Follow this link to read the article! Professor Royster’s Choosing Family will be out early February!
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 →
Read ‘Beachcombers In Doggerland’ here!
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.
When we re-mix something, we re-imagine what it is, what it was, or what it has the capacity to be. We live in a constant state of re-mix, taking the substance of the world as we experience it, then creasing and folding it at the corners to create something new, but familiar. Novel, but known. In this way, we allow our art to re-write narratives, re-play memories, re-stitch language, and re-state truths. In Issue 72: Re-mix, we call for work that embraces re-imagination in all its possibilities. Send us work that forces us to re-consider myth,… Read Article →
Bridge is a Chicago-based not for profit publishing and programming organization. Currently they are looking for submissions specifically in poetry and fiction for both their hardbound annual journal and their weekly magazine. Deadline is January 15. Bridge is a truly unique publication that also takes submissions in visual art, cultural criticism, design, and hybrid work. Please refer to the &c submissions page for details on submission requirements for each individual category. Subscribe to Bridge online by clicking here or start an account in the free member’s section.
The English Graduate Program at Tufts University is now accepting applications for our Fall 2023 class, with a deadline of 15 January 2023. For more details, check out this letter from the graduate program.
The Brooklyn based, independent publisher, Radix Media is currently accepting personal essay collections from emerging writers of color for this annual contest. The recipient of The Megaphone Prize will receive a $1000 reward, 20 author copies, and a publicity cycle dedicated to their debut. Author Hanif Abdurraqib will serve as this year’s judge, selecting only one winner. Radix Media has existed as a worker-owned, union printer and independent publisher since 2018. Follow this link to submit your work before the November 15 deadline! From the publisher: The Megaphone Prize is an annual contest from Radix… Read Article →
And look out for the winning piece, “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home”, to be featured in SRPR’s Winter issue! Check out the full announcement at SRPR: Contest. Meghan Malachi, our first-place winner, will receive $1000, an introduction written by Ashley M. Jones, and an invitation to read at SRPR’s annual Lucia Getsi Reading Series, to be held in Bloomington, Illinois, in April 2023.
