class that you're really proud of, a work-in-progress, or your thesis essay—you've got nothing to lose! See attached (and pasted below) for submission guidelines. GRAD CONFERENCE SAVE-THE-DATE We're so excited that our 8th annual QC English Graduate Conference, on the theme of "Catastrophe and Community," is coming up at the end of next week! We are holding the hybrid conference over two days to accommodate the most people—*in person at QC on Thursday, May 5, from 4–7pm*, and via *Zoom on Friday, May 6, from 10:30am–5:30pm*. There will also be a few asynchronous presentations that will be shared online next week. More details to come very soon, but we hope many of you will join us for what promises to be a fantastic event! SUMMER STIPENDS You may have already seen the announcement re: summer stipends of $200–$500 for matriculated grad students taking Summer 2022 courses at QC. To apply, please fill out the form at https://forms.office.com/r/JACs7hnN51. Deadline is this *Wednesday, April 27, at 5pm*. We'll email again soon, including with info about how to sign up for ENGL 791 for Fall 2022. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to email us both if you have any other questions or need advising. We may be a bit slower to respond as we catch up with emails post-break, but one of us will get back to you as soon as we can. Best, Caroline & Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies in English -- Dr. Caroline Kyungah Hong Associate Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies (English MA) Queens College, CUNY *she/her/hers* * Please note that I am off email on weekends and will respond to your email during business hours, Monday–Friday 9am–5pm, generally within 1–2 business days. ---------- Forwarded message --------- *2022 NANCY COMLEY PRIZE* for the best essay by a QC English MA, MS Ed, or MAT student Named for the long-standing Chair of the English Department, the Nancy Comley Prize was established in 2012 to honor the best essay written by a graduate student matriculated in the Queens College English MA, MS Ed, or MAT programs. The prize is sponsored by the English Department Alumni Fund. All currently matriculated English MA, MS Ed, and MAT students, as well as master’s students who graduated in Fall 2021, are eligible. Submissions should be 10–25 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in standard 12-point font, with 1-inch margins and page numbers. They must be carefully proofread and formatted according to current MLA style <https://style.mla.org/mla-format/>, including a Works Cited page. The deadline for submissions is *Monday, April 25, 2022*. All entries must be submitted via email to MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu. Before submitting your entry, please take careful note of the following instructions: - Essays must be submitted in DOC, DOCX, or PDF formats. - The filename for your essay should read “[CUNYfirst ID number]NancyComleyPrize.” If you don’t know your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number, please look it up before submitting your essay. - In the body of your email, make sure to include the following information: 1. Your full name 2. Your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number 3. The title of your essay § Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere in your essay, which will be anonymously read by the prize judges, who are faculty members serving on the English Department’s MA Committee. Winners will be contacted by Monday, May 2. We will then announce the award winner and honor them at the department writing prizes ceremony (details TBA). Questions about the Nancy Comley Prize should be directed to the Directors of Graduate Studies in English at MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu.