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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..
The Fourth River Launch Party
Date: Friday, November 14
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Buhl Atrium, Chatham University Zoom: ( https://chatham.zoom.us/j/94595855609 )
For more information, please contact 4thriver@gmail.com
December 2025, Graduation Ceremony
Date: Tuesday, December 2
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Location: Mellon Board Room
Registration Required: (https://www.chatham.edu/_events/verify.cfm?EventID=34092)
Event description: Undergraduate students graduating from the College of Arts & Sciences, School of Business & Enterprise, Falk School of Sustainability & Environment, and the College of Health Sciences.
Off-campus Events
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
| Incoming Job Opportunity Faculty Professor Teaching Associate * Full-Time The English Department at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes applications for an Appointment Stream Teaching Assistant or Teaching Associate Professor position, primarily in the Writing Program, to begin the fall semester of 2026. Job description: – The department is specifically interested in candidates who have an established track record in successfully teaching introductory and intermediate creative writing classes, of both single- and multi-genre focus, especially in poetry and poetic literature. -The successful candidate will also be able to teach capstone-level courses, requiring intensive group and individual work with a small class of upper-level students, with demonstrated experience in fostering student professional development. – The selected candidate will also have experience in Literature pedagogy and be prepared to teach courses in 20th- and 21st- century literature from a historical perspective. -The English department is especially interested in applicants who have taught first-year writing and who are interested in contributing to our development of cross-programmatic curricula. -Applicants must hold an MFA degree in Creative Writing or a related field. Review of applicants will begin December 1, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment requires administrative and budgetary approval. The position is scheduled to begin on August 15, 2026. For more information on job description, the application process, and requirements, visit: (Job Description – Faculty Professor Teaching Associate – Full-Time (25006061) |
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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