Welcome to the Humanities weekly newsletter, the Lindsay Bulletin Board!

Do you have an event or opportunity you would like to feature in our newsletter? Please email Madison.stokes@chatham.edu before Thursday at 5 pm for your event to be included!

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On-Campus Events

Word Circus Reading Series featuring Hannah Troy, Kristy Mahoney, and Nadine Lehrer

Date: Sunday, September 21

Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm

Location: Mellon Living Room

Note: Word Circus is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students from Chatham’s Creative Writing MFA Department. Once a month, we gather to hear writing from three featured writers and support each other in a friendly and communal environment. Open mic is open to all participants and they will have five spots, first come first serve, with a two minute or two-page time limit.  

The reading will be live-streamed on YouTube. To find the stream, visit this link at the time of the event: https://www.youtube.com/@WORDCIRCUSREADINGSERIES

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Nature Walk & Poetry Reading

Date: Thursday, October 2

Time: 5 pm – 7 pm

Location Mellon Park (Rain location: Mellon Solarium)

Please contact Charlie Dorlon at charlie.dorlon@chatham.edu if you have any questions.

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Off-campus Events

University of Pittsburgh Writer’s Cafe 

Save the dates for Oct 3, Oct 17, and Nov 14.  

Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Location: Pitt Writing Center, 3rd floor, O’Hara Student Center, 4024 O’Hara St.  

Find more info: https://writingcenter.pitt.edu/ 

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Call for Submissions

Forbes & Fifth, the University of Pittsburgh’s undergraduate journal in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Forbes & Fifth are accepting submissions through October 3, 2025, as well as visual art submissions through October 13, 2025. They do not limit genre or topic. Some examples of previously published work includes literature essays, biology research papers, social science papers, poetry, fiction and more.

Students can submit work already written, whether for class or otherwise. Similarly, they accept submissions in any style of art as long as it can be reproduced in a visual format for the journal’s publication. If students would like to submit after this review, then they may submit through the site’s submission tab: http://www.forbes5.pitt.edu/submit.

If you have any questions please contact the editor of Forbes & Fifth Christian Marinescu at CNM68@pitt.edu.

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SAVE THE DATE: Rachel Carson Conference 2025: Write to Resist

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025

Time: 9 am – 5 pm

Location: Mellon Center

Submissions: Email abstracts of 500 words or less in the form of a Word Doc or PDF to sigmataudelta@chatham.edu by October 1st, 2025. Open to all, regardless of institutional affiliation. You are cordially invited to submit conference papers, performances and presentations, panels, and multimedia projects.

Note: If you have any specific questions or concerns, please contact us at our chapter’s email, SigmaTauDelta@chatham.edu. 

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Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit poetry or prose to the Allegheny Review for their upcoming issue.  Deadline is Wednesday, October 15, 2025.  Find submission guidelines online here: https://allegheny.edu/about/news/allegheny-review/