Stay warm in Chicago with an all-prose reading! The readers: GERALD BRENNAN CRIS MAZZA NAEEM MURR CORNELIA SPELMAN Sunday Salon Chicago is a curated literary series on the north side of Chicago in Roscoe Village. Visit the Sunday Salon website here, and the Facebook event page here.
ScreenCraft’s 3rd annual Cinematic Short Story Contest is now accepting entries! The jury is looking for short fiction (not scripts) with special cinematic potential. Whether you’re writing flash fiction or a novella, the judges want to read your story! The grand-prize winner will receive $1,000 and personal introductions to literary agents, managers, film and TV producers, and publishers. The top 5 finalists will be read by ScreenCraft’s network of more than 40 literary and entertainment industry professionals. All rights and ownership to stories submitted to this contest remain with the author, until and unless other agreements are… Read Article →
Haymarket Books, an independent, nonprofit book publisher, seeks a full-time manuscript editor to join their growing press based in Chicago. They publish progressive adult nonfiction titles in history, politics, theory, and current events, for both the general trade and academic markets For more information, visit the job listing website here.
Angela Bourke, described by Jim Fairhall as “a notable feminist creative writer and critic [who] sails in the upper levels of the literary firmament in Ireland and the U.K.”, visits next week to discuss women’s voices in Irish literature. See the flyer above for more information.
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. November’s Open Door Reading presents Chicago State University’s Kelly Norman Ellis and her student April Gibson along with DePaul University’s Kathleen Rooney and her former student and DePaul alum Andrea Rehani. When: Tuesday, November 21 at 7 PM – 8 PM Where: Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine 61 W Superior St, Chicago, Illinois 60654 For more information,… Read Article →
Don’t miss the first EGSA meeting! This brief meeting will help to come up with upcoming events and student meetups. Come and meet other graduate students! Those interested in joining the EGSA team should attend. For more information, see flyer above. For questions, contact Lauren Rouse rouselaurenc@gmail.com or Camila Restrepo camilarestr@gmail.com.
When: November 17, 6:30pm Inaugurated by Robert Frost in 1955, Poetry Day is one of the oldest and most distinguished poetry reading series in the country. This year’s presentation is the world premiere of No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks from the Chicago-based theater company Manual Cinema. In this unique staged retelling of Brooks’s life, Manual Cinema uses simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry to visually represent the life and work of one of Chicago’s most beloved literary figures. Story by Chicago poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall and music by Jamila Woods and… Read Article →
November 2-November 3 The Franke Institute for the Humanities Chicago University’s Department of English Language and Literature is hosting a graduate conference on “not reading.” The conference has a simple premise: every act of reading entails a decision, whether required or freely made, to not read something else. Not reading may then be something we do a lot more of, yet we seldom talk or write about that. How can acknowledging this fact help us rethink some of the most pressing issues of literary study, including new interpretive methodologies, canonicity, patterns of publication, the work… Read Article →
Join the Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK)! You can gain exclusive first access to DePaul’s new mentorship community. The Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) network is launching a new mentorship platform, and we would like to invite you to join. The platform will connect you with DePaul alumni who have been in your shoes. Try connecting this week with 3 mentors. When you join as a Student, you will be able to: * Expand your DePaul community * Connect with alumni in your city or industry of interest * Establish short-term or long-term mentorships… Read Article →
Paisley Redkal reads in continuation with the The Poetry Foundation’s Readings & Lectures Series Paisley Rekdal is the author of the poetry collections A Crash of Rhinos (2000), Six Girls without Pants (2002), The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (2007), and Imaginary Vessels (2016), as well as the book of essays The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (2000). Rekdal’s honors include a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea. She teaches at the University of… Read Article →
Rose Metal Press’ 12th ANNUAL SHORT SHORT CHAPBOOK CONTEST BEGINS NOV. 1 Get your flash fiction and flash nonfiction chapbook manuscripts ready, because the annual contest opens next Wednesday, November 1, and runs through December 1. The winner will receive a $200 prize and have their chapbook published in summer 2018 with an introduction by the contest judge. During the submission period, please submit your 25–40 page double-spaced manuscript of short short stories (fiction or nonfiction), each under 1,000 words, to the Submittable contest site with a $10 reading fee. More details and guidelines about the contest are… Read Article →
Just a few weeks left to enter the Nonfiction Prize. The Ruminate Vandermey Nonfiction Prize closes November 15th, with a $1500 cash prize and publication awarded to the winning writer, and $200 and publication awarded to the second-place writer. Guest judge Camille T. Dungy has also been in that brave place, and she knows what it is to reveal yourself to the world. So take that plunge and submit your essay, memoir, or creative nonfiction. For more information and to submit your work, visit the contest website here.