Current and prospective MAE and MAWP students can apply for a graduate assistantship through Friday, January 23.
Posts by: Ex Libris
Friday, January 16, marks the last day for students to drop a winter 2015 class without penalty. Classes dropped before January 16 will not appear on the student’s transcript or factor into the student’s tuition.
DePaul literary magazine Crook & Folly is hosting a micro prose event tomorrow night. The magazine staff will lead attendees in a few writing exercises and share examples of compelling pieces in the genre. RSVP here. Attendees should bring two hard copies of a piece they’d like to rework as a micro prose piece. Both fiction and nonfiction pieces are welcome. Thursday, January 15 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Arts & Letters Hall, Room 303
Name: Josh Fisher Program: MAWP Graduate Assistantship: Josh is the graduate assistant/associate editor for Poetry East, where he developed a Poetry East app called The Poet’s Almanac. The Poet’s Almanac is available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play. Fun fact: Josh was the GA for Ex Libris last year. A poet with considerable web design skills and an eye for beauty, he built this site from scratch and fielded many questions from the current editor (me) last quarter. *** The deadline to apply for 2015–2016 graduate assistantships is January 15, 2015.
Crook & Folly, DePaul’s literary magazine, seeks submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, micro prose, poetry, and dramatic literature. The submission deadline is February 23. Students can send their work to crookandfolly@gmail.com. Crook & Folly is holding a micro prose event this Thursday, January 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall, Room 303. Attendees will learn about micro prose and create their own micro prose pieces. Before the February 23 submission deadline, the student literary journal is hosting three other workshops. Students are welcome to bring in work they want to submit and get feedback from one of the editors. Thursday, January 22, 5:30 p.m.–7:30… Read Article →
MAE and MAWP students may now apply for winter quarter 2015 partial tuition scholarship (PTS) awards. The application deadline is January 19, 2015. Students can download the PTS award application form here and email it as an attachment to Ms. Jan Hickey, the assistant director of graduate programs in English, at jhicke11@depaul.edu. For more information, visit the MAE or MAWP D2L sites and navigate to Content –> PTS Awards.
J Journal: New Writing on Justice is accepting literary fiction, poetry, memoir, and personal essay submissions that address the issue of justice. Writers may send up to three poems or 6,000 words of prose to: Editors, J Journal c/o Department of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10019 For more information, see J Journal‘s submission guidelines.
Name: Rachel Pomeroy Program: MAWP Graduate Assistantship Description: As a Graduate Assistant, I work at DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning as both a Peer Writing Tutor and the Social Media Team Leader. My role as a tutor involves working with writers of all levels of experience and at all stages of the writing process, which is a fun and rewarding experience. I have several years of previous tutoring experience, yet I continue to grow as both a tutor and writer through my work at the UCWbL every day. As the Social Media Team Leader, I… Read Article →
Name: Anastasia Sasewich Program: MAWP Graduate Assistantship Description: My Graduate Assistantship is as the editor of the Undergraduate English Program newsletter blog, The Underground. The blog is a resource for undergraduate students and we occasionally publish notable student work and student news. Additionally, I serve as the undergraduate program assistant, which entails promotion of various departmental initiatives, like the Book Club and Internship opportunities at recruiting events and the like. Lastly, along with Hana, I curate the English Department Monitors, which display information at the entrance to the second and third floors of the English Department in ALH…. Read Article →
“Join us for a special puppet-filled, index-card-marked, interactive evening as we come together to reimagine the nature of an archive, a library, a printed idea, and the act of reading itself.” – DePaul Humanities Center The DePaul Humanities Center invites students to “Ander Monson: Letter to a Future Book and Reader,“ the inaugural event in the series Discards: The Future(s) of the Book and Library. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 11, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., in room 120 of the DePaul Student Center.
Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society, will be electing new members in spring 2015. DePaulians interested in joining DePaul’s chapter can download the Sigma Tau Delta application form and email it to Professor James Murphy (Jmurphy5@depaul.edu).
The deadline to apply for 2015–2016 graduate assistantships is January 15, 2015. *** Name: Hana Yoo Program: MAE Graduate Assistantship Description: I edit Ex Libris, the graduate student blog. I’m editing the page you’re reading right now. (Meta! Or something.) I also make slides for the English department monitors—as does the lovely Anastasia, another GA in the English department. Her profile’s coming soon. Thoughts on the Graduate Assistantship: I left a job I loved to go back to school this past autumn. I couldn’t have taken that leap of faith without the GAship. Fully funded English master’s degree programs are about as common as… Read Article →