Screenwriting coach, Columbia College Chicago adjunct faculty member, writer, composer, director, and former Second City actor Grant Robbin will present How to Write a Great Ending at the Chicago Screenwriters Network (CSN) on Sunday, April 12, at 7 p.m. CSN’s monthly meetings take place on the second floor of Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro. Admission for nonmembers is $5 with advance registration or $10 at the door. For more information about this event, see below.
Sixth Annual English Department Spring Conference Friday, May 8, 2015 • Arts & Letters Hall, 2315 North Kenmore Avenue Keynote Speaker Crystal Chan, Author of Bird DePaul English students now have one more week to submit their original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary analyses or criticism, and other work to this annual student-run conference. The conference theme is Wonder. The new deadline is Monday, April 15. Please send submissions or inquiries to: egsaconference2015@gmail.com. Submission Guidelines 1. Submit 300- to 500-word abstracts OR complete papers (complete papers are preferred, but abstracts are fine, too) for up to two works… Read Article →
The Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise is accepting story submissions for books on a number of topics. Upcoming titles include My Very Good, Very Bad Cat (there’s a dog edition, too); Random Acts of Kindness; and Think Possible. View the full list of books in development here.
Who: Angus O’Hara, DePaul sociology student What: Drawing Vampires: Depicting a Cultural Icon When: Tuesday, April 7, noon–1:30 p.m. Where: Social Science Research Center, 990 West Fullerton Avenue, Suite 3100 **See the poster below for more information.**
Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is offering 2015 summer writing retreats in fiction and poetry. The three-day, two-night retreats take place at SAFTA’s Firefly Farms in Knoxville, Tennessee, and include instruction, writing supplies, food, drink, transportation to and from the airport, and all onsite amenities for $200. Camping equipment is also available for rent. The fiction writing retreat (May 29–31) and the poetry writing retreat (June 12–14) are limited to 15 slots each. See the flyers below or email safta@sundresspublications.com for more information. Fiction Retreat Flyer Poetry Retreat Flyer
The Poetry Center of Chicago‘s graduate student reading will take place on Friday, April 3, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Millennium Park Room on the fifth floor of the Chicago Cultural Center. Five graduate students will be reading at this poetry showcase: Teresa McMahon, an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago; Hannah Keene, an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Joshua A. Fisher, a MA in Writing and Publishing candidate at DePaul; Hannah Brooks-Motl, a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago; and Jim Davis, an MFA candidate at Northwestern. Check… Read Article →
DePaul alumnus Tim Hillegonds, MAWP ’14, penned a post for the Brevity blog called “Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Because I’ve Never Been Accepted Into One.” Congratulations, Tim!
Loyola University Chicago’s English department is hosting a symposium called Modernism’s Legacies: (Post) Postmodernism on Saturday, April 11, 2015. Registration is required for this free event. See the flyer below for more information.
The Luminarts Cultural Foundation at the Union League Club of Chicago is accepting applications for its annual creative writing competition, which awards five $5,000 grant awards and Luminarts Fellowships across the categories of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Luminarts competitions are open to applicants who are between the ages of 18 and 30. The submission deadline is June 1, 2015. Writers may submit their work here.
DePaul’s Center for Intercultural Programs (CIP) welcomes students to attend next quarter’s events. Topics include black life in cinema, fathers and sons, gender and perception, Afrofuturism, and South Asian queer identity. Follow the link or see below for the spring 2015 calendar.
The English department’s Visiting Writers Program welcomes author Patrick Hicks to DePaul on Monday, April 20. Hicks will read from his latest novel, The Commandant of Lubizec, at 6 p.m. in room 115 of Richardson Library. See the flyer below for more information.
Now that winter quarter is drawing to a close, polish your academic papers and creative pieces—and submit them to DePaul’s English conference (egsaconference2015@gmail.com). Happy spring break!