StFX English Dept

Hey Antigonish! There's a blood donor clinic at St Ninian's! It's on this afternoon, tomorrow, and Thursday and there are still lots of open spots.

Pssst, students: free snacks

Make an appointment here www.blood.ca/en/blood/don...

Poster with images of three smiling writers Announcement: Poetry Reading by Triny Finlay with Anne Simpson and Melissa Kuipers Join us on Thursday November 13th 2pm at the Curious Cat Bookstore Presented by the Antigonish Review and the StFX department of English

Tomorrow!
Poetry Reading by Triny Finlay with Anne Simpson and Melissa Kuipers
2pm at the Curious Cat

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The government of Canada has identified 9 "Skills for Success" for your career

An English Degree from @stfx-university.bsky.social equips you with these skills, including reading, writing, communication, problem solving, collaboration, and creativity & innovation.

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Super excited for this weekend!! 🥰💚

@halconscificon.bsky.social
Booths C9 & C10 🛍️🩵
More sneak peeks soon! 📚✨

See you soon, everyone! We're open regular hours in Sackville as well! Friday and Saturday 11am-5pm 🛍️

Bridge Prize for Short Stories

Two $5000 prizes
$1000 + Munro's bookstore gift card for finalists

Open to "undergraduate and graduate students attending colleges and universities in Canada"

From @ulethbridge.ca and Munro's Books (Victoria)

www.ulethbridge.ca/liberal-educ...

$2000 prize for best poem from
@fiddlehd.bsky.social

Deadline 1 Dec
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

Nova Scotia Loyal Supports Local Authors, Publishers, Booksellers

Nova Scotians can receive $10 off one of 1,600 titles written by or published by Nova Scotians at 11 participating bookstores

news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/10/2...

Join us for an after-show talk about Zomblet!

With
Dan Bray, playwright
Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Canadian Theatre specialist
Prof. @crushton.bsky.social , zombie specialist
and Prof. @lauraestill.bsky.social , Shakespeare scholar

Weds 29 Oct
Show starts at 7:30 and runs ~90 mins

Poster featuring chapbook cover and judges' citation for five from hem, a poetry chapbook by Annick MacAskill. The citation reads, “Within the span of five poems, Annick MacAskill’s five from hem manages a feat few achieve even in a full-length work: the articulation of a personal poetics. Laying classical translation against vibrantly contemporary re-imaginings, and forming them along the lines of her own distinctive shorthand, MacAskill creates a snowglobe cosmos that transcends millenia.”

Poster with collage background, reading "the 2025 SHORT LIST" in cut-out letters. Poster also features the logo for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.

Oct 28-Nov 1 2025 Zomblet Written and Directed by Dan Bray (written in yellow and possibly bloodied, jagged text, with a skull as the O, on an ominous green and maroon background with subtle black zombie hands clawing at the bottom right)

Theatre Antigonish knows how to celebrate Hallowe'en!
Zomblet (a Zombie Hamlet!) by Dan Bray
28 October - 1 November, 2025

Tickets: www.festivalantigonish.ca

Poster: Antigonish Filmakers [sic] Meeting When: Tuesday, October 21st Where: Antigonish Library Community Room Discuss: Film Festvials - Workshops - Networking Black background with image of two people looking at a digital camera, both smiling

Poster: Antigonish Filmmakers Meeting
When: Tuesday, October 21st (7pm)
Where: Antigonish Library Community Room
Discuss: Film Festivals - Workshops - Networking

Event: www.facebook.com/events/81464...

Organizer:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

#NovaScotia

Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre competition for 2026 retreat - deadline 1 Dec ; application includes sample script

Details:
playwrightsatlantic.ca/news/parc-op...

From the English student society instagram - check it out!
www.instagram.com/p/DPe2JINEh5d/

Poster: The Socratic Circle, English & Histories Societies present: Grad school info session, October 16 4:30, MULH 2034. Come with questions for your professors! All are welcome! @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

From the StFX English Society:

Have any questions about applying to grad school? Come to the Humanities Grad School Info Session on Thursday, October 16th at 4:30!

We will have a panel of English, History, and Philosophy departments covering a variety of topics; bring any questions!

Poster: Are you an English student or a student interested in learning more about the English program? If so: join @stfx-university.bsky.social 's English society! Meet Like Minded peers and participate in a variety of events such as *trivia *Craft night *Book events *Movie Nights Find us at our booth during Society Night on Sept 15 to sign up for emails or follow us on instagram @stfxenglishsociety

Are you an English student or a student interested in learning more about the English program? If so: join @stfx-university.bsky.social 's English society!

Trivia! Crafts! Book events! Movie Nights!

Find us at our booth during Society Night on Sept 15

Have you been looking for a book club that's easy to join with no cost for books? Try Chapter 1 Club at the #Pictou Library. We're starting September 16th. Register now so you can join in on the conversation and the fun.

Find out what happens in Chapter 1 at the Murray Family Public Library!

Campus is abuzz as we get ready for the first day of classes tomorrow! Welcome back, students!

Student Job Alert!

Student Social Media Assistant for the Faculty of Arts, StFX
@stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

Hone your communication skills and get valuable experience. Details at link

recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...

Advertisement for ENGL 298:10 The Bible As Literature - The Hebrew Bible This course introduces students to the Bible as a great work of literature. We will focus on careful readings of selections from the Hebrew Scriptures (also referred to as the Old Testament). At the same time, we will examine various methods of Biblical criticism, typology, and the history of the Bible. We will read several of the most influential stories, identifying their literary styles, their linguistic and theological concerns, and their influence on society

"Judith Beheading Holofrenes" by Caravaggio, ca. 1600

NEW COURSE!
Bible as Literature

Have we got some stories for you! Talking donkeys (no, not that one), bribery, giant fish, more discussions of foreskins than you'd expect, and beheadings!

And these stories shape culture

Register now @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

Award notice: "The Society for Textual Scholarship GREETHAM PRIZE 2025 honoring the author of the best article published in the Society of Textual Scholarship's journal, Textual Cultures, is hereby award to Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, and Kris L. May, for "A Rationale of Trans-Inclusive Bibliography" (16.2-Fall 2023) - John Young / President | Society for Textual Scholarship May 30, 2025 logo: Society for Textual Scholarship

Honoured to receive the Greetham Prize w/ co-authors Heidi Craig & Kris May, for "the best article published in the Society’s journal, Textual Cultures, during the two calendar years since the previous award"

"A Rationale of Trans-inclusive Bibliography" scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
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Winners of the Red Cedar Book Awards announced Organized by British Columbia’s Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society, the fiction and non-fiction winners of the Red Cedar Book Awards were announced on May 19. The goal of the program is to encourage...

The winners of the 2025 Red Cedar Book Awards were recently announced. SILVERWING: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL and ALONE: THE JOURNEYS OF THREE YOUNG REFUGEES took home the honours. Learn more at bit.ly/43wLMwk

And check out some other upcoming literary events from the @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social linktree

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Nova Scotia Book Awards logo: a book, open, spine facing the viewer, with the spine looking like a lighthouse and the open pages the beacons of light

Coming up on Monday:

The Nova Scotia Book Awards! 📚 📚

Check out all the nominees and be sure to admire that logo

novascotiabookawards.ca

books rule

Poster with a lovely blue-green background: Gaelic Song and Digital Archives workshop. In white box a map of Nova Scotia with gaelic words including Céilidh, Seinn, Alba Nuadh, Séist, Faclan. Text: Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Index Tobair an Dualchais. The location info (now changed) and registration (now closed)

Today and tomorrow we are happy to host "Gaelic Song and Digital Archives" at @stfx-university.bsky.social ,organized by Heather Sparling (CBU) and Chelsey MacPherson (Dal)!

Thinking about linked open data, @rism.bsky.social , music encoding, Gaelic digital resources, and music data!

poster, created by a child using pencil crayons, that reads, in adorable block letters "STFX enGlish RocKs" - in blue and black alternating letters. There are stars, hearts, "yay," and "wow," and some panda stickers as decorations @stfx-university.bsky.social @stfxaut.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

New department poster just dropped

Full time job (Sept-Mar this coming school year), with priority to recent grads!

Curatorial intern at the @stfx-university.bsky.social Art Gallery

Attn: @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social @smuarts.bsky.social @artist-andy-pump.bsky.social

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Published today! "Renaissance Politics and Thought Today," a special issue of Renaissance and Reformation coedited by @stfx-university.bsky.social English professors Joseph Khoury and @lauraestill.bsky.social

DM if you would like access to any articles!

jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

Céilidh poster Images: woman in purple scarf (L); woman with harp and man with fiddle (R) 20 East Main Street (Antigonish heritage museum) 7:30pm, May 9th. Bring your instruments, a song, or just yourselves and join us for a céilidh hosted by Gaelic musicians: Mary Jane Lamond, Màiri Britton, and Bradley Murphy. Free admission.

9 May, 7:30 - Ceilidh at the Antigonish Heritage Museum