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by Ex Libris on November 10, 2025

Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant Opportunity

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of this grant is to bring new and diverse ideas and voices to the magazine and to encourage and support emerging and unpublished LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers, scholars, and artists.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 →

by Ex Libris on October 27, 2025

REMINDER: Apply for these Scholarship Opportunities!

It’s scholarship application season, and the English Department offers several awards for graduate students. MFA/MAWP students are encouraged to apply for the Craig Sirles, Charles Arlington, and Dontrey S. Britt-Hart scholarships. MALP students are encouraged to apply for the Craig Sirles and Charles Arlington scholarships. Awards typically range from $1,200 to $9,000, and students are welcome to apply for more than one scholarship. Writing samples may be required. The deadline to apply is November 3, 2025. All applicants must complete the FAFSA form. For information and to apply, please see the Scholarship Connect link.

by Ex Libris on October 13, 2025

English Scholarship Opportunities

It’s scholarship application season, and the English Department offers several awards for graduate students. MFA/MAWP students are encouraged to apply for the Craig Sirles, Charles Arlington, and Dontrey S. Britt-Hart scholarships. MALP students are encouraged to apply for the Craig Sirles and Charles Arlington scholarships. Awards typically range from $1,200 to $9,000, and students are welcome to apply for more than one scholarship. Writing samples may be required. The deadline to apply is November 3, 2025. All applicants must complete the FAFSA form. For information and to apply, please see the Scholarship Connect link. Feel free to check out… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on October 4, 2025

Autumn Quarter 2025 Partial Tuition Scholarship Awards

The M.A. in English, M.A. in Literature and Publishing, M.A. in Writing and Publishing, and M.F.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s three graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2025 Autumn graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE, MALP, MAWP, and MFA degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: Please note that only graduate classes offered through the English department (ENG courses) are eligible for PTS… Read Article →

by Laurance Matthews on April 22, 2025

April 22 Reminders

Good afternoon, everyone—and happy Earth Day! 💚🌎🌍🌏🌳🐿️ This is your reminder that tonight is the deadline for the Binc Foundation‘s Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Scholarship Prize. Any unpublished writer working on a full-length manuscript, graphic novel, or book-length comic, who is also currently employed at (or owns) a physical book or comic store in the U.S. or its territories—with a minimum of three months of continuous book or comic store employment—is eligible to apply for this scholarship. (Click here for full details.) We also hope you’ll join us tonight at 6:30 PM for a special… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on April 17, 2025

Thursday Reminders + Intercollegiate Writers’ Conference + Looking Ahead to Week 4 + Now Hiring: DePaul Student-Run 14 East & Pueblo

Good afternoon, everyone! Today, we have a submission reminder and a conference announcement, as well as an outline of next week’s deadlines and events. Scroll down for details on each of these! Submission Reminder This is your reminder that submissions to Shoegaze Literary Magazine‘s theme in translation (lost) will be closing tonight. Their description: “As a mag primarily interested in dreamscapes and distorted realities, we are interested in themes of listlessness, indulgence, and irreverent longing. we seek work that engages with what may be lost in communication (verbal, physical, digital, etc). when inhabiting these unfamiliar… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on April 3, 2025

The Writing Center is Hiring! + SQ2025 Partial Tuition Scholarships + Upcoming Event: Faith Unfiltered (w/ Prof. Paula McQuade)

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 →

by Ex Libris on March 14, 2025

Looking Ahead: Reminders for WQ Week 10, Finals Week, Spring Break, and SQ Week 1

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 →

by Ex Libris on March 12, 2025

Calls for Submissions to DePaul’s The Orange Couch! + Spring 2025 CPBL Internship Scholarships

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 →

by Ex Libris on March 6, 2025

(Scholarship) Funding for Emerging Writers + Internships List for SQ2025 + Call for Submissions: Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize

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 →

by Ex Libris on February 21, 2025

LAST CALL for Crook & Folly Submissions + Spotlight on Combined Degree Programs

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 →

by Ex Libris on January 31, 2025

2 More Submission Opportunities + Jan. 31 Deadline Reminders + Info on Cert. in Teaching English in 2-Year Colleges

Happy Friday, everyone! In addition to the three journals with January 31 deadlines (listed in our earlier “Weeks 4 and 5 Reminders” post), graduate assistantship applications are also due today; click here for details. Two more reminders: tomorrow is the last day to apply for Spring Quarter (June) graduation, and Sunday is the last day of Crook & Folly‘s incentive period. Read below for two more journals that we’ve added to our submission list! These both have February deadlines. If you missed Prof. Morano’s email from this afternoon, scroll to the bottom of the page… Read Article →

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