Posts by: Ex Libris
FREE TICKETS to all English students for the show Verified Laughs every Wednesday at 8pm from now until the end of October. Verified Laughs is a social media based stand up comedy show where the audience votes on the winner through Instagram and Facebook after watching a series of five minute sets from some of the best comedians in the city. For those interested in free tickets: please email alessandradrapos@gmail.com with your name, Wednesday date, and number of tickets desired.
June 2018 MAWP grad Cynthia Nwakudu is a finalist for the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award! The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). The competition culminates in a live semi-finals event at which the top contestants selected by guest judges perform their original poems in live competition for a $500 prize awarded by the audience. To support Cynthia, don’t miss out on the GBOMA competition: September 18th, 2018 The Promontory 5311 S. Lake Park Avenue West Hyde Park, Chicago Doors open… Read Article →
Paid Opportunity for Fiction Writers: Radish Fiction, a mobile app for serial fiction, is hiring freelance writers who can write commercial fiction in Romance, YA, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Paranormal, and other genres. They welcome creative writers experienced in screenwriting, playwriting, podcasts, soap operas, comic books, novel-writing, and other serial-form mediums to apply. They have developed original story concepts and detailed outlines for several projects, broken up into ‘seasons’ of twenty 1500-word chapters. They will give these detailed chapter outlines to writers and commission sample chapters from them. Those who best capture the requirements below will… Read Article →
Here are some of our MAE and MAWP students that are soon to graduate or have already graduated! To receive a student spotlight, please send your information to the Ex-Libris editor, Camila Restrepo crestre4@depaul.edu. Courtney Aubrecht will be graduating this summer with her MAWP degree! After graduation she plans to focus more on writing and to get published in magazines but after graduation she intends to turn her attention back on the creation of stories, either in visual formats or in the written word. Another goal of hers is to extend her education to others, either through literacy… Read Article →
The English Department will be hosting our annual End-of-the-Year Celebration on Friday, June 1st from 3:00-5:00 pm. We would love to celebrate with you! The celebration will held in the second-floor atrium of Arts & Letters Hall. We will have a short program honoring our outstanding students and this year’s graduates. Please come and join in the festivities on Friday, June 1st!
Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest: Two Weeks Left! Just over two short weeks remain to enter Boston Review‘s poetry contest! This year’s contest will close on June 1st and will be judged by Mary Jo Bang. Boston Review has long been home to award-winning and critically-lauded poetry, publishing poets such as John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Anne Carson, Major Jackson, Juan Felipe Herrera, and many more. Submit your entry today for the chance to join their ranks! With your entry, you will receive a complimentary copy of Boston Review’s forthcoming literary issue. Enter by June 1,… Read Article →
The winner of the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize will receive $2,500 and publication in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction. Submissions will be open until June 1, 2018. General Guidelines – Submit your entry online between March 8, 2018 and June 1, 2018. – The winner will receive a $2,500 prize and publication in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction. – Please submit your $20 entry fee and your work through Submittable. International submissions in English are eligible. The entry fee covers one 6,500 word fiction submission. – All entries must be single, self-contained… Read Article →
Congrats to Kathleen Rooney on her new book, The Listening Room! The Listening Room by Kathleen Rooney is a novel in flash fictions that looks at the paintings and life of the Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte from the perspectives of his wife Georgette and their shared series of beloved Pomeranian dogs, all called Loulou. The hybrid book draws heavily on Rooney’s recent work as the co-editor of Magritte’s Selected Writings, a lost manuscript that she rediscovered, edited, and brought out for the first time ever in an English edition in Fall 2016 in both the UK and… Read Article →