Notting Hill Editions is accepting submissions for its 2015 Essay Prize. The submission deadline is midnight on May 1, 2015. First prize is £20,000. Five runners-up will receive £1,000 each. Applicants can enter their essays into the contest here.
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Cowbird is accepting applications for its first ever Unheard Voices grant. Cowbird will award grants to two multimedia storytellers, journalists, or photographers to work with communities whose voices aren’t usually heard and to help share these communities’ stories. Grantees will receive a $2,500 stipend and technical and logistical support. The submission deadline is May 10, 2015. Cowbird will announce the grants on or before June 1. To apply, send a résumé and one professional reference to hay@cowbird.com and complete a list of questions.
All MAE students who plan on submitting a capstone portfolio or thesis in spring 2015 should email Ms. Jan Hickey at jhicke11@depaul.edu with the following information by Monday, April 20: name, student ID number, current email address, current mailing address, phone number, and final requirement choice (capstone portfolio or thesis option). An information session for the MAE capstone portfolio requirement and thesis option will take place on Saturday, April 25, in SAC 232. MAE students who are unable to attend this session should contact Professor John Shanahan at jshanah1@depaul.edu to set up an individual appointment. Download… Read Article →
Front Porch Commons, a new online forum for the independent literary publishing community from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), is launching this summer. The forum is accepting submissions of blog posts (500–1,000 words), essays (1,500–2000 words), and long articles. While funding lasts, Front Porch Commons will pay $25 for essays and $50 for long articles. Blog posts are unpaid. Email pitches or pieces to info@clmp.org with the email subject “Front Porch Commons + Submitter’s Last Name,” attaching pieces as Word documents.
Curbside Splendor is hosting a pop-up book fair on Sunday, April 19, from noon to 5 p.m. at the Empty Bottle (1035 North Western Avenue). The event is free with an RSVP or $8 at the door.
Congratulations to MAWP student Stephanie Sylverne, who published her piece “Not Good Enough: Confronting Gendered Self-Doubt” in the Feminist issue of online literary magazine Chicago Literati.
If you are interested in a teaching internship for fall 2015, submit your application to cgoffman@depaul.edu by Friday, April 24. Application materials include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample (e.g., a course paper), and DePaul transcript (order through Campus Connect). Please submit ALL items electronically. Contact Dr. Goffman (cgoffman@depaul.edu) with questions or for more information.
The Women’s Center and the Center for Intercultural Programs (CIP) at DePaul present Braver New World: A Conversation on Sci Fi for Social Change. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Cortelyou Commons (2324 North Fremont Street). Walidah Imarisha, the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, and Francesca Royster, DePaul professor and chair of the English department, will discuss the power of science fiction for building social justice strategies and visions.
Digital Scholar Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, teases out insights from student course blogs, online academic genealogies, and Twitter. BY HANA YOO Amanda Licastro has more than 1,000 Twitter followers. One week, she recalls, her tweets garnered more than 29,000 views. Generally, her Twitter account averages a couple thousand views per week. “I joke that I got into the graduate center through Twitter,” says Licastro, MAE ’08, currently a PhD student in English at CUNY Graduate Center and an instructional technology fellow at Macaulay Honors College. As a prospective graduate student, Licastro started following academics… Read Article →
The Kenyon Review is looking for poetry, fiction, essays, and dramas on science, ecology, and the environment for a special issue, The Poetics of Science. The submission deadline is December 31, 2015. Writers can submit their work here.
Write A House, a Detroit-based nonprofit focused on community development and the literary arts, invites DePaulians to apply for its writer’s residency program. Write A House works with vocational programs in Detroit to purchase vacant homes and renovate them. At the same time, the organization holds an admissions campaign to match a deserving writer to one of these homes. The artist is granted full ownership of the house, provided he or she plans to use it as a primary residence. In 2014, Write a House awarded poet-historian Casey Rocheteau its first home, and on April 27, 2015, it will begin accepting a… Read Article →