Teaching College English http://teachingcollegeenglish.com the glory and the challenges Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:08:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Planet Word Museum http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2020/09/11/planetword/ http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2020/09/11/planetword/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:07:28 +0000 http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/?p=15692 Planet Word Museum was supposed to open in May. However, due to the Pandemic, it did not open as scheduled.

Now, it is opening, officially, October 22.

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deadline for submissions: March 30, 2020

full name / name of organization: Spectral Visions Press (University of Sunderland)

contact email: theendisheresvp@gmail.com

Spectral Visions Press is now accepting submissions for The End is Here: A Book about the Apocalypse. We want to hear your unique take on the fall of civilisation, we want to see your visions of our potential future, and we want to journey into your dystopic worlds. If you have a story or poem that fits the brief, start submitting.

• Minimum 1,000 words, maximum of 5,000 words of prose or 30 lines of poetry.

• Submissions should be formatted as a word document; we cannot work with pdf.

• Submissions should be double-spaced, use a neutral font style, and font size of eleven.

• Please include your full name, email address, your piece’s title, the date of submission, and a short bio (100 words) all on a short cover letter.

• All work must be original and not have been used previously in another collection.

from UPenn’s CFPs

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PhD Comics, top hits for 2018.

http://phdcomics.com/top2018.php
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67 Hilarious Reasons Why the English Language is the Worst! from BoredPanda

Confusing English Language from TheBoreSite

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Feel free to read more than one.

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August 2: National Coloring Book Day

August 8: National Happiness Happens Day

August 9: National Book Lovers’ Day

August 14: National Creamsicle Day

August 16: National Tell a Joke Day

August 27: National Just Because Day

August 28: National Power Rangers Day AND National Bow Tie Day

]]> http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/08/01/august-days/feed/ 0 CFP: Pop Culture http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/06/19/cfp-pop-culture-2/ http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/06/19/cfp-pop-culture-2/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:17:42 +0000 http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/?p=15668 Continue reading "CFP: Pop Culture"]]> Studies in Popular Culture: A Call for Submissions for Spring 2020 issue

updated: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 – 11:12amDr. Lynnette Porter, Editor/Studies in Popular Culture, Popular Culture Assoc in the Southdeadline for submissions: Thursday, August 1, 2019

Studies in Popular Culture (SiPC) is looking for submissions for the Spring 2020 issue. This journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South (PCAS) publishes articles on popular culture however mediated through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events – any of the material or conceptual conditions of life. Contributors include distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, cultural geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in comics, communications, film, games, graphics, literature, philosophy, religion, and television.

from UPenn’s CFPs

]]> http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/06/19/cfp-pop-culture-2/feed/ 0 CFP: one-page story–wishes http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/06/01/cfp-one-page-story-wishes/ http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/2019/06/01/cfp-one-page-story-wishes/#respond Sun, 02 Jun 2019 04:14:06 +0000 http://teachingcollegeenglish.com/?p=15666 Continue reading "CFP: one-page story–wishes"]]> Tidbits: A One-Page Story Anthology is looking for stories on the theme of wishes

updated: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 – 2:46pmTidbits: A One-Page Story Anthologydeadline for submissions: Sunday, June 30, 2019

Theme: Wishes

www.tidbitswriting.com

We are looking for one-page story submissions to the inaugural edition of Tidbits: A One-Page Story Anthology. For this collection, we would like authors to consider the theme of wishes. This encompasses but is not limited to:
dreams 
hopes
fantasies 
needs
desires
wish-granting entities (genies, fairies, etc)
be careful what you wish for stories 
consequences of wishing
wishful thinking

from UPenn’s CFPs

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