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A poster for the 2024 English Department Creative Writing Awards: Marg贸 Takacs Marshall Prize for Excellence in Short Story Writing and Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Prize
Call for Submissions: Department of English Creative Writing Awards
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A poster for a SMU Reading Series event featuring Jack Wong and Sydney Smith
Kids' Lit. at SMU, with Jack Wong and Sydney Smith: an evening celebrating visual storytelling as an art for all ages
Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Thu, 21 November

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Poster promoting Sue Murtagh's new book launch titled
SMU Reading Series: Book Launch, We’re Not Rich by Sue Murtagh
Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 23 October

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a talk & workshop on songwriting
A talk & workshop on songwriting with composer, band-leader, & songwriter Benton Roark
Date & Time: 10:00 AM on Fri, 18 October
Location: McNally Main Room 201

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THE SIGN OF JONAS Poster
THE SIGN OF JONAS, an apocalypse folktale
Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 16 October
Location: Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library

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A poster promoting Humanities at Large Podcast with Dr. Teresa Heffernan
Absence of Intelligence: the Science and Fiction of AI (podcast)
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Picture of McNally building.
Winners of 2024 Creative Writing Awards Announced
Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Fri, 19 April

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A poster promoting a workshop on Intelligence in the absence of life.
Dr. Teresa Heffernan is hosting "Intelligence" in the Absence of Life one day workshop at UofT
Date & Time: 9:30 AM on Tue, 9 April
Location: JHB 100, 170 St George Street

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A poster for the 2024 English Department Creative Writing Awards: Marg贸 Takacs Marshall Prize for Excellence in Short Story Writing and Joyce Marshall Hsia Memorial Poetry Prize
Submissions are now open for the 2024 Department of English Creative Writing Awards
Date & Time: 11:59 PM on Fri, 5 April

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A SMU Reading Series Poster promoting the last event of its 2023/24 season with poets Gavin Barret and Jennifer LoveGrove on Monday, March, 25, 2024 at 07:00 pm in Atrium 101. Gavin and Jennifer's photos are on the left side of the poster.
The SMU Reading Series welcomes two poets for its last reading of the 2023/24 season
Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Mon, 25 March
Location: Atrium 101, SMU Campus

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A poster of SMU Reading Series Event with Casey Plett.
Reading + Q&A with SMU's 2024 Writer in Residence Casey Plett
Date & Time: 7:00 PM on Wed, 13 March
Location: Atrium 101, SMU Campus

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Right to Left - Dr. Rowland Marshall, three top prize winners of 2023 creative writing awards, and Dr. Alexander MacLeod.
Winners of 2023 Poetry and Fiction Prizes Announced
Date & Time: 12:00 PM on Wed, 17 May
2023

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Poster: Department of English Language and Literature. Graduate Farewell Spring 2023
Graduate Farewell
Date & Time: 4:00 PM on Thu, 18 May
Location: The Arts Commons (MM 214)

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Dr-Jennifer-Vanderburgh
Nova Scotia launches new Atlantic Media Preservation Laboratory, Margaret Perry exhibit
Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Tue, 27 September
2022

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Teresa Heffernan
Researcher sparks new conversations about machine learning and robotics
Date & Time: 10:05 AM on Thu, 16 June
2022

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A photo of Dr. Alexander MacLeod standing behind MacNally Building SMU
‘Lagomorph’ story by Dr. Alexander MacLeod wins Nova Scotia’s top arts prize
Date & Time: 11:52 AM on Fri, 10 December
2021

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Front and back cover of Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s Book by Dr. Russell Perkins. Name of the book and author written in the first page. Old photo of a yellow cab on a busy street on the front cover.
New Book Examines British Political Turbulence Through Novels of the 1970s
Date & Time: 9:00 AM on Fri, 16 July
2021

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Authors Frank Macdonald and Tom Ryan standing together
Award-winning local authors at Saint Mary’s Reading Series
Date & Time: 10:13 AM on Fri, 20 December
2019

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