The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of short fiction or poems. The competition is open to new emerging and established writers. They are accepting chapbooks of poems or short fiction between 16-36 pages in length. Winners will receive $500 and publication. Entry deadline for the Fall Competition: October 31, 2017 Find out more details and submit your work here.
The English Department received wonderful news that alumnus Thom Kudla’s latest book, HOW I AM DIFFERENT, was named a finalist in the Poetry Category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! The ebook version won multiple medals in the 2017 Global Ebook Awards. HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT (HWAD), an Apple app based on that book, was recognized by the Independent Book Publishers Association as a Benjamin Franklin Digital Award Silver Honoree. To download the app, visit this site: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hwad/id1220860133?mt=8. Thom’s books of poetry COMMENCEMENT and OUT OF CONTEXT won the 2017 IndieReader Discovery Award for… Read Article →
Chicago Women in Publishing Announces Jian Ping, Memoirist, as 2017 Fall Kickoff Keynote Speaker In addition to being the author of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China, Jian Ping is also an adjunct faculty professor at DePaul’s School of New Learning. Event Details: When: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: U.S. Bank Building (40th floor) 190 S. LaSalle St., Chicago IL 60603 For more information see press release flyer above or visit the CWIP website here. *To register click here. *If you are a DePaul student, registration is only $20.
The Department’s Visiting Writers Program begins this Fall with Sarah Pappalardo, co-creator of Reductress, the first and only satirical women’s magazine. The event takes place Thursday, September 21 at 6pm, in Arts & Letters 103. See the flyer above for full details.
Sequestrum is holding a contest through October 15th for new writers and poets (anyone yet to publish a book-length manuscript). Their aim is to showcase work by candidates in some of the top creative writing programs. The Sequestrum library contains NEA & Guggenheim Fellows, Pulitzer Prize nominees, and other award-winning poets and novelists; they hope to put some of today’s emerging talents alongside them. For more information see flyer above, or visit Sequestrum’s website here.
From John Shanahan—Associate Dean & Director of Liberal Studies, Associate Professor of English: At first, the topic might seem only for East Asian studies and History students, but it is not. It is about writing, reading, and changing interfaces. His book is getting a lot of attention because he has shown how much the history of the mobile phone interface had little-known global roots.Mullaney’s path-breaking scholarship has excavated an untold history of, for instance, how Chinese computer engineers in the 1950s and 1960s pioneered “predictive text input” – i.e. the interface we use on our… Read Article →
New Writer Award: 1st place $2,500 and publication. Deadline: 10/31. (The Fiction Open and Very Short grace periods end on 9/10.) Make a submission here. Open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.) The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train and will receive $2,500 and 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the January bulletin, and contacted directly the previous… Read Article →
The Lascaux Prize in Poetry closes at the end of the month. Poems may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review. The winner and all finalists will be published in The 2018 Lascaux Prize Anthology. Two copies of the anthology will be supplied to every poet appearing in it. Entry fee is $10. Poets may enter more than once, and as many as five poems may be submitted per entry. There are no length restrictions. All styles are welcome. Contests… Read Article →
From the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies: January 25 to 27, 2018 We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers from master’s or PhD students from any discipline on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe, the Americas, or the Mediterranean world. The 2018 conference schedule will include workshops and presentations with rare books in addition to traditional conference sessions. Deadline: Sunday, October 15, 2017 at midnight CDT Eligibility: Preference is given to proposals from students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium, but we welcome proposals from students at member institutions… Read Article →
Palaver Journal, UNCW’s online interdisciplinary journal, is seeking submissions! The reading period closes on September 14. Please see the flyer above for more details on how to submit to this publication. For more information , visit Palaver’s website here.
From Prof. Rebecca Johns Trissler: Welcome to another academic year in the MAWP Program. I am excited to be taking over as director of the MAWP program from Prof. Morano, who is taking over as Chair of the Department of English. We’re energized by the strong cohort of both returning and incoming MAWP students and look forward to having you in our writing, publishing, and teaching courses during the upcoming year. In addition to your courses, students can take advantage of many internship opportunities and occasions to meet and learn from esteemed visiting writers…. Read Article →
As final grades roll-in, Ex Libris wants to offer its congratulations to all English graduate students for their hard work this year! Kudos, you make this department great. Also, deserving recognition as the year closes is Bill Johnson-Gonzalez who earned a well deserved tenure track position this year. Superb! And a nod to adjunct faculty member Jeff Kessler for defending his thesis project on the imaginary portrait in late 19th century Britain at Indiana University. Nice work Jeff! But, most importantly, Ex Libris would like to give a huge round of applause to this year’s… Read Article →