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by Ex Libris on September 24, 2018

C&R Call for Submissions + Editorial Positions

C&R Press is looking for submissions for their Tide Pool Series! Submit your best short collection of Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Hybrid, Essay, and or Memoir by October 8th!  Please send your edgy and risk-taking, dynamic work! They also have available positions in the roles of Reader, Editorial Intern, and Assistant Editor. See details below. CHAPBOOK DETAILS: C&R will select 1-3 chapbooks for publication which include a $100 honorarium, 10 author copies, and a signature C&R Spontaneous Reading Party in Brooklyn, NYC where chapbook authors will headline along with other C&R authors for their friends and… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 24, 2018

The 2018 Leon Forrest Prose Awards Call for Submissions

Submissions for the Leon Forrest Prose Awards OPEN Monday, September 24th, and CLOSE on Monday, October 14th. The finalists in the Forrest contest will be invited to read their work and the winning piece will be selected by the audience. The winner receives a $500 check. For more information and to access the online submission form, click here. Final Reading and Award Ceremony Wednesday, November 14th Venue TBA

by Ex Libris on September 17, 2018

Free Tickets to the Laugh Factory

FREE TICKETS to all English students for the show Verified Laughs every Wednesday at 8pm from now until the end of October. Verified Laughs is a social media based stand up comedy show where the audience votes on the winner through Instagram and Facebook after watching a series of five minute sets from some of the best comedians in the city. For those interested in free tickets: please email alessandradrapos@gmail.com with your name, Wednesday date, and number of tickets desired.    

by Ex Libris on September 11, 2018

Alumni Spotlight!

June 2018 MAWP grad Cynthia Nwakudu is a finalist for the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award! The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). The competition culminates in a live semi-finals event at which the top contestants selected by guest judges perform their original poems in live competition for a $500 prize awarded by the audience. To support Cynthia, don’t miss out on the GBOMA competition: September 18th, 2018 The Promontory 5311 S. Lake Park Avenue West Hyde Park, Chicago Doors open… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on September 4, 2018

Paid Opportunity for Fiction Writers

Paid Opportunity for Fiction Writers: Radish Fiction, a mobile app for serial fiction, is hiring freelance writers who can write commercial fiction in Romance, YA, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Paranormal, and other genres. They welcome creative writers experienced in screenwriting, playwriting, podcasts, soap operas, comic books, novel-writing, and other serial-form mediums to apply.   They have developed original story concepts and detailed outlines for several projects, broken up into ‘seasons’ of twenty 1500-word chapters. They will give these detailed chapter outlines to writers and commission sample chapters from them. Those who best capture the requirements below will… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on June 1, 2018

Alumni Spotlight!

Here are some of our MAE and MAWP students that are soon to graduate or have already graduated! To receive a student spotlight, please send your information to the Ex-Libris editor, Camila Restrepo crestre4@depaul.edu. Courtney Aubrecht will be graduating this summer with her MAWP degree! After graduation she plans to focus more on writing and to get published in magazines but after graduation she intends to turn her attention back on the creation of stories, either in visual formats or in the written word. Another goal of hers is to extend her education to others, either through literacy… Read Article →

by Ex Libris on May 18, 2018

English Department End-of-the-Year Celebration!

The English Department will be hosting our annual End-of-the-Year Celebration on Friday, June 1st from 3:00-5:00 pm. We would love to celebrate with you! The celebration will held in the second-floor atrium of Arts & Letters Hall. We will have a short program honoring our outstanding students and this year’s graduates. Please come and join in the festivities on Friday, June 1st!

by Ex Libris on May 17, 2018

Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest: Call for Submissions

Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest: Two Weeks Left! Just over two short weeks remain to enter Boston Review‘s poetry contest! This year’s contest will close on June 1st and will be judged by Mary Jo Bang. Boston Review has long been home to award-winning and critically-lauded poetry, publishing poets such as John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Anne Carson, Major Jackson, Juan Felipe Herrera, and many more. Submit your entry today for the chance to join their ranks! With your entry, you will receive a complimentary copy of Boston Review’s forthcoming literary issue. Enter by June 1,… Read Article →

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