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by Ex Libris on June 12, 2025

Summer Deadlines + Newberry Library Spotlight + Textbooks Due Tomorrow

Good afternoon, everyone! We have a few announcements today, including info about the Newberry Library’s upcoming conference for graduate student scholarship and their list of summer courses, an extended call for Crook & Folly Editor-in-Chief applications, and a reminder about those rental books that you may or may not have forgotten are due this week. To help you plan your schedule, we also put together a list of deadlines for the remainder of this week, the entire summer, and the first couple weeks of Autumn Quarter! (Scroll down for info on each of these!) This… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on June 6, 2025

Internship Opportunity: Brink Literacy Project + Looking Ahead: Week 11

Happy Friday, everyone! Our first announcement: this is your reminder that teaching evaluations for SQ2025 classes are due tonight. Below is an online, paid internship opportunity with Brink Literacy Project, as well as the reminders list for Week 11—our final week! (Don’t forget about those textbook rentals!) Scroll down for details on each of these. Brink Internship (The information below has been copied from the Brink Literacy Project website.) Application deadlines: July 1, 2025 (for Aug/Sept – Nov/Dec) and December 1, 2025 (Jan/Feb – Apr/May) About Brink: Brink’s publishing internship program seeks to bring underrepresented… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on June 4, 2025

MMLA Academic Writing Publication Opportunity + 5 Creative Writing Calls for Submissions + Crook & Folly: Call for Editors-in-Chief! + LAS Course Evaluations Reminder

Good evening, everyone! We hope everyone is hanging in there as we head into the final stretch of the quarter. We’d like to start out with a reminder that SQ2025 teaching evaluations for LAS courses will be due this Friday, June 6. We have lots of things to share with you today, from a call for Editors-In-Chief for Crook & Folly, to a call for academic papers to the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, to calls for submissions to creative writing journals. Scroll down for details on each of these! Crook & Folly: Call for… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 29, 2025

AQ2025 Course Descriptions!

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the AQ2025 Course Descriptions list is now mostly complete! Mouse over the “Classes” tab in the website header and select “Autumn 2025” to view the list.

by Ex Libris on May 27, 2025

Week 9 Deadlines + 4 New Calls for Submissions

Happy Monday, everyone! (We can’t believe it’s Week 9 already!) This week, calls for submissions for six creative writing journals will be closing on Saturday; two more journal deadlines will close this Sunday. We’ll add these to the Week 9 deadline list further down. We also have four newly-listed calls for submissions. Scroll for more info on each of these! Calls for Submissions: (The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.) 1. Taco Bell Quarterly Deadline: July 31, 2025 About: My kids make books all the time for fun. Both of them want… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 19, 2025

THANK YOU!! + 7 More Calls for Submissions + Summer & Autumn Internships (Includes AQ Teaching Internship Placements)

Happy Monday, everyone! First, a huge thank you to everyone who attended our Spring English Conference & Celebration last Friday! We were excited to see so many students, alumni, friends, and family supporting our panelists and our award recipients. From the writing and accomplishments of English BA and MA students, to Prof. Mark Turcotte’s recent appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate, to the completion of MFA students’ theses, there was so much to celebrate! We’d also like to thank everyone who participated in our conference—especially our student panelists, who presented insightful literary analyses and meaningful creative… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 15, 2025

AQ2025 Course Descriptions! + 7 New Calls for Submissions + FINAL REMINDER: Spring English Conference & Celebration Tomorrow

Good afternoon, everyone! Today, have one reminder and two announcements. The big day is almost here: TOMORROW, at 10:00 AM, our Spring English Conference & Celebration begins! Click here for full details, the schedule of events, and directions/parking info for visitors. We hope to see you (and your friends and family) there! We’d also like to announce that, as of today, almost all of the Autumn Quarter 2025 course descriptions have been uploaded to the descriptions list; you can find these as a subtab under the “Classes” tab. Finally, we’ve found seven literary journals that… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 9, 2025

NOW ANNOUNCING: 2025 Spring English Conference Schedule of Events!

Join us Friday, May 16, for the English Department’s biggest event of the year—our Spring English Conference & Celebration! In addition to presentations from Literary Studies and Creative Writing student panelists, this event will also feature a networking opportunity and career discussion with DePaul English alumni, work from MFA students, and an awards ceremony where high-achieving English students will be recognized with certificates. (There will also be a celebration cake, morning refreshments, and a buffet-style lunch!) Scroll down to view our full schedule of events and other conference materials! What is the Spring English Conference?… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 5, 2025

May 5 Reminders + Some Course Descriptions Available!

Happy Monday, everyone! First, this is your reminder that we have two events happening tonight: “Writing the Life of John McGahern: The Pleasures and Problems of Literary Biography” (w/ Prof. Frank Shovlin) from 5:00–6:00 PM in ALH 412 (click here for details), and a poetry reading (w/ Profs. Chris Solís Green & Richard Jones) at 6:30 PM in ALH 310 (click here for details). We’d also like to announce that some AQ2025 course descriptions are now available! These descriptions are still in the process of being added (be sure to check back for updates!), but… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 2, 2025

Upcoming Event: Poetry Reading (w/ Profs. Chris Green & Richard Jones)

Happy Friday, everyone! On Monday (May 5), join Prof. Chris Solís Green and Prof. Richard Jones for a poetry reading from new poetry books! This reading will be held in in the Arts & Letters Hall (2315 N. Kenmore Ave.), Rm. 310, and will start at 6:30 PM. Read the poster below for full details! (We’ll add this event to our Week 6 list!) Chris Solís Green is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence in the English Department at DePaul University. He is the author of five books of poetry: The Sky Over Walgreens, Epiphany School, Résumé, Everywhere West, and The… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 1, 2025

May 1 Reminders + Looking Ahead: Week 6

Good afternoon, everyone! Today, we have a few reminders, in addition to our list of next week’s events and deadlines. May 1 Reminders This is your reminder that submission windows for two contests and two creative writing journals are closing tonight: the ABA Journal / Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction (at 5:00 PM!), the Narratively x Belletrist True Romance Writing Prize, Redivider‘s call for “new and under-published voices,” and Ninth Letter’s Special Web Edition on the theme of “Reversal”. (Click on each of these for submission details.) Have you thought about earning DePaul… Read Article →

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