In partnership with the History Department, The English Department Visiting Writers Series is hosting a remote event for the release of Professor Kathleen Rooney and Professor Miles Harvey’s books beginning at 6:00 pm on September 30: Historical Research in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Readings and Conversation with Kathleen Rooney and Miles Harvey. The conversation will be moderated by…Continue reading The Visiting Writers Series: Upcoming Event
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Global Fall @ DePaul
Join us for this series of international academic opportunities! Some of the events include: Study Abroad Week, September 21 – 25 Global Conversations, September 28 – October 2 More information
Call for Contest Submissions!
George Mason University’s journal, So To Speak, is a feminist publication of language and art, and is seeking submissions or poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art from various perspectives and backgrounds. Each genre winner will be awarded a $500 prize and publication in So To Speak‘s 2021 Contest Issue, where runners-up will also be published. Reading…Continue reading Call for Contest Submissions!
Congratulations to Professor Eric Selinger on his recent publication!
In Professor Selinger’s newest release, scholars dive into the genre of romance fiction to collaborate on an extensive companion like never before. Check out the book here.
Alumni Shoutout!
Kenny Wassus, a MAWP grad and former BSB student worker, is now at the Wall Street Journal as a senior video journalist covering tech video. He has a pitch in for his first written piece, so stay tuned for when it might be in print! Wassus has also worked for New York Magazine, and you…Continue reading Alumni Shoutout!
Congrats to Chris Green!
Chris Green worked with 99 other Chicago poets to write one collaborative poem addressing gun violence, speaking to its victims and their loved ones. Watch the full book trailer here. Listen to Chris on Fox32Chicago, WBEZ’s Reset, WGN, and WBBM Newsradio. Read more about the poem’s pantoum form in this interview with Hypertext Magazine, and…Continue reading Congrats to Chris Green!
Kathleen Rooney’s recent article about Alice Duer Miller
In her article for The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Rooney discusses the question in Alice Duer Miller’s book Are Women People?, a title that became a suffragist catchphrase. Read the article here.
Kathleen Rooney: How Fiction Allows Us to Inhabit Animal Consciousness
Read this article on Lithub