One Book, One Chicago, will be hosting a panel discussion on urban farming and gardening in Chicago. The event will be taking place this Thursday from 6-8 PM in Richardson Library Room 115. OBOC’s latest book is, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, check it out here. See the flyer below for full information.
In conjunction with the Our Miss Brooks 100, and in celebration of the centennial birthday of the iconic Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the University of Chicago will be hosting Centennial Brooks a three day conference featuring scholars, poets, musicians, and artists inspired by Miss Brooks. The event takes place this weekend, April 6-7. Find a full schedule of and full details here. Featuring Nora Brooks Blakely, Ishion Hutchinson, Haki Madhubuti, Ed Roberson, Sonia Sanchez, and Evie Shockley, with a performance of music and poetry by Jamila Woods, and the premiere of a commission by Nicole Mitchell and the Black Earth… Read Article →
Applications are now available for Spring Quarter 2017 Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) Awards. Find out more here, and download the application here. The M.A. in English and M.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2017 spring graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees.
Dixie State University’s Route 7 Review is currently accepting submissions. Submissions close on April 15. Visit their website for further details. From the editors: Route 7 Review is an online literary journal based out of Dixie State University, located between Zion National Park and the Mojave Desert. We strive to provide our audience with pieces of art and literature, that enables them to view the world in a new way.
The 17th Annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium will be held Friday, April 21, 2017. The event – sponsored by The Cervantes Society of America, The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, and DePaul University – is free and open to the public. It takes place from 8-5:30 at the Instituto Cervantes (31 W Ohio St, Chicago). This years keynote address, “Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon” will be presented by Jay Allen of the University of Kentucky. Find a full schedule of panels and speakers here, visit them online for more details, and register for… Read Article →
This Friday is the final day to submit to the 2017 Spring English Conference! The conference accepts both academic and creative writing submissions. Please submit soon! Full details available here. Send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com.
Studio Chi continues their series of digital humanities events this month with Technologies of Recovery: A Critical Examination of a Black DH Genealogy. The event takes place Tuesday, April 4 at 5:00 PM. It will feature Kim Gallon of Purdue University discussing her work with the Black Research Press Collective (BPRC) and digital scholarship surrounding black newspapers. See the flyer above for more information.
The Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is hosting their annual short story contest. The contest is accepting submissions of no longer than 1,500 words. Prizes include a $500 award and publication in the foundation’s new literary journal Hemingway Shorts. Find the official call for submissions here. Submissions are due Tuesday, April 4.
As spring break begins, Ex libris would like to remind graduate students to keep the following dates in mind: Spring Break: Saturday, March 18 – Friday, March 24 Grades Due: Friday, March 24 Spring Quarter Classes Begin: Saturday, March 25 Final Day to Add Courses: Friday, March 31 SPEC Submissions Due: Friday, March 31 Additionally, see the message below for the final list of internship offerings for Spring Quarter! If selected, contact Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu to register for credit. Enjoy the break everyone! ————————————————— SPRING INTERNSHIPS 2017 IPG PUBLISHING GROUP The contact person for… Read Article →
This is a friendly reminder to English students and professors that the deadline to submit to the Spring English Conference is only a few short weeks away, Friday, March 31st ! Spring break is a great opportunity to review papers and pieces from finals and consider them for submission. Please see the flyer above for further details, or find a full call-for-submissions here. Submissions and questions can be sent to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. We’d also like to announce that Natalie Y. Moore of WBEZ will be this years keynote speaker! Natalie is a longtime staffer at WBEZ… Read Article →
Poet Nickole Brown will be in Chicago reading at Women and Children First alongside local poets Simone Muench and DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte. The event takes place Friday, March 17 at 7:30 PM. Find out full information here.
Remember, the deadline to add and drop courses for Spring Quarter 2017 is March 31!