ASU Department of English

10/10/2026

It's almost time to send your poetry that "evokes a connection to place" to the $1K Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize contest, which accepts submissions Nov. 23 to Jan. 31. ASU English Chair Nush Powell is on this year's selection committee.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/GGKG50ZIjui

Accepting Submissions of Original Work November–January

10/09/2026

Capping off Banned Books Week, ASU English professor Josh Coleman was part of a recent ASU Humanities Institute event that discussed the effects of declining access to books on college education.

Learn more via ASU State Press: https://ow.ly/5hPE50ZWrQQ

Professors engaged in a discussion about what book banning is and how it impacts intellectual freedom at the university level.

10/09/2026

Non/Fiction Friday: "Humor in Mavis Gallant’s stories is important for its leavening effects; her wit is sly, slightly wicked, never mean."

—ASU Professor Emeritus Melissa Pritchard.

Read more in The Marvelous Paragraph Project: https://ow.ly/eJsy50ZKXi3

In the early 1980s, few MFA Creative Writing programs existed in this country. As a midwestern housewife and mother, lacking time or money for any writing program, I taught myself to write fiction. My “method?” First, read a story for pleasure, then fillet it sentence by sentence, paragraph by p...

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

Discover a curated selection of titles from Bilingual Press | Editorial Bilingüe, highlighting more than five decades of literary, scholarly and creative works by and about Latino, Chicano and Latino American communities. The featured collection, in partnership with the ASU Hispanic Research Center, is located at Hayden Library on Level 1.

Spanning English, Spanish, and bilingual editions, the collection traces the evolution of the press while celebrating literature that connects readers across languages and cultures.

10/08/2026

You'll find qapla' (success) in this spring '27 course 🖖Learn basic methods of linguistic analysis using systems like Klingon, High Valyrian and Dovahzul—languages created for T.V. & games in ENG 294: Fictional Languages.

Register/add to favs: https://ow.ly/PMRM50ZUFzc

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10/07/2026

In a record year for ASU Fulbrights, English professor Claudia Sadowski-Smith was awarded a Fulbright to teach and research migration literature at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/k5IX50ZVaja

Arizona State University has had a record year for faculty Fulbright awards, with 15 receiving awards for 2026–27 from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board — the most ASU has ever received in a competition year.

10/06/2026

The Department of English at ASU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, with a focus to include teaching, research and scholarship in Indigenous literature, media, language or related fields. Apply by Oct. 30.

Learn more/apply: https://ow.ly/sUc950ZULKQ

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Level up in spring '27! 🎲 ENG 294: Dungeons and Dragons! is a gamified course examining the origins, literary influences & cultural controversies behind the “World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game.”

No experience needed! Register/add to favs on ASU Class Search: https://ow.ly/NH1k50ZU7EC