Welcome to the Humanities weekly newsletter, the Lindsay Bulletin Board.
Also, Happy Homecoming & Alumni Weekend!
Do you have an event or opportunity you would like to feature in our newsletter? Please email Madison.stokes@chatham.edu before Thursday evening for your event or opportunity to be included!
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On-Campus Events
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.
Barbara Stone Hollander ’60 Lecture in Women’s Leadership
Date: Wednesday, October 15
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Eddy Theater
“A Forward Looking Retrospective: Lessons from the Long Freedom Movement.” Featuring Kipp Dawson ’94, Chatham alumna, activist, coal miner, and educator. The lecture will coincide with the opening of a new exhibit of Dawson’s extensive social movement t-shirt collection in the Gurrentz Gallery. Public reception at 6PM, lecture and Q&A at 6:30PM. Visit the gallery show before and after the lecture! There will be a live-stream option for the lecture. Please register to receive the link, which will be emailed closer to the date of the event. Parking information and additional information will also be emailed.
Please contact the Women’s Institute at WomensInstitute@chatham.edu if you have any questions.
Rachel Carson Conference 2025: Write to Resist
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Mellon Center
Note: If you have any specific questions or concerns, please contact SigmaTauDelta@chatham.edu.
Holding Space on the Page: Celebrating Author & Poet Frank X. Walker
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Location: Lindsay House 100, Lindsay House First Floor Conference Room
Holding Space on the Page is a writing workshop open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Light refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Madison Stokes, Madison.stokes@chatham.edu.
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 at: https://writingcenter.pitt.edu/
Global Shorts at Reel Q’s 40th Annual Film Festival
Date: Monday, October 6
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Location: City of Asylum, 40 W. North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Please visit this website for more information and to purchase tickets: https://cityofasylum.org/program/reel-q-film-festival/?utm_campaign=Program%20Announcements&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8w5p7nGe4_c2D6NJvEuDqjehkKZ15QVkE3HhD4IZMeX3aG1Hc2YUNQn_pIpjte8mMN9LXgKmO3uVHXmrFKaNdAowGwvQ&_hsmi=383342283&utm_content=383355683&utm_source=hs_email
LitFest 2025
Date: Saturday, October 18 – 19
Sessions will be occurring at various times. Please visit this website for more information https://cityofasylum.org/programs/
Location: Alphabet City (City of Asylum), 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Poetry reading with Chet’la Sebree and discussion with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Date: Tuesday, October 14
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Note: A craft talk will take place with Chet’la Sebree on Tuesday, October 14 from 2 – 3 pm at the Cathedral of Learning, Room 501.
Please visit this website for more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chetla-sebree-blue-opening-w-diana-khoi-nguyen-tickets-1681409684629
Interlocutor Goddess: Book Launch & Reading
Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Please visit this website for more information: https://www.caapp.pitt.edu/events/interlocutor-goddess-book-launch-reading
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.
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/
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