ACM Residency In 2023, Another Chicago Magazine will award a free multi-week residency in Belfast, Maine, which is on the coast, about two hours north of Portland and one hour southeast of Bangor. S.L. Wisenberg, ACM editor and author of the forthcoming Juniper prizewinner, The Wandering Womb, is the final judge. Apply between January 15 and March 17; the portal closes at 120 applicants. The application fee is $20, waived for BIPOC writers. The residency is available June – July, October 15 – December 31. Apply here. For more info regarding submissions, follow the link.
DePaul’s Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC) was established in 2021 with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Humanities. The STRC is dedicated to exploring how the humanities can serve as a source of justice and healing for communities historically shaped by, and continuously facing, racism, violence, and dispossession. The STRC is excited to announce the following grant-funded opportunity for current graduate students in LAS: GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS The STRC seeks applications for its four, six-month Graduate Research Fellowships for MA students whose primary scholarly or creative field lies within the humanities… Read Article →
The M.A. in English, M.A. in Literature and Publishing, M.A. in Writing and Publishing, and M.F.A. in Writing and Publishing programs are offering Partial Tuition Scholarships (PTS) to recognize the outstanding academic achievement of students in the English department’s three graduate programs. Partial Tuition Scholarships provide a partial reimbursement for tuition paid for 2022 fall graduate courses in English taken toward the MAE, MALP, MAWP, and MFA degrees. If you are interested, please see the attached documents and submit your application materials before the deadline. For questions about applying, please contact your program director.
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Erika was the very first student to work on a Big Shoulders Books project – before BSB even existed, in fact. After DePaul, she graduated with an MFA in African-American speculative fiction from University of Kentucky. Her award winning essay, “If You Ever Find Yourself,” has earned her a book deal with Scribner and will be expanded into a memoir, This Is Your Mother.
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Megan Heffernan has been awarded a fellowship from Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study for 2023-2024 to work on her next book, Resilient Books: Archival Science in an Age of Precarity. The Institute’s research theme for next year is “The Long Run,” and it’s described this way: “Practical decision-making, ethical evaluation, scientific modeling, and cultural meaning-making all increasingly push us to consider causes that extend further and further into the past and consequences that extend further and further into the future. The Long Run Project will bring together humanists, scientists, social scientists, policy scholars, and artists to… Read Article →
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Deadline to Apply: February 17, 2023 Apply to the 2023 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellowship today! You could win $10,000, become a Luminarts Fellow, and as a Fellow be eligible for continued funding for your artistic and career development projects. Click HERE to get started, or contact us at info@luminarts.org or (312) 435-5961 ABOUT LUMINARTS:The Luminarts Cultural Foundation cultivates Chicago’s vibrant arts community by supporting exemplary young artists through its programs that offer financial awards, artistic opportunities, and mentoring that bridge the gap between education and career.