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 or opportunity to be included!

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On-Campus Events

Write Night hosted by the Creative Writing Club and MFA Program

Date: Thursday, October 2

Time: 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm

Location: Lindsay House 3rd Floor

Come hang out with the Creative Writing Club and MFA Program, get some work done, and meet new writers! There will also be music, tea and cozy lights. 

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

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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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Appalachian Writers Series: Poet Frank X. Walker

Date: Wednesday, October 15

Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm

Location: Welker Room, Laughlin Music Hall

The MFA in Creative Writing program presents a reading by poet Frank X. Walker, founder of Affrilachian Poets and 2025 winner of the PEN/Voelker Award for his new collection Load in Nine Times. Free and open to the public.

Event is co-sponsored by Chatham’s Creative Writing Club; the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; the International Poetry Forum; and the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.

Please contact David Blackmore at D.Blackmore@chatham.edu if you have any questions.

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Off-campus Events

University of Pittsburgh Writer’s Cafe: Writing through Blocks with Play and Monsters

Date: Friday, October 3

Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Location: PITT Writing Center (3rd Floor of O’Hara Student Center)

Save the dates for Oct 17 and Nov 14.  

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/