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The fall 2015 Sigma Tau Delta: International English Honor Society Poetry Contest will open September 7th. No submissions will be accepted after noon on October 21st.

Turn your submissions in to the box in Hardin Administration 212.

Submissions are limited to 3 poems. The poems may be no longer than 50 lines each. If you turn in more than three poems, none of your poems will be accepted.

You should not have identifying information on your poems.

With your poems, please turn in a cover letter that includes the following information:

Name
Classification and major
ACU email
Phone
Titles of poems (or the first lines, if there are no titles)

The Awards Ceremony will take place on October 31st at 10 am. It is tentatively scheduled for the Campus Center Living Room.

There will be an opportunity to read the poetry submitted.

Plans for the ceremony include a speaker, the Sigma Tau Delta: Tau Epsilon induction, and the opportunity for poets to read their poems.

If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Davis at shd11a@acu.edu.

Sigma Tau Delta: Tau Epsilon has new officers.
Kirby Lemon is serving as our president.
Alyssa Ross is serving as our vice president.

Thank you, ladies!

Sarah Bateman
Paige Daugherty
Nicole A. Garza
Itzell Gomez
Sarah Caite Groveunder
Mattie Herrera
Kirby Lemon
Catherine Longest
Stephanie M. Martin
William Medicott
Kennedy Morrison
Jacquelyn Perez
Alyssa Ross
Christen Scaggs
Sherrell Scott
Kelcei Young

Due to inclement weather, and two more snow days this week, the induction at Chapel on the Hill has been postponed.

No new date has been set yet.

Sigma Tau Delta, Tau Epsilon’s Fall 2014 Short Fiction Contest winners were chosen by four long-time members of the Abilene Writer’s Guild. Thank you to these wonderful folks for reading all the submissions, ranking them, and providing critiques of the works.

Flash Fiction
1st place: Lindsay Snyder for “239 Beech Street”
2nd place: Alikay Wood for “So It Was in the Beginning”
3rd place: Daniel Merritt for “The Return”

Short Story
1st place: Ariane Peveto for “Apostrophe”
2nd place: Alikay Wood for “Academy”
3rd place: Stephanie Whitlow for “Waiting for Nothing”

Winners received:
1st place: $100
2nd place: $50
3rd place: $25

Dr. Chris Willerton, professor of English, is retiring this year after more than 40 years at ACU. Willerton taught creative writing, British literature, and freshman composition. He helped create the Honors College and was its first dean.

Family, friends, former students, and colleagues attended the retirement celebration on April 25.

Willerton’s contributions to ACU, particularly to the Honors College and the English department, were detailed by Dr. Dave Merrell, Dr. Bill Walton, and Dr. Nancy Jordan. Meagan May, a former student both in English and the Honors College, talked about Dr. Willerton as a professor.

The Department of Language and Literature presented Dr. Willerton with a pristine first edition of his favorite book by Dorothy L. Sayer, The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement.

Josh Bonnet-Dingle
James Churchill
Ben Clardy
Julia Curtis
Ashley Dillin
Regan Dismukes
Nicholas Fields
Angela Fogle
Abigail Fransen
Chandler Gum
Rory Harris
Maggie Marshall
Emily B. Moses
Lauren Noack
Whitney Pittard
Kalyn Prince
Brandy Rains
Joshua Ramseur
Amanda Rigby
Taylor Schmitt
Lauren Shrader
Tyler Siman
Victoria Stowe
Conner Strickland
Hannah Wagner
Kelsey Weems
Alicia Wood
Elisa Wyrick

Based on the judgements of five judges, all published poets from the community who are unrelated to ACU, this year’s Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry Contest Winners are:

1st Place:
Adrian Patenaude, “I Wonder”

2nd Place:
Brett Butler, “Paths”

3rd Place:
Nicole Nelson, “Regrets”

4th Place:
Ariene Peveto, “Graphic”

Although originally Sigma Tau Delta intended to have only three winners, the judges were overwhelmingly impressed by the work submitted and asked to be able to nominate additional works.

Even when the “top 3” was expanded to “top 5,” they added other works as Honorable Mentions.

Due to the financial exigencies of the contest, Sigma Tau Delta could not award cash prizes for all the students whose poems were nominated, though a fourth prize was added.

The following are students whose poems were identified by the judges as excellent:
Nathan Ashlock
Sarah Banowsky
Elizabeth Bernhardt
Ammie Brooks
Zach Carstens
Emily Eastman
Rebecca Fowler
Greg Jeffers
Andrew Koenig
Jacqueline Peveto
Stephanie Whitlow

Sigma Tau Delta sponsored a poetry contest again this semester. This year we had 58 entries!

Published writers from the Abilene area, not associated with ACU, have volunteered to be the judges. That is such a benefit to the student poets.

Thirteen members of Sigma Tau Delta, along with their families and friends, were in attendance at this year’s induction on March 29th in Chapel on the Hill.

Erica Stallings, from the Abilene Chamber of Commerce, spoke on English after college and the importance of reading, writing, and grammar in the everyday work world. She encouraged the members of Sigma Tau Delta in their plans to enter education, publishing, and marketing, but said that the ability to read and write well is an essential component of many jobs. “Your writing is being judged all the time,” she told the group.

Two senior members, Ashley Alexander and Javan Furlow, officers for 2012-2013, received their certificates and cords at the induction.

After being corded, they assisted Dr. Suanna Davis, sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta, in the induction ceremony for the new members. (This year’s officers were out of town presenting at the Alpha Chi Conference.)

Eleven of the twenty new members of Sigma Tau Delta were inducted into the Honor Society and received a journal and a memorial bookmark, handed to them by either Javan or Ashley.

More than fifty people participated in the ceremony and enjoyed the refreshments afterwards.

New Sigma Tau Delta members at the induction:
Ben Clardy V
Nicholas Fields
Angela Fogle
Abilgail Fransen
Chandler Gum
Emily Moses
Lauren Noack
Kalyn Prince
Amanda Rigby
Tyler Sirman
Alikay Wood

New Sigma Tau Delta members who were unable to attend the induction:
Julia Curtis
Regan Dismukes
Rory Harris
Maggie Marshall
Whitney Pittard
Brandy Rains
Lauren Shrader
Victoria Stowe
Kelsey Weems