Submit your writing for consider in the 46th issue of Crook & Folly! Check out the submission form here. Guidelines: Submissions are open from January 12th – February 22nd, with incentive period running from January 12th – February 1st. This is a great opportunity to have staff take a look at your pieces before the final deadline. What can you submit? Poetry – 1 to 3 poems Fiction – no more than 3500 words Creative Nonfiction – no more than 3500 words Flash Fiction – no more than 800 words Dramatic Lit – no more… Read Article →
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I hope everyone had a restful break, and has an easy transition back to classes for Winter Quarter! Here are a few announcements, reminders and submission deadlines to keep in mind as you get back into the swing of things. 1. REMINDER: The deadline to apply for graduate assistantships for the 2026–2027 academic year is January 15, 2026. If you’re interested, please send the following materials directly to Prof. and Director Michele Morano (mmorano@depaul.edu): 2. Check out this fantastic article in Oxford American written by Francesca T. Royster, professor of English at DePaul, about musician Willie… Read Article →
I hope everyone a great last week of the Fall Quarter! Here is a list of literary magazines and contests to submit to over the holiday break: Intrepid Voices Fund – November 24, 2025 Short Story Contest for Speculative Fiction Tendrils Literary Journal – November 30, 2025 Theme: The second edition of Tendrils will explore the profound relationships between trauma and the natural and built environment; how processes of growth, decay, and change, mirrors and shapes our individual and collective experiences. Art Prose (short-form literature – 1,000 words) Poetry Baltimore review – November 30, 2025 Poetry Fiction Creative Nonfiction LitMag… Read Article →
The Gay & Lesbian Review/WORLDWIDE (The G&LR)—a bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics focusing on LGBTQ+ issues that publishes non-fiction and poetry, as well as reviews of books, movies, and plays—announced the 4th annual Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant for emerging scholars, writers, and artists across disciplines and fields that make a contribution to LGBTQ+ scholarship or the arts. The purpose of this grant is to bring new and diverse ideas and voices to the magazine and to encourage and support emerging and unpublished LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers, scholars, and artists. Recipients will receive funding (up to $5,000) to write… Read Article →
As the month quickly comes to a close, check out these upcoming submission deadlines for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and more: Tahoma Literary Review – Oct. 31, 2025 Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Indiana Review – October 31, 2025 Fiction Nonfiction Poetry The Hopkins Review – October 31, 2025 Creative Nonfiction/Personal Essay Fiction Poetry Critical Writing FICTION – October 31, 2025 Literary and Experimental Fiction Translations The Hope Prize – October 31, 2025 Global Writer’s Prize – Short Story Competition Michigan Quarterly Review – November 1, 2025 General Submissions in Prose and Poetry 2025 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize… Read Article →
The contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. Narrative is looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. Narrative winners and finalists have gone on to win Whiting Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Atlantic prize, and have appeared in collections such as Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and many others. View the recent… Read Article →
Here are some upcoming deadlines for chapbook, book or literary awards, contests and prizes. All deadlines are at the end of this month! Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize A prize of $1,000 and publication by Persea Books is given annually for a debut poetry collection by a writer who identifies as a woman. The winner also receives an optional six-week, all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy. Writers who are either U.S. citizens or who currently reside in the United States are eligible. Entry fee: $30 Deadline: October 31, 2025 Northwestern University Press Drinking… Read Article →
Welcome new and returning graduate students! I hope you’re having a great start to the fall quarter. Before I jump into some exciting events and submission announcements, I wanted to extend an open call for submissions to Ex Libris. Want to write a book review, an author, alumni or faculty interview, a short reflection on an internship you’ve done in the program, or an issue in contemporary publishing? Please reach out to me, Kendall Polidori, at kpolidor@depaul.edu. I’m open to other ideas you might have, as well! Excited to collaborate with you. Now,… Read Article →
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 →
Happy Friday, everyone! Our first announcement: this is your reminder that teaching evaluations for SQ2025 classes are due tonight. Below is an online, paid internship opportunity with Brink Literacy Project, as well as the reminders list for Week 11—our final week! (Don’t forget about those textbook rentals!) Scroll down for details on each of these. Brink Internship (The information below has been copied from the Brink Literacy Project website.) Application deadlines: July 1, 2025 (for Aug/Sept – Nov/Dec) and December 1, 2025 (Jan/Feb – Apr/May) About Brink: Brink’s publishing internship program seeks to bring underrepresented… Read Article →
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 →
Happy Monday, everyone! (We can’t believe it’s Week 9 already!) This week, calls for submissions for six creative writing journals will be closing on Saturday; two more journal deadlines will close this Sunday. We’ll add these to the Week 9 deadline list further down. We also have four newly-listed calls for submissions. Scroll for more info on each of these! Calls for Submissions: (The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.) 1. Taco Bell Quarterly Deadline: July 31, 2025 About: My kids make books all the time for fun. Both of them want… Read Article →