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Do you speak (or write in) more than one language? Do you know someone who does? Then please see the Call for Submissions from Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research below. Official Call for Submissions The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) is now accepting submissions for the sixth Issue of its annual electronic magazine, Global Voices. The magazine seeks to showcase the work of DePau¹s multilingual and cultural communities. We accept a wide range of texts, audio, and visual works—in different languages. If you have something that you’ve written or produced and would like to share… Read Article →

This is a final reminder for students to submit to DePaul’s seventh annual Spring English Conference. The conference takes place on Friday, April 29th and submissions are due this Friday, April 1st. Find out more on the flyer below, see full submission requirements here, and send submissions to englishconference.dpu@gmail.com. Find out more about keynote speaker Brian T. Edwards here, or check out his new book After the American Century.  

Below is a call for submissions for DePaul’s 7th annual Spring English Conference. Here is a .pdf or .docx of submission guidelines. Submissions are due April 1st.   Call for Submissions – Academic and Creative Work 7th Annual Spring English Conference Hosted by Students of the Department of English Organizers: Anastasia Sasewich (MAWP) and Jordan Weber (MAE) Friday, April 29, 2016 • Arts & Letters Hall 2315 N. Kenmore Ave The DePaul English Department invites you to participate in our seventh annual student-run conference. The Spring English Conference (SPEC) will be held on the afternoon of Friday, April… Read Article →

Driftwood Press is a literary magazine dedicated to curating from a broad field of work including fiction, poetry, photography, graphic narrative, literary criticism, and interviews. Driftwood is currently open year-round for submissions. There next publication will be released April, 4th. Find out submissions details here.

Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual the Spring English Conference will be held on Friday, April 29th. Submissions, open for both creative and academic writing, are due April 1st. Stay tuned for further details on guidelines, requirements, and the announcement of the keynote speaker!

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 →

The 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Langauage and Media (MCLLM) deadline for 15 minute research proposals is fast approaching! MCLLM encourages proposals from a broad range of topics, particularly ones that explore the conferences 2016 theme: Keep the Change. Proposals of 200-500 words will be accepted until February 19 and may be submitted to mcllm@niu.edu with name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number. The conference takes place on Friday April 1 and Saturday April 2nd. This year’s keynote speaker will be musician, scholar, and author Adam Gussow, associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University… Read Article →

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 →

Illinois State University’s English Studies Program has announced a call for proposals for their 2016 graduate student Word’s Worth Conference: Hum(Animals). The conference encourages a broad ranges of proposals specifically in the field of English Literature, but they also encourage creative writing submissions! Word’s Worth is configured as an early graduate student conference, so first year students are highly encouraged to apply! Conference presentations follow a “long panel” format that provides 25 minutes for each presenter (typically 15 minutes to present followed by 10 minutes for questions).  We accept proposals for individual and panel formats:… Read Article →

The Graduate History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now welcoming proposals for its 2016 interdisciplinary conference, “Putting History to Work.” The conference invites submissions across a range of fields, themes, and historical periods. It will be held from March 5-6 and includes a panel discussion with Jim Grossman the Executive Director of the American Historical Society as well as a networking dinner for conference presenters. Interested students can submit a one-page paper proposal, resume or CV, and a brief two to three sentence biography for consideration to ghapage@history.umass.edu & cscruggs@history.umass.edu. Submissions close… Read Article →

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