DePaul professor Miles Harvey will be one of the faculty at the University of New Orleans’ creative writing workshops in Cork, Ireland this summer. The program takes place June 17 – July 16. Find out more information on the flyer below, or visit the program’s website here.
Mark Turcotte and his poetry students will recite works inspired by the DePaul Art Museum’s current exhibit “Dianna Frid & Richard Rezac: Split Complementary” this coming Tuesday at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Find full Spring Quarter 2016 course listing here.
A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.
The Department of English in collaboration with One Book, One Chicago and Slag Glass City will be hosting a panel of artists across disciplines to discuss the status of artistic creation in Chicago. The event takes place Monday, February 22 in the DePaul Art Museum from 6:00-8:00 pm. See the flyer below for details, or visit the event page.
Submissions are open until March 31 for the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. The contest winner will receive $1,500 air travel card and accommodations in a residency cottage at The Studios of Key West between July 5 and July 31. A $500 stipend as well as passes and admission to various events during the Hemingway Days festival set for July 19-25. Ten of the residency days include an opportunity to write in the colonial estate that Hemingway lived and worked in throughout most of the 1930’s. Full details, rules, and submission forms can be found on the contest website.
The eleventh annual Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectual Writing is now open for proposals. The fellowship program, administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, was established to engage young writers and scholars in critical discussions about the built environment and is open to graduate students currently enrolled in coursework at Chicago-area universities. Though the fellowship is focused on architecture, English students with research interests that converge with art theory, materiality, and space are encouraged to consider applying. The deadline for application is Monday, Aprill 11. Full details can be found… Read Article →
Santa Ana River Review (formerly Crate) is looking for pieces of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic work and visual art for the Spring 2016 issue. The submission deadline is March 15. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, will be judging the poetry contest. $7 early bird submission fee and $100 minimum cash prize. Find details and submit here. Santa Ana River Review is the official literary journal of University of California Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Santa Ana River Review aims to publish provocative, imaginative work to fuel their readers own inquisitive minds.
CURA: A Literature Magazine of Art and Action is currently accepting submissions for their 2015-2016 issue dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement and the voices, art, and action of racial justice. CURA is open to poetry submissions and prose submissions at a maximum of 6,000 words. Their reading period closes on March 15. Further details can be found here, and submissions can be sent here. From CURA: “We seek to promote a movement of creative response guided by meaningful action– to celebrate active citizenship where a republic of writers, filmmakers, visual and digital artists converge. What… Read Article →
indicia is a new online biannual literature journal seeking submissions for their first publication. Currently indicia is seeking unpublished works of poetry, flash fiction, and visual art. Submissions include up to 6 poems of not more than 10 pages total, up to 3 flash fiction stories of not more than 750 words each, or up to 5 high-quality image files. Find further details here, and send submissions to editors.indicia@gmail.com. From indicia: “indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language… Read Article →
The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) will be hosting their annual workshop and residency program on July 10-16 & 17. The program costs $1,500 to attend including cost of room and board. MVICW does offer multiple need and merit based scholarships for the program; find details here. MVICW is also holding a writing contest this year. Two first prize winners receive $,1500 covering the full retreat package (including tuition and lodging) and two second prize winners receive $500 toward tuition. Contest details can be found here. Find full details on the MVICW website, including instructors, judges, a schedule of events, and… Read Article →
DePaul English Department alum Teresa Villa-Ignacio, who earned a bachelors degree in English in 2000, will be presenting “Aspirational Images and Posthuman Ethics: Cole Swensen, Suzanne Doppelt, and Pierre Alferi” at the University of Chicago this Thursday, February 18. Find out more on the flyer below.