Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction and staff writer at The New Yorker, will be stopping by DePaul on Tuesday February 18 from 2-3pm in Student Center room 220 for a casual Q&A discussion. Students and faculty are welcome! A flyer with more info is attached.
Register for FREE (bit.ly/queertopia2020) for the 13th annual Queertopia conference, New Queer and Trans Politics?, on February 29 (Saturday) at Kresge Centennial Hall (Northwestern Evanston campus)! This year the conference features four student research panels, a keynote by Kim L Hunt, Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame Inductee and Executive Director of Pride Action Tank, and a screening and discussion of the film, Criminal Queers. See the attached flyer for details.
The 67th edition of the Great River Review is now open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Submissions may be entered at GRR.submittable.com and are completely free of charge. The Great River Review is currently the longest running literary journal in Minnesota. It is currently in its 67th year, and is hosted by the University of Minnesota.
One of DePaul’s very own English professors and editor of Poetry East, Richard Jones, has had a piece selected for poem of the week in Narrative magazine! Read the poem, “Double Doors” here.
Get excited, because DePaul English publications will be exhibiting again at the Printer’s Row Lit Fest this summer! Check out who all will be there! https://printersrowlitfest.org/
Each year, the Kurt Brown Prizes award $500 to emerging writers in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The prizes are applied to fees for winners to attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. The three winners and six finalists also receive a one-year individual membership. Submissions for these prizes are welcome via Submittable through March 30, 2020. Here are a few words from the 2020 judges about writers’ conferences that have meant so much to them. Angie Kim, Fiction I’ll always… Read Article →
Do you know a tenure-line professor who deserves to be recognized for their excellent teaching? Nominate them for the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award! The LAS Awards Committee solicits nominations from both faculty and students. From those nominations, two tenured/tenure-line faculty members will be chosen to receive the award. Nominations are due by Monday, February 17, 2020. Questions may be directed to Executive Associate Dean Peter Vandenberg at pvandenb@depaul.edu. Please see the attachment for requirements and guidelines for nominations: 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award: Call for Nominations Eligibility and Process Memo
Next Thursday join Crook & Folly for their annual Valentines celebration! Staff will be handing out valentines and providing information on how to submit to Edition 40 of DePaul’s arts and literature magazine. Schmitt Academic Center PIT 12-3pm Thursday, February 13th
Heartland Alliance’s Research and Policy program has three types of internship opportunities available for graduate students during the 2020-2021 school year! Attached is a brief internship overview for students who are interested in working in one of the leading anti-poverty organizations in the Midwest. Heartland Alliance Research Policy Intern Job Description FINAL 2020-21
DePaul’s Blue Book: Best Illinois High School Writing 2018-2019, edited by Professor Chris Green and a class of graduate students, is now available at www.depaulsbluebook.com! Pieces were chosen from high school literary magazines submitted from across Illinois. Professor Green and his Editing class selected sixty-six pieces of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. This is the first of what Professor Green hopes to be an annual tribute to our state’s best young creative writers. If you’re free, please consider attending the anthology’s launch reading on Saturday, February 8th, 5:30-7:00, Student Center #314.
The Robert D. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund, administered by the Cleveland Foundation, is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 academic year. Application deadline is 5 p.m. EDT, April 15, 2020. Awards will be announced by June 15, 2020. The fund was established by a unanimous vote at the 1999 CWA District 4 Meeting in memory of District 4 Vice President Emeritus Robert D. Johnson. A random drawing is used to select the scholarship awards. Click here for more information. Applications must be completed and submitted through the Cleveland Foundation’s Scholarship Gateway site. The website… Read Article →
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier is searching for a dedicated summer intern! Applications are due March 1st. Read below for more information. Chicago Shakespeare Theater is currently seeking applicants for part- or full-time internships during the summer of 2020. This internship provides the opportunity to devote a number of weeks to researching a play—its historical and social contexts, its publication and production history, and its critical history—and to develop resources for hundreds of educators who will teach the play over the school year in conjunction with our upcoming productions. Interns will work with… Read Article →