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FREE TICKETS to all English students for the show Verified Laughs every Wednesday at 8pm from now until the end of October. Verified Laughs is a social media based stand up comedy show where the audience votes on the winner through Instagram and Facebook after watching a series of five minute sets from some of the best comedians in the city. For those interested in free tickets: please email alessandradrapos@gmail.com with your name, Wednesday date, and number of tickets desired.
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 →
May 20, 2018 7:00 PM Celtic Crown Public House 235 W Cullom Ave Chciago, IL 60618 For more info visit the Facebook event page here.
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Where: U.S. Bank Building (40th floor), 190 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60603 United States Registration: Register Online here
Modern Languages and Studio X have invited Isabella Magni, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library, to lead the faculty and graduate student workshop Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project on Friday, May 18, 10AM-12PM (IdeaLab2 in the library, JTR 207). Breakfast will be served before the workshop. The hope is to gather a small cohort of interested faculty and graduate students for this exciting, hands-on experience. Please contact Caterina Mongiat Farina (CMONGIAT@depaul.edu) if you plan to attend.
The Langston Hughes Society will be holding a special roundtable on the poetry of social justice as well as their annual luncheon at the College Language Association Convention in Chicago next month. The luncheon is a highly anticipated event, this year featuring award-winning poet, Nikky Finney. Electronic registration is open on their website at http://www.langstonhughessociety.org/.
Join us for our early spring reading with five fantastic writers at the Celtic Crown! Sunday Salon Chicago March 25, 2018 7:00 P.M. Celtic Crown Public House 2356 W Cullom Ave Chicago, IL 60618 Google map Facebook event link
The OCWW is inviting all MAE and MAWP students free of charge to a weekly meeting of the most prestigious writing workshop in the Chicago Area. Off Campus Writers Workshop (OCWW) is the oldest continuously running writing workshop in the country. They hold weekly workshops with published authors in different genres, plus screenwriters, and agents. Every week has a different speaker and topic. Plus many of our members are published authors willing to encourage and advise new members and guests. OCWW wants to grow their student membership. Through May 31st, OCWW is offering a free one-time visitor’s… Read Article →