A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.
The Department of English in collaboration with One Book, One Chicago and Slag Glass City will be hosting a panel of artists across disciplines to discuss the status of artistic creation in Chicago. The event takes place Monday, February 22 in the DePaul Art Museum from 6:00-8:00 pm. See the flyer below for details, or visit the event page.
Submissions are open until March 31 for the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest. The contest winner will receive $1,500 air travel card and accommodations in a residency cottage at The Studios of Key West between July 5 and July 31. A $500 stipend as well as passes and admission to various events during the Hemingway Days festival set for July 19-25. Ten of the residency days include an opportunity to write in the colonial estate that Hemingway lived and worked in throughout most of the 1930’s. Full details, rules, and submission forms can be found on the contest website.
The eleventh annual Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectual Writing is now open for proposals. The fellowship program, administered by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, was established to engage young writers and scholars in critical discussions about the built environment and is open to graduate students currently enrolled in coursework at Chicago-area universities. Though the fellowship is focused on architecture, English students with research interests that converge with art theory, materiality, and space are encouraged to consider applying. The deadline for application is Monday, Aprill 11. Full details can be found… Read Article →
Santa Ana River Review (formerly Crate) is looking for pieces of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, dramatic work and visual art for the Spring 2016 issue. The submission deadline is March 15. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, will be judging the poetry contest. $7 early bird submission fee and $100 minimum cash prize. Find details and submit here. Santa Ana River Review is the official literary journal of University of California Riverside’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Santa Ana River Review aims to publish provocative, imaginative work to fuel their readers own inquisitive minds.
CURA: A Literature Magazine of Art and Action is currently accepting submissions for their 2015-2016 issue dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement and the voices, art, and action of racial justice. CURA is open to poetry submissions and prose submissions at a maximum of 6,000 words. Their reading period closes on March 15. Further details can be found here, and submissions can be sent here. From CURA: “We seek to promote a movement of creative response guided by meaningful action– to celebrate active citizenship where a republic of writers, filmmakers, visual and digital artists converge. What… Read Article →
indicia is a new online biannual literature journal seeking submissions for their first publication. Currently indicia is seeking unpublished works of poetry, flash fiction, and visual art. Submissions include up to 6 poems of not more than 10 pages total, up to 3 flash fiction stories of not more than 750 words each, or up to 5 high-quality image files. Find further details here, and send submissions to editors.indicia@gmail.com. From indicia: “indicia seeks to showcase a dynamic collage of passionate and profound voices hungry to produce art and write primarily in the English language. indicia enjoys feeling out the lengths to which language… Read Article →
The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) will be hosting their annual workshop and residency program on July 10-16 & 17. The program costs $1,500 to attend including cost of room and board. MVICW does offer multiple need and merit based scholarships for the program; find details here. MVICW is also holding a writing contest this year. Two first prize winners receive $,1500 covering the full retreat package (including tuition and lodging) and two second prize winners receive $500 toward tuition. Contest details can be found here. Find full details on the MVICW website, including instructors, judges, a schedule of events, and… Read Article →
DePaul English Department alum Teresa Villa-Ignacio, who earned a bachelors degree in English in 2000, will be presenting “Aspirational Images and Posthuman Ethics: Cole Swensen, Suzanne Doppelt, and Pierre Alferi” at the University of Chicago this Thursday, February 18. Find out more on the flyer below.
Digital Humanities, or just simply “DH,” is the name for a set of computer-based tools and methods used by people in the humanities that are increasingly important for students in virtually every field of study. This interdisciplinary program taught by faculty from across the university focuses on training students and providing hands on experience with the tools, methods, and real-world projects that have become central to cutting-edge humanities scholarship. Find full Spring Quarter course descriptions here. From public history and journalism to website development and all levels of teaching, real-world experience with state-of-the-art software… Read Article →
Professor Kieth Mikos will continue the Literary Studies Speaker Series this quarter with his presentation, “Dots and Dashes – Scraps and Stains: Moving Beyond Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” The event takes place on Thursday, February 25 from 4:30-6:00 pm in Arts and Letters Room 413. Mikos earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, culture and technology, and the history of philosophy. His most recent work examines textual materialism and issues of scale in Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville, where he considers how seemingly small, inconsequential details can have very… Read Article →
The Career Center’s ASK mentor program will be hosting a relaxed cofee mixer next Wednesday in Arts and Letters geared toward LAS students. Find out more on ASK’s website.