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by Ex Libris on September 23, 2015

Banned Books Week Events

The DePaul University Library is teaming up with the University Center for Writing-based Learning in celebration of Banned Books Week! The American Library Associations Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United states.   Events scheduled through DePaul include: Monday, September 28th read-out, pop-up shop, and… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 22, 2015

The Chicago Writers Conference is this weekend!

A reminder to all MAWP students that this weekend  September 25-27 is the Chicago Writers Conference (CWC). CWC is unique opportunity to connect with authors, publishers, and other figures in the Chicago literary community.  Events are structured for writers of all genres, all ages, at all stages! In addition to general sessions, CWC features small sessions, intensive workshops, and pitch meetings with agents. The evening offers cocktail parties, a reading & raffle, and a chance to socialize and network with fellow writers. This years featured authors include: Students not yet registered, though online registration for CWC… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 17, 2015

Reminder PTS Awards Deadline September 24!

The M.A. in English and M.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s two graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2015 autumn graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE and MAWP degrees. You are eligible to apply for a PTS award if: You have already completed at least two English graduate courses toward your MAE or MAWP degree You are enrolled in one or more English graduate classes for the current autumn… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 16, 2015

Welcome from the New Director of the MA in English Richard Squibbs

Last Spring Quarter Prof. John Shanahan became the Associate Dean and Director of Liberal Studies leaving his position as Director of the MA in English. This Fall Prof. Richard Squibbs has officially assumed the position of Director of the MA in English and MAE program advisor. Prof. Squibbs’s teaching and scholarship range across the British and American long eighteenth centuries, with special emphasis on transatlantic literary and cultural relations. His first book, Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay: Transatlantic Retrospects (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), is the first literary history of the Enlightenment essay serial spanning the long eighteenth… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 16, 2015

Upcoming Research Funding Deadlines!

MAE and MAWP students take notice that two different opportunities to receive research funding from DePaul have approaching deadlines. Applications for both the  Graduate Research Funding (GRF) program and the Vincentian Endowment Fund Grant are due in under a month’s time. Graduate Research Funding Program: The college supports the research, scholarship, and creative work of graduate students through its Graduate Research Funding (GRF) program. The GRF helps defray the cost of conducting research and creative work and for presenting papers at academic conferences through a competitive process. Students can apply once in every academic year… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 16, 2015

The Visiting Writers Series presents New Orleans novelist Fredrick Barton

In a literary event marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Fredrick Barton reads from his new book In The Wake of the Flagship, a blistering satire chronicling one man’s battle against bureaucracy and corruption in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. The Visiting Writers Series hosts the event on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 6:00 pm in the Rosati Room 300 of the John T. Richardson Library 2350 N. Kenmore Avenue. Barton is known for his novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, and With Extreme Prejudice. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies Something in Common… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

Sunday Salon Chicago Prose Reading with Professor Barrie Jean Borich!

This month DePaul’s own MAWP associate professor Barrie Jean Borich will be reading at Sunday Salon! Sunday Salon is a prose reading series hosted the last Sunday of every month that serves up the Windy City’s tastiest prose. This month Salon takes place September 27 at 7 PM at the Riverview Tavern, 1958 W. Roscoe Street in the Roscoe and Damen Room. Authors on tap to read include Bayo Ojikutu, Lynn Sloan, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, and our very own, very talented Barrie Jean Borich! About the authors: Bayo Ojikutu’s critically-acclaimed first novel, 47th Street Black (2003), received both the Washington Prize for… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction

The University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and the University of Iowa Press are pleased to announce a new annual prize for literary nonfiction. Submissions will be accepted from October 15, 2015 through December 10, 2015. The announcement of the winner will be made in spring of 2016. Submissions must be book length (at least 40,000 words but no longer than 90,000) and can be either a collection or a long-form manuscript. Both published and previously unpublished authors will be considered, with the winner being awarded a publishing contract with the University of Iowa Press. The… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

Gillian Flynn Author of Gone Girl at the Chicago Magazine Culture Festival

Chicago magazine, in anticipation of its October 2015 issue, “Fall Culture Guide,” is debuting the premiere of Culture Festival – a one-day celebration of Chicago’s dynamic cultural diversity, complete with captivating performances, presentations, interviews and more.   Gillian Flynn, the author of best-selling thriller Gone Girl, will join the festival’s literature section for an event called The Thrilling World of Gillian Flynn.  Along with moderator Mark Bazer (Chicago columnist and host of “The Interview Show”), Flynn will discuss how she creates nail-biting plots and complex characters—plus the audience will get a sneak peek at what Flynn is working on now… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

The Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition is Now Open

Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for their Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition. The Black River chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize for a chapbook of short fiction or poems open to new, emerging, or established writers. Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication. The deadline for the Fall 2015 Competition is October 31, 2015. The submission fee is $15. More information and submission guidelines can be found on the The Black River Chapbook submission page. Past winners include: Lisa Fay Coutley, Amelia Martens, Charlotte Pence, Russel… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

The Lascaux Prize in Poetry is Open for Submissions

The Lascaux Review is now accepting poetry submissions for The Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Deadline for submission is September 30, 2015. Poems may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000 and publication in The Lascaux Review. Winner and all finalists will be published in The 2016 Lascaux Prize Anthology.  Entry fee is $10. Two copies of the anthology will be supplied to every poet appearing in it. Poets may enter more than once, and as many as five poems may be submitted per entry. There are no length restrictions. All styles are welcome. The Lascaux Review is an online literary… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 10, 2015

Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Restless Books, an independent publisher of international literature based in Brooklyn, is pleased to announce a new $10,000 writing prize for first-generation American authors, the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Restless Books created the prize in order to foster emerging writers of sharp, culture-straddling writing that addresses American identity in a global age and access the often dismissed voices and stories of immigrant peoples. The prize will be awarded annually, each year alternating between fiction and nonfiction. This year, Restless Books is accepting fiction submissions from September through December, 2015 (nonfiction submission period will be… Read Article →

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