We are pleased to announce that graduate student Meredith Boe and undergrad Sally Wiegel have been selected as editors for Threshold Literary Journal; and that grad students Colin Harris and Marcy Farrey have been selected as hosts for the Radio DePaul creative writing show. Both Threshold and the Radio DePaul show will be looking for great student work quickly into the Winter Quarter. So take some time this winter break to put your poems, essays and stories through one more draft, and start getting ready to apply. Details will be posted on Ex Libris as… Read Article →
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If you’ve been diligently reading the faculty news bits in Ex Libris this quarter, you’ve probably noticed Christine Sneed’s name come up more than once. Which is why when we received yet another exciting piece of news about her award-winning first book, we decided it was high time to turn the Ex Libris spotlight on our very own Prof. Christine Sneed. Ploughshares has just announced Christine Sneed as the winner of the twenty-first annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Portraits of a Fewof the… Read Article →
This Monday, Nov. 14th, the English Department and the Visiting Writers Program are hosting a very special event. At 6 p.m. in the new DePaul Art Museum, join Prof. Miles Harvey for a conversation with writers Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, the founders of CityFiles Press. Frustrated by the creative constraints of working with traditional publishers, Cahan and Williams founded CityFiles Press in 2005. Their wildly ambitious and stunningly beautiful books include the brand new The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed its River and the Land Beyond, a collection of photographs of Chicago and its… Read Article →
Many of us are polishing up our revisions for final portfolios, and many more are looking forward to a long winter break with lots of extra time to write. But where are you planning to send all of your fantastic poetry and prose? Check out these upcoming writing contests, and start getting your writing ready to send in! ********************************************************************** The quarterly literary journal American Short Fiction invites all prose writers to enter their sixth annual Short Story Contest. All entries must be unpublished and 6,000 words or less, typed and double-spaced. The contest entry fee… Read Article →
Autumn Quarter Week 4 Wednesday September 30 Banned Books Week pop-up shop, and info table 11 am-1 pm, 11th Floor DePaul Center, Loop Campus English Department Book Club discusses A Song of Ice and Fire 6:00-7:3o pm Richardson Library 115 Thursday October 1 Deadline to apply for Autumn ’15 Degree Conferral Friday October 2 “Books on the Chopping Block” presented by City Lit Theater Company 2-3 pm, Richardson Library Room 115 Monday October 5 Deadline to apply for Crook and Folly staff/editor positions Course Carts Open Tuesday October 6 Visiting Writer Series presents John McNally and Cyn Vargas at 6 pm,… Read Article →
Just when you thought DePaul English Graduate Students couldn’t possibly rack up any more awards and accomplishments in just one quarter, Ex Libris is happy to announce two great new pieces of student news: Congratulations to current M.A.E. student Mary Parisoe, whose new one-act play, The Last Vagabond, has won $500 and a reading sometime in the new year at The Arts Club of Washington, DC. Current M.A.W.P. student Jennifer Finstrom has had a poem accepted for publcation in Cider Press Review (either Volume 13 or 14). Jennifer wrote her poem, “Instructions for Entering Rembrandt’s Landscape with trees, farm… Read Article →
Happy Halloween, everyone! Remember the Guild Literary Complex Prose Awards contest? Well, today we are very excited to announce that current M.A.W.P. student Lisa Applegate has been selected as one of 3 semifinalists for the 2011 Prose Award for Short Non-Fiction. Not only that, but Lisa’s piece is an edited version of one she wrote for Brenda Fowler’s class on writing in Chicago last winter quarter. That means Lisa will be reading her submitted piece at the recognition event, and that she is still in the running to receive this year’s award and cash prize…. Read Article →
Happy Friday! Congratulations to current M.A.W.P. student Zhanna Vaynberg, for getting a story published in the upcoming Fall issue of Euphony Journal, and for receiving an honorable mention in Glimmer Train‘s August 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers for another story of hers, “Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother.” — The DePaul Can: University-Wide Food Drive will take place Nov. 7th through Nov. 11th. DePaul Can is a student-led initiative uniting the DePaul community in the fight against hunger, bringing together students, faculty and staff in a Vincentian way. Last spring, DePaul Can… Read Article →
Today we have several very important announcements and reminders from the English Department: It is with sadness that we have learned of the death of M.A. in English student Warren Scheideman, a faculty member in the School for New Learning. Warren passed away on August 25. He was a very enthusiastic student of literature who was pursuing a life long dream of obtaining an MAE. He taught at DePaul from 1984 until his passing, and was highly respected among his friends and colleagues. — News on Degree Progress Reports The Degree Progress Reports for graduate… Read Article →
Lots of exciting upcoming events to talk about today! Oh, and have you liked the DePaul University English Graduate Programs on Facebook yet? Well, what are you waiting for?! — The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) cordially invites all MAE and MAWP students to attend their second-annual Halloween Party, this THURSDAY, OCT. 27TH. Yes, that is TOMORROW, so we hope you can make it for an evening with your fellow English Graduate Students. The party will be held at Will’s Northwoods Inn, located at 3030 N. Racine Street, just blocks away from the Wellington Brown… Read Article →
*REMINDER: Tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 25th is the LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS for the Autumn Quarter.* — Exciting news for social media aficionados: DePaul University English Graduate Programs is now on Facebook! If you’re a Facebook user, hop on over and “like” our page to connect with your friends and classmates and get even more updates on your favorite graduate programs. — The deadline for Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival’s Fiction Contest is approaching fast, and the organizers are excited to unearth new writing talent. Amy Hempel, the master of the short form, will… Read Article →
Two exciting Faculty News updates today: Congratulations are due to Christine Sneed, who has just sold a novel, Little Known Facts, to Bloomsbury. And her short story, “The First Wife,” which appeared in the December2010/January 2011 issue of the New England Review, has been selected for this year’s O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations also to Lesley Kordecki on the publication of her new book, Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds, which analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer’s poetry and interprets his adaptation of medieval genres through an ecofeminist lens. The book is a… Read Article →