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.
Gulf Coast is currently accepting submissions to their writing contest! The contest awards publication and $1,500 each to the best poem, essay, and short story, as well as $250 to two honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast 29.1, due out in Fall 2016, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on their website as Online Exclusives. The $23 reading fee includes a one-year subscription to Gulf Coast. Find out guidelines here, and send submissions online here.
The 2016 Hudson Prize is open for submissions until April 10th. Each year Black Lawrence Press awards the Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Find out more and submit online.
The Center for Interfaith Relations is now accepting submissions for the Thomas Merton Prize in Poetry of the Sacred. Poems will be evaluated upon literary excellence, authenticity, and spiritual tenor. There will be three honorable mention award winners who will receive $100 and publication in Parabola Magazine. The grand prize winner receives $500, publication, and a chance to read the winner on stage at the 2016 Festival of Faiths. Poems are due March 31st. Find out more and submit here.
This year SAIC’s learning symposium, titled Going Off(Shore), attempts to flatten the typical hierarchical design of conferences and take on a conversational format, inviting graduate students to submit generative conversational prompts that provoke a departure from stable ground, so as to rethink learning and curriculum. The symposium takes place Saturday, April 9th from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Submissions are due on March 11th, and can be sent here. For further details, see the flyer below or contact the conference organizers at goingoffshore2016@gmail.com.
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 →
Palaver, the interdisciplinary journal of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is now open for both academic and creative submissions. Find out more on the flyer below.
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!
A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.
Submissions are open until March 31 for the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. The contest winner will receive $1,500 air travel card and accommodations in a residency cottage at The Studios of Key West between July 5 and July 31. A $500 stipend as well as passes and admission to various events during the Hemingway Days festival set for July 19-25. Ten of the residency days include an opportunity to write in the colonial estate that Hemingway lived and worked in throughout most of the 1930’s. Full details, rules, and submission forms can be found on the contest website.
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 →