Glimmer Train is currently accepting submissions for this season’s Short Story Award for New Writers! The contest is held three times a year, winter submissions close on February 29 (stay tuned for Spring and Fall dates). The reading fee is $18 per submission, and the grand prize includes $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories. Find out more information and submit here.
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DePaul’s Career Center continues The Rogue Series with an exciting new workshop focusing on creative methods of networking, “Story Catchers: Making Impressions Stick.” The workshop takes place February 10 & 24 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. Find out more on the flyer below, or join the event through Handshake!
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Nominations for DePaul’s Excellence in Teaching Award are now open. See the flyer below for details, and submit your nominations here. Submissions are due February 15.
DePaul will be hosting their 2016 Thesis and Dissertation Conference this Saturday, February 6 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm in Lincoln Park Student Center. See the flyer below for more information and RSVP here.
DePaul’s annual art and literature magazine is now open for submissions. Visit Crook & Folly online, or see the guidelines below to submit. All submissions due March 1st.
The Department of English is pleased to announce The Dontrey Britt-Hart Endowed Scholarship, a new funding opportunity for MAWP students. Consideration for this scholarship shall be given to a student enrolled in the Writing and Publishing Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences who is in good academic standing and has financial need. Preference shall be given to women or students who have demonstrated an interest in/commitment to increasing the prevalence of, or improving the role of, women in higher education. Preference may also be given to persons of color or students… Read Article →
The Minverva Rising Literary Journal, a journal dedicated to publishing creative works by women, is now open for submissions for their journal publication. The theme for this years submission cycle is ‘sisterhood,’ and submissions close on February 1. Visit them online to submit and find out more.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting their annual graduate student conference Engendering Change this April 23. The conference focuses on themes of gender and sexuality, and this years theme is specifically oriented towards the intersection of racial and gender justice. Abstracts are due February 1st and can be emailed to engenderingchange2016@gmail.com. For more details download the call for papers.
Northern Illinois University’s Department of English in cooperation with the Allerton Planning Committee will be hosting the 52nd Alerton English Articulation Conference from April 13 and 14 at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois. This years theme Charting Our Future: Evolutions, Revelutions, and Revelations asks with the changing state of higher education and cost of tuition how colleges and universities can evolve, revolt, or remap the world of education. The conference will be accepting individual presentations, group presentation, and poster presentations. Interested parties can email a title and on-paragraph abstract of group or individual proposals to AllertonConference@niu.edu by February 1. Those… Read Article →