Twice each year Black Lawrence Press will run the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or short fiction between 16-36 pages in length. The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes are awarded on publication. Spring Entry Period: April 1 – May 31 Fall Entry Period: September 1 – October 31 Visit the chapbook competition website for more information.
Who Needs to Register: Current MAE students who have completed their course requirements and current MAE students who will complete their course requirements in Spring ‘18. The deadline for applying for Spring ‘18 Degree Conferral was Thursday, February 1, 2018. Registration for Final Requirement: If you plan on submitting your Portfolio or your Thesis in Spring ‘18, please send the following information by Friday, April 27, 2018 to Ms. Jan Hickey at jhicke11@depaul.edu. It is very important that you submit this information so that we can send you updates throughout the quarter and results… Read Article →
New Directions in the Humanities is inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes: Theme 1: Critical Cultural Studies Theme 2: Communications and Linguistics Studies Theme 3: Literary Humanities Theme 4: Civic, Political, and Community Studies Theme 5: Humanities Education The current proposal submission deadline is May 3, 2018. For more information and to submit a proposal visit their website here.
Write a 2,000-word fictional short story using any nuance, definition, or understanding of the word “change.” Deadline: May 15th, 2018 Grand prize: $1,000 and publication in our magazine Word count: 2,000 words or less Other prizes: Our second-place winner will receive $500 and publication on our website, writermag.com; our third-place winner will receive $250 and publication on writermag.com as well. For more information and to submit visit The Writer website here.
Submissions to the Spring English Conference will now be accepted until this Saturday, April 8! Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com.
Modern Languages and Studio X have invited Isabella Magni, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library, to lead the faculty and graduate student workshop Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project on Friday, May 18, 10AM-12PM (IdeaLab2 in the library, JTR 207). Breakfast will be served before the workshop. The hope is to gather a small cohort of interested faculty and graduate students for this exciting, hands-on experience. Please contact Caterina Mongiat Farina (CMONGIAT@depaul.edu) if you plan to attend.
Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women as Chicago’s South Side: A Self-Guided Tour. with authors Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell Tuesday, April 10 5:00-7:00 pm Arts and Letters 103 Refreshments provided Lifting as They Climbed is a guide/tour book that features Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago from the mid-19th century to today. This publication tells a story of some Chicago Black women who have shaped the city’s history, including Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Mary Richardson Jones, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Margaret Burroughs, Alice C Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elder… Read Article →
This anthology seeks to bring together the magic of the Tarot, photography and poetry. They are looking for 78 poets to create original poems in response to a Tarot card they are assigned. If you decide to participate in the project, you will be assigned a Tarot card, and you will craft a poem in response to this card: however you’d like to interpret it, or your relationship with it. The only restriction on your poem is that it must be no longer than 20 lines. After all poems are submitted, our collaborating photographer, Katrin Albert … Read Article →
