If you're an aspiring picture book author, you can bring your manuscript to Indigo-Conestoga Mall for a free critique by UWaterloo English prof and picture book author Dr. Jennifer Harris. March 18, 11am-2pm, Conestoga Mall, Waterloo. tinyurl.com/mw6jt6wc
Webinar poster naming two key authors and articles: Katja Thieme, "Why Intention? How Process? Where Trust? A Sociorhetorical View of Writing in the Presence of Generative Al," and Christopher Eaton, "Mapping Next Steps in GenAl Research."
CASDW/ACR's Winter 2026 webinar will feature two key articles recently printed in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie's special issue "Present and Future(s) of Writing in the Age of AI." Mar. 30, 1pm EST. To register: tinyurl.com/yba5r5wb.
Congratulations to ARBUS/UWaterloo English student Alicia Wang, who has been awarded a 2026 CBC News summer scholarship for emerging journalists. tinyurl.com/r6r7dp4r
This Friday (March 13)! 5 Poets Breaking into Song (#21): Black Magic Friday the 13th in the Great Middle East/Mediterranean North. 6:00-9:00pm, Notre Dame Chapel, St. Jerome's University. tinyurl.com/47ujwka9
The March edition of the UWaterloo English Society Newsletter is now available! tinyurl.com/3nb67r4p
Short story contest poster. Information available through link.
WatSFiC and the Creative Writing Club present their winter 2026 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Story Contest. Deadline: March 31. tinyurl.com/32xc8br5
Residency: Computational Writing 2026 at the Banff Centre, Sept. 7- 18. Application deadline: March 11. tinyurl.com/ecrtyjsj
Poster for book launch. Information available via the post link.
UWaterloo English's Dr. Paul Ugor is holding a launch for three (!) books he has co-edited. March 19, 11am-12:30pm, DWE 3516 and online. tinyurl.com/muu55jss
WatSFiC and the Creative Writing Club are inviting writers to submit to their Winter 2026 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Story Contest. tinyurl.com/32xc8br5
The SIGNAL March Summit features people working at the intersections of gender justice, digital media, technology, and social futures. March 4-6, UWaterloo. Registration, schedule, and information: tinyurl.com/2efrbvwr
CFP: International Shaw Society Symposium, July 24-26 at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake. CFP Deadline: March 31. shawsociety.org/events/calls...
Hear the work of Canadian poets put to original music at George Elliott Clarke’s 5 Poets Breaking into Song (#21): Black Magic Friday the 13th in the Great Middle East/Mediterranean North. Friday, March 13, 6-9pm, Notre Dame Chapel, St. Jerome's University. tinyurl.com/9a3rfamb
You are warmly invited to attend the Winter 2026 Engineering Communication Student Poster Showcase, which will take place on Thursday, March 5 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Davis Centre lobby.
The Reading Series at St. Jerome's welcomes fiction writer and playwright Damain Tarnopolsky. Friday, 27 February, 4:30pm in SJ2 1002. tinyurl.com/3ce8fbze
What Can You Do With an English Degree? Six UWaterloo English alumni explain how their English degree helped launch their careers. youtu.be/0ly2D6xMF9c
JOB: Lecturer/Assistant Professor, User Experience Design Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University. tinyurl.com/3vftemve
CFP: The Sophist's Cookbook. If Plato is going to compare rhetoric to cookery, instead of resisting, why not lean into it and share a few rhetorical recipes? kraa.io/sophists_coo....
UWaterloo English Society Newsletter: Happy Reading Week! tinyurl.com/3h94hn5t
The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, located in Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, invites qualified candidates to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. tinyurl.com/be5h7wjp
A panel of people in chairs on a stage talking.
UWaterloo English prof Brianna Wiens participated in UWaterloo's Global Futures launch event on Jan. 21. tinyurl.com/3xs7zwsr
Trophies and stars.
Congratulations to the winners of UWaterloo English's Outstanding Course Performance Awards for fall 2025! Here are the winners and their citations: tinyurl.com/4t2yk355
UWaterloo Science Fiction Club Logo: A flying dragon with WATSFIC over top.
The Waterloo Science Fiction & Fantasy Club offers a wide variety of events, including gaming, a book club, and a short story contest each term. For more information: tinyurl.com/2xty7mex
You are warmly invited to attend the Winter 2026 Engineering Communication Student Poster Showcase, which will take place on Thursday, March 5 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Davis Centre lobby. tinyurl.com/3usu66xe
The UWaterloo English X account will go inactive on Jan. 31, and all UWaterloo English information will appear exclusively on this feed, our Facebook page, and our blog, Words in Place. We invite all those following us on X to follow us here on our Bluesky feed! More details: tinyurl.com/2kjz6wvf.
UWaterloo English PhD alumna Kem-Laurin Lubin appeared on the "A Moment with Erik Fleming" podcast to discuss ethical AI, the risks of computational bias, and design heuristics to protect human dignity. tinyurl.com/44bfeb32
Poster for Kam Theatre Lab documentary--see information in link for full details.
A documentary by @uw_english alumna Paula Thiessen titled Kam Theatre Lab: The Old Same Story will be screened Thursday, Feb. 5, 7:30pm at Wilfrid Laurier University, BA101. tinyurl.com/47npkmhu
The CFP deadline for RhetCanada's Spring Conference is now extended to Sunday, Jan. 25. The conference will take place from May 28-30 at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario. To submit your paper proposal and to register, go to our conference website: tinyurl.com/4jsz5jhc
Join the UWaterloo English Society for its first Writing in the Spotlight workhop--write about film, theatre, and the arts, and have a chance to be published in the Feb. edition of the Society's newsletter. Wed., Jan. 28, 6-7:30pm, HH 1104. www.instagram.com/p/DTjnkz3kcR0/
The St. Jerome’s Reading Series presents its first event of 2026 on Friday, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in SJ2 1002 with author and UWaterloo English professor Dr. Vinh Nguyen. tinyurl.com/39yfhept
The RhetCanada Winter Showcase takes place on Zoom this Saturday, Jan. 17. See the Winter Showcase website for the schedule and registration instructions: tinyurl.com/yezudkjd
