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Chicago | January 29, 2012

We open 2012 with great readers and a new venue. Join us as we welcome 2011 Nelson Algren Prize winner Billy Lombardo  (The Man with Two Arms); Chicago journalist, fiction writer and poet Marco Buscaglia and DePaul and Northwestern professor Christine Sneed (Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry). We’ll pass the hat for our featured organization: Polyphony H.S., an international student-run literary magazine for high school writers co-founded by Billy, and feature Haiyun Cho and Rachel Stone, two contributors to the magazine. Join us at 7 p.m., January 29, Black Rock, 3614 N. Damen.

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Chicago | January 29, 2012

We open 2012 with great readers and a new venue. Join us as we welcome 2011 Nelson Algren Prize winner Billy Lombardo  (The Man with Two Arms); Chicago journalist, fiction writer and poet Marco Buscaglia and DePaul and Northwestern professor Christine Sneed (Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry). We’ll pass the hat for our featured organization: Polyphony H.S., an international student-run literary magazine for high school writers co-founded by Billy, and feature Haiyun Cho and Rachel Stone, two contributors to the magazine. Join us at 7 p.m., January 29, Black Rock, 3614 N. Damen.

Chicago Time Change!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Nov. 28 reading at Katerina’s will start at 6:30 p.m., not 8. Drop by after work.

Chicago | Nov. 28, 2011

We’re back to Monday this month, for an evening with writers and instructors from StoryStudio Chicago. Join us as we hear from M. Molly Backes, Jennifer Ann Coffeen, Kate Harding and Scott Onak. 6:30 p.m. at Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd.

 

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Natalia Nebel is a writer, translator, former managing editor of the literary journal Chicago Quarterly Review, and a board member of ShawChicago Theater Company. Having read her work at the New York City Sunday Salon several years ago, she's thrilled to be involved in reintroducing Sunday Salon to Chicago.

Jeanie Chung's fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in upstreet, Drunken Boat, Main Street Rag, Stymie online, Numero Cinq and elsewhere. A sportswriter in her past life, she is working on a novel-in-stories inspired by her experiences covering high school and college basketball for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Melanie Pappadis received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her fiction was recently nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Her work has received a variety of mentions including winner of The New School's Fiction Chapbook Competition, finalist in Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction, and one of twenty-five winners in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. She has published a book of non-fiction, Limbu Folklore, a collection of translated oral folklore and photographs from her field research in Nepal. She currently lives with her husband and son in Chicago where she teaches creative writing and is working on a collection of stories along with her second novel. Melanie read at the September 2002 New York Salon. She started up the Chicago series in 2006.