Each month we’re awarding a $500 grant to one of our standout students. Could it be you? Welcome to a new kind of scholarship program. At eNotes, we don’t need you to write an essay to try and stand out …
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Literary Lunch-Box Giveaway From eNotes
Agh, yes, it is that time of year again: back to school! To make things a little easier for you (and to make your friends a lot jealous), we’re giving away a super sweet lunch-box set. Our exclusive literary kit …
What Are You Doing for the Next 30 Days? NaNoWriMo, That’s What
All you fellow writers out there know… tell anyone, anyone at all… the taxi driver, a sales clerk, your grandfather, what you do for a living and 50% of the time you will get a version of the following: “A …
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Enlist Your Pet, Win a Kindle Fire!
We’re halfway through October… have you entered eNotes’ competition to win a Kindle Fire yet? It’s easy: Visit our Facebook page and “like” us (you like me, you really really like me!) Post a picture on our wall of your pet …
How to Mark National Punctuation Day
Attention, grammarphiles: today is National Punctuation Day! Commemorated every September 24th, National Punctuation Day is the only holiday in existence to celebrate the wonderful, squiggly world of punctuation marks. In a world where punctuation is rapidly in decline, thanks to …
The Worst (Fictional) Jobs in Literature
Every week in a competition of wits The New Yorker asks a question of the Twitter-verse. One of our favorite questions was when they asked followers to reply to the question, “What’s the worst job in literature?” Although James Joyce’s proofreader …
Tableaux Vivants for the 21st Century
“Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” remake by Stephan Hoffman & SoYeon Kim “Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” by Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix Lest we think we, as “modern” people came up with performance art, here is an idea that is older than …
The First Annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
The University of Alabama is pleased to announce a new award for legal fiction in honor of one of its most famous residents and former students, novelist Harper Lee. In 1960, Lee’s first (and only) novel To Kill a Mockingbird …
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