Join Emily Gray Tedrowe—a visiting assistant professor in DePaul’s English department—at Sunday Salon Chicago on Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. The free literary reading series takes place at Riverview Tavern (1958 West Roscoe Street). Suzanne Clores, James Finn Garner, and Sharon Solwitz will also be reading at this month’s installment of Sunday Salon Chicago.
Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m. Poetry Foundation61 West Superior Street Free Admission The Poetry Foundation‘s Open Door reading series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each one-hour event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. November’s Open Door Reading features Lewis University’s Simone Muench and her student C. Russell Price, along with Northwestern University’s Reginald Gibbons and his student Christine Pacyk.
A Live-Lit How-To: Breaking Into Live Lit in Chicago (And Doing it Well!) The Chicago Writers Conference workshop meets Thursday, November 6, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at 826CHI. Buy tickets for the workshop here. About the Instructor Mare Swallow is the founder of the Chicago Writers Conference and a nonfiction writer. She has hosted, curated, and performed at readings all over Chicago, including Write Club, Story Club, Story Lab, This Much is True, Tuesday Funk, First Time, Pecha-Kucha, and Is This a Thing. Mare is also a public speaking coach, and uses… Read Article →
Join Georgetown’s Daniel Shore for “Prosthetic Formalism in the Digital Archive,” a lecture and workshop on digital methods for historical literary analysis. Professor Shore studies the literature of the Renaissance, with a special focus on the works of John Milton. He is the author of Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Shore is currently at work on a second book project, Cyberformalism (under contract with Johns Hopkins), which explores how searchable digital archives like Google Books, EEBO, and ECCO allow us to study the history of linguistic forms.
Still on the fence about your winter 2015 course selection? Here’s one class to consider. “There will always be idealists and happy fools, so there will always be literary magazines.” – Rob Spillman of Tin House ENG 477-201 Topics in Publishing The American Literary Magazine—Idealists and Happy Fools Hybrid Course—Online and selected Tuesdays, 6 p.m.–9:15 p.m. Questions? Email Professor Borich: bborich@depaul.edu. For more information, see the detailed course description flyer.
Memoryhouse Magazine Memoryhouse Magazine, the University of Chicago’s quarterly student-run publication, welcomes submissions of poetry, prose, comics, visual art, and experimental media submissions on a rolling basis. The magazine reviews submissions as a whole twice per quarter.
Carbon Culture Review Carbon Culture Review welcomes submissions of previously unpublished fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, photography, and visual art connected with modern technology. A journal “at the intersection of new literature, art, technology and contemporary culture,” CCR is distributed in bookstores throughout the United States annually by Media Solutions. CCR will also showcase a digital online issue with original monthly content updates on the web. Learn more and view submission guidelines here.
A notice from Glimmer Train. New Writer Award: First place wins $1,500 and publication in Issue 96. This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation of more than 5,000. (Seven of the last eight first place New Writer winners have been those authors’ first print publications.) Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week. Most submissions run 1,500–6,000 words, but can be as… Read Article →
Bird’s Thumb welcomes submissions of stories, essays, and poetry by December 1, 2014. To quote the website, “Bird’s Thumb is dedicated to discovering and publishing the emerging writer. As an evolving journal, we’re open to many styles and we’re interested in diverse voices.” Check out the submission guidelines and submit work via Submittable.
Tomorrow (Saturday, November 1) marks the start of National Novel Writing Month. Writers all over the world pledge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. In 2013, I participated in (“won,” in NaNoWriMo terms) National Novel Writing Month for the first time. I’m sitting it out this year, but I hope to ride that particular carousel of whimsy again. One of the loveliest things about NaNoWriMo is the sense of belonging it fosters. Chicago has a very active ChiWriMo chapter, with write-ins taking place in multiple neighborhoods almost every day of the week. Writers can also connect to an international community of… Read Article →
Here’s a message from Crook & Folly‘s new editors in chief, Eric Houghton and Lucina Schell. Crook & Folly is seeking students interested in joining the 2014 editorial team in the following areas: Fiction editor, readers Poetry editor, readers Creative nonfiction editor, readers Dramatic literature editor, readers Micro prose (new!) editor, readers Copy editors Promotional staff Interested students should send a brief (200 words) letter describing their experience and interest to crookandfolly@gmail.com by Friday, November 7. We are currently scheduling interviews for the weeks of 11/3 and 11/10. Come be a part of Chicago’s literary community!… Read Article →
Here’s the Skinny Poetryfoundation.org is accepting applications for a paid web internship. The student intern is expected to work 10 hours per week in the Chicago office of the Poetry Foundation from October through May. The application deadline is November 3, 2014. Interested in Applying? Email a cover letter and résumé to Micah Jefferson at employment@poetryfoundation.org. Send all attachments as a DOC, DOCX, or PDF document with the subject line: Web Production Intern. If you prefer to apply by snail mail, address the envelope to: Micah Jefferson, The Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL, 60654. For More… Read Article →