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Notes Frank Waters SouthwestWriting Award for the Novel The Frank Waters Foundation of Taos and the Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts of San Francisco and Taos, are proud to announce their co-sponsor­ ship of the third annual “Frank Waters Southwest Writing Award,”to be granted to three writers of novelswith the focus of “The Non-Urban West.”They wish to grant recognition to novel writers from any of the following six western states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. The prizes for this award are asfollows: First Prize—$2,000 plus publication by the University of New Mexico Press; two “honorable mentions” with awards of $2,000 each. The deadline is August 31, 1996, and awards will be announced in May of 1997. For submission rules or more information, please contact Mag Dimond Waters Writing Award P. O. Box 1357 Ranchos de Taos, NM 87529. * * * Call for Papers American Literature Association Conference The Western Literature Association will conduct both a regular and a peda­ gogy session at the ALA, which will be held in San Diego from May 29th toJune 2nd of 1996. Papers on topics mentioned below are invited, although the list is by no means exclusive. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers should be 15 minutes in reading length. Send papers or abstracts to the addresses below, post­ marked on or before December 1, 1995. Session I: Old and New Frontiers: New Historicism and Western Literature. Topics include: approaches to defining New Western History and the “West”; the role of Turner in defining the West/frontier; the role of geography and cultural geography; how New Western History affects our understanding ofcommunity and/ or individualism in western literature; New Historicism and the myth of the West; and literary history—changing critical approaches to the “West.”Session I papers or 288 WesternAmerican Literature abstracts may be sent to: Bonney MacDonald; English—Union College; Schenectady, NY 12308. Send e-mail messages (not papers or abstracts) to macdonab@gar.union.edu.You may also contact Bonney MacDonald at (518) 3886044 . Session II: The Personal West: Making Western Literature Relevant in the Classroom. Topics include: making western American literature “personal”; incor­ porating a personal approach to teaching western American literature; helping students see western, mythical elements as relevant to their own lives; the role of mythical, archetypal western elements in the development of the self; making ‘The West” relevant to students in other regions; and what students have taught YOU about the West. Session II papers or abstracts may be sent to: Charlotte M. Wright; University of North Texas Press; P. O. Box 13856; Denton, TX 76203. Send e-mail messages (not papers or abstracts) to untpress@abn.unt.edu. You may also contact Charlotte M. Wright by phone at (817) 565-2142, or by fax at (817) 565-4590. * * * Call for Papers—California American Studies Association The California American Studies Association will hold its annual conference from April 26th through 28th, 1996, in LosAngeles. The theme of this conference is “Expanding Borders and Boundaries.”Paper proposals are due byjanuary 15th. For more information, please contact Arthé Anthony American Studies Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041. ...