Writers on Writing: Jericho Brown and Robyn Schiff Thursday, May 9, 6 to 7 pm CDT At the Newberry Library in Chicago or livestreamedRegistration in advance is required for both the in-person program and the livestream. Registrants will receive a link to the recording on the Newberry’s YouTube when it is available.FOLLOW THE LINK!
TO: All Students in the MAE/MALP, MAWP, and MFA Programs FROM: Miles Harvey, Department Chair DATE: April 8, 2024 RE: 2024 Spring Quarter Partial Tuition Scholarship Awards The M.A. in English, M.A. in Literature and Publishing, M.A. in Writing and Publishing, and M.F.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s three graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2024 Spring graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE, MALP, MAWP, and MFA degrees…. Read Article →
There are only two more weeks to submit your best work to our 2024 contests for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review will be awarded for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay.Submit a story or essay of up to 20 pages or a poem or group of poems of up to 6 pages or a with a $22 entry fee, which includes a subscription to New Ohio Review, by April 15th.All entries are considered for publication.This year’s judges are Naomi Shihab Nye for poetry, Lily… Read Article →
The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes have again partnered on an exciting grant opportunity that may be of interest to your students. See below a brief summary of this initiative, and please feel free to circulate amongst your department or forward to any colleague not included here that you deem fit. The Chicago Film Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program supports individuals in the early stages of their career in film and media criticism. Ahead of the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival (May 3-9, 2024), two recipients will be selected and awarded the… Read Article →
Submit your work (in any genre) to participate in one of a kind panels with your DePaul peers! The themes of each panel are determined by the work submitted to the organizing body. Send your work to SpringEnglishConference@gmail.com and help shape the event!
Tin House Fall Residency Program (Portland, Oregon – Deadline March 29) The Tin House Resident will be housed in a 900 square ft. studio apartment next to the Tin House Workshop office in Northwest Portland. The apartment includes a full kitchen, bathroom, and a small living room/office with WiFi. There are several coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery stores within walking distance of the apartment and access to public transit. Parents ResidencySeptemberThis residency is open to writers with children 18 years of age or younger (as of March 1st, 2024). General ResidencyOctoberThis residency is intended for any… Read Article →
The Woolf Call for Submissions (Issue 6: “Music” – Deadline March 25) The Woolf is an online magazine of new writing and visual art. Published twice a year out of Switzerland, we welcome short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and visual art from anywhere in the world. As long as it makes us howl. Hear, play or make it. Be stilled, stunned, changed, warped, saved, ruined or reborn by it. Music is the prompt for Issue 6 – so send us your best. Guidelines: WORDS Microfiction: <100 words (up to 3 pieces in one document) Flash fiction: <1000 words … Read Article →
The Cut Call for Pitches The Cut (of the New Yorker) publishes stories that address our readers’ lives head-on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. We are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most—politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion, and issues relating to equality—and we’re always looking for ideas that add to that conversation. Our stories go through a collaborative and thorough editorial process, and writers are paid at competitive rates. What we’re looking for: Smart, generous, funny writing that engages with The Cut’s readers and finds a natural home on our… Read Article →
Necessary Fiction Call for Summer Flash Fiction (Deadline May 1) Necessary Fiction will publish weekly flash fiction each Wednesday for your summer reading enjoyment beginning in June and lasting through Labor Day. Here are 10 things we’ve noticed about our broad aesthetic tendencies over the years: We’re often fans of the absurd, the off-kilter, and the darkly comic. We tend to fall for beautiful language or an unexpected phrase. We’re interested in how a story gets told. We prefer stories that are stories, not static moments or a character’s memories lacking broader context. We’re open to reading the slyly speculative, the strange,… Read Article →
Short Story, Long Call for Submissions (Deadline March 31) Short stories, 2k-8k words long (with the 3,000-5,500 range being our real sweet spot). What are we looking for? Honestly, best indicator is to read a story or two we’ve already published. Second best indicator is to generally be familiar with Aaron’s taste and what he’s published on HAD, and Hobart before that. Every published story will be paired with original art, and I am paying both writer and artist $100. Submissions will be open until the end of March. Please only submit once per submission period.