GLORY IS IN YOU GRASP!
             BUT YOU MUST MOVE QUICKLY!


Dear Citizens of the C18 Community,

     I am pleased to announce that the SCSECS Executive
Committee has announced a deadline for the submission of
papers to its THREE huge and wondrous competitions.  First,
there are the two "classic" intellectual derbies, the "Best
Paper by a Graduate Student" and the "Best Paper by a 
FAculty Colleague or Independent Scholar" competition.
These competitions carry a CASH AWARD ($$$$$$$$$$) to be
conferred in one of the halls of dignity at SCSECS Y2K in
Baton Rouge in March.  Those who presented papers at SCSECS
1999 in Shreveport should send their entries (their papers)
by JANUARY 1, 2000 to our esteemed judge and President
Emeritus, the renowned leader of the official SCSECS research
library,

          Robert C. Leitz
          Noel Memorial Library
          Louisiana State University at Shreveport
          One University Place
          SHreveport, Louisiana
          71115   U. S. A.

designating whether the entry is for the graduate student
of the faculty/independent scholar competition.
     But this is not the only competition that the
cornucopia-loving SCSECS directorate has for you!  If you
presented a conference paper, you are also eligible to 
compete for the coveted SPENCER PUBLICATION PRIZE.  This
prize can be awarded to the presenter of any SCSECS 1999
paper, so long as the paper has been expanded, revised,
annotated, and in general revised and upgraded for scholarly
publication (rather than oral conference presentation).  The
victor in this competition will receive automatic publication
in the world-renowned, prize-winning annual, _1650-1850:  
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era,"
edited by Kevin L. Cope and published by the AMS Press in
New York.  To enter the Spencer Prize Competition, send
your upgraded SCSECS paper to

          Professor Susan Spencer
          Department of English
          University of Central Oklahoma
          100 North University Drive
          Edmond, Oklahoma
          73034    U. S. A.

where it will be judged by another of our esteeemed
former SCSECS Presidents, the renowned Susan Spencer.
     These prizes will also be on offer again, in the
year 2000, for those who present papers at the SCSECS
Y2K meeting in Baton Rouge.  For information on that
grand event, please visit the beautiful web site at
http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/english/SCSECS/.
     See you in the victor's ring, with laurel leaves
woven in your hair and torches blazing forth the 
glory of the gods of wit!




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