DePaul’s Career Center is hosting the Career Options for Creative Students Fair this Thursday, March 12, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 120 of the Lincoln Park campus student center. View a list of the companies that will be present at the job fair here or download the company profiles as a Word doc here.
The DePaul English department’s sixth annual student-run spring conference will take place on Friday, May 8, 2015, in Arts & Letters Hall. DePaulians may submit their original works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, literary analysis, pedagogical and literary theory, and publishing, professional, and teaching practices. The submission deadline is Monday, April 6, 2015. This year’s conference theme is Wonder, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Submission Guidelines Submit 300- to 500-word abstracts OR complete papers (complete papers are preferred, but abstracts are fine, too) for up to two works total: ONE creative… Read Article →
This January I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to attend the ALA (American Library Association) Midwinter Conference, which was held right here in Chicago. I’m currently interning in the marketing department at Albert Whitman & Company, a children’s book publisher based in Park Ridge, Illinois, and was able to snag a pass for myself (and possibly my mother…) from my boss. Not only was I able to experience the conference as a visitor but I also got a behind-the-scenes look because Albert Whitman had a booth, which I helped set up the day before the… Read Article →
Two Cities Review, a new literary magazine, is accepting submissions for its prose contest. The contest theme is Cities Gone Wrong. The winner in each category—fiction and nonfiction—will receive $250 and publication. The submission deadline is March 15, 2015. Writers can submit their entries for a $5 fee here. *** Catamaran Literary Reader is offering a $200 early bird registration discount for its second annual fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama summer writing conferences. The conference takes place August 12–16, 2015. Register by April 15 for the discounted ($1,050) price, which covers four nights’ lodging at the Robert Louis Stevenson campus on Pebble Beach; meals;… Read Article →
DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse (WRD) welcomes its winter quarter guest speaker—Angela Haas of Illinois State University—to DePaul on Tuesday, March 10. After a 5:30 p.m. reception, the talk will begin at 6 p.m. in McGowan South 104. See the flyer below for more information.
The Academic Success Center in DePaul’s College of Education has an opening for a partial graduate assistantship this spring, which will continue as a full graduate assistantship next year. For the partial graduate assistantship, the student will work 10 hours a week and receive a tuition waiver for one course. The 2015–2016 full graduate assistantship will entail working 20 hours a week in exchange for a $6,000 annual stipend and tuition waivers for two courses. Download the Word doc with the graduate assistantship description here.
The Illinois State University English department‘s publications unit is hiring an assistant director. The start date is August 1, 2015. Prerequisites include a master’s degree and publishing and teaching experience. The application deadline is April 17, 2015. View the PDF for a detailed job description: Assistant Director of the Publications Unit.
Saturday, February 28: The deadline for Highland Park Poetry’s 2015 Poetry Challenge. Highland Park Poetry is seeking poems in one of three categories: 1) food, 2) wonderland (in honor of the 150th publication anniversary of Alice in Wonderland), or 3) an etheree. Poets may submit one poem for free; additional poems incur a reading fee of $4 each. Sunday, March 1: The deadline to submit to the 2015–2016 edition of Highland Park journal East on Central. Tuesday, March 10: The deadline to submit to Chicago Poetry Press’s Journal of Modern Poetry (JOMP) 18. The theme is peace. Friday, March 20: The deadline to… Read Article →
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.
Newsline, DePaul’s publication for faculty and staff news (February 19, 2015) “Innovation Through Collaboration Seeks to Promote Research, Curricula, Grants” English professors Anne Clark Bartlett and John Shanahan discuss their work in this piece about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary academic projects and programs.
Spry Literary Journal is open to submissions for its sixth issue. *** Ghost Town, the online literary journal of the MFA program at California State University, San Bernardino, is looking for “fearless and inventive” fiction, poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. The submission deadline is April 15, 2015. Writers can submit their work here. *** Bird’s Thumb, a new literary magazine dedicated to publishing emerging writers, invites submissions of stories, essays, and poetry. The next submission deadline is April 1, 2015. *** Walk with Us, a tribute anthology to The West Wing, is seeking submissions on the theme of… Read Article →
The submission deadline for the University of St. Thomas spring graduate student conference, Postcards from the Edge: Texts and Contexts, has been extended to March 16, 2015. See below for the call for proposals.