From MAWP alum Cherita Banton: www.CheritaBanton.com CONTEST INFORMATION: ~ Poetry Contest will run every month General theme every month except months with major holidays (Sweetest Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas…) Any length and style No profanity, explicit images (Poems will be quickly discarded) Prize is publication on website w/ photo and bio for entire month (photo and bio not necessary to enter). Winner will also be featured on GiftedMindsMag.com. Enter on website by clicking and submitting poem or clicking email address (poems@cheritabanton.com) Winner determined by panel of judges Winner is announced on website 1st of every… Read Article →
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Pop Praxis: Social Justice & the Media Keynote Speaker: Andi Zeisler, co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture University of Cincinnati Conference date: April 8th, 2011 Deadline for submissions: January 5th, 2011 Notifications of acceptance will be sent by January 15th, 2010 Pop culture: what are its possibilities? Its consequences? It produces representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and religion. It crosses boundaries of identity, teaching us (or professing to teach us) about others. It permeates our everyday, sending us messages about ourselves and our place in the… Read Article →
Christine Sneed will have a release party for her recent story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press 2009). This collection has been well received, and it won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Read below for details on the release party, which everyone in the English Department at DePaul is encouraged to attend: When: 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 17 Where: Women and Children First, 5233 N. Clark St in Andersonville. An independent bookstore and Chicago literary fixture. Refreshments will be served. Below is the review from… Read Article →
Tamara Ghattas (MAWP ’10) was the first place winner (Young Adult Division) in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s Creative Writing Competition. Her winning story, “In Blue Seclusion,” will be published in a winner’s anthology this year. The CAF Creative Writing Competition for Young Writers is, according to Examiner.com, the best contest in the Midwest. There is very generous prize money, no entry fee, and a focus on students who live or study within 100 miles of the Loop.
Please join us as Literary Agent Michele Rubin, of Writer’s House in New York, discusses “The Future of the Book” on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. She is the first speaker in the Humanities Center’s second 2010-2011 lectures series: Digital Humanities: The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries. Please see attached flyer and below for details. DIGITAL HUMANITIES The Future of the Book and Other Quandaries Tuesday, October 26, 2010 DePaul Student Center, 314 2250 N. Sheffield Ave. 5:30 reception • 6:00 lecture Michele Rubin Literary Agent, Writer’s House, New York “The Future of… Read Article →
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 is the National Day on Writing! Started by the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Day on Writing seeks to celebrate the significance of writing in our everyday lives. As stated on their website, the National Day on Writing will: celebrate the foundational place of writing in Americans’ personal, professional, and civic lives. point to the importance of writing instruction and practice at every grade level, for every student and in every subject area from preschool through university. emphasize the lifelong process of learning to write and composing for… Read Article →
Guest-post by graduate assistant and MAE student Matthew Fledderjohann. Interested in learning about the choices involved with joining the Peace Corps? Read on. “English literature, eh? So, uh, what will you do with that exactly?” As I neared the completion of my undergraduate degree, the questions that had confronted my educational aims for the past four years only increased in intensity. “What’s the marketability of that education?” “Can you get a job with that?” “But how will you make rent?” With less than six months before graduation, I had no idea how to answer any… Read Article →
From the Chicago Reader website: This December the Reader will publish its 11th annual Pure Fiction issue—a collection of short stories from mostly local fiction writers paired with illustrations by mostly local artists. You may wish to browse our fiction issue archive, which includes fantastic contributions both from out of the blue and from some names you might recognize. We’ll be considering submissions from now until November 3. Please send them to fiction@chicagoreader.com. We prefer text pasted into e-mail rather than attachments. It’s hard to find room these days for pieces over 10,000 words, but… Read Article →
A message from Professor Dan Stolar: Threshold, DePaul’s student-produced literary magazine, seeks two editors. The application should consist of a one page letter detailing your relative experience and plans for the magazine. Please include your Student ID and contact information in the letter. Even if you are not chosen as one of the two editors, this is the best way to get involved in producing the magazine as all of the letters are passed along to the eventual editors. Calls for creative works will come later in the year. Applications are due in the Threshold… Read Article →
CALL FOR PAPERS CULTURE & IDENTITY 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures’ Graduate Student Committee at Purdue University Saturday, March 5, 2011 We welcome submissions in all areas of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences including, but not limited to, foreign languages and literatures, English, creative writing, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, the visual arts, theater, music, philosophy and history. Proceedings from the symposium will be published in an online format. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Thomas Turino is a Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Illinois… Read Article →