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• Focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• Research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet
• Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• It ys awesome
• Bookes!
Handsome blue banner with white text: ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Read closely. Think critically. Write effectively. Then @stfx-university.bsky.social logo (motto: Quacumque Sunt Vera over crest) with text St. Francis Xavier University
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The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. The background is blue with an open padlock. There is a photo of Brian Braganza in the bottom left corner. The graphic reads: Unlock your story. Enter our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. Deadline: June 1 2026. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Brian Braganza. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest
The Fiddlehead's 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest is now open for submissions!
The winner of the contest will receive $2000 and publication. Thank you to Brian Braganza for judging this year's contest.
Unlock your story. Find more information on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest
To submit your work for consideration for The Antigonish Review, visit: theantigonishreview.submittable.com/submit
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The Antigonish Review cover proof - Names on back cover: Cameron Alan, Michelle Barker, Adam Beardworth, Cho Ji Hoon, William Durham, Kate Georgalias, Greg Grace, Kevin Irie, Robert MacLean, Gareth Marks, Almeda Miller, T. L. Murphy, Sekyo Nam Halnes, Renée Sgroi, Josh Stenberg, Cheri Wilson, Zaynab Baksh, David Barrick, MAtthew Betti, Susie Decoste, Max Friedman-Cole, Veronika Gorlova, Bill Howell, Trish Joudrey, Carin Makuz, Jory Mickelson, Roni Muench, Sabyasachi Nag, Luke Sawczak, Becky Slate-Liu, Maureen Thorson, Charis Young Front Cover: The Antigonish Review 217 Fall 2025 and 217 Winter 2026 Poetry - Fiction - Literary Insights In this issue: Carin Makuz "Violet's Breast" - Roni Muench "Little Auk"- Poetry by Veronika Gorlova, Bill Howell, Kevin Irie, Robert Maclean, Sabyasachi Nag Plus A World Tour, Wildlife Huntings, Stains and Loss, and more Image: two beautifully drawn herons wading in water
The Fall 2025 - Winter 2026 (vol 57-58) double issue of The Antigonish Review is coming your way!
The Antigonish Review is one of Canada's oldest literary magazines. This double issue is the first edited by @wrightkailin.bsky.social at @stfx-university.bsky.social
Image: Dr. Kailin Wright next to two book covers Slings & Arrows; No Mother No Future Image: Dr. Conall Cash next to book cover: Far from the Masters Image: Dr. Laura Estill next to two book covers: The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies and the Routledge companion to Digital Humanities in Practice Text: Book Launch 4:00pm March 12 2026 Scholar's Walk, Mulroney Hall Department of English, StFX University
Book launch!
12 March 4pm, Scholars Walk @stfx-university.bsky.social
Feat. books by @wrightkailin.bsky.social , Conall Cash, & @lauraestill.bsky.social
4 collections: on Slings & Arrows, French Cinema, early modern digital humanities, & DH writ large
& 1 🌟monograph🌟: on reproductive justice
Stay tuned for information about a book launch at @stfx-university.bsky.social ! @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social
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Prof Kailin Wright, smiling from ear to ear, shelving a copy of No Mother, No Future in her office at @stfx-university.bsky.social
A beautiful book cover with mauve damask background. Series: @routledgebooks Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. Title: No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss Author: Kailin Wright
Prof. @wrightkailin.bsky.social 's newest monograph arrived today!
"No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss" ( @routledgebooks.bsky.social , 2026) is set to be a field-defining work.
Congratulations!
Table of Contents and to order:
www.routledge.com/No-Mother-No...
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Follow the @stfx-university.bsky.social English Department Student Society on the 'gram
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Poster with light blue background Top Text: StFX English Book Club Meeting Image: Book Cover: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Bottom Text: Thursday, 5 March, 6-8pm Candid Brewing @stfx-university.bsky.social
Join the StFX English Student Society Book Club for a discussion of @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social 's Heated Rivalry 🏒💕❤️🔥
5 March, 6-8pm at Candid
#HeatedRivalry #Hollanov
→ #CoalitionPublica Student Editor Grants - Call for Applications 🎓
Are you part of a student journal and interested in learning new skills and developing capacity, or are you planning a specific project?
Consider applying!
⏱️ April 12, 2026
👉 www.coalition-publi.ca/student-jour...
Red book cover with white text: Far from the Masters: Experimentations in Post-New Wave French Cinema Edited by Conall Cash and Corey P. Cribb Image in the middle of the cover of three white men in red theatre seats, one wearing a naval tam, one looking at a book or program with his feet up, and another (only the top of his head is visible) looking ahead to where a movie screen is, presumably
Congratulations to Dr. Conall Cash on the recent publication of his collection, "Far from the Masters: Experimentations in Post-New Wave French Cinema," edited with Dr. Corey P. Cribb
From Index Press
www.index-press.com/publications...
An image of a handsome hardcover book, “Slings and Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television”, with a picture of William Hutt on stage on the cover. The book sits on a wooden table next to a mug with a heart and a pen.
Hot off the presses!
"Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare in Theatre and Television," edited by @wrightkailin.bsky.social (@stfx-university.bsky.social) and Don Moore (@uofguelph.bsky.social)
From @uoftpress.bsky.social
For Table of Contents, visit utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Out now:
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice
www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Edited by @lauraestill.bsky.social , @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J Lane, and Constance Crompton
And it's open access!
@routledgebooks.bsky.social @stfx-university.bsky.social
StFX English students transcribe historical letters for digitization project, collaborating with @stfx-university.bsky.social StFX Library and Special Collections
Read about moving from Scotland to Nova Scotia (1805-1842), family ties, economics, farming, & daily life
www.stfx.ca/news/mcgrego...
poster for talk: "Words of Wisdom: Sententiae and Proverbs in Early Modern English Plays" @stfx-university Humanities Colloquium Lecture by Dr. Laura Estill Thursday 5 February 2026 at 7:30pm MULH 3034, open to all. Image: sig. C2 from Q1 Hamlet with Corambis speech with commonplace markers in print echoed by added manuscript commonplace markers
This Thursday! Come hear @lauraestill.bsky.social give the Humanities Colloquium Lecture at @stfx-university.bsky.social on "Words of Wisdom: Sententiae and Proverbs in Early Modern English Plays"
Murder! Shakespeare! Oedipus! Typography! This lecture has it all.
www.stfx.ca/events/human...
Coming up! @stfx-university.bsky.social Hive For Feminist Research
This Friday (16 Jan) from 12:30-2:30 in Coady 265
@drcatherinegirard.bsky.social (Art, Women and Gender Studies) and @wrightkailin.bsky.social (English) will present
See you there!
Join us for a 9-month Assistant Professorship with specialty in Children's Lit! Please share widely
Application deadline is not firm, so send your materials in when they're ready.
Antigonish, Nova Scotia is lovely--hope to see you here
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Save Canada's Interlibrary Loans
We teach and research in a rural area. Interlibrary loans are part of what makes that happen. We need, appreciate, and love our interlibrary loans!
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In partnership with @NS, Antigonish People's Place library is offering technology training in the branch as well as in surrounding areas.
Give Kristine a call and book and appointment at 902-863-4276
Limited Term appointment: Children's Literature
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Four smiling and proud undergraduate students who have just earned their @stfx-university.bsky.social ring
Congratulations to everyone who earned their X-rings last night!
We are especially proud of our English majors. Here are some English Student Society execs celebrating: Bella, Abby, Lauryn, and Caroline 🎉🥳
Follow the English Student Society on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stfxenglishs...
Gift a Book, library fundraising campaign 12 Nov to 31 Dec 2025 ruby red background, with sparkly snowflakes, and a stack of gift wrapped parcels,
'tis the season!
Gift a Book season! ... our annual Library Fundraising Campaign, for new books & DVDs! 💗
Celebrate the Holiday season & give back by sponsoring the purchase of a new book, DVD or CD for the Library! 🎁 📚
www.parl.ns.ca/events/gifta...
🎬 Get some background on Hamnet’s hidden history and listen to StFX’s Dr. Laura Estill on CBC’s Day 6 as she spills the Bard tea on what we really know about Shakespeare and his son. 📻🔥 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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StFX English prof on CBC's Day 6
@stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social
#shakespeare
www.stfx.ca/news/Dr-Laur...
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...
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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
Image with "Skills for Success" in the centre, and then the following around the edges: Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Problem Solving, Reading, Digital, Collaboration, Adaptability, Writing, Numeracy
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.
www.canada.ca/en/services/...
