Posts by: Ex Libris
Graphê is acccepting submissions in the forms of academic writing, poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, and works of visual art from students across the city to be considered for publication in its coming Fall 2023 issue. Submissions will be considered for technical merit, boldness of content, and the ingenuity of a given piece. Interested students are encouraged to collaborate artistically, write persuasively, and offer any other work they feel passionate about on an intellectual or personal level. Submissions are currently open at https://engl.uic.edu/graphe/ until 11:59 pm, April 15th.
CITY OUT OF TIMEHow does the city tell time? Stop time? Save time? Lose time?Keep time by the ticktock of an urban clock? The city out of time is a city where bridges fall and waters rise, where change is too late and never enough, where weather is breaking and transit is failing, where tent cities proliferate and mental health resources dissipate, where shop windows are boarded and the sidewalks are deserted, where leaders disinvest in community and reinvest in violence, where our Citizen apps blow up as citizens give up. But the city out of… Read Article →
This is a virtual event hosted on crowdcast. Charis welcomes Francesca Royster in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a discussion of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance. A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. Follow the link for more info. Click here to register on crowdcast.
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 →
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 If you have unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photographs, or visual art that you’d like us to consider, please email to Review@CrotonArts.org.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 →
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.
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.
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 →