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Email your submissions to depaulenglishcon@gmail.com until April 7!
Graphê is acccepting submissions in the forms of academic writing, poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, and works of visual art from students across the city to be considered for publication in its coming Fall 2023 issue. Submissions will be considered for technical merit, boldness of content, and the ingenuity of a given piece. Interested students are encouraged to collaborate artistically, write persuasively, and offer any other work they feel passionate about on an intellectual or personal level. Submissions are currently open at https://engl.uic.edu/graphe/ until 11:59 pm, April 15th.
Hex is a new online literary magazine based at Worcester Polytechnic Institute that publishes speculative flash fiction and prose poetry <1000 words. In their own words- We like it weird. Hex is currently open for free submissions. They especially encourage submissions from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers, writers with disabilities, and early-career writers. For more info, check out their site at https://hexliterary.com/ and follow us on Twitter at @hexliterary.
The Opal is set to release their second issue, June 2023. Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry through April 14th at theopalmag.com/submit/. There is no submission fee! The Opal is focused on providing emerging writers with the opportunity to have their voice heard. Check out more here
Another Chicago Magazine is calling for poetry submissions– deadline is March 31, 2023! Follow the link to submit! We publish all kinds. Please submit no more than 5 poems and no more than 7 pages of poetry.
In the mood for a story about a scam artist posing as a man of God? Read the piece that novelist Karen Russell describes as “a mutant menagerie of literary fiction … an oasis for weirdness and wonder.” You can find The Complete Miracles of St. Anthony: Definitive Edition with Previously Unpublished Material HERE on Conjunctions. A prequel to this piece, Beachcombers In Doggerland, was published in The Sun. Get the full story, read both!
CITY OUT OF TIMEHow does the city tell time? Stop time? Save time? Lose time?Keep time by the ticktock of an urban clock? The city out of time is a city where bridges fall and waters rise, where change is too late and never enough, where weather is breaking and transit is failing, where tent cities proliferate and mental health resources dissipate, where shop windows are boarded and the sidewalks are deserted, where leaders disinvest in community and reinvest in violence, where our Citizen apps blow up as citizens give up. But the city out of… Read Article →
This is a virtual event hosted on crowdcast. Charis welcomes Francesca Royster in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a discussion of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance. A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. Follow the link for more info. Click here to register on crowdcast.
