Minutes - January 21, 2014

Minutes for the English Society meeting taking place on Tuesday, January 21st, 2014.

Meeting called to order at 2:45 pm by President Janessa Mann.

Members present : Curtis G, Matt S, Amanda W, Amanda C, Janessa M, Hillary U.

1) Book Club

• The first book chosen was Fahrenheit 451
• Amanda W will get us a room from Emily H
• We will be having a potluck at the event
• Scheduled for Monday, February 10th from 5-7pm

2) Meet and Greet

• We would like to hold the event at Symposium
• Amanda will call Symposium for information
• The poster design should involve cake
• Tentative date of Thursday, January 30th

3) The End of Term event (Which will be revealed later once things are firm)

• The Codex will be launched at this awesome event
• Submissions for the Codex will be due February 25th, at 2pm
• The actual event has a tentative date of Friday, March 28th at 7pm
• We will be selling tickets for the event

4) Other Items of Interest

• Amanda C will send the correct blog link to Jen Harris
• We could host a literary trivia night some time throughout the term
• We should each review a book on the blog throughout the term
• We could also interview profs for the blog

CODEX Submissions due Tuesday, February 25 @ 2pm

Did you miss out on your chance to submit to our literary magazine last term? Or you loved it so much you want to do it again?

Submissions are due Tuesday, February 25 @ 2pm to our email: uwenglish.society@gmail.com.
We are planning to give out hard copies of the CODEX both at our office (HH 260) and at our end of term event which will be revealed at a later date.

Details:

• Longer submissions will be excerpted and a PDF will become available both here and on our Facebook page.
• Anything is welcome: short essays, short stories, poetry, lyrics, comics... 
• Our editors might email you back with suggestions/questions
• Make sure to double-check how your formatting showed up on the .doc or PDF you send

Calling all writers! We're putting out CODEX, our literary magazine!

We are accepting all types of literature: plays, short stories, poems, essays, comic strips... Whatever you want!
We will publish a hard copy as well as an online PDF in November.
Submissions are due October 16, 2013, by noon to uwenglish.society@gmail.com
We'd love to read your stuff!