Welcome to the Humanities weekly newsletter, the Lindsay Bulletin Board 📌
Do you have an event, opportunity, or course 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!
Exciting announcement: A new section titled “Humanities Highlights” has been added to the newsletter. If you have any recently published work, profile features in the news, awards, etc. please email madison.stokes@chatham.edu before Thursday evening to be celebrated and featured!
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New Course Alert!
CST213: Latine Literature
MWF from 1 – 1:50 p.m.
Professor: Dr. Blackmore | d.blackmore@chatham.edu
Course fulfillment includes…
- Literature Survey Course requirement for English and Creative Writing majors
- Cultural Studies Elective requirement for Cultural Studies majors
- 200-Level Literature Course requirement for English minors
- GBL Gen Ed requirement for all Chatham students
Course description from Dr. Blackmore: “Join us as we explore literature by and about people whose families trace their roots to Latin American, from Mexican Americans whose families have lived in the U.S. Southwest to recent immigrants from all of the continent. We’ll learn some Latine history along the way and read some great literature.”
On-Campus Events
International Karaoke
Date: Monday, November 17
Time: 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Rea Coffeehouse
For more information please contact Global Engagement at globalengagement@chatham.edu..
Off-campus Events
Careers in College Publishing with W. W. Norton & Company
Date: Friday, November 7
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Zz00x4XTb2BnYJc3gjq0Q#/registration)
Event Description: Open to all students, majors and nonmajors alike. The sessions are casual, camera-on sessions where two members of W. W. Norton College publishing discuss their own career paths and field questions from attendees.
Digital Storytelling Premiere hosted by MFA Chatham Alum Shawna Kent
Date: Sunday, November 9
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: COhatch, 5428 Walnut St. Pittsburgh, PA and via Zoom
Zoom link: https://carlow-edu.zoom.us/j/91488997786?pwd=bdqeVnqIO7yUsBiW8kFfjseu9ylR4U.1
The Digital Storytelling projects were created in a class hosted by Madwomen in the Attic, and taught by Christina Fisanick this past spring. Each story is brief (under 10 minutes). Each one is completely unique.
NOTE: The front door of the building is locked on weekends to please give yourself plenty of time to arrive before 4pm. After that, there will be no way to get in.
There will be time for tea and talk after the presentation.
Writers’ Café – Poetry is People: Writing Character into Verse
with Fred Shaw
Date: Friday, November 14
Time: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Pitt Writing Center (3rd floor, O’Hara Student Center)
Event description: This session explores how poetry can illuminate the people who move through our lives. Through guided exercises and examples, we’ll experiment with writing character and voice—finding empathy and story in those we encounter every day.
Fred Shaw is a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Pitt and serves on the Advisory Board for the International Poetry Forum. His debut collection, Scraping Away (CavanKerry Press, 2020), reveals the beauty and humanity of ordinary experience; a second book is currently in progress.
Call for Submissions
The MSU Roadrunner Review 8th issue
The MSU Roadrunner Review is a student-driven literary journal out of the Creative Writing program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Please visit this link to view their first seven editions: https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/
MSU Roadrunner Review will consider work not just from students, but all writers. Their reading period is Nov 1-15 and the edition will launch in December 2025. All work should be submitted through Submittable. https://msuroadrunnerreview.submittable.com/submit
Work up for consideration:
Fiction – 3,200 words or less (flash fiction under 550 words will also be considered).
Creative Nonfiction –3,200 words or less (flash CNF under 550 words will also be considered).
Poetry – of no more than two single spaced pages. Each poem must be submitted individually.
NOTE: The MSU Roadrunner Review does not consider work with any AI generated content. Multiple submissions are fine, but each must be submitted individually.
Elderfly Press
Theme: Beautiful & Terrifying: Tales & Visions From the Edge of the Uncanny
Work up for consideration:
Short fiction: up to 5,000 words
Poetry: up to 5 poems per submission
Black-and-white art
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Website and submission link: https://writeontheworld.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
For more information please contact Mandy Webster at mandy.webster@elderflybooks.com.
Career Development Corner
Casa de Esperanza: Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Program
Description: caring for infants and children up to age six who are at risk for abuse and neglect in Houston, TX
“Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will serve vulnerable children throughout a 12-month commitment, living in a private, gated community (at no cost) and receiving a living allowance. Hands of Hope AmeriCorps Members will work collaboratively with other AmeriCorps Members in the home to ensure that children’s physical, emotional, and mental needs are met. While the commitment is only one year, the impact AmeriCorps Members have on the children in their care is lifelong. In turn, the children’s strength, resilience, and love will also make a lifelong impact on them.” – Darean Talmadge, Human Resources Coordinator, Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos, Inc.
Duration of program: September 2026 – August 2027
For more information, please contact Darean Talmadge, (713) 529-0639, dtalmadge@casahope.org
Application link: https://forms.office.com/r/St0UmVLKH4
Humanities Highlights
“The Appalachian Writers Series roots Chatham in a sense of place” by Molly Green | Communiqué
“Perspectives of Power and Privilege in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills’” by Charlie Dorlon | Volume 7 of Illuminate, The Undergraduate Journal of the Northeast Regional Honors Council
“ ‘Where we take shape in the dark air’: The Specter of Our Humanity in John Hollander’s ‘Swan and Shadow’” by Rae Kraybill | Volume 7 of Illuminate, The Undergraduate Journal of the Northeast Regional Honors Council
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