Congrats to DePaul English Graduate student Christopher Watkins on publishing his poem “After Hiding a Half-Emptied Bottle of Popov in My Sock Drawer and Blacking Out” in Foundry Journal! Read Chris’s full poem here.
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The M.A. in English and M.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 two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2020 winter graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for… Read Article →
Congrats to Professor Kathleen Rooney, who is the recipient a Louise de Merrilac Woman of Spirit and Action Award from DePaul!
Congrats to Paula McQuade, who was interviewed last week by Crawford Gribbens, Professor of History at Queens University Belfast! The pair discussed Professor McQuade’s book, women’s writing, and early modern religion. The podcast is now up and available at the New Books Network. Find a copy of Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2017) here.
Poets in Season: a reading with Chris Green and Richard Jones By Michael Garza Contributor to Ex Libris On Monday evening, staff and students gathered for a poetry reading. Readings can run the gamut of atmosphere, from the bombast of a juke joint to the still of temple ceremony. Yet, on the fourth floor of the Arts & Letters Hall, tucked in a kind of penthouse suite overlooking complete darkness, the buzz shifted between a lounge reading and lecture. Professor Richard Jones and Chris Green came to share poems, and that was enough to… Read Article →
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 →
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.
The M.F.A and M.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 graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2019 fall graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the current term You have a cumulative grade-point average… Read Article →
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 →
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 →
Check out former DePaul student Guillaume Delabar’s published interview on Professor Mark Turcotte in TriQuarterly Magazine!
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 →