Author: Ex Libris
Check Out Prof. Barrie Borich’s New Essay, The Everyday Invisible, Published In Conjunctions
You can read an excerpt of the essay here, and find the full piece in fall 2022 issue, Conjunctions:79, Onword. Conjunctions is a biannual literary anthology published by Bard College.
Apply for this $10,000 Fellowship: Luminarts Cultural Foundation is Calling Writers 18-30
Deadline to Apply: February 17, 2023 Apply to the 2023 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellowship today! You could win $10,000, become a Luminarts Fellow, and as a Fellow be eligible for continued funding for your artistic and career development projects. Click HERE to get started, or contact us at info@luminarts.org or (312) 435-5961 ABOUT LUMINARTS:The Luminarts Cultural Foundation cultivates Chicago’s…Continue reading Apply for this $10,000 Fellowship: Luminarts Cultural Foundation is Calling Writers 18-30
Call For Submissions: Hayden’s Ferry Review
When we re-mix something, we re-imagine what it is, what it was, or what it has the capacity to be. We live in a constant state of re-mix, taking the substance of the world as we experience it, then creasing and folding it at the corners to create something new, but familiar. Novel, but known.…Continue reading Call For Submissions: Hayden’s Ferry Review
Tufts University Now Accepting Applicants for PhD in English Program
The English Graduate Program at Tufts University is now accepting applications for our Fall 2023 class, with a deadline of 15 January 2023. For more details, check out this letter from the graduate program.
Call For Submission: Radix Media Is Looking For The Next Megaphone Prize Winner
The Brooklyn based, independent publisher, Radix Media is currently accepting personal essay collections from emerging writers of color for this annual contest. The recipient of The Megaphone Prize will receive a $1000 reward, 20 author copies, and a publicity cycle dedicated to their debut. Author Hanif Abdurraqib will serve as this year’s judge, selecting only…Continue reading Call For Submission: Radix Media Is Looking For The Next Megaphone Prize Winner
Congratulations to Meghan Malachi, Winner of the 2022 Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize!
And look out for the winning piece, “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home”, to be featured in SRPR’s Winter issue! Check out the full announcement at SRPR: Contest. Meghan Malachi, our first-place winner, will receive $1000, an introduction written by Ashley M. Jones, and an invitation to read at SRPR’s annual…Continue reading Congratulations to Meghan Malachi, Winner of the 2022 Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize!
My Interview With Professor Kathleen Rooney and Her New Book, Where Are The Snows: See Her Read Tonight, Oct.19, 6-7 PM in ALH 103!
I recently had the opportunity to ask (via email) author, poet and Professor Kathleen Rooney about her newest poetry collection, Where Are The Snows. Along with the award winning book’s vital take on a world insistent on ending, we get to talking about the collection’s relation to Rose Metal Press and Poems While You Wait,…Continue reading My Interview With Professor Kathleen Rooney and Her New Book, Where Are The Snows: See Her Read Tonight, Oct.19, 6-7 PM in ALH 103!
Big Shoulders Books Featured in Chicago Tribune!
Check out this fantastic write-up about our Big Shoulders Books and the faculty that make it happen! DePaul project publishes Chicago stories, Studs Terkel style (chicagotribune.com)
Look Into: University of South Dakota’s Ph.D. in English, One of the Few Ph.D.’s That Allows You to Specialize in Creative Writing
Department of EnglishGraduate Programs The Master of Arts is a two-year program that offers you a choice between critical and creative specializations as well as multiple paths to completion. If you choose a creative writing emphasis, you take graduate-level workshops in multiple genres with professional writers that enable you to develop not only multi-genre fluency…Continue reading Look Into: University of South Dakota’s Ph.D. in English, One of the Few Ph.D.’s That Allows You to Specialize in Creative Writing