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Looking for magazines and contests to submit your work to over the summer? See below for important deadlines: The Masters Review – Best Emerging Writers Contest – June 8, 2026Fiction Creative Nonfiction SmokeLong General Submissions – June 15, 2026Flash narratives—fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid—up to 1000 words Epiphany Magazine – June 15, 2026PoetryFictionNonfictionTranslation The Paris Review – June 30, 2026Fiction Bauhan Publishing’s May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize – June 30, 2026  A Public Space – July 1, 2026FictionNonfictionPoetryTranslation The Plentitudes – July 15, 2026FlashFictionNonfictionPoetry Birdcoat Quarterly – July 30, 2026FictionCreative NonfictionPoetry Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest… Read Article →

Crook & Folly is looking for next year’s Editors in Chief! They typically hire one graduate student and one undergraduate. To apply, please send a 1-2 page letter of interest that includes an introduction and your qualifications for the position, as well as any ideas/aspirations you might have for the magazine to Dan Stolar (dstolar@depaul.edu) by June 5.

On July 1, submissions will open for Electric Literature’s first Emerging Writers Contest, with categories in fiction and poetry. One winner in each genre will receive $1,000, publication in either Recommended Reading (fiction) or The Commuter (poetry), and two weeks at the Writing Downtown residency program in Downtown Las Vegas, started by Plympton and the Writer’s Block bookstore. Second-place winners will receive $250, and third-place winners will receive $100. All fiction finalists will receive a review with feedback from a literary agent. Submissions will open on July 1, 2026 via Submittable. 

Submissions are open for the issue “&” of the Writing Center’s digital literary magazine, The Orange Couch! The magazine is revision-based and requires writers to receive feedback either through a writing center appointment or through either Writers Guild or Scriptwriting Society (the Writing Center’s creative writing groups). The deadline to submit is Friday, May 29! See below for more details.

Join us for a conversation with International Latino Book Award Winner and recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, Cynthia Pelayo, for a discussion of her short-story collection Lotería on Thursday, May 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Latinx Cultural Center. See below for more details:

The Chicago Writers Showcase is back next month to celebrate upcoming releases from Chicago Authors, including DePaul English faculty Kathleen Rooney. The event takes place on Tuesday, June 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Haymarket House, and you can RSVP here. Here’s the full lineup:

Thank you to everyone who participated in and/or attended our Annual Spring English Conference on Friday! We had a blast listening to the student and alumni panels, celebrating graduates and outstanding students, and hearing from our graduating MFA students.

Hi everyone! We are so excited to host our Annual Spring English Conference on Friday, May 15. Please see below for the full conference schedule, and please come out to enjoy the different panels and celebrations!

Join us for a conversation with Daisy Hernandez—poet, author and associate professor in Creative Writing at Northwestern University—about her new book Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. The event will take place on Monday, May 18 at 1 p.m. in A&L 108, and will be followed by a group discussion with the author at 4:30 p.m. in the LatinX Cultural Center. See below for full details:

For the 2026 issue of the Department of English newsletter, we’re asking students, alumni and professors to describe a transformative reading experience—one in which you were somehow a different person by the time you put the book down. It could be a text that completely changed your way of seeing the world, but it could also be one that had a more subtle, if no less profound, impact on your life. In no more than 250 words, please tell us about that book and how it rocked your world. What were the circumstances of your… Read Article →

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