The Poetry Foundation continues there Open Door Reading Series this January with readings from DePaul’s MAWP Professor Chris Green and student Dylan Weir. The event takes place January 19th at 7:00 pm at the Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street. Admission is free and open to the public! The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. Along with Green and Weir, January’s Open… Read Article →

The Graduate History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now welcoming proposals for its 2016 interdisciplinary conference, “Putting History to Work.” The conference invites submissions across a range of fields, themes, and historical periods. It will be held from March 5-6 and includes a panel discussion with Jim Grossman the Executive Director of the American Historical Society as well as a networking dinner for conference presenters. Interested students can submit a one-page paper proposal, resume or CV, and a brief two to three sentence biography for consideration to ghapage@history.umass.edu & cscruggs@history.umass.edu. Submissions close… Read Article →

The 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Langauage and Media (MCLLM) is currently accepting proposals for 15 minute research presentations. MCLLM encourages proposals from a broad range of topics, particularly ones that explore the conferences 2016 theme: Keep the Change. Proposals of 200-500 words will be accepted until January 29 and may be submitted to mcllm@niu.edu with name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number. The conference takes place on Friday April 1 and Saturday April 2nd. This year’s keynote speaker will be musician, scholar, and author Adam Gussow, associate professor of English and Southern Studies… Read Article →

The final deadline for Black Lawrence Press’s annual prize for unpublished novels, The Big Moose Prize, is fast apporaching. The prize is open to new and emerging as well as established writers. The contest winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. The entry period closes on January 31st.  Find further details on the contest page or submit via Submittable.

The Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University is pleased to announce the Second Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, titled “Crystal Queer.” The conference will be held on Friday, April 1 through Saturday, April 2nd in Bloomington, Indiana. 300 word abstracts are due by January 30th, and can be sent to complit.iu@gamil.com. The attached call for papers provides further information.  

Now in it its fourth year, Tent: Creative Writing welcomes aspiring and practicing writers to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, to workshop, read, and talk about craft and literary history. Tent: Creative Writing is a free week of workshops, literary seminars, and conversations for twenty writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, in their twenties and early thirties, who are curious about connections between Jewishness and contemporary culture. This year’s workshop leaders will be Sam Lipsyte (fiction), Lisa Olstein (poetry), and Eileen Pollack (nonfiction), and the Yiddish Book Center’s academic director Josh Lambert. The… Read Article →

The Institute for Education in International Media (ieiMedia) is an independent study abroad service currently accepting students for their creative writing program in Armagh, Ireland. The program takes place this summer from July 1st to the 31st in Armagh, one of Ireland’s oldest cities. The program is searching for students in the fields of creative writing, communications, playwriting, theatre studies, Irish studies, literature, poetry, and story telling. Interested students can visit the program website for further details.

Magazine Jewish Currents: Activist Politics and Art, is accepting submissions for the 2016 Raynes Poetry Competition. Poets can submit up to three poems related to this years theme “Urge.” The first prize is $1,000, with two runners-up receiving $180. The submission fee is $18 which includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Submissions are due January 15th. Further information maybe found on the contest webpage or on the flyer below

Welcome back MAE and MAWP students! After the long winter break, Ex Libris is excited as you are for Winter Quarter 2016. A few important dates to remember as we strap in for the cold weeks ahead: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here. The English Honor’s Society, Sigma Tau Delta is now accepting applications. Find the application form here. Sunday January 10th is the last day to add/swap classes. Friday January… Read Article →

Ex Libris would like to announce it will be on a short hiatus for Winter Intercession. Over the next few weeks of December, the site will be working on some small updates and will not be making any new posts. Ex Libris will still be fully operational and providing access to previous posts, class lists, and other digital resources. In the meantime, a few quick reminders: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here…. Read Article →

The Blueshift Journal is now accepting submissions to their 4th issue. Blueshift is a student-run, international, tri-annual publication, with two online issues and one print issue, available free of charge. Deadline for issue 4 is January 1st. Submission information can be found here, and visit them on Facebook here. From Blueshift: “What kind of work do we want? On a microscopic level, scientists say that nothing ever touches.  Electrons repel each other; our very atoms shy away from trembling connection. Even in someone’s arms, we are galaxies apart, orbiting. We are impossibly distant. Hugely empty,… Read Article →

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