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.
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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 →
University Partner Day at Art Institute of Chicago Free admission and programming with valid DePaul ID for students, faculty, and staff, when entering through Columbus Drive Entrance (230 S Columbus Drive). Programming includes student art talks, faculty led tours, museum careers panel, and reception. Pre-registration highly encouraged! Saturday, February 10 at 12:30pm to 5:00pm Art Institute of Chicago (Columbus Drive Entrance) 230 S Columbus Drive
Murder and Mayhem in Chicago is a one-day mystery conference featuring some of the Midwest’s top mystery/crime writers. It’s an amazing educational and networking opportunity for students. Now in its second year, Murder and Mayhem in Chicago offers students the opportunity to meet with and learn from successful mystery and crime writers, including guests of honor Gillian Flynn and Jeffrey Deaver. In addition, attendees will hear from crime professionals, like Chicago Police Sergeant Adam Henkels, about the real stories that inspire crime fiction as well as journalists and editors who make these true stories come to… Read Article →
Join us for our first reading of 2018 with guest readers : Jan English Leary Ruben Quesada Paula Carter and Sharon Solwitz Linda Bubon from the Women’s Voices Fund will also be joining us to discuss their work in Chicago. While the Riverview is under construction, we’ll set up shop at our TEMPORARY LOCATION, the Celtic Crown Public House on Western and Cullom, just west of Roscoe Village.
A note from Samantha Hoffman, executive director of the Chicago Writers Association Writers Conference regarding scholarships – deadline is 1/19. and the application process is relatively fast: I’m reaching out because we have writing conference scholarships to award to two students, two educators and two others. We have not yet received a single application from a student–please apply! The deadline is January 15th at midnight, but we will extend the deadline to January 19th to give them time to apply. All applicants need to do is write a 500-word essay and complete the application…. Read Article →
Every quarter, DePaul’s Writers Guild hosts an open mic Aloud! Thursday, November 9, 7 PM LPC Writing Center 2320 N Kenmore SAC 212 Chicago, Illinois 60614 Come share your work and/or listen to others read, celebrate DePaul’s writing community, and make new friends! To view the event page click here.