Oyez Review Volume 39 Reading!

Hear ye, Hear ye! Gather ‘round for a reading of the latest and greatest from the good folks at the Oyez Review. Volume 39, masterfully put together by the Fall interns, is fresh from the printer and full of great writing!

The highlight of Thursday’s event will be Timothy Moore, reading his short story, ‘The Woman with Yellow Fingernails.’ Other pieces of fiction, as well as poetry and creative nonfiction will be on the agenda. There is something for everyone in this year’s volume!

The reading will be held in the Gage Gallery, Thursday, March 29, at 5pm. Doors open at 4:30. Get there early to make sure you get a seat!

Timothy Moore and Tovah Burstein featured in Chicago Reader's Annual Fiction Issue!

Change the batteries in your smoke detectors and refill those fire extinguishers, because our Roosevelt MFA Students are ON FIRE.

More like MFA-ers on fire, am I right?

If you're in the Chicago area, pick up a copy of today's Chicago Reader and browse through the cover story- the winners of their annual fiction contest.  Inside you'll find not one but TWO Roosevelt MFA students, former-GA and megablogger Tim Moore and (also-)former-GA and rhapsodic reviewer Tovah Burstein!

First Step- the Chicago reader...

Next Step- the White House bookshelf.

The judge of this year's issue, Goldie Goldblum, an accomplished Chicago-based novelist and short story writer, clearly has impeccable taste.  Reader culture-editor Tony Adler heaped praise upon Tim's story "goofy-touching" story "Thank God for Facebook!," as well as Tovah's piece "Moving on at the Hipster Gym," which he called "a strange, compelling hybrid—a satire that's also a cri de coeu."  Well done, T and T!

 If you're not in the Chicago area and want to the read Tovah and Tim's pieces, they will be preserved on the interweb for eternity right here.

But that's not all- Tim also has a story forthcoming in the soon-to-be-released Spring 2012 issue of the Oyez Review, Roosevelt's own student-run literary journal.  Tim Moore- a publishing force to be reckoned with.

Roosevelt Representing at Chicago Book Expo 2011

Chicago "Book Expo" 2011

This November 19-20 (Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 12pm-6pm), Roosevelt University's Oyez Review, will be one of the many literary magazines and presses at the 2011 Chicago Book Expo!

Oyez "Literary Magazine Machine" Review

What is the Chicago Book Expo? you may ask.

Thanks for asking!

Brought to you by the Chicago Writer's House, the Chicago Book Expo brings together over forty participating presses and literary magazines under a pop-up-bookstore (inside a former Borders Books-the irony!)! They will have books for sale! Chapbooks! Pamphlets to hand out! Bookmarks!

Kathleen "Workshop Hosting Machine" Rooney

And you can meet some of your favorite authors! Including, but not limited to, Roosevelt Writer-in-Residence, and founder of Rose Metal Press, Kathleen Rooney, who will be heading a workshop, A Flash in the Pan: Getting Started on Short Short Stories, Sunday at 1:00 (click on this link to see all the workshops and panels, scroll below the nonprofit fair!)!

On Saturday, there will also be a nonprofit and service organization fair! See here for the listing of organizations! The Chicago Book Expo 2011 will be in Uptown, at Uptown Broadway Building, 4701 N. Broadway! Google it!

The Future of the Oyez Review, Today!

The Oyez Review, Roosevelt's award-winning, nationally-recognized, student-run, oft-hyphenated literary journal has just announced its editorial interns for the next three semesters.  While most of the key decisions are made by the students who take the Literary Magazine internship class, these three specialized internship positions allow students to gain in-depth knowledge of different elements of the operation of a literary journal.


Presenting our starting lineup-

Dee "the only canon I can stand is the Literary Cannon!"  Hogan

 For the Spring 2012 Internship (which focuses on marketing, specifically the journal's presence at the upcoming AWP conference), we have, straight from Kansas, the heart of the heartland- Dee Hogan. 

OK, fine, so this isn't Eric Balaz, but this is absolutely something he would do.  So, close enough.

For The Summer 2012 Internship (which focuses on the submission process as well as the magazine's new-media presence), we have the program's food-truck conoisseur; you'll likely see him with his feet on his bike pedals and his fingers on the pulse of Chicago's literary scene- Eric Balaz.

Zach "Backwards is so the new forwards"  Tavrin

Rounding out the team, for the Fall 2012 Internship (which focuses on the production of the magazine itself) we have, from the buckeye state, the man who put the e-book in "probably some day soon, we will all be reading e-books," Zach Tavrin.

New Website for Oyez Review

Roosevelt's award-winning literary magazine, Oyez Review, just fresh off of releasing their latest annual issue, has just released a new website for your online enjoyment! Powered by Wordpress, and designed by Oyez Review's spring intern, Hilary Davis, this new site will easily navigate details about current issue, previous issues, how to order said issues, and submission guidelines (start submitting August 1st)!

Check out the beautiful new site here!

And check back for forthcoming updates!

Oyez Review's Last Reading of the Spring Semester at Women and Children First

The editors of Oyez Review are having their final reading of the semester, tomorrow, March 25th, at the historic Women and Children First Bookstore!  Roosevelt MFA student, Cecillia Villarruel, published in the latest issue of Oyez, will be reading fiction and non-fiction!  Editors from the magazine will be reading their favorite selections!  People will be smiling.  It will be wonderful.

This is your last chance to hear some great selections from the Spring 2011 issue, or, as the editors have affectionately called it, issue #38!  That's this Friday, March 25th, at 7:00 pm.

Women and Children First can be found at 5233 N. Clark Street, in Andersonville.

Oyez Review Book Cellar Reading

Issue #38 of Oyez Review is coming to the Book Cellar!  Is there a better way to celebrate then having a reading?

No. There is not.  

In that case, this Friday, February 25th, at 7:00, come to the beautiful, independent, Book Cellar. You will be able to meet Carol K. Howell, whose work is printed proudly within the pages of Roosevelt's award winning literary magazine and who will also be reading. There will also be readings by the editors of their favorite stories and poems from the issue. The cafe selection is plentiful.  Get coffee, get wine. The staff is friendly and will smile at you. And there will be books, and the shiny new Oyez Review #38 for you to purchase and hold forever!   

That's this Friday, February 25th, at the Book Cellar, 7:00 pm sharp. 4736 N. Lincoln Ave.   

Oyez Review Inaugural Reading

Issue 38 of the Oyez Review is here, it's sexy, and it's going to be read out loud.  The MFA program's award winning literary journal will make its debut on Monday January 31st at Roosevelt's Gage Gallery.  Doors open at 4:30, so you can get there and ogle the fantastic artwork of Thomas Jackson.  The reading starts at 5:00.  There are rumors of a mysterious zebra girl, who is she? Come to the reading and find out!

That's January 31st at the Gage Gallery, 18 S Michigan Ave.  Be there and hear the beautiful words of the Oyez Review. 

Stachniak's Poems to Reappear in Future Cycle

In the Spring of 2010, MFA student Alexander Stachniak planted a little seed of poetry and now those poems will blossom in print!  In March, three of Stachniak's poems were published in Future Cycle Poetry, an online literary journal which looks for high-voltage writing.  In 2011, those poems will be in Future Cycle's annual print issue.  Stachniak's work will reappear alongside the poems of Gerald Yelle, a contributing author of Roosevelt's own Oyez Review.  We are excited to see more work from both poets.  Stachniak's "New Year's Eve, at the Store," "For Reasons Unknown," and "We Come Home Blackened" are available for your perusing today on the journal's website.

The importance of Oyez

An alum of the RU-MFA program turned us on to this post from Nathan Bransford's blog, "In Praise of Reading Slush."

Says Bransford,

If you haven't been exposed to the constant fire hose of submissions, if you haven't had to spend afternoons rendering instant value judgments on short summaries of magnum opuses, and developed the ability to instantly tell good writing from bad: well, you're missing out.

The opportunity for MFA writers to intern with a literary magazine therefore becomes invaluable. Most of Roosevelt University's MFA students have interned (or had the opportunity to) at the Oyez Review, a rigorous but essential experience. How has your lit magazine internship influenced your writing?

New Pages on the Oyez Review

The current issue of the Oyez Review has just been reviewed by New Pages! Here's a clip of the piece by Kenneth Nichols:

Though lamentably thin for an annual journal, Oyez Review still provides the reader with tremendous value and represents a pleasant afternoon of reading. Considered as a whole, the editors selected fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art with a European feel. The work traffics in easily accessible themes, but refuses to offer easy, unfulfilling answers to important questions.

The review in full can be found here. Oyez Review is the literary magazine of the Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University.

Last Launch Reading of Oyez 37

photo of book cellar sign by jdolenga

This Friday Oyez Review will be holding its third and last launch reading to celebrate the release of latest issue: 37. Several contributors will be reading their pieces from the issue as well as other material.
Come hang, have a drink, and enjoy the great work from these awesome writers:

Susan Slaviero
“Hell Mary” “Trinitas” “Fetch”

Alexander York
“He’s Got Spaghetti All Over His Face” “White Walls”

Lydia Cesarz
“PS”

@The Book Cellar
4736-38 North Lincoln Avenue
Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Oyez Review Reading--7 p.m. Tonight!

Oyez Review Issue 37 Reading

with special guests:

Lydia Cesarz, author of “PS,” was born in Seoul, South Korea. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Roosevelt University. “PS” is her first publication.

Okla Elliott, author of “The Preacher Considers How Adam Pissed in the Garden,” is coeditor of The Other Chekov (New American Press).

Susan Slaviero, author of “Hell Mary,” has two chapbooks, Apocrypha (Dancing Girl Press) and An Introduction to the Archetypes (Shadowbox Press).

Alexander York, author of “White Walls,” won the Grandma Goda Poetry Award from Prairie Margins. He is an MFA candidate at Roosevelt University.

Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Quimby’s

1854 W. North Ave.

Chicago, IL 60622

Read about it on Quimby's Blog.

Oyez Review Reading--Tonight!

Don't forget--tonight is the release party for Oyez Review's issue #37! This reading will feature poetry, fiction and nonfiction by John F. Buckley, Alexander York, Lydia Cesarz, Don Peteroy, Meghan Cadwallader, and many more.

The reading will take place at Roosevelt’s Gage Gallery, located at 18 S. Michigan Ave. and will begin at 5pm. Refreshments will be served.

Just in! Oyez Review Issue 37

It's here!

After a blissfully harmonious semester working together, this year’s editors’ hard work has paid off: Issue 37 of Oyez Review has arrived. The new volume is loaded with inspired work from talented contributors:

Creative Nonfiction

Meghan Cadwallader.

Fiction

Brad Buchannan, Don Peteroy, Richard G. Sweitzer III, Linda Scotto.

Photography

Prin X. Amorapanth.

Poetry

Ace Boggess, John F. Buckley, Joanne Riley Clarkson, Okla Elliott, Robert Haynes, David James, Susan Johnson, Susan Slaviero, Joseph A. Soldati, John Surowiecki, Mark Taksa, Suellen Wedmore, and our very own Lydia Cesarz and Alexander York.

There are three upcoming events where Oyez Review staffers and visiting authors will read from selected works:

Wednesday, February 17

5pm, Gage Gallery

Friday, February 26

7pm, Quimby’s

Friday, March 12

7pm, Book Cellar

We hope to see you there! Thanks to the contributors and editors for all the good work!

Reminder: Final Oyez Reading Tonight

Tonight is the final reading for Oyez Review, this time featuring Patrick Carr (artist) and H. Anne Stoj, author of The Oneiroi. Come join the Oyez editors as they celebrate the new issue one last time! Light refreshments will be served.

Today, Wednesday, April 22nd, 5 pm
Roosevelt University Library, 10th Floor

Pics from Last Night's Reading

Last night was Roosevelt University's 2nd Oyez Review reading of 2009, sponsored by the wonderful folks at Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago's Wicker Park. Thanks to all the folks who showed up to support our literary magazine.

Photos are up on our Flickr stream.

Our third Oyez Review reading is coming up on April 22nd, and will be held in Roosevelt's beautiful 10th-floor library.

Reminder: Oyez Review Reading Tonight

What
Contributor and student readings from this year's issue of the award-winning Oyez Review.

Where
Quimby's Bookstore

When
7pm

Why
All the cool kids are doing it.

Oyez Review Reading: This Friday

Head over to Quimby's Bookstore in Wicker Park friday night for our second Oyez Review reading, featuring contributor Lori Rader Day, as well as plenty of student-read favorites from Issue 36.

The show starts at 7pm, but our first reading this year (at Hyde Park's 57th Street Books) had a huge turnout, so come a little early to grab a seat (and shop).

Oyez Review Release Party

Congrats to this year's editors of the Oyez Review on last night's release party at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park. Here's a look at the contributing authors and artists who made the trip to Chicago:

Scott Miles, Altoona (pictured above)

Cynthia Belmont, The Other Manar of Egypt

H. Anne Stoj, The Oneiroi

Patrick Carr, Cover Art and Portfolio

The editors want to extend a huge thanks to all of the contributers for reading their wonderful work, and to Jacqui Otterbine and Janet Wondra for their leadership this year.

Did you miss the release reading? Don't worry, we've got several more events coming up this term, including a second Oyez reading.