Hendrix-Murphy Foundation - Programs in Literature and Language

Getting excited about playwright Naomi Wallace's visit to campus? Check out this list of book recommendations handpicked by Wallace herself!

Looking to submit some of your writing to contests or for publication? Check out these two opportunities! Deadline to submit to both is March 15th. Good luck!

Are you interested in joining the Arkansas Teacher Corps? The deadline to apply is coming up on March 1st. For more info, visit https://us.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/a067fa94fcc44cf69705de31ab45f8ae or email atc@uark.edu.

RSVP to HMFSTU1@hendrix.edu by noon on Thurs. for this week's LLOL. Felipe Pruneda-Senties & Writing Associates will be leading "The Body in Writing: Involving the Senses."

Elizabeth Rogers (a previous Murphy Visiting Fellow in Poetry) has a new book out this week! You can order a copy of "The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" here: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo50327199.html.

Don't forget to RSVP by noon on Thursday to reserve a free lunch for this week's LLOL! Murphy Scholar David Samuel will be talking about his time volunteering in Greece.

Join the book group for Aeschylus’ Persians, led by Martin Shedd & Andy Vaught in conjunction with the Hendrix Players' performance directed by Angela Iannone. All are welcome to attend, but please email vanaman@hendrix.edu by 4 pm on Tuesday to reserve a book & volunteer to read!

RSVP by noon on Thursday for this week's LLOL. Martin Shedd will be leading "Textual Intercourse: The Cultural Specificity of Sexual Terminology and Slurs."

Congrats to all #Hendrix winners at the Southern Literary Festival, and special kudos to you Murphy Scholars for the well-deserved recognition! Zelda Engeler-Young, Liam Carey, Kaitlin Lowe, and Peyton Coffman, you did us proud. https://www.hendrix.edu/news/news.aspx?id=91203

Join us this Thursday as Murphy Visiting Theatre Director Angela Iannone discusses The Persians by Ellen McLaughlin. Stay tuned for the play performance schedule!

Hey, writers! Loomings and NFSPS both have submission deadlines coming up. Send them your best work!

Don't forget about the Student and Alumni Playwriting Contest! Winter break provides a great opportunity to work on your play! Deadline: January 31st. ⛄️

Trying to knock out that last paper? Join us in the Writing Center/Bailey Library Computer Labs for the Write-In tonight and tomorrow night from 7-11 p.m.! Writing Associates will be on hand to help you and answer any questions you may have!

Meet our Murphy Visiting Fellows! We’re excited to be adding Erin Hoover (Poetry) to the Murphy team and to welcome back to Martin Shedd (Classics) and Andy Vaught (Theatre Arts). They’ll be teaching in their home departments and mentoring and assisting Murphy Scholars.

Check out these pictures from the Hendrix-Murphy funded Hendrix-in-Madrid program! Do you have a favorite Spanish writer? If Madrid isn't on your bucket list, let these pictures convince you otherwise!

A few more photos from the London Playwriting Intensive this summer! Are you as jealous as we are?