Summer Deadlines + Newberry Library Spotlight + Textbooks Due Tomorrow

Updated on June 12, 2025 By Ex Libris Comments Off on Summer Deadlines + Newberry Library Spotlight + Textbooks Due Tomorrow

Good afternoon, everyone!

We have a few announcements today, including info about the Newberry Library’s upcoming conference for graduate student scholarship and their list of summer courses, an extended call for Crook & Folly Editor-in-Chief applications, and a reminder about those rental books that you may or may not have forgotten are due this week. To help you plan your schedule, we also put together a list of deadlines for the remainder of this week, the entire summer, and the first couple weeks of Autumn Quarter! (Scroll down for info on each of these!)

This is our last official post for the academic year. We wish you all the best for the summer, look forward to seeing returning students in the fall, and send our warmest congratulations to those of you who are graduating this quarter!

Yours sincerely,
your 2024–2025 editor, Macrina Forest

Immediate Deadlines

This is your reminder that rental textbooks are due tomorrow, June 13! If you’d like to return these by mail, your package must be postmarked by the Rental Return Due Date (see packing instructions here). If you’d like to return these in person, the Lincoln Park bookstore (2425 N. Sheffield Ave.) is open until 5:00 PM tonight and tomorrow, and the Loop Campus bookstore (1 E. Jackson Blvd.) is open until 10:00 PM tonight and 6:00 PM tomorrow.

We’d also like to let grad students know that the deadline has been extended for Crook & Folly Editor-in-Chief applications! C&F has received several good undergraduate applications, but the editors feel that having a duo of one undergrad and one grad student as editors-in-chief will make for an especially strong team next year. If you are a grad student who would be interested in this exciting opportunity for playing a leading role in DePaul’s very own award-winning, student-run literary magazine, please send your one-page application letter (around 250 words) and resume to Prof. Dan Stolar (dstolar@depaul.edu) and crookandfolly@gmail.com on or before this Monday, June 16. (Click here for additional details.)

Spotlight on Chicago’s Newberry Library

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with it, the historic Newberry Library is a local gem of an institution, located in downtown Chicago, which houses a wonderful collection of both modern and centuries-old manuscripts. The Newberry has been an invaluable fixture of research and learning since its foundation in 1887, with physical archives, digital collections, exhibition galleries, and a bookshop, as well as local events, readings, and performances that engage with communities throughout Chicago.

This summer, the Newberry will open the submission window for their annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies, which will take place in January. The Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier venue for emerging scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations. This supportive, welcoming conference comprises as many as sixteen panels with nearly fifty presenters, plus plenary and professionalization sessions. The Newberry will post a call for submissions on their website within the next few weeks, and the submission deadline will be October 15, 2025. (Click here to see details on last year’s conference.) Please send any questions to renaissance@newberry.org.

The Newberry is also offering a free guided tour of their library, reading rooms, and resources this Saturday, from 10:30am to 11:30am. [There will also be a free performance of King Lear from 9:50 am to 12:30pm, read by actors from the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.] Click here for details!

Craving additional enrichment this summer? Excited to learn more about your favorite topics-of-interest? Want to build up valuable professonal or academic skills? (Or, are you currently working on a research paper, thesis, or personal project?) The Newberry is offering a plethora of summer courses, broad and niche, in topics covering literature and poetry, folklore, history and art history, music and culture, language learning, Chicago architecture and heritage, craft workshops, writing workshops, films and pop culture, food, grant writing, gardening, and special collections ranging from Steiff’s beloved mohair creations to the Newberry’s own treasured stacks. These courses usually meet once a week over the course of a few weeks (with exceptions), online or in person at the Newberry (60 W. Walton St.). The Newberry offers students a discounted rate for course registration. Click here for more details, and view the list below to see the courses offered!

New York City’s Morgan Library & Museum will also be offering their virtual course A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 on Wednesdays, August 13, 20, 27, 2025, 12–1 PM. Complementing the Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition, A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250, this three-part online course will explore Austen’s authorship and her gradual rise to international fame. Click here for more details.

Upcoming Deadlines

Key:

🌼🐦🌻yellow = journal submission deadline (creative writing)green = other submission deadline
pink = quarter start and end datesorange = journal submission deadline (academic writing)blue = LAS deadline

SQ2025, Week 11

June 9 – June 15

  • Friday, June 13: Textbook rentals due (click here for return details & bookstore hours)

  • Saturday, June 14: Poetry Magazine submissions (click here for details)

Summer Break

June 16 – June 22

  • Monday, June 16:
    • Summer Session I begins (click here for the list of Summer Session courses)
    • Entre (click here for details)
    • Crook & Folly Editor-in-Chief applications [grad student extended call] (click here for details)

  • Tuesday, June 17:
    • Last day to register for Summer Session I courses (click here for the list of Summer Session courses)
  • Friday, June 20:
    • Last day to drop Summer Session I courses

  • Sunday, June 22:
    • Reckoning Special Issue: It Was Paradise (click here for details)

June 23 – June 29

  • The Black List: 2025 Unpublished Novel Award (click here for details)

June 30 – July 6

  • Monday, June 30:
    • SmokeLong Quarterly (free submissions) (click here for details)
    • SpecPoVerse (click here for details)
    • Modern Love (NYT) (click here for details)
    • Tiny Love Stories (NYT) (click here for details)
    • submissions open for The Orange & Bee (click here for details)

  • Tuesday, July 1:
    • Brink Literacy Project Publishing Internship applications due (click here for details)

July 7 – July 13

  • Sunday, July 13:
    • The Orange & Bee (click here for details)

July 14 – July 20

  • Tuesday, July 15:
    • Last day apply for August degree conferral

  • Friday, July 18:
    • Summer Session I ends

July 21 – July 27

  • Monday, July 21:
    • Summer Session II begins (click here for the list of Summer Session courses)

  • Tuesday, July 22:
    • Last day to register for Summer Session II courses (click here for the list of Summer Session courses)

  • Friday, July 25:
    • Last day to drop Summer Session II courses

July 28 – August 3

  • Thursday, July 31:
    • The Hippocampus Anthology (Temporal Lobe Literary) (click here for details)
    • Ink In Thirds (click here for details)
    • Taco Bell Quarterly (click here for details)
    • Decolonial Passage (click here for details)
    • Acentos Review (click here for details)

August 4 – August 10

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August 11 – August 17

  • Thursday, August 14:
    • SmokeLong Quarterly (paid submissions) (click here for details)

August 18 – August 24

  • Friday, August 22:
    • Summer Session II ends

August 25 – August 31

  • Sunday, August 31:
    • F(r)iction (click here for details)

September 1 – September 7

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AQ2025, Weeks 1 & 2

September 8 – September 14

  • Wednesday, September 10:
    • Autumn Quarter begins

September 15 – September 21

  • Monday, September 15:
    • Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA): “Health in/of the Humanities” (click here for details)

  • Tuesday, September 16:
    • Last day to register for AQ2025 courses
      • Click here for the full list of the department’s ENG courses.