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It's Not Love, It's Just Parisby Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel's collection of stories, Vida, quickly established her as one of our country's best young writers, winning praise from Junot Díaz, Uzodinma Iweala, Francisco Goldman, and others. Her first novel is a vibrant and wistful narrative about an American girl abroad in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance.
Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling Left Bank mansion known as The House of Stars," where a spirited but bedridden Countess Séraphine rents out rooms to young women visiting Paris to work, study, and, unofficially, to find love.
Cautious and guarded, Lita keeps a cool distance from the other girls, who seem at once boldly adult and impulsively naïve, who both intimidate and fascinate her. Then Lita meets Cato, and the contours of her world shift. Charming, enigmatic, and weak with illness, Cato is the son of a notorious right-wing politician. As Cato and Lita retreat to their own world, they soon find it difficult to keep the outside world from closing in on theirs. Ultimately Lita must decide whether to stay in France with Cato or return home to fulfill her immigrant family's dreams for her future.
It's Not Love, It's Just Paris is a spellbinding love story, a portrait of a Paris caught between old world grandeur and the international greenblood elite, and an exploration of one woman's journey to distinguish honesty from artifice and lay claim to her own life.
Editorial Reviews
"'We'll always have Paris,' lovers of this glorious city have been saying this to each other ever since Humphrey Bogart uttered those words in Casablanca. We rediscover a modern and eclectic Paris in Patricia Engel's astonishing first novel, a story as grand and dazzling as its setting, yet as intimate and powerful as a love story that just won't quit." Edwidge Danticat
"Wise and accomplished...Beautifully written and executed...There are at least two ways to judge a novel: by how fast you turn the pages or by how many times you have to stop to underline a passage. My copy of It's Not Love, It's Just Paris is all marked up. Engel, whose first book was the acclaimed story collection Vida, has uncanny insight into the human condition. Through Lita, she speaks a profound language of young love and desire...Engel's considerable gifts are on display here."Benjamin Saenz, The New York Times Book Review
"Spare prose laced with nuggets of genuine wisdom...it is a testament to [Engel's] large talent that the story culminates with an emotional force that is both surprising and deeply affecting."Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle
"Absorbing intimate in scope, erotic and, by the end, entirely unexpected . Engel she has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment She writes exquisite moments The power of this excellent novel is in how Engel holds us in her thrall as she complicates where Lita is going and what she will leave behind. The heart this story breaks, might be your own."Roxanne Gay, The Nation
"Like any word whose shimmer has dulled from overuse, Paris can seem like a cliché in itself. . . . But early on Patricia Engel shows that her writing can still be original. . . . [Engel's] fresh language leads us right into the middle of yet another love story in Paris, and a star-crossed one to boot. But by the time you get there, you may already be hooked and feeling weepy for these two young lovers."The New York Times
"A post-American Dream tale."Jose Manuel Simian, New York Daily News
"Remarkable, razor-sharp...A compassionate read." Booklist(starred review)
"A timeless tale." Library Journal
"Engel approaches her love affair without florid prose or salacious encounters. Instead, she installs her shy, serious protagonist, Lita del Cielo, in a Parisian boarding house . . . lets her slowly fall for the quiet son of an infamous politician, and pits her new life abroad against her old one at home in the U.S. It's heady and cool approach brings real substance to the summer fling while making it an antidote to the usual seasonal fluff."Time Out New York (Summer Reads List)
"Has an appealing fairy tale quality . . . Engel has a knack for showing how Paris's charms are both real and always verging on cliche."Publishers Weekly
"As a coming-of-age novel, It's Not Love, It's Just Paris might sound as if its theme is rather well-trod, but the title puts you on notice. This is no saccharine tale of awakening. Rather, it's a clear-eyed recasting of a classic storyline executed with confidence and just enough city-of-lights magic by Miami author Patricia Engel to conjure up something that manages to be familiar and new. This is a novel to get lost in."Miami Herald
"Unpredictable and touching . . . Warm, quirky and intelligently observed. A bonus is [Engel's] wonderful evocation of Paris if you haven't been lucky enough to spend a year learning to love that glorious city (or if you have and want a vivid reminder), this bright and charming novel is the next best thing to a visit."Tampa Bay Times
"The number one reason you need to read this novel is to experience Engel's writing. It's Not Love, It's Just Paris is wry, melancholy, enchanting, seductive, and downright delectable. I savored every single page." BookRiot
"This story is not only for those who have been to Paris, but also for those who have ever felt like outcasts and hoped for a haven. The writing is honest, the characters real, and the ending not-so-predictable. For anyone who has ever been to Paris or has ever suffered in love, It's Not Love, It's Just Paris is about finding a home away from home, finding yourself, and finding amongst all the distractions of obligation where your true passions reside." The Thursday Review
"Lots of readers have wanted to know what Engel would write after her arresting debut, Vida, a PEN/Hemingway finalist. And here it is, an enticingly written work."Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
"Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent Engel writes with an almost fable-like intensity, whether she is describing suburban New Jersey or urban Colombia or some other lost place . . . her ability to pierce the hearts of her crazy-ass characters, to fracture a moment into its elementary particles of yearning, cruelty, love and confusion will leave you breathless. Here, friends, is the debut I have been waiting for."
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"The stories in Patricia Engel's striking debut collection are like snapshots from someone's photo album: glimpses of relatives, friends, lovers and acquaintances, sometimes posing, sometimes caught by the camera unawares. . . . [Engel] delineates Sabina's efforts to articulate an identity of her own with unsparing psychological precision. . . . What makes Sabina's coming-of-age story so compelling is the arresting voice Ms. Engel has fashioned for her: a voice that's immediate, unsentimental and disarmingly direct."
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"[An] arresting and vibrant new voice . . . Unforgettable."
Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair
"Arresting . . . Vivid and revealing . . . A tingle of recognition builds as detail after detail sings with the veracity of real life." Sophia Lear, The New York Times Book Review
"Impressive . . . Unsentimental . . . [With] chiseled prose (precise and unforgiving as a boxer's jab) and [a] tender knowledge that yearning for meaning sometimes breathes under the thickest hides."Oscar Villalon, NPR.org
"[A] mesmerizing debut." Ana Veciana-Suarez, Miami Herald
"You won't forget Sabina, the troubled, mouthy young Colombian-American woman at the heart of Patricia Engel's debut collection. . . . Vida feels like shards of memory. As if all that is left when things blow upas they always do for Sabinaare these beautiful pieces." John Freeman, NPR.org ("Best Book Debuts of 2010")
"Every story glistens as it follows Sabina through Miami, Colombia, New Jersey, and New York City on her way to understanding and enlightenment in a violent, ugly, and stunning portrait of an American experience."Joe Lapin, LA Weekly (Best Books of the Year)
"Pitch-perfect . . . Intense . . . [A] great debut . . . For me, reading Patricia Engel's Vida was a little like looking at a Lichtenstein. It reminded me of standing in the gallery of a breathless museum, atop creaky hardwood floors, observing forceful dots of color making a starkly beautiful paintingall the while I registered that sentimental love was something sweet, but inescapably counterfeit. . . . Engel has managed a complex portrayal of both wanting to believe in love while remaining darkly mocking of it. . . . Leveled with charm and muted nostalgia, Sabina's frank, swindling countenance is powerfully disarming." Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Bookslut
"A narrative exploration of how far a person can run before accepting that she can't get away from herself . . . Engel has constructed such a solid and sympathetic central character. Fiction tends to like its women breakable, but Sabina doesn't break, and the narrative voice doesn't flinch." Danielle Evans, NPR.org ("The Year's Best Outsider Fiction")
"Engel has an eye for the details of youth . . . [Her] impressive sensitivity to such nuances is what animates Vida . . . the literary equivalent of interacting with someone who maintains unceasing eye contactcompelling, impressive and a little unnerving. But the book is funny, too, in that same direct way. . . . It's hard to conceive of a reader who wouldn't find pleasure in Ms. Engel's humor and intelligence." The Economist (online)
"Terrific debut . . . Vida is rich with life. Sabina's story is one of millions of threads of the immigrant experience, but it is universal as well: We all search for our place in the world, for the one who can make us visible."Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times
"What Engel captures so acutely is the vast cultural inner-life of second-generation Americans . . . . [Written with] lovely, heartbreaking subtlety." Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper
"Vida calls to mind some of the best fiction from recent years. Like Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge, Engel uses stories about connected characters to illuminate her main subject, in this case Sabina, who moves with her family from Bogotá, Colombia, to New Jersey. Engel brings Sabina's family and culture to life with a narrative style reminiscent of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. . . . [A] vivid, memorable and an exceptionally promising debut." Vikas Turakhia, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"Engel navigates issues of class, ethnicity, and identity with finesse . . . [Her] prose is refreshingly devoid of pomp and puts a hard focus on the stiff compromises Sabina and her family have had to accept; there's a striking perspective to these stories."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"There's no baloney in Patricia Engel's stories, no falseness or posturing. Young women fall in love, and lose their way, as they actually do in life, in every heartbreaking register. The remarkable portrait of immigrant life is not a 'literary' portrait or a multicultural cliche, it is unsentimental, unsparing, and true. Vida is a unique and unforgettable book."
Francisco Goldman, author of The Divine Husband
"A striking debut . . . Engel explores timely questions of community versus personal identity, offers striking observations on the restrictions of class and race, and does it all in a voice that is free of artifice and effort. . . . Rendered with precision and absolute honesty, these stories are quiet and deep, a function of Engel's clear, direct prose, which is devoid of frills and accouterments."Debra Ginsberg, Shelf Awareness
"Direct and unsentimental . . . [Vida] doesn't disappoint." Susan G. Cole, NOW (Toronto)
"[Written with] impressive sensitivity . . . it's hard to conceive of a reader who wouldn't find pleasure in Engel's humor and intelligence."
Molly Young, More Intelligent Life (The Economist blog)
"[Sabina's] voice is so achingly real, it haunts the reader long after the last page is turned. Funny and passionate, yet also fearless, Vida is a beautifully crafted piece that reminds us why fiction is important." Susan Falco, Gulf Stream (online)
"Between the pop culture and politics of our time, we have become accustomed to language that does not clarify, but clouds. This is why Patricia Engel's work, with its taut focus, its pained illumination, is so important. In Vida, as much as we come to know her narrator, Sabina, we come to know more fully the inside of our own hearts."
Asha Bandele, author of The Prisoner's Wife
"Patricia Engel's Vida is that rare thing: a beautifully crafted book that truly has a story to tell. Brutal in its emotional honesty, graceful in its delivery, Vida signals the arrival of a new literary star." Mat Johnson, author of Drop and Hunting in Harlem
"Patricia Engel writes with a passion, yearning and care, crafting narratives and characters that are so real, you know them, have always known them. Pitch perfect, at once restrained and lush, intelligent, funny and dripping with melancholy, Vida marks the debut of a truly original voice."
Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and The Virgin of Flames
"Vida is emotional and elegant, a look at life through the wise eyes and fine prose of a remarkably talented writer."
Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation
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The first person to call it the House of Stars was Séraphine's husband, Théophile, a drunk who often passed out in the entrance court before making it to the front door. He'd say that, from his cheek-to-the-cobblestone view, all he saw were faint lights, like stars, in the bedroom windows, and no matter the hour there were always stars out on our stretch of rue du Bac, which is also how Séraphine's place got a reputation among others for being a house that never sleeps.
I'd just met her when she told me Théo carried on an affair with her sister Charlotte the whole time they were married but he'd chosen Séraphine for his wife because she was the one who inherited the de la Roque fortune. Everyone knew about Théo and Charlotte's romance but back then people were more strategic in their marrying.
"It was the fashion," Séraphine said, and believe me, a lot of things you'd never expect were the fashion. Soon after my arrival, I asked what happened to Théophile because I hadn't yet met him but always saw his hat resting on the chest in the front foyer as if he were lost somewhere in the house. Séraphine rearranged herself among her bed pillows and lit a cigarette before sighing, "My Théo suicided himself seventeen years ago. The writer who lived across the way had done the same a month before. It was the fashion."
Séraphine was a countess. Around the house, and even around Paris, people still kept track of that stuff even though titles went out with the revolution. I was told by the guy who recommended me as a tenant that I should address her as Madame la Comtesse or just plain Countess if I planned on sticking to English, but I couldn't utter either without feeling I was part of a performance. So, within hours of my arrival I asked if I could call her by her first name instead. Her kohl-lined eyes expanded to reveal their inner pink membranes and she took a while to respond. I was thinking this sort of friendliness might have been a grave mistake and wondered if there was a way to reverse it when Séraphine finally cleared her throat and smiled with what, using her frown lines as evidence, I took to be her first in years.
"Very well, Leticia. You may call me Séraphine. If you insist."
Soon all the girls started calling her Séraphine too, even those who'd been residents for years already and had always addressed her formally. Her grandson Loic tried to rectify my disgrace, saying it was rude of us to be so familiar and we should at least address her as Madame since we were all guests in Séraphine's house, which wasn't really true given that we paid good money to live there, in American dollars no lessa year's rent in full, up front. But it was too late; the order of the house had already shifted.
Princess Diana had died while I was on the night flight from Newark to Paris. The taxi driver tossed Le Figaro with the headline and picture of the tunnel crash across my lap and drove me from Charles de Gaulle over to the Seventh. I remembered watching her wedding on television with my mother when I was a kid and that didn't feel like so long ago, but now that was just a story people would tell and instead of happily ever after it would be And the Princess and her lover died together in Paris. The End. The news of her death made me feel old and brought on a sharp longing for my mother who'd turned her back from me at the airport so I wouldn't see the shine of her tears. The taxi driver let me keep the newspaper. He'd bought multiple copies, he said, figuring they'd be worth something because it's not everyday a princess dies. I tucked it into the back of my jeans and dragged my two suitcases off the sidewalk, across the courtyard to the Countess's house, and into the foyer. Nobody turned up when I rang the bell.
Like Séraphine, the House of Stars must have been very beautiful once. You could see the allure and majesty under the costume of Persian rugs, marble floors, molded ceilings, enormous chandeliers, and gilded mirrors. But if you looked closer you'd see the rugs were darkened with age, spotted with cigarette stains, worn with high heel holes. The marble floor, chipped and decades overdue for a polishing. The moldings, cracked with cherubs missing heads or wings, the mirrors fogged over, their frames tarnished, and the chandeliers were missing bulbs or crystals. Then there were the decorative details; wooden furniture with mother-of-pearl and enamel inlays that were Louis something or other, chests and tiny tables holding figurines, and miniature silver boxesthe sort of stuff you'd see at any garage sale back home. And that bouquet of old tobacco, lingering despite all those little glass bowls of lavender potpourri.
A voice called and I followed it down the short hall off the foyer.
And then I saw her: Séraphine, propped up by a mound of white cushions in a large mahogany sleigh bed floating at the center of the room over a floor layered with carpets. Lace curtains shrouded glass doors that opened onto the back garden. She was dressed in a white bed gown, her legs covered by an airy duvet, looking porcelain with what was left of her long colorless hair swiped into a tight bun. Pearls drooped off her ears, her thin lips were covered in a runny red pigment, and her light eyes were lined with a dark gunk that was her trademark and probably the reason for her cataracts. Even in bed, fat like a panda, she was an elegant sort of lady, just like the younger Séraphine staring back at her from the framed photographs lining the yellowed walls, and I often wondered what her husband didn't see in her.
By then, Séraphine was almost ninety and hadn't left her room in three years; a vestige that came with the house. The maids called her the Maharani because doctors, friends, and the bits of the world that mattered to Séraphine came to her when summoned. They said she would have to be bulldozed out if any of her descendants were to have their way and try to sell the house, as I soon learned her own daughter was hoping to do.
When I asked Séraphine why she decided to rent out rooms in her house, she explained that before it was the House of Stars it was the House of Felines. Théo, who was the obsessive type, had collected his way up to fifty or so of some rare brand of Siamese and each room, which now boarded a girl, once housed five or six cats, plus a few favorites who had free reign of the estate. Théo treated the cats like curios and spent his days visiting each of them, brushing them and clipping their nails, whispering in Russian because Théo was Russian in his former life, rumored to be Jewish, though it was never mentioned because the de la Roque family wanted people to think they were thoroughly French and Catholic, throwing around that old proverb that a good name is worth more than a golden belt. The maids said that's also the reason Séraphine never took Théo's giveaway of a last name, and why he was so taken with the writer across the street who was also Russian and Jewish in some capacity.
One day Séraphine got fed up with the cats. She said she couldn't do anything about Théophile sleeping with her sister like it was his God-given right but she could evict the cats because it was her house, inherited from her father who favored her as his firstborn. She'd wanted to pack up the cats and send them to live with the prostitutes and bums in the Bois de Bologne but those cats were each worth a small bundle so she found herself a cat broker and sold him the lot for a lump sum. He came to collect them with a van full of cages one evening while Théo was out drinking. When he sobered up the next day and saw the cats were gone, Théo had a breakdown and Séraphine was certain he never really forgave her. It was Théophile's idea to fill the rooms with girls now that the cats were gone. They started out with two, then three, and worked their way up to eight. She said Théo found keeping young girls was just as amusing as keeping cats. The maids murmured that for all their blue blood and this property, one of the few remaining hôtel particuliers on the Left Bank, the de la Roque family was broke. The Countess discovered an easy income in housing allegedly well-bred debutante borders, and plenty of parents eager to pay a onetime-noblewoman to supervise their daughters en séjour.
I was the only new girl that season. There was a long waiting list to live in the house and a girl was considered only if personally recommended as I was by a former Nouveau Roman professor who was tenuously related to Théophile. Each girl was given her own private room on the second and third floors while Séraphine lived downstairs and her grandsons, Loic and Gaspard, the sons of her only daughter, Nicole, had an apartment in the smaller west wing of the house accessed through a separate entrance or through a narrow hideaway passage under the stairs leftover from the war. Séraphine assigned me to the bedroom above hers at the top of the staircase on the second level, a tunnel-like space with a set of double doors opening onto the corridor and a pair of glass panels on the opposite wall leading to a small balcony overlooking the terrace and back garden. Within it, a single bed with a limp mattress pushed into a corner, a small desk, a folding chair, a black lacquer dresser missing a few glass knobs, and a red velvet love seat with sunken cushions and splitting wooden legs.
Even though there were three maids, Violeta, Flora, and Mara, Portuguese sisters whose mother was the rarely seen concierge living in a little apartment just inside the entrance court, and Loic and Gaspard were supposed to be the house managers, I'd arrived when everybody was taking their lunch and thus, no one came along to help drag my bags upstairs or to show me where things were like the kitchen, the common phone that only received incoming calls, or to tell me the toilet was on one end of the hall while the tiled washroom with a curtainless bath, handheld shower, and sink were down the other end.
I'd opened the balcony doors to clear out the stale air and was kneeling on my bedroom floor, pulling clothes from a suitcase, when I noticed two pairs of sandals in the doorway belonging to two girls staring down at me as if I were a raccoon rummaging through a trash pile. I don't have sisters, just two brothersone older and one youngerI hadn't had many girl friends at school and felt like I knew my way around books better than people. I was twenty years old, graduated from a top university with honors, two years ahead of schedule in life, but still a social novice. And these girls, Tarentina and Giada, as they introduced themselves, came off as a fearsome twosome, their dirty blond hair in tangled bobs, black bras peeking from the tops of their nearly identical knee-grazing floral dresses and similar firm round breasts that Loic later told me they'd purchased together during last year's Easter holiday in Tarentina's hometown of Rioit was the fashion.
Giada, slightly shorter, leaned on the doorframe, her lips in a permanent pout, while her friend asked who I was and where I came from with a quasi-British twang I'd learn was standard among the Swiss boarding school set. I told them my name was Leticia but I went by Lita and I was American. By their faces I could tell they did not believe me.
"What are your last names?" Tarentina asked.
"Del Cielo. It's the only one I've got."
She smiled, though not warmly.
"That sounds like a stage name. What's your blood?"
"My blood?"
"Your lineage," she sighed, already bored with me. "Your country. You know, what are you made of?"
"Indian, I presume," she turned to Giada, "That explains the jungle face."
In fact I was named for a jungle city in the Amazon on the shared frontiers of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru. I didn't come out of the jungle, my mother did, found abandoned on a road and turned over to some nuns who took her back to the capital. Back then, indigenous babies were nearly unadoptable and instead of turning her over to an orphanage, the nuns raised my mother in the convent. I didn't feel like explaining any of that so all I said was, "I guess it does."
"Well, Loic asked me to tell you he's on his way. He usually does the welcoming. We'll chat more once you settle in."
They departed with a Ciao Ciao, their sandals flapping down the stairs over their soft laughter, until they were out the front door. Dread spread over me. I'd hoped to live on my own in Paris, scouring classifieds in a second-hand FUSAC, circling affordable studio apartment listings, but my father insisted he'd only let me live abroad if I had company, a witness to my existence. The House of Stars was the compromise I now began to regret.
A short while later, Loic, gangly in his gingham shirt, pressed trousers and prematurely wrinkled face, tapped on my door and introduced himself.
"So sorry not to have been here when you arrived. I had an emergency of sorts. Well, a friend had an emergency."
I stood up to greet him, shaking his bony hand.
"Have you had a look around the house yet?"
"Yes. It's . . . nice. I met your grandmother and some of the other girls. Giada and"
He stared at me, his eyes a watery blue.
"The first day is always the hardest.
I forced a smile.
"I'm just tired. From the travel. The time change."
"Why don't you take a break from your unpacking and join me outside for some fresh air," he held out his hand as if trying to lure me off a ledge.
Meet the Author
PATRICIA ENGEL's debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and Young Lions Fiction Award; a winner of a Florida Book Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award; and a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes&Noble, and L.A. Weekly. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in A Public Space, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Guernica, Harvard Review and elsewhere. She lives in Miami.
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Patricia Engel has done it again. She created another story so addictive that I devoured it in one sitting. This novel follows a group of precocious young "it-girls" as they fall in and out of love in Paris. Ah to be young again! Her characters have the time of their lives as they study abroad. Be careful as you read this book or you might find yourself booking the next flight to CDG (Charles de Gaulle airport). Please note: the ending is very powerful and provocative. Probably because Ms. Engel wouldn't have it any other way.
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The words I found myself saying about the characters were highly unflattering--"self-obsessed, narcissistic, self-indulgent", and such. They were flat. Maybe it is my age but none of the girls I knew in college could have or would have spent a year or more in Paris--on their father's dime--not have grown in maturity, as these girls did not. But lots of others liked this book so a simple difference of perspective?


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Heinz is a totally upstanding, hard-working, honest man...his flaw was blindly believing every lie his daughter told him and not believing the scores of people who tried to persuade him over the decades that she needs SERIOUS professional help. Maybe he understands this now...maybe she is still able to manipulate him. Who knows.Big dif between being privy & being a supportive father.....I dont think you know Heintz at all.
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There are 458 comments on the WTOC-TV Savannah story from Aug 15, 2008, titled Talent scout now charged with scamming six clients. In it, WTOC-TV Savannah reports that:A talent and modeling scout remains in the Chatham County Jail. Jacqueline Hammond is now charged with fraud, accused of scamming all six of her clients.
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Edmonton, Canada
#436 Jul 31, 2009
Leduc, Canada
#437 Aug 1, 2009
had a stake in the decision making?
Heinz Ketchup walter
Do they say they want?
Jacquie's business to succeed.
Are they one issue compared to others?
Heinz set up a school for her in various locations as well as other names.
Much persuasive influence could they exert?
Heinz there's no other kinds gave her money to run these farcities.
Heinz desire was to see that his daughter a success, which would credit him as being a father. The fact that he would go so far says that he knew it,
Westlock, Canada
#438 Aug 4, 2009
Anyways, I dont see Jacquie learning her lesson from all this, bailed out yet again. The school had huge potential at one point, and a silent business partner, " if that is what heintz was" who has really no say in the workings of a business can legally be held responible in the end, all I ever herd jacquie & jay mention was they were the owners....ok so daddy was the money man, maybe he looked at the books from time to time, or the quartly statements, alberta education had to be involved in some aspects due to providing the students with student loans, im sure alberta education licensed the school, over seen the course outline, & should have checked the school on a regular basis, maybe they even had a small stack of complaints too. What I dont see now are some goverment agencys taking heat or Des from CTV reporting as to wtf's been going on, I guess its buyer beware even a regulated industry.
Edmonton, Canada
#439 Aug 5, 2009
Heintz is the owner which is why he's being sued. The company was in his name and so was the license. Government of Alberta only audits when there are irregularities and time tables, in most instances it is forbidden to monitor, Which is it's weakness since companies like Jacquie's can use these discrepancies to commit fraud.
Case in point Jacquie was investigated because she refused to refund a mother the money initially charged. The mother than in turn went to the government to get her return, it was only until then that the government realized that she was with out a license then did they act.
Westlock, Canada
#440 Aug 6, 2009
What are you talking about?....the radio school or the talent agency? or both? Me think theres more hoops to jump through then you seem to think in respect to securing the blessings of alberta education , to be able to offer student loads, "so I call your bull shit on the goverment being able to audit".....Now if Heintz was the owner......like I said before to bad for him.....Tell me something....what owner would let his employess, run the ship into the rocks? With-out me skiming the past 400 or so odd posts, what relation did you have in respect to this?
Leduc, Canada
#441 Aug 6, 2009
You seem level headed person! And good questions
Private education is a simple a putting forth your plan having it approved and following it which Jacquie did follow on paper. Again audits are largely time tables.
"what owner would let his employess, run the ship into the rocks? With-out me skiming the past 400 or so odd posts, what relation did you have in respect to this?"
my point exactly obviously Heintz was aware of his daughter ripping off students and teachers alike. Case in point are you aware that in the affidavit there is a charge that one of the instructors left his post for one week, while he went off to moon light.
Also that Jacquie had prior complaints registered against the company and no word from Heintz doesn't that sound like a psycho letting some one rip others off. Did you know that as the owner he'd be informed of them.
Any way you sound more and more like a disgruntled employee to me with loyalty issues. And I think I know who I'm talking too.
Leduc, Canada
#442 Aug 6, 2009
My issue with Jacquie was that many years ago I entered into the school with promises of being the next busta love with him at the helm.
However many persons weren't getting their diplomas. I then asked her about giving me my tuition back and responded by saying give it a 24 hrs and if you still want your money back. I'll have the check signed and waiting.
Leduc, Canada
#443 Aug 6, 2009
Sorry its late I'm talking in regards to the radio school.
Westlock, Canada
#444 Aug 7, 2009
Well im definately not a former employee, I did know the (2) jerk-offs plus (1) sidekick , im guess im somewhat surprised nothing good ever seems to come from the b.s.
Westlock, Canada
#445 Aug 15, 2009
Ok I finally read a bit about what Heinz has to do to make things right....forget where I saw it online....this all seems anti-climatic....so Busta...are you working in a related field?.....did you get money back yet?.....and a diploma?.......maybe I will start a school....promise the world.....take everyones cold hard cash......& maybe I will set up a side agency to slide more cash from un-suspecting models....then when the shit hits the fan....daddy can bail me out.....wait....Dad always taught tough love.....guess that would mean hard time when it all falls apart...
p.s. where the fuc is roxy? and are you satisfied what was handed Jaquie?....I though she said they would throw the book & the bookcase at her in court?
Edmonton, Canada
#446 Aug 17, 2009
Heinz has been aware of his daughter's criminal activity for decades but has turned a blind eye and chosen not to believe the many, many "signs" and eyewitness accounts in favour of being the "good" father and taking his daughter's side. She was very persuasive with him (and her mother). She is an only (adopted) child...she can never do any wrong in their eyes, no matter how many people are hurt.
Leduc, Canada
#448 Aug 29, 2009
where is jay? whats he doing?
Red Deer, Canada
#449 Dec 27, 2009
Jays in edmonton still.....working small time at some station, wow looks like this blog has run its course.
#450 Apr 14, 2010
I have finally got to read all the posts. If you truly want to talk to me and have a serious issue then plz email me. [email protected] I think that at this time you would be ok in talking to me. If nothing else u would allow me to defend myself....If notified I will allow u to record the converstation. PROVIDING IT IS WITHING THE NEXT 90 MN
Bragg Creek, Canada
#451 May 1, 2010
hi my name is shandy. About 3 years ago I paid $400 dollars to get head shots done with tc talents and I was just randomly searching today and came across this blog.. and I'm trying to get a hold of someone about this and figure out exactly what has happened. If in someway you could text me please do so. 7809095495 I would really appreciate any information. Thank you.
Edmonton, Canada
#452 Aug 27, 2010
Wow, looks like I was not alone in being talked out of my money, never to hear from her again. I wondered how she could possibly run a business while never being at her office...guess that's because she was in jail...
Edmonton, Canada
#453 Aug 27, 2010
Oh, I forgot about the 'headshots'. After Jaquie had relieved me of a wad of cash with her smooth-talking, she spend approximately 15 seconds snapping with her cheap camera and telling me how great I looked. No lighting, backdrops, makeup, hairstyling, direction of any kind. Of course I never got to see the photos, or received any job offers or audition notices from her 'talent agency'. I hope she's now being prevented from exploiting and conning anyone else, and can get on with making an honest living.
Monterrey, Mexico
#454 Oct 27, 2010
EX prof of the school anybody know how many years Jac got?
Edmonton, Canada
#455 Dec 13, 2010
None. She was let off. Crummy US judicial system.
#456 Aug 17, 2011
If you have a child do not let this woman mear her. She gave my 18 year old her I.D. so they could get into a 21 over club in Las Vegas. Children are just pawns to her, she is not a nice person and needs to be avoided at all costs.
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The Uniform Fourpenny Post was a short-lived uniform pre-paid letter rate in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that lasted for only 36 days from 5 December 1839 until 9 January 1840.[1][2] The Uniform Fourpenny Post was the first component of the comprehensive reform to the Royal Mail postal service that took place in the 19th century.
The Postage Act was passed on 17 August 1839 in which the Penny Postage system was passed. It gave the Treasury until October 1840 to introduce the system.[3][4] Public reaction to the interim rate of 4d was unfavourable and they felt cheated that the agreed reduction to the uniform rate of 1d had not taken place. This resulted in the abolition of the Fourpenny Post and the debut of the Uniform Penny Post on 10 January 1840 when 1d was charged for pre-paid one ounce letters.[5] This was followed by the issuance of labels to prepay postage in May 1840: the Penny Black and Two Penny Blue stamps.
From 5 December 1839 until 9 January 1840 a uniform charge of 4d was levied for pre-paid letters up to half an ounce in weight instead of postage being calculated by distance and number of sheets of paper. One ounce letters were charged 8d and each additional ounce, up to 16 ounces, cost 8d. Unpaid was charged double the pre-paid rates.[5] For mail whose rates were already less than 4d, the existing lower rates applied to those letters.[1]
The quantity of letters carried increased significantly; for the week ending 29 November 1839, the London post office carried 1,585,973 letters; for the week ending 22 December, the quantity was 2,008,687 and by the week ending 23 February 1840 they carried 3,199,637.[6]
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Mail posted during the fourpenny post period was marked with a figure 4 applied either in manuscript, or with a handstamp that was issued to a limited number of cities in Great Britain and Ireland. No handstamp has been recorded for London, even though Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh were issued with handstamps. Some towns appear to have obtained their handstamps from unofficial sources.[7]
- ^ a b Hill, Rowland (1840). "On the Effect of the New Postal Arrangements upon the Number of Letters". Journal of the Statistical Society of London. London: Statistical Society (Great Britain). 3: 102. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ^ "Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms". Ask Phil. Collectors Club of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ "Key Dates". British Postal Museum and Archive. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
- ^ "Law magazine: or quarterly review of jurisprudence". 22 (August 1839-November 1839). London: Saunders and Benning. 1839: 477.
- ^ a b Reynolds 1983, pp. 61–62.
- ^ History of Post-Office and Postage at Home and Abroad: Cheap Postage in England New York Times April 29, 1853 (retrieved 10 December 2007)
- ^ Willcocks, Robert Martin (1972). The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland: A Summarized Catalogue to 1840. Perth, Scotland: Woods. pp. 31, 55, 68.
- Reynolds, Mairead (1983). A History of The Irish Post Office. Dublin, IE: MacDonnell Whyte. ISBN 0-9502619-7-1. 91 pp.
- Grimwood-Taylor, James (1990). The British Postal Reforms of 1839 to 1840. Derby, ENG, UK: Cavendish Philatelic Auctions. ISBN 0-9515626-0-6. 67 pp.
- Crouch, Guy Robert. The Uniform Fourpenny Post Office Stamps.
- Kane, William (1990). The Uniform 4d Post of Ireland. UK: Irish Philatelic Circle. 28 pp.
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- "Rates in effect prior to Uniform Fourpenny Post", Pre‐Victorian, Victorian web.
- "Uniform Fourpenny Post postal mark", Ears at home


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NAUGATUCK – The Tug Valley High School football team is back on track after a tough loss to Sherman in Week 1.
In Week 2 last Friday night, Tug Valley returned to blank Meadow Bridge 37-0 and are now ready to face the Van Bulldogs in Week 3 in the ARH Kickoff Classic this Friday night at home.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
The Panthers have been on a two-year playoff spree and are looking to make this year number three.
The next obstacle is the Bulldogs.
Van is fresh off of a 41-13 win over the Phelps (Ky.) Hornets and are now 2-0 on the season after defeating Meadow Bridge in Week 1.
If you look at the scores from both Tug Valley and Van against Meadow Bridge you will see the Panthers handled the Wildcats better.
Van won the game against the Wildcats 20-6 while Tug Valley won 37-0. This is a good indication that the Panthers may have what it takes to edge out the Bulldogs.
What the Panthers will need to watch out for is a team that runs a basic offensive formation and they run it well, the Bulldog defense is a basic 4-3 with some blitzing in time of need. This is not new information to the Panthers as they saw the same package last season in their 34-21 win over Van.
Some of the players the Panthers will need to keep an eye on this game is strong safety/running back Alexander Gibson. Gibson is very quick and is a hard hitter from the defensive backfield.
Fullback/middle linebacker Gavin Smith does most of the backfield blocking for Gibson and most of the blitzing on defense, unless the Bulldogs decide to release defensive end Cole Price who works the strong side. The Van line is experienced except for a freshman center.
The Panthers have proved they have what it takes to handle the Bulldogs even with a 1-1 record.
QB Johnathan Blankenship has proved himself as a double threat to opposing defenses with the ability to throw and run. Blankenship is joined in the backfield with speedy Dawson Elia, Levi Davis and fullback Noah Lucas.
The Panthers had some luck last game passing the ball but this year's team looks like a running squad.
The Panthers' front line has contributed greatly to their success so far this season. Carson May, Andrew Dingess, Brady Spaulding and Josh Deboard are able to give the Panthers the edge they need up front.
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* To buy back 30 million shares, or about 7.5 percent of outstanding stock
* Says pursuing joint venture partnerships
* Adjusted earnings per share $2.02 vs estimate $2.21
* Shares rise nearly 5 percent (Adds background, conference call comments)
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May 9 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas company Apache Corp on Thursday said it plans to sell $4 billion in assets, using proceeds to shore up its balance sheet and share price through debt reduction and a big share buy-back.
Disappointing production and investor concern over Apache's high exposure to Egypt - which accounted for 20 percent of its output in 2012 - have pressured the company's stock. So far this year, the stock is down about 1 percent compared with a 9 percent gain in the SIG oil exploration and production index
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led vs large round aux lights
Trying to make up my mind and would like to see some photos of both. Not sure if I want to rock a light bar over the windshield or not be definetly want windshield post lights and lights on a aev front bumper with the hoop. Led's look kinda funny cause they're so small but I may get used to them. I'm used the big round lamps like the old KC Daylighters
Not many people using roof mounted lights anymore. I guess thats old school?
You certainly don't see many JK's rocking light bars up high. I haven't seen many Jeeps at that. I like mine. I know it's not a JK but I would say it also depends on what you want to do. I end up in the desert and in the sand so there's not a lot of dense vegitation on trails to compete with and you can get up some good speed so being able to see where I'm going a long way off is important. I like it because when it's above my cab with the eurobeam lamps I get a long shot off in the distance but also enough light around my front tires to see what I'm doing. I have 4 HID Vision-X 55w up there so it's like carrying the sun around. Just my 2c.
I have the old schools KC'S slimlites on my windshield mounts (not the bar, just a pair mounted on either side of the windshield). They are awsome, and with the edition of driving bulbs on my bumper soon, it will be espeacially awsome. They dont look half bad either:) i like them better than the LED's, because they have more of a "fit for jeep" look, and INSANLY bright. Did i mention their bright?
You can do the old school look with round LEDS on windshield too!
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Didn't really think about it till this thread, but the round KCs look better. At least aesthetically speaking. And they were very good lights. However, the Rigid LEDs are quite a bit brighter, and that was ultimately why I put lights on windshield mounts in the first place.
Plus, they're smaller targets for flying rocks.
The downside, of course, is that they cost a lot more.
Pool or a pond...if you've ever seen Caddyshack. :)
Just put these on today.... Crazy bright.
I put a rigid 10" combo led bar on my bumper to get more light where I'm going and I've used it a couple times but tonight put it to the real test. I can honestly say I'm not to impressed for the money. It looks good, buy I have cheapy 45 dollar ones from auto zone that actually throw the light better and don't freeze up. I would get some good lights and forgo the led. Dollar to dollar I don't think it was worth it in my case. YMMV.
Hard to beat a set of HID Stryker 170's in my opinion. With the flexibility of being able to change the color, and adjust from spot to flood, and a near indestructible lens cover, coupled with the fact they are as bright as hell, they present a pretty good bang for your buck.
In my opinion, since the JK's have a bigger, beefier stance to them I don't really care for the look of the round KC style lights mounted to the base of the windshield. They just come across as looking too small for the bigger size of the vehicle. I do really like the look of light bars above the windshield on them as they add to the defined squared shaped of the JK windshield. So I'd go for the light bar mount!!
Personally, I would never mount lights anywhere above the hood...unless you are doing it just for looks. Been there...done that...biggest mistake I ever made with my Scrambler...other than selling it.
I have the 30-inch Rigid light bar on my bumper. It puts out an incredible amount of light. However, if I had it to do over again, I would buy a 20-inch bar and a couple of Duallys or D2 lights to mount on each side of it. The peripheral lighting to the side is not as good as I would like it to be even though the bar is a combo spot/flood. I have 4 sizeable (and round) HID lights on the front of my Tundra, and the light from the Rigid bar is comparable, though not as aimable.
[QUOTE=Binx;3340863]I can honestly say I'm not to impressed for the money. It looks good, buy I have cheapy 45 dollar ones from auto zone that actually throw the light better and don't freeze up.QUOTE]
When you say freezing up, do you mean the fact that the LED doesn't produce enough heat to melt snow and ice off the lense, or that they actually failed to light up and work due to temperature?
I have the 156 mm spots Plus you need to buy a wire harness and windshield mounts. I got a kc harness and the kc windshield mounts from Amazon. Total for everything was a little under 150$ but it looks as thougg they raised the price of the lights to 40 each...I paid 30 .
Have much less current draw
Run cooler
Last longer than conventional bulbs
Maybe more aerodynamic too? Those KC lights are like giant plates trying to catch air.
Yeah with the freezing. Last time we had a freezing mix the whole lens was iced over pretty bad and the light wasn't very useful.
The only reason one would want lights on the roof is for long throw. Having said that, HIDs are still numero uno when it comes to distance. If you are doing it for show, LEDs are fine, but if you are really going to use the roof lights for what they were designed for, HIDs are still unmatched.
I don't agree with that. The light output from the 30-inch Rigid E-Series bar on my Jeep is almost identical to that of the 4 large HID lights on the front of my Tundra when we're talking distance...great illumination at least 1000 feet down the road...probably more. I paid substantially more for the 4 HID lights than I did for the LED bar.
Put LED's in a 7" round housing I can mount on the front of my Jeep and I am all over it. Light bars and small square housings mounted anywhere above the hood, not so much.
Some brands of the larger, round versions (*WARNING* some of these are :eek: expensive):
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I've got 4 hella 700ff's on a light bar on top of the windsheild(8.5") and 2 hella 500's on the bottom of the windshield(5")
I originally had KC Highlighters on my Windsheild and KC fogs on front bumper.
I recently switched them to led bars, 50 inch windsheild and 12 inch on bumper. The light output is crazy.
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I just installed my light bar with 5 6" quadratec round LED's.
They do a great job of lightning up your hood...or hoods, if you want to count the neighborhood and the jeep's hood.
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10 Missouri Stereotypes that are Completely Accurate
Movoto.com does market analysis on different locations around the country. This one struck our fancy cuz ya know we're in Missouri!! We think that missed out on one very vital part of being in Missouri...FLOAT TRIPS!!! Do you agree with the list below?
1. Missourians toe the line between nice and too nice
2. They will stop their cars in the middle of the road for a good chat
3. People in Missouri have trust issues because of the weather man
4. Baseball is Missouri's favorite pastime
5. In Missouri, we take frog giggin' seriously
6. Missourians are Friday night tailgaters and bonfire party-ers
7. We watch a thunderstorm like its a TV Show
8. Everyone pledges allegiance to IMO's Pizza
9. Natives can tell what time of year it is by whats dead on the road
10. Missouri is one part southerners and one part midwesterner
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MA Creative Writing
MA Creative Writing
The School of English has a strong international reputation and global perspective, apparent both in the background of its staff and in the diversity of our teaching and research interests.
Our expertise ranges from the medieval to the postmodern, including British, American and Irish literature, postcolonial writing, 18th-century studies, Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, Victorian studies, modern poetry, critical theory and cultural history. The international standing of the School ensures that we have a lively, confident research culture, sustained by a vibrant, ambitious intellectual community. We also count a number of distinguished creative writers among our staff, and we actively explore crossovers between critical and creative writing in all our areas of teaching and research.
Our reputation for research excellence was confirmed in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) in which our research was recognised to be world-leading. The University of Kent is a research-led institution, which means that the research that the academics are engaged in continues to inform their teaching, and that you, as a student in the department, are at the centre of a dynamic and thriving academic environment.
Course structure
The MA in Creative Writing at Kent offers you the opportunity to study fiction and poetry (exclusively or together) along with optional modules in translation, and writing and the environment. Designed with serious, ambitious writers in mind, our programme uses seminars, tutorials, workshops, and precise editing to enable you to take control of your own work and write exciting, contemporary material.
You are taught exclusively by members of the permanent creative writing team, all of whom are practising, award-winning writers: Patricia Debney, David Flusfeder, David Herd, Nancy Gaffield, Dragan Todorovic, Alex Preston, Amy Sackville, Simon Smith and Scarlett Thomas.
You take a total of four modules, for which you will produce approximately 8,000 words each (or an equivalent number of poems or translations). In addition, you write a creative dissertation of about 15,000 words.
Learning outcomes
Programme aims
This programme aims to:
- provide you with the opportunity to obtain a postgraduate qualification (MA) in one year, and to allow you, if required, a smooth transition to doctoral studies
- extend and deepen your understanding of your own writing practice through coursework and research
- enable you to develop an historical awareness of literary and creative writing traditions
- develop your independent critical thinking and judgement
- develop your independent creative thinking and practice
- develop your understanding and critical appreciation of the expressive resources of language
- enable you to make connections across your various modules and transfer knowledge between modules
- provide you with teaching, workshops and other learning opportunities that are informed by current research and practice and that require you to engage with aspects of work and practice at the frontiers of knowledge.
Knowledge and understanding
You will gain knowledge and understanding of:
- key texts from contemporary British, American, postcolonial and world literatures
- the main aspects of literary techniques and theory in either fiction or poetry, including point of view, form, style, voice, characterisation, structure and theme
- key literary traditions and movements, both contemporary and historical
- terminology used in literary criticism
- terminology used in creative practice
- the cultural and historical contexts in which literature is written, published and read
- critical theory and its applications to both reading and writing
- the study and creation of the 'text' and how this is influenced by cultural factors
- inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to the advanced practice of creative and critical writing
- research methods.
Intellectual skills
You develop intellectual skills in:
- the application of the skills needed for advanced academic study and enquiry
- the evaluation of your research findings
- the ability to synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding of theory and/or practice
- the ability to make discriminations and selections of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge
- exercise of problem-solving skills
- communication of complex ideas in prose, poetry or both
Subject-specific skills
You gain subject-specific skills in:
- advanced creative writing skills in prose, poetry or both.
- the ability to produce work with ambition, depth, intellectual structure, sophistication, scope, independence and importance
- the ability to sustain a piece of creative work and make choices about form, content and style
- understanding of a 'whole' in creative practice (whether this is a novel, a collection of poems or short stories or some other advanced project)
- the ability to present creative writing professionally, both orally and in writing, demonstrating an awareness and understanding of current practice
- an advanced understanding of literary themes
- enhanced skills in the close critical analysis of literary and other texts
- informed critical understanding of the variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of texts and source materials
- an ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to advanced English or cultural studies
- well-developed linguistic skills, including a grasp of standard critical terminology
- appropriate scholarly practice in the presentation of formal written work
- an understanding of how cultural norms and assumptions influence questions of judgement
Transferable skills
You will gain the following transferable skills:
- advanced skills in communication, in speech and writing
- the ability to offer and receive constructive criticism
- the capacity to argue a point of view, orally and in written form, with clarity, organisation and cogency
- enhanced confidence in the efficient presentation of ideas
- the ability to assimilate, organise and work with substantial quantities of complex information
- competence in the planning and execution of coursework
- the capacity for independent thought, reasoned judgement, and self-criticism
- enhanced skills in collaborative intellectual and creative work
- the ability to understand, interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical and/or creative positions and weigh the importance of alternative approaches
- research skills, including scholarly information retrieval skills
- IT: word-processing, the ability to access electronic data and the ability to work efficiently and effectively in an online learning environment
Entry requirements
A first or second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent), or substantial creative writing experience. You are required to submit a sample of your creative writing, and this will be the most significant factor in admissions decisions.
Writing Sample
A piece or portfolio of creative work should be uploaded on the 'Declaration' page of the online application form. If fiction, this should be around 1,500–2,000 words; if poetry, approximately 4 pages.
On the 'Course Details' page, you should submit a description of around 300 words of your creative writing plans. Please tell us whether you intend to work in fiction, poetry, or narrative non-fiction, and what experience you have working in this form. Please also give some indication of the concerns, style, ideas and/or themes that you are interested in exploring in your work.
Request for Consideration on the Grounds of Equivalent Professional Status
Candidates who hold no first degree, or a first degree in a non literary/creative subject-area should include in their applications a summary of any information that might allow us to support the application on the grounds of 'equivalent professional status'. This could include previous writing publication credits or other successes and/or relevant professional achievements.
General entry requirements
Please also see our general entry requirements.
English language entry requirements
For detailed information see our English language requirements web pages.
Please note that if you are required to meet an English language condition, we offer a number of pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes through Kent International Pathways.
Research areas
Research in the School of English comes roughly under the following areas. However, there is often a degree of overlap between groups, and individual staff have interests that range more widely.
Eighteenth Century
The particular interests of the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century converge around gender, class, nation, travel and empire, and the relationship between print and material culture. Staff in the Centre pursue cutting-edge approaches to the field and share a commitment to interdisciplinary methodologies.
The Centre regularly hosts visiting speakers as part of the School of English research seminar programme, and hosts day symposia, workshops and international conferences.
Nineteenth Century
The 19th-century research group is organised around the successful MA in Dickens and Victorian Culture and the editorship of The Dickensian, the official publication outlet for new Dickens letters. Other staff research interests include literature and gender, journalism, representations of time and history, sublimity and Victorian Poetry.
American Literature
Research in north American literature is conducted partly through the Faculty-based Centre for American Studies, which also facilitates co-operation with modern US historians. Staff research interests include 20th-century American literature, especially poetry, Native American writing, modernism, and cultural history.
Creative Writing
The Centre for Creative Writing is the focus for most practice-based research in the School. Staff organise a thriving events series and run a research seminar for postgraduate students and staff to share ideas about fiction-writing. Established writers regularly come to read and discuss their work.
Medieval and Early Modern
The Faculty-based Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies has a distinctive brand of interdisciplinarity, strong links with local archives and archaeological trusts, and provides a vibrant forum for investigating the relationships between literary and non-literary modes of writing in its weekly research seminar.
Modern Poetry
The Centre for Modern Poetry is a leading centre for research and publication in its field, and participates in both critical and creative research. Staff regularly host visiting speakers and writers, participate in national and international research networks, and organise graduate research seminars and public poetry readings.
Established in 1994, the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research has acquired an international reputation for excellence in research. It has an outstanding track record in publication, organises frequent international conferences, and regularly hosts leading postcolonial writers and critics. It also hosts a visiting writer from India every year in association with the Charles Wallace Trust.
Key facts
School: School of English
Subject area: English
Award: MA
Course type: Taught
Location: Canterbury
Mode of study: Full-time or part-time
Attendance mode: Campus
Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time
Start: September
Total Kent credits: 180
Total ECTS credits: 90
This school offers programs in:
- English
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Hi Spicework Guru's,
I am trying to setup spiceworks so that new calls, updates ETC get emailed to the user as they are applied to the open ticket.
I have setup the email settings and the test shows as complete but I never receive the stated verification email.
I have checked the settings and the account details and can copy and paste the OWA path and account details into a web browser and can access the mailbox.
I have also ticked the boxes for users to receive the updates ETC.
Any clues?
May 10, 2010 at 8:05 UTC
akp982 is an IT service provider.
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May 10, 2010 at 6:56 UTC
akp982 is an IT service provider.
Could you use imap or pop and smtp rather than exchange?
May 10, 2010 at 7:52 UTC
We have multiple domains under one forest with sites having thier own Exchange servers so we'de prefer to get OWA working if we can as each site will potentially run thier own instance of spiceworks.
I did do some reading on the site and someone mentioned that form based e-mails may not have been set as allowed on the OWA server.
May 10, 2010 at 8:05 UTC
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May 10, 2010 at 8:26 UTC
I think this is the thread I looked at over the weekend but I'll have a thorough read through and see if I get any clues.