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Erika was the very first student to work on a Big Shoulders Books project – before BSB even existed, in fact. After DePaul, she graduated with an MFA in African-American speculative fiction from University of Kentucky. Her award winning essay, “If You Ever Find Yourself,” has earned her a book deal with Scribner and will be expanded into a memoir, This Is Your Mother.
Follow this link to read the article! Professor Royster’s Choosing Family will be out early February!
Megan Heffernan has been awarded a fellowship from Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study for 2023-2024 to work on her next book, Resilient Books: Archival Science in an Age of Precarity. The Institute’s research theme for next year is “The Long Run,” and it’s described this way: “Practical decision-making, ethical evaluation, scientific modeling, and cultural meaning-making all increasingly push us to consider causes that extend further and further into the past and consequences that extend further and further into the future. The Long Run Project will bring together humanists, scientists, social scientists, policy scholars, and artists to… Read Article →
Read ‘Beachcombers In Doggerland’ here!
And look out for the winning piece, “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home”, to be featured in SRPR’s Winter issue! Check out the full announcement at SRPR: Contest. Meghan Malachi, our first-place winner, will receive $1000, an introduction written by Ashley M. Jones, and an invitation to read at SRPR’s annual Lucia Getsi Reading Series, to be held in Bloomington, Illinois, in April 2023.
Check out this fantastic write-up about our Big Shoulders Books and the faculty that make it happen! DePaul project publishes Chicago stories, Studs Terkel style (chicagotribune.com)
Read it in The Brooklyn Rail! https://t.co/EY6YziF44v
