Chicago | October 26, 2008
You won’t want to miss our last reading of the year. An amazing line up of talented writers sure to bring cheer to even the most disappointed Cubs fan.
Jane Hertenstein lives in Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood and has been involved in community building for the past twenty-five years. Jane has published three books: A young adult novel titled Beyond Paradise; Home is Where We Live, a picture book about life at a homeless shelter as seen through the eyes of a young girl; and Orphan Girl, the story of a bag lady Jane met at the shelter. Orphan Girl was highly praised in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Book Section …
Chicago | June 29, 2008
Join us for a delightful evening of reading from Storystudio Students featuring the following Chicago writers:
Philip Stone is a Chicago musician and writer. He currently plays drums for the nationally touring rock band, Sanawon. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Life Sentences (Wipf and Stock, 2007) and Montage Magazine. Philip was a Splendid Magazine music critic for several years, but stopped once the threatening hate mail mentioned his family members by name. After a two year hiatus and strong encouragement from his therapist, Philip is writing again. Philip has a day job.
Steven Sacks: Since returning to Chicago from Ecuador, where he lived for …
Chicago | May 25, 2008
In Celebration of Pilcrow Lit Festival, Sunday Salon Chicago Presents: Local Literary Magazines: A Fiction Editors’ Reading!
Join us this Memorial Day Weekend on the last day of the festival, SUNDAY, MAY 25th @ The Charleston Bar (2076 N. Hoyne) 7:30pm
Come check out these local literary magazines, pick up an issue, and hear the editors read their own work.
FEATURING:
Chicago Review: Robert P. Baird is the editor of Chicago Review and a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Bookforum, and Chicago Magazine.
Make Magazine: Mike Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is co-founder, co-publisher, and fiction editor for MAKE: …
Chicago | April 27, 2008
You won’t want to miss the literary talent in Chi-town this Sunday! The powerhouse lineup includes a renowned Iraqi novelist, a veteran crime writer, and the co-founder of the Quickies! reading series.
Mahmoud Saeed is a prominent and award-winning Iraqi novelist. He has written more than 20 novels and short story collections, including Port Said and Other Stories, which was published in 1957. The first military-Baathist Iraqi government seized two of his novels in 1963. Saeed was imprisoned several times and he left Iraq in 1985 after the authorities banned the publication of some of his novels, including Zanka bin …
Chicago | March 30, 2008
MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ is the author of BODIES IN MOTION, a set of Sri Lankan-American linked stories, covering two families and three generations (HarperCollins). She currently teaches fiction writing and Asian American literature at Northwestern University, and is working on a mainstream novel, a memoir/travelogue, and a YA fantasy novel. Mohanraj recently received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose. She currently serves as the Executive Director of DesiLit (desilit.org), an organization that works to support S. Asian and diaspora literature, and also directs the Speculative Literature Foundation(speclit.org). Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. maryannemohanraj.com
ELIZABETH WETMORE’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, …
Chicago | January 27, 2008
Bundle up! It’s cold out there. We’ll be serving up some hot and tasty prose at the mid-winter Chicago Salon.
Bruce Olds is the author of three novels: Bucking the Tiger, an American Library Association Notable Book adapted from the stage as The Confessions of Doc Holliday, and Raising Holy Hell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee that was also named Novel of the Year by the Notable Books Council of the ALA and winner of the QPB New Voices Award for Fiction, and The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim’s Progress, …
Chicago | November 2007
Cris Mazza is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Waterbaby, released this month from Soft Skull Press. Her other fiction titles include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, and the PEN Nelson Algren Award winning How to Leave a Country. She also has a collection of personal essays, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. Mazza has had a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Illinois Arts Council literary awards. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Currently she lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers …
Chicago | October 2007
Samuel Park is a Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he is a graduate of Stanford and USC. His short film Shakespeare’s Sonnets has played numerous film festivals, including San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, and Southwest international gay and lesbian film festivals, and is available on DVD in the anthology Boys’ Briefs 3. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, published by Alyson Books, is his first novel.
Elizabeth Reeder,lived in Glasgow, Scotland for twelve years and her fiction appears in respected journals and anthologies in the UK and the US (Women’s Press, Polygon, Hanging Loose, Chapman, PN Review). Recently, she had an original drama, stories and an abridgement broadcast on …
Chicago | September 2007
Since 1994, Jennifer Harris’ poetry has appeared in numerous national literary magazines including multiple publications in the New York Quarterly, Fish Stories, and HLLQ. Her first novel, PINK, was published in January 2007 by Haworth Press. She received her MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from The University of Arizona.
Elizabeth Bagby is a Chicago writer, actor, and musician. She is a founding member of Sansculottes Theater Company, who produced her musical Practical Anatomy at the Storefront Theater last year. She has performed with numerous Chicago companies, including Sansculottes, Trap Door, the Right Brain Project, Striding Lion, Tangerine Arts Group, …
Chicago | August 2007
Kim Morris is a writer living in Chicago. She is a member of the story development team of 2nd Story. She writes Power Love(www.power-love.blogspot.com http://www.power-love.blogspot.com)and short stories. By day she slays dangling modifiers while wearing her editor’s cape. By nights and weekends, she fails brilliantly at bike racing.
J. Adams Oaks grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and lives in Chicago. He received his MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College. His work has appeared in The Tap, Sleepwalk, The Madison Review, and the River-Oak Review. His first novel, Why I Fight, will soon be published by Simon and Schuster. A chapter of that novel appeared in Hairtrigger 21 and won …
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