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SSML encourages the study of Midwestern literature and culture in whatever directions the insight, imagination and curiosity of its members may lead.


M/MLA & MLA Sessions
To view SSML-sponsored sessions at the 2008 M/MLA and MLA conventions, click here.


Jon Hassler, Mark Twain awardee, died on March 20, 2008. Read obituaries in the New York Times and from Minnesota Public Radio.

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The 2009 Mark Twain Award will be presented to Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, winner of the 1995 Lannan Literary Award, and author of The Paradise of Bombs, Writing From the Center, and A Private History of Awe, among many others.

The 2009 MidAmerica Award will be given to Loren Logsdon, emeritus of Eureka College and founding editor of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction.