Happy Friday! Congratulations to current M.A.W.P. student Zhanna Vaynberg, for getting a story published in the upcoming Fall issue of Euphony Journal, and for receiving an honorable mention in Glimmer Train‘s August 2011 Short Story Award for New Writers for another story of hers, “Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother.” — The DePaul Can: University-Wide Food Drive will take place Nov. 7th through Nov. 11th. DePaul Can is a student-led initiative uniting the DePaul community in the fight against hunger, bringing together students, faculty and staff in a Vincentian way. Last spring, DePaul Can… Read Article →
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*REMINDER: Tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 25th is the LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS for the Autumn Quarter.* — Exciting news for social media aficionados: DePaul University English Graduate Programs is now on Facebook! If you’re a Facebook user, hop on over and “like” our page to connect with your friends and classmates and get even more updates on your favorite graduate programs. — The deadline for Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival’s Fiction Contest is approaching fast, and the organizers are excited to unearth new writing talent. Amy Hempel, the master of the short form, will… Read Article →
Happy National Day on Writing, everyone! How are you celebrating writing today? Perhaps by catching the Essay Fiesta performance coming up in the student center? And have you been checking Winter 2012 for course descriptions? We’re right in the middle of registration week and almost all of them are up. Best of luck to everyone registering for classes. — Grad Students: If you ever have an issue you would like to bring to the DePaul Student Government Association (SGA), Morgan Taylor is your representative on the 2011-2012 SGA Senate. Morgan Taylor is the Senator for… Read Article →
Just a handful of announcements and reminders for today: Grad students: are you ready to begin enrolling in Winter 2012 courses? Enrollment appointments will take place throughout the coming week, so check your Campus Connect account if you haven’t already. If you’re still deciding on classes and you’re curious about course descriptions, check Ex Libris frequently, because professors and sending them in, and we’re posting them here as we get them. — The Chicago Humanities Festival has three internship opportunities available for January-May 2012. The application deadline is Nov. 15. Details can be found on… Read Article →
The Red Clay Review, the nation’s only literary review to feature exclusively the work of graduate and doctoral students, is seeking submissions for this year’s edition of the Review. Red Clay Review is accepting poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and one act/ten-minute plays from both new and established authors, with the desire to give voice to the many talented graduate and doctoral students who are starting or continuing their journey as authors. There is no fee for submissions, and any student in a graduate or doctoral program is welcome to submit, not just… Read Article →
Threshold is DePaul’s award-winning, all-student journal of literature and art, and they need your help to make this year’s issue happen! Threshold is soliciting applications for editors for the 2012 issue. If you are interested in getting involved, please write a 1-2 page application letter describing your relevant experience and commitment, as well as your vision for the magazine, and place it in faculty adviser Prof. Dan Stolar’s mailbox in McGaw 255 by Wednesday, Oct. 12th. If you are interested in working with the magazine, but not necessarily taking on the commitment of being co-editor,… Read Article →
Hopefully everyone has taken a few minutes to read the DePaul Magazine article “When the Teacher is an Author” that we posted about on Monday, because today we are happy to post two more exciting accomplishments of the DePaul English Department faculty. It has just been announced that faculty member Jim Fairhall is the 2012 winner of Crab Orchard Review’s John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for his memoir, “Núi Khê Revisited.” The essay is about his recent trek through a forest in Vietnam in quest of a site of memory, Khê Mountain. “Núi Khê Revisited”… Read Article →
While going through Ex Libris announcements this afternoon, it occurred to Jan Hickey and me that were someone so inclined, one could easily attend a writerly event almost every single day in October. It’s just a good time to be an English Graduate student! Check back frequently for events, writing contests, and other news as they are flooding the Ex Libris inbox, and we want to share them all with you! Here’s today’s batch: The Guild Literary Complex is having a writing contest, and they want to give away some award money! Fiction and non-fiction… Read Article →
There are only two days left to send in your submissions for the UCD Anthology Contest! The yearly anthology produced by the University College Dublin Creative Writing Masters showcases the talents of the UCD English department, but as part of fundraising efforts for this year’s anthology, the Creative Writing Masters group is running a competition open to all, from inside and outside the university. One winner will be selected from the short story and another winner from the poetry submissions and their work, along with a quick bio will be included in the anthology. The… Read Article →
Last week, Ex Libris kicked off the new academic year with a welcome message from Profs. Michele Morano and John Shanahan. This week we invite you to read the convocation remarks from the President and Provost here and here for their welcome messages, new updates on the university, and a very thoughtful Willa Cather reference. Many of you have probably already heard the exciting news that the 2011 selection for One Book, One Chicago (OBOC) is The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. The selection marks the 10th anniversary of this very popular program, in which DePaul is proud to… Read Article →
The yearly anthology produced by the UCD Creative Writing Masters is one of the highlights of the English department, showcasing the talent that UCD produces. As part of the fundraising efforts for this year’s anthology, the Creative Writing Masters group is running a competition open to all comers, from inside and outside the university. One winner will be selected from the short story, another winner from the poetry submissions and their work, along with a quick bio will be included in the anthology. Likewise, one winner will be chosen from the artwork submissions and their… Read Article →
Thursday, April 14, 2011 Master Class with William Lychack 3:30-5 pm Location (on Lincoln Park campus) TBA Reading by William Lychack 6 pm Richardson Library, room 400 2350 N. Kenmore Free & open to the public The MAWP is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for graduate students to work with visiting writer William Lychack, author of The Architect of Flowers, a new short-story collection that novelist Charles Baxter describes as “an amazing accomplishment, very complex and exceptionally beautiful.” In addition to reading from his work on the evening of April 14, Lychack has agreed… Read Article →