On March 31, the Harry Ransom Center presents acclaimed novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje in conversation with writer Geoff Dyer. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje’s work also encompasses poetry, memoir, and film. His Booker Prize–winning novel “The English Patient” was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film. Ondaatje will discuss his writing, as well as research, editing, adapting books to film, and film as an art itself. A reception and book signing follow. Presented by the University Co-op.

Tuesday, March 31, 7 p.m. Jessen Auditorium (Homer Rainey Hall)

Free admission

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On behalf of Vice Provost David Laude

Good afternoon:

I would like to inform you that the submission window for the 2015 Crane Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Arts is open until Monday, April 13, 2015. Please feel free to forward this announcement to undergraduate and graduate students across campus who may be interested in submitting work for consideration by the Crane award selection committee. An undergraduate or graduate student from any major or area of study may compete for the award.

Thank you for your assistance,

Kati

http://provost.utexas.edu/academics/undergraduate-awards/crane/

The Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts is given each year to a student of The University of Texas at Austin for unique, creative effort in the performing, literary and visual arts. An undergraduate or graduate student from any major or area of study may compete for the award. The selection committee will give no weight to any entrant’s grade point average or other academic achievement.

There are two $3,000 awards. To ensure that an entrant’s work may be compared with similar forms of creativity, each year the award committee designates an area of the arts.

To compete for the award, a student must be recommended by a faculty member. The recommendation must be for one’s creative effort while a student at UT Austin. Research or analysis does not qualify. No faculty member may nominate more than two students for the award.

In 2015 the award will be given in the Literary Arts.

Submission requirements (Student will submit work during completion of information form – please have work prepared to upload when you begin the form.)

Faculty must complete online nomination form
Student must complete online information form

Student must submit up to 8-10 pages of poetry
-OR-
12-15 pages of prose, double-spaced, 12-point font, and page numbered (fiction or creative non-fiction)