Tag: Chicago Authors

Internship with poet Valerie Wallace

On By depaulundergroundIn Internship Opportunity, Poetry
Interested in the world of book publicity and marketing? This internship would be a wonderful introduction. If you’re selected, email Professor Chris Green at CGREEN1@depaul.edu, and he will get you registered for academic credit for Winter Quarter.

Internship with poet Valerie Wallace

Valerie Wallace is the author of the forthcoming full-length book House of McQueen, which won the 2016 Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry.

An intern would help her with tasks and projects related to marketing during the year ahead of publication, including building and maintaining an email list, scheduling readings, social media, possibly non-technical help with a book trailer. Proofreading parts of the manuscript before it goes to her editor, and helping organize the end matter (publications, acknowledgements) would also be of great help. Intern should have a comfort level with email, Excel, Word, cloud sharing, Twitter, be a good writer, and have a personality oriented toward caring about small details.

An interest in poetry is not required but preferred. Willingness to travel to Hyde Park for one or two meetings is requested.

Time period: 10 weeks during one or spread across two semesters.
Start date: January 2017

For more information about Valerie: valeriewallace.net

Contact: valeriemw@gmail.com

 

Kathleen Rooney & Eric Plattner

On By depaulundergroundIn Events, Off-Campus

Join DePaul University English professor Kathleen Rooney and WRD professor Eric Plattner, co-editors of RENE MAGRITTE: SELECTED WRITINGS on

Wednesday, September 21st, 6 PM
57th Street Books
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and for DePaul University Night at the Museum (free admission for DePaul faculty, staff, students, and their guests) on

Thursday, September 22nd, 7 PM
The Art Institute of Chicago
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While this book is sure to appeal to admirers of Magritte’s art and those who are curious about his personal life, there is also much to delight readers interested in the history and theory of art, philosophy and politics, as well as lovers of creativity and the inner workings of a probing, inquisitive mind unrestricted by genre, medium, or fashion.

Slag Glass City Pop-Up Mini-Memoir Event This Sunday, June 7, at the Comfort Station in Logan Square

On By depaulundergroundIn Get Connected with DePaul English

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Slag Glass City INVITES all Chicagoans to

Write ON Chicago/ HERE is WHERE

on Sunday 7 June. Drop in between Noon and 4:00 PM at

THE COMFORT STATION in Logan Square

2579 N Milwaukee Ave.

Write ON Chicago is a free pop-up creative writing event inviting you to document your Chicago-based memories by completing the phrase “HERE is where________.”

Participants will write their mini-memoirs on sticky notes and affix them to one of our large city maps, helping us create a living portrait of this city of memory, reinvention, and dream.

HERE is where you received a life-changing phone call.
HERE is where you lost your way on an unfamiliar street.
HERE is where you made your life better, or worse.
HERE is where you proposed to your beloved.
HERE is where you entered or exited the train.
HERE is where you cleaned up a mess and made yourself at home.

• ACCORDION MUSIC by Chicago theater artist Ruth Margraff.

• READINGS of brand new flash memoirs by Chicago writing students, on the topic of BECOMING.

• RECITATIONS of moments of wonder from CLASSIC CHICAGO LITERATURE.

• Free Chicago-made CANDY and Chicago-made LITERARY MAGAZINES.

Screenshot 2015-05-26 17.13.49AVAILABLE at this event for the FIRST TIME EVER is the premier publication in our new print series Slag Glass City Miniatures: Big Cities. Little Books.  This first edition is called IT IS NOT WASTE ALL THIS  (after the title of an essay in the compilation by Chicago author Kathleen Rooney).  The book is itty,  bitty, and pretty. Come get yours!

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Write ON Chicago urges us to consider the vital role city spaces play in our lives—open or dense, green or concrete, struggling or thriving, and everything in-between. By humanizing the city map with our stories, we hope to reveal ways our city might at once persevere and be remade.

THE COMFORT STATION—an historic municipal building re-purposed as an art gallery and performance space—is located right off Logan Square and easily accessible from the #74 Fullerton bus, the #76 Diversey bus, and the #56 Milwaukee bus, as well as the Logan Square Blue Line stop, and the event is happening during the weekly farmer’s market on Logan Boulevard.

Support for this event comes from the DePaul University Department of English and the DePaul Humanities Center.

Professor and DePaul MAWP Director Michele Morano Reading at Sunday Salon this Sunday, May 31st!

On By depaulundergroundIn Get Connected with DePaul English

A Literary Series in Chicago

May 31 at 7 PM

Riverview Tavern, 1958 W. Roscoe Street

in the Roscoe and Damen Room

featuring

Jeffrey Condran, Aviya Kushner, Jillian Lauren, and Michele Morano

We’ll be bringing you four outstanding authors this month.

Please join us!

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Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection, A Fingerprint Repeated. His debut novel, Prague Summer, was published by Counterpoint in August 2014. His fiction has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Epoch, and has been awarded the 2010William Peden Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Co-founder of Braddock Avenue Books.

Aviya Kushner’s first book, The Grammar of God, about the experience of reading the Bible in English after a lifetime of reading it in Hebrew, will be published by Spiegel & Grau (Random House) on August 18, 2015. Her essays and stories have appeared inThe Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Partisan Review, Poets & Writers, A Public Space, The Wilson Quarterly, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her poems, reviews, and translations have appeared nationally and internationally. She teaches in the MFA program in nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago and is a contributing editor at A Public Space.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the upcoming memoir Everything You Ever Wanted, the New York Times bestselling memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty, all from Plume/Penguin. Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle and Salon, among others. She is a regular storyteller on The Moth. Jillian blogs about motherhood and writing at the award-winning www.jillianlauren.com. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

Michele Morano is the author of the travel memoir, Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain, and her essays have appeared in many publications, including Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Georgia Review, Chicago Tribune, and Best American Essays. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Association for University Women, the Illinois Arts Council, MacDowell Colony, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she directs the graduate program in writing and publishing at DePaul University.

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Sunday Salon Chicago is a literary reading series held on the north side of Chicago at the Riverview Tavern, located at the corner of Damen and Roscoe. The Riverview is accessible by the brown line El, the Addison bus, and the Damen bus. Street parking is also available.

THIS EXCELLENT EVENT IS FREE!

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Intern for Poet Barry Silesky

On By depaulundergroundIn Internship Opportunity

Aspiring poets in the DePaul community will be excited to learn about this internship opportunity that involves working directly with award-winning poet Barry Silesky. Barry was the 2013 Paladin Award winner, an honor given by RHINO magazine for “extraordinary long-term contribution to poetry in Illinois”.

Barry happens to have MS and is looking for a Spring Quarter intern to help him type and submit his poetry to literary magazines. If you are a poet, you could read your work to Barry, get feedback, and submit any revisions along with Barry’s work to the various magazines. Barry could also help you with your cover letter.

If you are interested, send a cover letter and a few of your poems to his wife, Sharon Solwitz at ssolwitz (at) hotmail.com. 

Bio below courtesy of the RHINO website. Photo copyright Sharon Solwitz.silesky_barry

“Barry Silesky was born in Minneapolis, MN, but came to Chicago to attend to Northwestern University (BA) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (MA).  He was the founding Editor of ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and has taught at both the School of the Art Institute and Loyola University Chicago.  For many years, Barry also taught a workshop out of his home. Barry’s long list of publications includes collections of poetry, short prose, and biographies: The New Tenants (1992),One Thing That Can Save Us (1994), This Disease: Poems (2006), Ferlinghetti, The Artist in His Time (1990), and John Gardner, Literary Outlaw (2004).  Barry is a leader in the Chicago poetry community and has always been committed to the intersection of poetry and politics, art and activism.  He has also mentored many local poets and nurtured the careers of countless others.”

Trib Nation & Printers Row present Political Strategist David Axelrod at Venue SIX10, Wednesday, March 3rd!

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Political strategist David Axelrod will join Tribune Editorial Board member and author Clarence Page in discussion about Axelrod’s new book, “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.” From New York to Chicago to the White House, “Believer” chronicles Axelrod’s evolution from young journalist to political strategist to senior adviser to the president.
At the same time, it looks closely at the 20-year friendship with Barack Obama that ultimately took both of them from Chicago to the White House. Books will be available for purchase at the event, and a book signing will follow the discussion.

EVENT DETAILS

Date and time: Tuesday, March 3, 7 p.m.

Location: Venue SIX10, 610 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

About David Axelrod

David Axelrod served as senior adviser to President Barack Obama and as senior strategist in Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Today he serves as director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and as a senior political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Before entering politics in 1984, Axelrod spent eight years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he covered national, state and local politics. In 1981, he became the youngest political writer and columnist in the paper’s history. He also served as the Tribune’s City Hall bureau chief.

Axelrod was born in New York City, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Chicago. He is married and has three children.

About Clarence Page

Clarence Page is a syndicated columnist and Washington-based member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board. Among other awards, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1989 and lifetime achievement awards from the Chicago Headline Club, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the National Association of Black Journalists. An aspiring bass player, Page also enjoys entering stand-up comedy contests, which he tends to lose. Page lives outside Washington DC, with his wife and son.

– See more at: https://www.tribtix.com/e/printers-row-david-axelrod/preview#sthash.c9oAIv0X.dpuf

Author Ian Stansel to visit DePaul

On By depaulundergroundIn The Writers' Series, Visiting Writer, Writers on Writing

The DePaul University Department of English is proud to welcome writer, editor, teacher, and native Chicagoan Ian Stansel to the Lincoln Park campus next Monday as part of our Visiting Writers 7206179Program.

Stansel is a graduate of the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He also holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he also served as the editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. 

Stansel’s work has appeared in a multitude of literary journals, including Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, Memorious, The Antioch Review, and much more. His short stories have also been included in both the 2012 and 2013 editions of the New Stories from the Midwest.

Join us Monday, February 3 at 6:00 p.m. in Richardson Library Room 115 for what is sure to be a fun evening with one of Chicago’s own authors.

In the meantime, check out Everybody’s Irish, Stansel’s short story collection published in October 13 by FiveChapters Books, and follow Ian Stansel on Twitter at @IanStansel.