Beyond Classes
Take a part in the annual staged reading of A Christmas Carol.
Read a paper at the Shakespeare Colloquium.
Win a prize in a literary quiz contest at the spring picnic.
Submit creative work to campus, regional, and national writing contests.
Introduce your parents to favorite professors at the graduation reception.
Hear writers and lecturers like these:
• Sandra Benitez, fiction writer; National Hispanic Heritage Award Foundation Honoree for Literature; Minnesota Book Award
• Mai Neng Moua, Hmong writer and editor, Bamboo Among the Oaks, anthology of Hmong literature
• Josip Novakovich, Croatian-born short story and essay writer
• Kenneth Ramchand, Trinidadian literary critic and Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies
• Olive Senior, Jamaican fiction writer and poet; winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize
• Kim Stafford, poet; Director of Northwest Writing Institute
• Rebecca Wee, St. Olaf '84; recipient of Hayden Carruth Award and Witter Bynner fellowship in poetry
• Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
