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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 →

Good afternoon, everyone! 🌼 With everyone finishing their final classes this week and moving on to getting final papers and projects wrapped up for next week, it can be easy to lose track of all the submission deadlines we’ve been posting lately on Ex Libris. You’ll still be hearing from us next week (and when the new quarter begins!), but to help you start planning your schedules, we’ve compiled a list of deadlines for this week/weekend, next week, Spring Break, and Week 1 of Spring Quarter. Scroll down for the full list! Key: yellow =… Read Article →

Good morning, everyone! We have a few announcements today. These include a call for submissions to Issue 6 of The Orange Couch (the DePaul Writing Center’s annual publication) and information on LAS’s Community- and Project-Based Learning (CPBL) Internship Scholarships. Scroll down for more details on each of these! (The information below has been copied from The Orange Couch and las.depaul.) Call for Submissions: The Orange Couch Deadline: April 28, 2025, 12:00 PM CT About: The Orange Couch is seeking submissions for Issue 6 from all DePaul-affiliated writers writing in all types of creative genres—from poetry to fiction… Read Article →

Happy Monday, everyone! Welcome to Week 10—just one week before Finals Week, and just ten days before spring officially begins! 🌼🐦🌼🌼 We have two reminders for this week: first, that this Thursday (March 14) is the last day to submit teaching evaluations for LAS courses, and second, that this Friday (March 15) is the last day to submit your work to Mistake House Magazine and the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. (Click here for details on Mistake House submissions, and click here for details on the book prize.) Scroll down for two newly-listed calls for… Read Article →

Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s one brief reminder that tonight, two calls for submissions will be closing: applications to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship and submissions to the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Click here for more details on the two-week summer research fellowship for grad students, and click here for more details on the contest (whose winning work will be performed and recorded live by an actor at Symphony Space and published on Electric Literature). 

This is your reminder that tomorrow, two calls for submissions will be closing: applications to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship and submissions to the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Click here for more details on the two-week summer research fellowship for grad students, and click here for more details on the contest (whose winning work will be performed and recorded live by an actor at Symphony Space and published on Electric Literature).  We also have a new call for submissions, info on a scholarship fund for emerging writers who currently work at a bookstore or comic shop, and the… Read Article →

We have lots of new submission opportunities to share this morning! This is also your reminder that the last research workshop, Research Workshop #4: “Making the Best of a Conference,” will be held TODAY, March 4 (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM) in JTR 103 of the Richardson Library. (Click here for details.) If you’ve been thinking about submitting your work to our Spring Conference this year (deadline: April 4), this is a great opportunity to develop your conference skills! Scroll down for info on all of these new calls for submissions! [A word in your ear: many of… Read Article →

Happy Monday, everyone! The countdown begins: only 23 days until the official end of the quarter. This Friday, March 7, two calls for submissions will be closing: applications to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship and submissions to the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Click here for more details on the two-week summer research fellowship for grad students, and click here for more details on the contest (whose winning work will be performed and recorded live by an actor at Symphony Space and published on Electric Literature).  We… Read Article →

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 →

Good morning, everyone! We have one event reminder for today, as well as another upcoming event announcement, a newly-listed call for submissions, and a newly-added part-time, remote internship opportunity (which offers a stipend of $300 per month). Scroll down for more info on each of these! Event Reminder: Poetry Reading at Northwestern As mentioned on the Week 8 Reminders list we posted on Monday, this is your reminder that Northwestern University’s poetry reading with poet and country singer Julian Talamantez Brolaski will be held TONIGHT at 5:00 PM. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and community members are all… Read Article →

Happy Monday of Week 8! This week’s reminders—three upcoming events and three journal submission deadlines—will cover the weekend and next Tuesday, which includes the first days of March. Spring is almost here! Week 8 Wednesday, February 26: Thursday, February 27: Due Friday, February 28: Due Sunday, March 2: Week 9 Tuesday, March 4: In case you missed it…

Happy Friday, everyone! As of today, there’s only one month left until Spring Break officially begins. Many of you are already starting to think about your final projects and papers! Our first announcement is that submissions to Crook & Folly—DePaul’s own student-run literary journal (formerly known as Threshold)—will close this Sunday, February 23. This will be the final deadline for all written pieces. (Click here for details). For any undergraduates who may be thinking of pursuing an English graduate degree at DePaul, we’d like to highlight our BA + MA Combined Degree options (BA/MALP, BA/MAWP, and BA/Secondary Education English). The… Read Article →

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