The 2024 Lewis & Clark Creative Nonfiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The 2024 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize Contest at Lewis & Clark College is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning poet is awarded a cash prize of $100 and acknowledgement in the Academy’s newsletter. Poems can be previously published. For more information about the Academy of American Poets, visit www.poets.org.

Join us to discuss Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, this year’s Everybody Reads selection from Multnomah County Library.

Tuesday, March 19 at 3:30 in Watzek Library Classroom 245.  Refreshments will be served! RSVP requested. 

Submissions due by 5pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.

Jerry Harp and Reiko Hillyer are holding an information session for students and faculty interested in learning about Jerry’s Fall 2024 Inside-Out Prison-Exchange Program class, English 201: Poetry 1, and how to apply. 

Please join Michael Mirabile as he discusses his latest book, “Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s” with Jerry Harp. 

Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor with Term in the English department, specializing in Radical Film, Films Adapting Fictions, American Crime and Suspense Fiction, and Postmodernist and Contemporary American Fiction.

Day 2 of the 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium focuses on the ways in which digital technology, internet platforms, and online spaces have shaped and been shaped by understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality.

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, multidisciplinary panels, workshops, readings, and other events, as well as an art exhibition. View the complete event schedule for details. 

Join us today at 3 p.m. in the library atrium for tea and coffee in honor of three students who have won this year’s Himes & Duniway Society Book Collecting Prize.

Join the Ethnic Studies program in welcoming Professor Matt Guterl (Brown University) to talk about his memoir, Skinfolk, a haunting, poignant story of growing up in a multiracial family.

LC English welcomes Claire Vaye Watkins as the fourth of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

LC English welcomes Ama Codjoe, the third of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

Please join us on Tuesday, December 5th at 6pm for the ENG 400 Fiction Capstone Reading and help us celebrate the accomplishments of these student writers! Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

LC English welcomes Charif Shanahan as the second of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

An opportunity for students to have conversation with L&C faculty in Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies.

Please join us for 2023 Dixon Award winner Kit Graf’s presentation, “W.B. Yeats as Father Figure.”

Through examination of papers housed at the National Library in Dublin, Kit Graf explores a fuller picture of Yeats as a father and how his work was shaped by his domestic space and the raising of his two children.

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

LC English welcomes Lisa Wells as the first of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

Join LC Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi when he discusses his new novel THE REFUGEE OCEAN (Simon & Schuster, October 2023) in conversation with Jon Raymond, at Powell’s City of Books. All are welcome to attend and celebrate.

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

A Mellon Foundation Event:

The humanities—literature and philosophy, history and languages, ethnic studies and the arts—all have something to teach us about civic engagement in the United States. This October is National Arts and Humanities Month, an opportunity to celebrate and explore the crucial role of culture and humanities in our everyday lives.

Join Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, for a discussion about what the humanities can offer us in the upcoming presidential election and the crucial role they play in driving civic engagement in American communities. Guests for this livestream include Juan Felipe Herrera, former US Poet Laureate, performer, and activist; and Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University.

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium

Interested? We’d love to have you! The event is open to all First Year students and space is limited.

Register Here

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

Calling all English majors, English minors, and English-curious: commemorate the start of the year with us! We humbly offer you games, good times, and [food cart food tbd] while supplies last!

Amy Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner. Her first collection, NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023), is about Lilith, the mythic “first woman,” and will be available in April. Amy works with students and faculty in the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark and helps run the annual Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop. Her chapbook HYSTERICAL CAKE was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2022. Her work has been featured in journals including Cultural Daily, Timberline Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Friends Journal, Literary Review, and SWWIM. 

The 2023 Lewis & Clark Creative Nonfiction Award The 2023 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The 2023 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize Contest at Lewis & Clark College is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning poet is awarded a cash prize of $100 and acknowledgement in the Academy’s newsletter. Poems can be previously published. For more information about the Academy of American Poets, visit www.poets.org.

a new solo play by Don Wilson Glenn, directed by Damaris Webb and featuring La’Tevin Alexander

Reserve complimentary tickets today. 

Please join us in celebrating the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium art exhibit, curated by L&C students Anika Bednar ’23, Burton Scheer ’25, and Sascha Tappan ’25.

Light refreshments will be served.

Day 3 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, multidisciplinary panels, workshops, readings, and other events, as well as an art exhibition. View the complete event schedule for details. 

Day 1 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, multidisciplinary panels, workshops, readings, and other events, as well as an art exhibition. View the complete event schedule for details. 

Please join us for a screening of DOG GONE, a Netflix Original #1 film based on the book by LC English Professor Pauls Toutonghi! This feel-good film is based on a true story about one family’s quest to find their son’s lost dog, and stars Johnny Berchtold, Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Nick Peine. We will follow the film with Q&A with the author and a celebratory reception.

Hosted by the LC English Department and the Office of the President.

LC English welcomes Kaui Hart Hemmings! Kaui has degrees from Colorado College, Sarah Lawrence, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, a New York Times bestseller, THE DESCENDANTS, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. 

Arts@LC and Watzek Library present:

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Learn more about the history of Race Monologues.

Please join us for 2022 Dixon Award winner Ashleen Smith’s presentation of family photographs and other archival materials from the NYPL’s Berg Collection of English and American Literature, exploring the childhood of Virginia Woolf and her siblings, and forming connections to her Modernist masterpiece novel The Waves.

Here is an online event opportunity for students to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired!

Hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres. This month’s featured reader is Amy Baskin.

Hosted by Write Around Portland, a Center for Community and Global Health Community Partner, these bi-monthly workshops are a unique opportunity to experience the ways in which writing can help to heal.

Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 22 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author.

Workshops are held via Zoom every other Thursday, September 23rd through December 16th from 11 am to 12:30 pm.

Hosted by Write Around Portland, a Center for Community and Global Health Community Partner, these bi-monthly workshops are a unique opportunity to experience the ways in which writing can help to heal.

Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 22 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author.

Workshops are held via Zoom every other Thursday, September 23rd through December 16th from 11 am to 12:30 pm.