On Saturday April 25 the MA program will host its annual “Writing Image Text” or “W.I.T.” Graduate English Symposium. The event will be held live on Zoom starting noon, eastern. The length of the event will depend on how many of our grad students present, but usually it runs for a few hours.

This call for papers (CFP) is open to both current grad students in the program and alumni. Anyone in the graduate English community who wants to attend but not present is welcome and encouraged to do so as audience members. The deadline for responding to this CFP and declaring as a presenter is the end of Saturday, April 11.

The symposium is a casual mini-conference at which students present scholarly or creative work of any sort, medium, or genre. A paper or project that you’ve created for any of your MA courses would do just fine.

Graduate students and professional scholars often attend and read at local, regional, national, and international conferences, so this symposium provides a friendly small-scale introduction to the conference experience. And for anyone who reads a paper, it becomes a line-item that you can list under the scholarship section on your CV (click here to read more about the CV).

Anyone planning to attend this year’s WIT symposium, as presenter or audience member, please indicate as much by sending an email to cloots@mercy.edu no later than the end of Saturday, April 11. And please use the subject line “WIT Symposium 2026” for your email. Zoom info will be sent out after April 11 to everyone who RSVPs.

On behalf of the MA faculty: we hope to see you all there! Please contact cloots@mercy.edu if you have any questions about any of this.