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Call for Submissions From a New Press Started by a DePaul Alum

by Laurance Matthews on January 21, 2021

Call for Submissions ft. a DePaul Alum’s New Press!

Introducing Lillet (pronounced lee-lay after the French aperitif, that stimulates the appetite). Lillet publishes chapbooks. Prose, poetry, sketch/comedy scripts, some combination, or some new genre you’ve invented.  Their first open reading period is open from NOW until May 1. Submit on their website: lilletpress.com There is no reading fee or set number of manuscripts selected for publication this round 50 pg max. Any comments/questions, lilletpress@gmail.com  Be sure to check out and submit to Fruit Bat Press & Lillet Press in support of our former students (and awesome new endeavors)!  

by Laurance Matthews on January 20, 2021

Congratulations to these DePaul Writers!

This year’s Chicago Reader “Best of Polls” is open for voting through Feb. 8 and includes:  Alum Caro Macon Fleischer (BA 2016, MFA 2020) for Best Playwright Kathleen Rooney for Best Novelist Kathleen Rooney’s Poems While You Wait for Best Poetry Organization Congrats to all! Be sure to show your support by voting in the poll: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-of-ballot-voting-nominations/Content?oid=83800909#//

by Laurance Matthews on September 10, 2020

Alumni Shoutout!

Kenny Wassus, a MAWP grad and former BSB student worker, is now at the Wall Street Journal as a senior video journalist covering tech video. He has a pitch in for his first written piece, so stay tuned for when it might be in print! Wassus has also worked for New York Magazine, and you can find out more about his portfolio on his website.

by Ex Libris on February 18, 2020

Congratulations to Alum: Matt Caracciolo

Congratulations to Matt Caracciolo, a 2012 DePaul MAWP program alum who published his first book this month: The Waygook Book: A Foreigner’s Guide to South Korea! From Monday Creek Publishing, The Waygook Book is a travelogue/memoir taking Matt from Chicago to teaching English in South Korea and back to his hometown of Columbus, OH. Join Matt at the Book Cellar in Lincoln on February 19 at 7pm as he discusses his new book for Local Authors Night and teaching English overseas.   

by Ex Libris on October 28, 2019

Alum Profile: MAWP Meredith Boe

This autumn quarter Ex Libris correspondent Eric Canan sat down with MAWP alum Meredith Boe to dicuss life post-DePaul, paying the bills, and her recently published chapbook, What City.    Alum Profile: Meredith Boe   Since graduating from DePaul’s MAWP program in 2013, Meredith Boe has settled into a groove she can be proud of. She has a satisfying job, she’s published several poems, essays, and short stories in various journals, and a few months ago she won Paper Nautilus’s 2018 Debut Series Chapbook Contest with What City, a collection of essays and fiction.   Winning… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on October 23, 2019

Congrats to Alum: Matthew Manning

Congrats to DePaul alum Matthew Manning on publishing his story, “The Unlikely Encounter That Made Me Confront My Male Fragility,” on Medium.com! Read the full piece here.

by Ex Libris on September 26, 2019

Visiting Author Series: Tim Hillegonds Pre-Event Conversation

TONIGHT – Join Tim Hillegonds on-campus as he reads and discusses his new memoir, The Distance Between. Don’t forget to take advantage of the opportunity to talk with the alum about life after DePaul, publishing your first book, writing tips, and more in the library’s Rosati Room prior to the reading event!   Tim Hillegonds is a DePaul MAWP alum and author of the new memoir The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019). His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Assay, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, River Teeth, Baltimore Review, Brevity,… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 19, 2019

Visiting Author Series: Tim Hillegonds

Join Tim Hillegonds on September 26th as he reads and discusses his new memoir at DePaul. Before the reading, also take advantage of the opportunity to talk with the DePaul alum about life after DePaul, publishing your first book, writing tips, and more in the library’s Rosati Room.   The Distance Between chronicles how Hillegonds’s plan to leave his mounting rage and frustration behind with a one-way ticket from Chicago to Colorado goes awry as he jumps headfirst into a turbulent relationship with April, a Denny’s coworker and single parent. More than just a harrowing story of addiction and abuse… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on June 5, 2019

Recent Alumni and Upcoming Graduates Spotlight!

Here are some of our MAE and MAWP students that are soon to graduate or have already graduated! To receive a student spotlight, please send your information to the Ex Libris editor, Camila Restrepo crestre4@depaul.edu or the Assistant Director of Graduate Programs, Meredith Ferrill mferrill@depaul.edu *If there is an error in your entry, (pronouns, spelling, etc.) please contact Camila Restrepo crestre4@depaul.edu and she will ensure corrections are made. Eli Brown will be graduating from the MAWP Program in Spring 2019! Eli is currently interviewing for a technical writing job at a medical company. Eli is  moving back… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on October 29, 2018

Congratulations to MAWP Alumnus Matthew Caracciolo!

Matthew Caracciolo’s  debut book THE WAYGOOK BOOK: A FOREIGNER’S GUIDE TO SOUTH KOREA will launch on December 4th! To read the prologue, visit https://matthewcaracciolo.com/. Congratulations, Matthew! The department is proud of you.

by Ex Libris on September 11, 2018

Alumni Spotlight!

June 2018 MAWP grad Cynthia Nwakudu is a finalist for the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award! The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). The competition culminates in a live semi-finals event at which the top contestants selected by guest judges perform their original poems in live competition for a $500 prize awarded by the audience. To support Cynthia, don’t miss out on the GBOMA competition: September 18th, 2018 The Promontory 5311 S. Lake Park Avenue West Hyde Park, Chicago Doors open… Read Article →

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