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by Ex Libris on January 30, 2023

Don’t Miss This Opportunity To Win A Graduate Research Fellowship

DePaul’s Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC) was established in 2021 with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Humanities. The STRC is dedicated to exploring how the humanities can serve as a source of justice and healing for communities historically shaped by, and continuously facing, racism, violence, and dispossession. The STRC is excited to announce the following grant-funded opportunity for current graduate students in LAS: GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS The STRC seeks applications for its four, six-month Graduate Research Fellowships for MA students whose primary scholarly or creative field lies within the humanities… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 30, 2023

Call For Submissions: New Croton Review

The New Croton Review is accepting submissions thru April 15 for the Spring Issue (to be published on May 13). If you have unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photographs, or visual art that you’d like us to consider, please email to Review@CrotonArts.org. Our submission guidelines (click here) are fully explained on our website Review.CrotonArts.org, where you can also get past issues. Digital copies are free on Apple Books, Google Play, and Amazon. Full-color paperback copies can be purchased on Amazon for $10. Our website has all of the links you’ll need to find past issues, or you can search for New… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on January 26, 2023

Call For Submissions: Crook And Folly, Submissions Open January 10, Close February 24

by Ex Libris on January 26, 2023

Check Out Prof. Barrie Borich’s New Essay, The Everyday Invisible, Published In Conjunctions

You can read an excerpt of the essay here, and find the full piece in fall 2022 issue, Conjunctions:79, Onword. Conjunctions is a biannual literary anthology published by Bard College.

by Ex Libris on November 22, 2022

Apply for this $10,000 Fellowship: Luminarts Cultural Foundation is Calling Writers 18-30

Deadline to Apply: February 17, 2023 Apply to the 2023 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellowship today! You could win $10,000, become a Luminarts Fellow, and as a Fellow be eligible for continued funding for your artistic and career development projects. Click HERE to get started, or contact us at info@luminarts.org or (312) 435-5961 ABOUT LUMINARTS:The Luminarts Cultural Foundation cultivates Chicago’s vibrant arts community by supporting exemplary young artists through its programs that offer financial awards, artistic opportunities, and mentoring that bridge the gap between education and career.

by Ex Libris on November 17, 2022

Call For Submissions: Hayden’s Ferry Review

When we re-mix something, we re-imagine what it is, what it was, or what it has the capacity to be. We live in a constant state of re-mix, taking the substance of the world as we experience it, then creasing and folding it at the corners to create something new, but familiar. Novel, but known. In this way, we allow our art to re-write narratives, re-play memories, re-stitch language, and re-state truths. In Issue 72: Re-mix, we call for work that embraces re-imagination in all its possibilities. Send us work that forces us to re-consider myth,… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on November 10, 2022

Tufts University Now Accepting Applicants for PhD in English Program

The English Graduate Program at Tufts University is now accepting applications for our Fall 2023 class, with a deadline of 15 January 2023. For more details, check out this letter from the graduate program.

by Ex Libris on November 3, 2022

Call For Submission: Radix Media Is Looking For The Next Megaphone Prize Winner

The Brooklyn based, independent publisher, Radix Media is currently accepting personal essay collections from emerging writers of color for this annual contest. The recipient of The Megaphone Prize will receive a $1000 reward, 20 author copies, and a publicity cycle dedicated to their debut. Author Hanif Abdurraqib will serve as this year’s judge, selecting only one winner. Radix Media has existed as a worker-owned, union printer and independent publisher since 2018. Follow this link to submit your work before the November 15 deadline! From the publisher: The Megaphone Prize is an annual contest from Radix… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on October 26, 2022

Congratulations to Meghan Malachi, Winner of the 2022 Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize!

And look out for the winning piece, “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home”, to be featured in SRPR’s Winter issue! Check out the full announcement at SRPR: Contest. Meghan Malachi, our first-place winner, will receive $1000, an introduction written by Ashley M. Jones, and an invitation to read at SRPR’s annual Lucia Getsi Reading Series, to be held in Bloomington, Illinois, in April 2023.

by Ex Libris on October 24, 2022

Don’t Miss This! Reading & Conversation With Ada Limon

by Ex Libris on October 24, 2022

Don’t Miss This! Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry

by Ex Libris on October 19, 2022

My Interview With Professor Kathleen Rooney and Her New Book, Where Are The Snows: See Her Read Tonight, Oct.19, 6-7 PM in ALH 103!

I recently had the opportunity to ask (via email) author, poet and Professor Kathleen Rooney about her newest poetry collection, Where Are The Snows. Along with the award winning book’s vital take on a world insistent on ending, we get to talking about the collection’s relation to Rose Metal Press and Poems While You Wait, and finding poetry in unexpected places. Make sure to catch Professor Rooney along with Professor Tara Betts tonight, October 19, 6-7 PM in ALH 103 for a reading and book signing! Thanks again for talking with me about Where Are… Read Article →

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