Good morning, everyone! We have a special event announcement for you today, as well as details on how you can get a job at DePaul’s Writing Center for next year and how to apply for a SQ2025 Partial Tuition Scholarship (PTS). Scroll down for more info on each of these! Upcoming Event: Faith Unfiltered Join DePaul students, faculty, and staff for “Faith Unfiltered: Why I Still Believe in God,” featuring Prof. Paula McQuade! This talk will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 15, in Rm. 100 of the Levan Center. (Snacks… Read Article →
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Welcome back, everyone! We hope you all had a safe and relaxing break. We have a few reminders for deadlines today and this week, as well as a call for submissions for the LAS Grad Student Symposium (abstracts due this Friday). This is your (final) reminder that no less than fourteen submission opportunities will be closing tonight! Please note that some of these submission deadlines are before 11:59 PM CST. [Click here to view our breakdown post that compares and contrasts these submission opportunities.] These are: Below are reminders for other Week 1 deadlines: Friday, April 4:… 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 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).Â
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 →
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 →
Happy Friday, everyone! This is your reminder that today is the last day of the month. . . and that submissions to two of the journals on our list—Ninth Letter and Peatsmoke—will be closing tonight at 11:59 PM. (Click here for details.) We’d also like to highlight an exciting event for this evening: Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will speak on campus tonight to launch the gift of her collection of 900 volumes of Irish literature to DePaul. President Robinson and Dr. Mary McCain of the… 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 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 →
Welcome to Week 7! We have a few reminders for upcoming deadlines this week, along with some new calls for submissions from various journals. First off, applications for the LAS Excellence in Teaching Award are due tonight. (Click here for details on how to submit your nomination.) Research Workshop #3: “Cite, Cite, Cite!” will be held TOMORROW (February 18, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM) in Rm. 313 of the Lincoln Park Student Center. (Click here for details.) Applications for the St. Albans Writer in Residence Program will close this Thursday, February 20. (Click here to read about this salaried position and to access the application… Read Article →