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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 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 April 17, 2025

Thursday Reminders + Intercollegiate Writers’ Conference + Looking Ahead to Week 4 + Now Hiring: DePaul Student-Run 14 East & Pueblo

Good afternoon, everyone! Today, we have a submission reminder and a conference announcement, as well as an outline of next week’s deadlines and events. Scroll down for details on each of these! Submission Reminder This is your reminder that submissions to Shoegaze Literary Magazine‘s theme in translation (lost) will be closing tonight. Their description: “As a mag primarily interested in dreamscapes and distorted realities, we are interested in themes of listlessness, indulgence, and irreverent longing. we seek work that engages with what may be lost in communication (verbal, physical, digital, etc). when inhabiting these unfamiliar… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on April 10, 2025

Weeks 2 & 3 Deadlines

Good afternoon, everyone! Below, we’d like to close out the week with some deadline reminders for the rest of this week and for next week. Some of these deadlines are for submission opportunities, but there are also several upcoming events (including Eric Puchner’s reading tonight in the Levan Center—click here for details). Scroll down to view the list! Week 2 Week 3 In case you missed it . . .

by Ex Libris on April 9, 2025

Spring Conference Submissions: Deadline Extended (April 13)!

Good afternoon, everyone! We’ve decided to extend our deadline for Spring English Conference Submissions! Please submit by this Sunday, April 13, to still be considered for conference participation. (Thanks very much to those of you who have already submitted your work!)  In case you missed it . . . Our next Visiting Author is Eric Puchner, who will be reading and discussing his work tomorrow, April 10 (6:00 PM), in Levan 100! (Click here for details.) Other upcoming events include Faith Unfiltered with Prof. Paula McQuade (click here) and a Visiting Author reading with Nico… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on April 4, 2025

Important April 4 Deadline Reminders

Good afternoon, everyone—and Happy Friday! We hope that Week 1 has gone smoothly for all of you as we begin the new quarter. Below are some important deadline reminders for this evening: The submission window for Poetry Wales will close tonight at 6:00 PM CST. (Click here for details.) The deadline for Spring Quarter course registration is tonight at 11:59 PM CST. (Click here for the full list of the department’s graduate-level courses.) If you dropped a class, found out that a book you bought is not required reading, or need to return your book(s) for another reason, today… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 17, 2025

Which Upcoming Submission Opportunity Is Right for You?

Happy Monday, everyone—and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ We hope that finals week is off to a good start for you. Last week, we posted a list of deadlines between March 10 and April 6. This list features some LAS deadlines, some miscellaneous deadlines, and several deadlines for creative writing publications and contests/competitions. There are lots of options for where to submit your work—but which submission opportunity is right for you? To help you decide where your work would best fit, we’ve compiled a few charts and lists below; these compare and contrast what each… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on February 27, 2025

Submit Your Work to DePaul’s 16th Annual Spring English Conference for Our 2025 Spring Conference & Celebration!

We frequently keep you updated on calls for submissions from other journals and institutions; but today, we’re very excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions to the English department’s very own Spring English Conference! This year, the Spring Conference will be held in conjunction with the annual MFA reading and the English awards ceremony, combining three of the department’s most important events. The Conference & Celebration will be held on May 16. It will also feature an alumni panel. Scroll down for more details! What is the Spring English Conference? The Spring English Conference… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on March 26, 2024

Spring English Conference Deadline Extended! April 7

Submit your work (in any genre) to participate in one of a kind panels with your DePaul peers! The themes of each panel are determined by the work submitted to the organizing body. Send your work to SpringEnglishConference@gmail.com and help shape the event!

by Ex Libris on January 20, 2022

Call for Papers

Call for Papers Attachment Issues: psychopolitics and the everyday3CT Lauren Berlant Graduate Student Conference April 15–16, 2022Deadline for paper proposals: Friday, February 11, 5:00pm CT When Frantz Fanon wrote about the mental disorders spurred by the “favorable breeding ground” of the Algerian War, he described a process through which the world forced itself into the mind. He reversed the typical explanation of mental disorders as individual and pathological, tracing them instead to their collective, worldly attachments. Rather than a psychocentric interpretation, Fanon gave a pyschopolitical one. Psychopolitics offers a mode of investigation that addresses the conjoining of… Read Article →

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