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.

The Academic Success Center in DePaul’s College of Education has an opening for a partial graduate assistantship this spring, which will continue as a full graduate assistantship next year. For the partial graduate assistantship, the student will work 10 hours a week and receive a tuition waiver for one course. The 2015–2016 full graduate assistantship will entail working 20 hours a week in exchange for a $6,000 annual stipend and tuition waivers for two courses. Download the Word doc with the graduate assistantship description here.

Saturday, February 28: The deadline for Highland Park Poetry’s 2015 Poetry Challenge.  Highland Park Poetry is seeking poems in one of three categories: 1) food, 2) wonderland (in honor of the 150th publication anniversary of Alice in Wonderland), or 3) an etheree. Poets may submit one poem for free; additional poems incur a reading fee of $4 each. Sunday, March 1: The deadline to submit to the 2015–2016 edition of Highland Park journal East on Central. Tuesday, March 10: The deadline to submit to Chicago Poetry Press’s Journal of Modern Poetry (JOMP) 18. The theme is peace. Friday, March 20: The deadline to… Read Article →

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.

Spry Literary Journal is open to submissions for its sixth​ issue.    *** Ghost Town, the online literary journal of the MFA program at California State University, San Bernardino, is looking for “fearless and inventive” fiction, poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. The submission deadline is April 15, 2015. Writers can submit their work here.   *** Bird’s Thumb, a new literary magazine dedicated to publishing emerging writers, invites submissions of stories, essays, and poetry. The next submission deadline is April 1, 2015.   *** Walk with Us, a tribute anthology to The West Wing, is seeking submissions on the theme of… Read Article →

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.

The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) and Henry Luce Foundation are accepting applications for their Chinese Poetry and Translation Fellowships Program. The application deadline is April 1, 2015. In 2015, VSC will award 12 Chinese poets and literary translators with month-long joint residencies to create new work, both individually and in collaboration.

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