Welcome to the Writing Department at Loyola College.
Our website is packed with useful and interesting profiles, highlights, and links. For a look at what our faculty are up to--winning awards, publishing great writing, traveling to distant lands--click on the "faculty" link.
From a look at our fabulous students and all they do, click on the "students" link.
"Literary life" will take to you our student-run literary magazines, the Writers' Workshop, internships, the Modern Masters Reading Series, and other resources for on-campus writers. If you have questions or would like to talk, we'd love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by! 
| The News: The Writing department welcomes a new chair. Dr. Cindy Moore will be the department’s new chair as of July 1, 2008. She comes to Loyola from Eastern Kentucky University. Her areas of scholarship include program assessment, mentoring & professional development, and Composition theory and pedagogy.
Says Dr. Ron Tanner, current chair of the Writing Department: “We feel very fortunate to have hired someone of Dr. Moore’s stellar abilities and all of us are very excited to welcome her into the department. With Dr. Moore as chair of Writing, we feel that we can accomplish great things—to the considerable benefit of our students and the College.” Her most recent book is a National Council of Teachers of English publication: Guide to Professional Development for Graduate Students (2006). Dr. Timothy Houghton will also be joining Loyola College as an affiliate Associate Professor of Writing and English. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Drop Light (Orchises Press, 2005).
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Reading Series 
Ann Pancake's collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award. Other awards and prizes include a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize, and Creative Writing Fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South. Her novel about mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia, Strange As This Weather Has Been, will be published by Shoemaker & Hoard in October 2007. Ann Pancake is a native of West Virginia and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Ms. Pancake will be reading on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 5 p.m. in the 4th Floor Program Room.
For more information call 410-617-2228. Modern Masters Link.
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