Good afternoon, everyone!

With everyone finishing their final classes this week and moving on to getting final papers and projects wrapped up for next week, it can be easy to lose track of all the submission deadlines we’ve been posting lately on Ex Libris. You’ll still be hearing from us next week (and when the new quarter begins!), but to help you start planning your schedules, we’ve compiled a list of deadlines for this week/weekend, next week, Spring Break, and Week 1 of Spring Quarter. Scroll down for the full list!

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WQ2025, Week 10

March 10–March 16

Friday, March 14: WQ2025 teaching evaluations due

Saturday, March 15:

• Mistake House Magazine (click here for details)

• Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize [for poetry and fiction]
  (click here for details)

Sunday, March 16: CPBL Internship Scholarship applications (click here for details)

WQ2025, Finals Week

March 17–March 23

Monday, March 17: Electric Literature Internship applications (click here for details)

Friday, March 21:

• New Limestone Review (click here for details)

• rented textbooks due; return to the bookstore on either campus via mail or in-person

Spring Break

March 24–March 30

Tuesday, March 25: Gerald Paetsch Academic Advising Award
nominations due (click here for details)

SQ2025, Week 1

March 31–April 6

Monday, March 31:

• Fish Publishing: The Fish Poetry Prize (click here for details)

• Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry (click here for details)

• Lascaux Review: The Lascaux Prize in Poetry (click here for details)

• Texas Review Press: The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
  (click here for details)

• Laura Boss Poetry Foundation: The Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award
  (click here for details)

• Trio House Press Trio Award for First or Second Book (click here for details)

• Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry (click here for details)

• Black Lawrence Press: The Hudson Prize [for poetry and prose]
  (click here for details)

• Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest (click here for details)

• Narrative Magazine Winter 2025 Story Contest (click here for details)

• Texas Review Press: The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize (click here for details)

• Chestnut Review (click here for details)

• 33 ⅓ [call for proposals] (click here for details)

• Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize (click here for details)

• Wednesday, April 2: North American Review: Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize (click here for details)

Friday, April 4:

• Poetry Wales (click here for details)

• Spring English Conference submissions!!! (click here for details)

• Last day to register for SQ2025 courses
  • Click here for the full list of the department’s ENG courses.

In case you missed it . . .

• The Orange Couch, the DePaul Writing Center’s annual publication, is currently accepting submissions for Issue 6! Click here for full submission details.

• We recently updated our list of Spring Quarter internships! Click here to view the list. (If you secure an internship, Prof. Green will need to register you for ENG 509 [4 credits] for SQ2025; please contact him at cgreen1@depaul.edu.)