Student News Archive

Each year, English faculty nominate the top essays from their lower- and upper-level literature courses for the department’s D.A. Brown Essay Awards. This summer, three students were recognized for exemplary essays written in the 2022-2023 academic year. The 22-23 D.A. Brown Essay Award for Literary […]

The 2023 seniors from Wake Forest’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will be the fifth class to add their favorite books to the organization’s permanent collection in Ammons Lounge in Tribble Hall. Each senior selected a book that […]

Announcing the newly elected executive board for Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society: President: Frances Riggs ’24Vice President: Alexis Williams ’25Secretary: Mary Outland ’24Historian: Sydney Pasceri ’25Treasurer: Mackenzie Jackson ’24Membership Chair: Anna Beim ’25Public Relations Chair: Lily Klett ’24Social Events Chair: Sofia […]

On Monday, November 7th, WFU’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta—the international English honor society—hosted Prof. Susan Harlan and Prof. Marianne Erhardt in Ammons Lounge to talk about their experiences as professional creative writers in the public sphere. Prof. Erhardt is currently working on a […]

This fall, 18 students were inducted into Wake Forest University’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society. Students honored with Sigma Tau Delta induction are junior or senior English or Writing majors/minors who are in the top 35 […]

The Department of English invites students from every discipline to submit their original poetry to Wake Forest University’s Academy of American Poets / Edwin G. Wilson Prize. The Prize, which was inaugurated in spring 2023, is awarded each spring to an outstanding Wake Forest undergraduate […]

The spring 2022 issue of Three to Four Ounces, Wake Forest University’s student literary magazine, is now available online. It was also released in a limited print run for the first time since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. The issue, titled […]

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, the English department gathered in person this spring for our annual awards reception honoring our outstanding majors, minors, and graduate students. We met in a Davis Field tent to recognize our student leaders, Honors in English […]

The 2022 seniors from Wake Forest’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will be the fourth class to add beloved books to the organization’s permanent collection in Ammons Lounge in Tribble Hall. Each senior selected a book that they […]