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Two Cities Review, a new literary magazine, is accepting submissions for its prose contest. The contest theme is Cities Gone Wrong. The winner in each category—fiction and nonfiction—will receive $250 and publication. The submission deadline is March 15, 2015. Writers can submit their entries for a $5 fee here. *** Catamaran Literary Reader is offering a $200 early bird registration discount for its second annual fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama summer writing conferences. The conference takes place August 12–16, 2015. Register by April 15 for the discounted ($1,050) price, which covers four nights’ lodging at the Robert Louis Stevenson campus on Pebble Beach; meals;… Read Article →

DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse (WRD) welcomes its winter quarter guest speaker—Angela Haas of Illinois State University—to DePaul on Tuesday, March 10. After a 5:30 p.m. reception, the talk will begin at 6 p.m. in McGowan South 104. See the flyer below for more information.

Columbia College Chicago‘s creative writing department is presenting the Story Week Festival of Writers March 15–21, 2015. This year’s theme is The Power of Words. All programming is free and open to the public. DePaul associate professor Miles Harvey and former DePaul assistant professor Amina Gautier will be presenting at the festival. Check out the full Story Week schedule here.

Tuesday, March 31: CWC‘s annual benefit to support scholarships for literacy tutors takes place at Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro in Lakeview. Mike Stephen from WGN Radio emcees Bad Poetry Night, featuring local personalities, such as Tasha Robinson from The Dissolve. Thursday, April 16: In Under 30/Over 60, a crossgenerational reading event at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, Chicago writers—all younger than 30 or older than 60—share stories on the theme “What I Wish I Knew.” Friday, May 1: CWC is hosting Asian American Authors Night in conjunction with its partner, Open Books. This panel discussion features four Asian American writers working in Chicago.

Crossing Boundaries, the second annual LAS interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is taking place on Friday, March 6, 2015, in McGowan South (1110 West Belden Avenue). The day’s events—which run from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.—include a faculty panel; poster presentations and paper panels featuring DePaul graduate student work; a keynote address by associate professor of English Miles Harvey; and a reception. All members of the DePaul community are welcome to attend. For a more detailed schedule, see the LAS graduate student conference program.

A career panel featuring DePaul alumni Tim Hillegonds, Zack Carlstrom, and Marcy Farrey will take place on the evening of Wednesday, February 25, in ALH 103. Come for the wisdom; stay for the snacks. See the flyer below for more information.  

Women & Children First, an independent bookstore in Andersonville, is holding an all-day grand reopening open house on Saturday, February 21. Visitors can mosey around the renovated shop while partaking of light refreshments. Live music by local performers begins midafternoon. The calendar of events at Women & Children First includes author readings, panel discussions, and book club meetings. 

DePaul visiting assistant professor Mark Turcotte will be reading at this month’s installment of Sunday Salon Chicago, a free reading series, this Sunday, January 25. The event will take place at Riverview Tavern starting at 7 p.m. The audience will also hear work from Donald Evans, Goldie Goldbloom, Eric May, and Frances McNamara. Join the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) for its first winter quarter gathering!

DePaul literary magazine Crook & Folly is hosting a micro prose event tomorrow night. The magazine staff will lead attendees in a few writing exercises and share examples of compelling pieces in the genre. RSVP here. Attendees should bring two hard copies of a piece they’d like to rework as a micro prose piece. Both fiction and nonfiction pieces are welcome. Thursday, January 15 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Arts & Letters Hall, Room 303

Crook & Folly, DePaul’s literary magazine, seeks submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, micro prose, poetry, and dramatic literature. The submission deadline is February 23. Students can send their work to crookandfolly@gmail.com. Crook & Folly is holding a micro prose event this Thursday, January 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Arts & Letters Hall, Room 303. Attendees will learn about micro prose and create their own micro prose pieces. Before the February 23 submission deadline, the student literary journal is hosting three other workshops. Students are welcome to bring in work they want to submit and get feedback from one of the editors. Thursday, January 22, 5:30 p.m.–7:30… Read Article →

“Join us for a special puppet-filled, index-card-marked, interactive evening as we come together to reimagine the nature of an archive, a library, a printed idea, and the act of reading itself.” – DePaul Humanities Center The DePaul Humanities Center invites students to “Ander Monson: Letter to a Future Book and Reader,“ the inaugural event in the series Discards: The Future(s) of the Book and Library. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 11, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., in room 120 of the DePaul Student Center.

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