DePaul’s Gamma Psi Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, The National English Honor Society, will elect new members in spring, 2017. English Majors and Minors, graduate and undergraduate, are eligible to apply providing they have completed one course beyond English 120 (or equivalent) and have a G.P.A. of 3.4 or better. Those interested can fill out an application here, or contact Professor Johnson-Gonzalez at bjohns58@depaul.edu.
The Southeast review is accepting submissions for their short-story, poetry, and nonfiction contests. Submissions are due March 15. More information here.
Chicago Gallery News is offering two internships, on editorial (more here) and the other is administrative (more here). Follow the links to apply by March 1! If chosen, please register for ENG 509, contact Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu for more information.
INFORMATION SESSIONS Employer: KPMG Event: Accounting Summer Leadership Programs with KPMG Date: Monday, February 13th 2017 Time: 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm Place: DePaul Center TBD https://depaul.joinhandshake.com/events/43034 Employer: Nuveen Asset Management, Moody’s, Allstate, etc. Event: Municipal Career Pathways- Presented by The Chicago Municipal Analysts Society Date: Wednesday, February 15th 2017 Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Place: Room 8005 – DePaul Center https://depaul.joinhandshake.com/events/38875 WORKSHOP Job Search Strategies Date: Tuesday, February 14th 2017 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Location: Room 151 – Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) https://depaul.joinhandshake.com/events/37138 Groupon Office Visit: Center… Read Article →
Multiple companies, publishers, and organizations are looking for DePaul students with strong writing skills to work as interns this spring! Below you will find a list of potential internship opportunities for the coming Spring and Summber quarters. Remember DePaul graduate students should register for ENG 509 if they are participating in an internship. Contact Chris Green at cgreen1@depaul.edu with any further questions. IPG PUBLISHING GROUP The contact person for the Internship program is Jessie Jonik — jjonik@ipgbook.com IPG is always looking for qualified applicants for full-time internships which run for a minimum of six (6)… Read Article →
Prof. Paula McQuade is hosting a live reading of Homer’s formative epic The Odyssey on Tuesday, February 21 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm! The event is looking for volunteers to read. If you are interested in participating, or would like more information, contact Prof. McQuade at pmcquade@gmail.com.
The deadlines for students to apply for winter and spring degree conferral have passed. For any student who intends to graduate in winter or spring but has not applied for degree conferral please take the following actions in order to graduate on-time: Apply for summer degree conferral by following these steps. Fill out this online form to request that your summer conferral application be moved to the appropriate term.
The British Modernities Group (BMG) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites graduate students to present papers at its twelfth annual interdisciplinary conference, “Changing the Subject: Subjectivity, Habitus, Behavior, and the End of the Subject.” The conference focuses on bring together work in ontology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and related fields to consider how scholars have responded to and interpreted questions of subjectivity and perception. The conference hopes to tackle a broad range of questions from the abstract and metaphysical to the political and material across a variety of disciplines. BMG will accept abstracts of no… Read Article →
The Prairie Schooner Book prize is open for submissions from January 15-March 15. The contest prize includes $3,000 and publication through the University of Nebraska press for one book of short fiction and one book of poetry. Find full details at the contest website. Submit online or to the address below. Prairie Schooner Prize Series Attn: Fiction or Poetry 110 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588-0334
The Colorado Review is currently running their 2017 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. The contest accepts previously unpublished short stories under 50 pages with no limit on number of entries. The grand prize is $2,000 and publication in the fall 2017 issue of Colorado Review. The deadline for submissions is March 14. Visit their website or see the flyer above for more details. Submissions can be mailed to the address below. Nelligan Prize for Short Ficiton Colorado Review 9105 Campus Delivery Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105
Experimental indie-publisher OXBLOOD is currently open for submissions for non-traditional textual productions. See the flyer above for full details or visit their website.
The deadline for Glimmer Train‘s Short Story Award for New Writers is February 28. The contest is open to emerging writers and the 1st place prize includes publication in Glimmer Train, 10-copies of the issue, and $2,500. Submissions typically run between 1,000-5,000 words, though stories can be up to 12,000. Find more details, guidelines, and submit online.