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1 Extending an invitation to join the Council of Writing Program Administrators The Council of Writing Program Administrators offers a national network of scholarship and support for leaders of college and university writing programs. Membership benefits include the following: A subscription to WPA: Writing Program Administration, a semi annual refereed journal Invitations to the annual WPA Summer Workshops and Conferences Invitations to submit papers for sessions that WPA sponsors at MLA and CCCC Participation in the WPA Research Grant Program, which distributes several awards, ranging from $1000 to $2000 Invitations to the annual WPA breakfast at CCCC and the annual WPA party at MLA Information about the WPA Consultant Evaluator program Annual Dues Graduate Students: $20 Not on Tenure Track: $20 Regular: $40 Sustaining (voluntary): $60 Library: $80 To Join Visit us online at or send your name, address, address, institutional affiliation, and dues to Michael McCamley, CWPA Secretary University of Delaware Department of English 212 Memorial Hall Newark, DE mccamley@udel.edu

2 Congratulations to These Award Winners & WPA Scholars! The WPA Outcomes Statement A Decade Later Edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White Winner of the Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Adminstrators (July, 2015) GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty- First Century Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, & Amy Ferdinandt Stolley Winner of the Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Adminstrators (July, 2014) Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers Bump Halbritter Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from Computers and Composition (May, 2014) New Releases A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, 2nd ed. Edited by Rita Malenczyk A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators Edited by Joseph Janangelo Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games Edited by Douglas Eyman and Andréa D. Davis First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice Edited by Deborah Coxwell-Teague & Ronald F. Lunsford

3 NEW FROM PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Alice Mattison THE KITE AND THE STRING How to Write with Spontaneity and Control and Live to Tell the Tale An insightful guide to writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps. Also includes tips for wisely navigating the writing life: protecting writing time, preserving solitude, finding trusted readers, and setting the right goals for publication. Brimming with a practitioner s reflective wisdom and immediately useful insight...mattison is so canny and experienced that her insights are hugely relevant for all of us who write. Indeed, this book goes right next to James Wood s How Fiction Works on the shelf by the desk. Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir. Viking 256 pp $25.00 Graydon Carter, editor VANITY FAIR S WRITERS ON WRITERS Introduction by David Friend A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair. Penguin 432 pp $20.00 David Attwell J. M. COETZEE AND THE LIFE OF WRITING Face-to-face with Time In this insightful biography and literary study, Attwell draws on Coetzee s manuscripts, notebooks, and research papers to explore the creative processes behind the Nobel Laureate s novels, illuminating the autobiographical and self-reflective nature of his work. Penguin 272 pp $17.00 J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz THE GOOD STORY Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination through a fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and the art of storytelling. Penguin 208 pp $16.00 Steven Pinker THE SENSE OF STYLE The Thinking Person s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century [The Sense of Style] is more contemporary and comprehensive than The Elements of Style, illustrated with comic strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing. [Pinker s] voice is calm, reasonable, benign, and you can easily see why he s one of Harvard s most popular lecturers. The New York Times. Penguin 368 pp $17.00 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Services 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014

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5 Council of Writing Program Administrators University of Delaware Department of English 212 Memorial Hall Newark, DE Change Service Requested Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Newark, Delaware Permit No. 26