Friday, November 20th, 2009
This weekend, the literacy nonprofit Open Books unveils its new three-story, 15,000 sq ft literacy center. The grand opening in its old River North...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Quick trivia: which of the four writers in the image is the poet? Though the writers pictured here look as if they're obligated to pose for a brutal...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
One week remains for the biannual Guild Literary Complex Very Short Fiction and Nonfiction Contests. The Chicago-based Guild is known for its...
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Publishers Weekly, the trade standard for books, is celebrating its first National Bookstore Day across the country and all over the internet....
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There's still a day left to submit your story to the Chicago Reader's ninth annual fiction supplement. The deadline is Friday, November 6th....
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Tuesday Funk reading series as part of Gothic Funk.(disclaimer: I was asked to read before I made them a Friday Feature a few months back--I had to...
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Since Halloween is the new New Years, MAKE Magazine presents a reading with complimentary comfornt food Jimmy John's samiches on Sunday (11/1/09). Not...
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As an adult, revisiting essences of childhood is usually an exercise in disappointment. The thing that is missing now I can only call the boundless...
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It takes some writers a lifetime to complete a novel [shudder]. During National Novel Writing Month, over 100,000 budding novelists aim to start and...
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Narrative Magazine, the premiere online magazine at the vanguard of the digital literary revolution, has announced the deadline for its annual...
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