The Conium Review’s Flash Fiction Contest is currently seeking submissions. The submission deadline is December 15, 2014. This year’s judge is Ashley Farmer, author of Beside Myself (Tiny Hardcore Press) and Farm Town (Rust Belt Bindery). The winning writer receives $300, a copy of the judge’s latest book, online publication, and publication as a limited-run broadside or micro-chap for distribution at the 2015 AWP Conference.
Join Native American poet Mark Turcotte, a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department since 2009, for his upcoming in-state readings on November 13 and November 20. The November 13 reading takes place at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Can’t make the trek to our illustrious state capital? The November 20 reading will be closer to home, at Loyola University. See the fliers below for more information.
Write what you know, the old adage goes. But what about writing what you don’t know? How can writers expand their knowledge? The basics Who: Ami Polonsky and Crystal Chan What: Writing the “Tween-age Other” When: Tuesday, November 11, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Where: Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, 60201 RSVP: Email Crystal (chancm16@gmail.com). Event details Grayson Sender, the protagonist of Ami Polonsky’s middle-grade novel Gracefully Grayson, has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: “he” is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender’s body. In Crystal Chan’s novel Bird, 12-year-old Jewel comes from the only mixed-race family… Read Article →
Join Emily Gray Tedrowe—a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department—at Sunday Salon Chicago on Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. The free literary reading series takes place at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Suzanne Clores, James Finn Garner, and Sharon Solwitz will also be reading at this month’s installment of Sunday Salon Chicago.
Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m. Poetry Foundation61 West Superior Street Free Admission The Poetry Foundation‘s Open Door reading series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each one-hour event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. November’s Open Door Reading features Lewis University’s Simone Muench and her student C. Russell Price, along with Northwestern University’s Reginald Gibbons and his student Christine Pacyk.
A Live-Lit How-To: Breaking Into Live Lit in Chicago (And Doing it Well!) The Chicago Writers Conference workshop meets Thursday, November 6, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at 826CHI. Buy tickets for the workshop here. About the Instructor Mare Swallow is the founder of the Chicago Writers Conference and a nonfiction writer. She has hosted, curated, and performed at readings all over Chicago, including Write Club, Story Club, Story Lab, This Much is True, Tuesday Funk, First Time, Pecha-Kucha, and Is This a Thing. Mare is also a public speaking coach, and uses… Read Article →
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently at work on a second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins), which explores how searchable digital archives like Google Books, EEBO, and ECCO allow us to study the history of linguistic forms.
Still on the fence about your winter 2015 course selection? Here’s one class to consider. “There will always be idealists and happy fools, so there will always be literary magazines.” – Rob Spillman of Tin House ENG 477-201 Topics in Publishing The American Literary Magazine—Idealists and Happy Fools Hybrid Course—Online and selected Tuesdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Questions? Email Professor Borich: bborich@depaul.edu. For more information, see the detailed course description flyer.
Memoryhouse Magazine Memoryhouse Magazine, the University of Chicago’s quarterly student-run publication, welcomes submissions of poetry, prose, comics, visual art, and experimental media submissions on a rolling basis. The magazine reviews submissions as a whole twice per quarter.
Carbon Culture Review Carbon Culture Review welcomes submissions of previously unpublished fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, photography, and visual art connected with modern technology. A journal “at the intersection of new literature, art, technology and contemporary culture,” CCR is distributed in bookstores throughout the United States annually by Media Solutions. CCR will also showcase a digital online issue with original monthly content updates on the web. Learn more and view submission guidelines here.
A notice from Glimmer Train. New Writer Award: First place wins $1,500 and publication in Issue 96. This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation of more than 5,000. (Seven of the last eight first place New Writer winners have been those authors’ first print publications.) Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. Most submissions run 1,500–6,000 words, but can be as… Read Article →
Bird’s Thumb welcomes submissions of stories, essays, and poetry by December 1, 2014. To quote the website, “Bird’s Thumb is dedicated to discovering and publishing the emerging writer. As an evolving journal, we’re open to many styles and we’re interested in diverse voices.” Check out the submission guidelines and submit work via Submittable.