A friend of mine works on RHINO, a poetry magazine based in Evanston, IL. They're reading submissions now through October for the '09 issue. They're looking for poems, short-shorts/flash fiction, and translations. They also have a new contest with a $10 entry fee and $300 prize.
If you guys write any of the media they accept, definitely check them out, for copies of past issues and for a shot at publication. Ain't nothing like supporting a hometown magazine before you really get famous.
www.rhinopoetry.org
5/22/2008
BA reading tonight
There's a reading of ENGL and CRWR BAs tonight! For all those of you interested in writing BAs next year, or if you're interested in writing longer projects in general, I strongly recommend that you stop by, at least for a while.
The details of the reading are as follows:
BA Reading
4:30-7:30
Ida Noyes Hall, Third Floor Theatre
Contact Amy Schulz (aschulz@uchicago.edu) with any questions.
The details of the reading are as follows:
BA Reading
4:30-7:30
Ida Noyes Hall, Third Floor Theatre
Contact Amy Schulz (aschulz@uchicago.edu) with any questions.
5/21/2008
Baring It All
Come share your creative writing work at a year-end reading next Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in Hallowed Grounds. All work is welcome, including poetry, short stories, segments of longer fiction, plays, screenplays, and mixed media.
Co-sponsored by ENGL, SGFC, and Sliced Bread, the event will also feature campus music: Saturday Realism, and Claudie and Miles.
Uh, and there's going to be amazing catering from Fox & Obel. So you should go. Seriously, what could be better than listening to awesome writing by your peers (which you may have helped to critique), hearing great music, and noshing on upscale pastry? Come on now.
Make sure to bring friends, since a strong showing will indicate support for the creative writing community here, with which everyone is dissatisfied. Please also sign up to read as soon as possible, and if you can, include a short description of your piece, so that we can group pieces by theme.
Finally, what's the prevailing opinion on concluding the reading with an open mic?
Event details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41168560206
Co-sponsored by ENGL, SGFC, and Sliced Bread, the event will also feature campus music: Saturday Realism, and Claudie and Miles.
Uh, and there's going to be amazing catering from Fox & Obel. So you should go. Seriously, what could be better than listening to awesome writing by your peers (which you may have helped to critique), hearing great music, and noshing on upscale pastry? Come on now.
Make sure to bring friends, since a strong showing will indicate support for the creative writing community here, with which everyone is dissatisfied. Please also sign up to read as soon as possible, and if you can, include a short description of your piece, so that we can group pieces by theme.
Finally, what's the prevailing opinion on concluding the reading with an open mic?
Event details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41168560206
5/07/2008
Thanks
A huge thank-you to everyone who came and helped out last night. We had a great turnout, and lots of good questions. Let's do more of these!
Stay tuned for details about next week's meeting.
Stay tuned for details about next week's meeting.
5/05/2008
WiP Presents: Nic Pizzolatto
As I'm sure you already know, either from the listhost or Facebook or those nifty green fliers, or good, old-fashioned word of mouth, we of Work in Progress are lucky enough to have UC creative writing professor Nic Pizzolatto joining us for a Q&A session this Tuesday.
Don't know about Nic? Pity. You're missing out.
Nic Pizzolatto received his MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2005, where he was awarded the $10,000 Walton Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing two years in a row and received a Lilly Peter Fellowship in Poetry. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Oxford American, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and various other literary journals. In 2004, his work was among the finalists for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. His first book, Between Here and the Yellow Sea, was published in May, 2006. It was long-listed for the International Frank O’Connor Award, and named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the top five fiction debuts of the year. He is currently at work on novels and stories.
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To put it bluntly, this is good. Really good. How often do you get the chance to sit down with someone who really knows the ropes and ask all the questions - from the smart ones to the really stupid ones?
We spend a lot of time at our meetings working on copy: where do I get my ideas and how can I make the ideas I have better? These are all well and good, but eventually you want other people to read your ideas, right?
Right. That's where Nic comes in because he, unlike most of us, can speak not only to ideas, but to diseminating them. Questions like, how to navigate submissions, how to write a query, how to deal with rejection (hint: I suspect this is not the way to go about it), and how to actually sell what you've created and perfected. Even if you think of yourself as a closet writer, you probably have the odd daydream about Getting Published - and what better way to Get Published than to go out and ask questions?
So, please join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 6:30 PM in Rosenwald 405 for free food, free chat, and, most importantly, free advice.
Hope to see you there!
Don't know about Nic? Pity. You're missing out.
Nic Pizzolatto received his MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2005, where he was awarded the $10,000 Walton Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing two years in a row and received a Lilly Peter Fellowship in Poetry. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Oxford American, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and various other literary journals. In 2004, his work was among the finalists for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. His first book, Between Here and the Yellow Sea, was published in May, 2006. It was long-listed for the International Frank O’Connor Award, and named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the top five fiction debuts of the year. He is currently at work on novels and stories.
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To put it bluntly, this is good. Really good. How often do you get the chance to sit down with someone who really knows the ropes and ask all the questions - from the smart ones to the really stupid ones?
We spend a lot of time at our meetings working on copy: where do I get my ideas and how can I make the ideas I have better? These are all well and good, but eventually you want other people to read your ideas, right?
Right. That's where Nic comes in because he, unlike most of us, can speak not only to ideas, but to diseminating them. Questions like, how to navigate submissions, how to write a query, how to deal with rejection (hint: I suspect this is not the way to go about it), and how to actually sell what you've created and perfected. Even if you think of yourself as a closet writer, you probably have the odd daydream about Getting Published - and what better way to Get Published than to go out and ask questions?
So, please join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 6:30 PM in Rosenwald 405 for free food, free chat, and, most importantly, free advice.
Hope to see you there!
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