Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award

New Writer Award: 1st place $2,500 and publication. Deadline: 10/31. (The Fiction Open and Very Short grace periods end on 9/10.) Make a submission here. Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) The 1st-place winner will be published…Continue reading Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award

India Study Abroad Program (Deadline: 5/1/15)

DePaul’s wealth of study abroad opportunities includes India: India’s Identities. This December intersession program will feature courses on travel writing (ENG 272/398) and philosophy (PHL 234/398). Associate professor and MAWP director Michele Morano and LAS assistant dean Randall Honold will be leading the program. The application deadline is May 1. See the flyer below for more information.

Story Week Festival (March 15-21, 2015)

Columbia College Chicago‘s creative writing department is presenting the Story Week Festival of Writers March 15–21, 2015. This year’s theme is The Power of Words. All programming is free and open to the public. DePaul associate professor Miles Harvey and former DePaul assistant professor Amina Gautier will be presenting at the festival. Check out the full Story Week schedule here.

An Internship Opportunity, Free Creative Writing Classes, & a Call for Book Reviews

Academy Chicago Publishers is currently looking for two or three interns for an unpaid winter internship in the publishing industry. Zhanna Vaynberg, a recent MAWP graduate, is the managing editor at Academy Chicago Publishers in charge of finding interns, making this an especially promising opportunity for current DePaul English graduate students looking to get a…Continue reading An Internship Opportunity, Free Creative Writing Classes, & a Call for Book Reviews

Faculty News, Radio DePaul, and More

Two exciting Faculty News updates today: Congratulations are due to Christine Sneed, who has just sold a novel, Little Known Facts, to Bloomsbury. And her short story, “The First Wife,” which appeared in the December2010/January 2011 issue of the New England Review, has been selected for this year’s O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations also to…Continue reading Faculty News, Radio DePaul, and More

Ryan Van Meter Reading Tonight

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nw_NjkTJbY]  Ryan Van Meter—who received an MA from the creative writing program—will be reading from his much-praised new essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly recently described the book as a “moving debut” with “profoundly universal appeal.” Ryan Van Meter Tuesday, April 26 6:00 p.m. Dorothy…Continue reading Ryan Van Meter Reading Tonight