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📚 #ChicagoIsLit in May: Great FREE event coming up with National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado on May 22, hosted by @storystudiochicago.bsky.social at Newberry Library (and online). In conversation with the fabulous @meganstielstra.bsky.social. Details below!
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Registration is now OPEN for the next event in our Writers on Writing series with the Newberry Library. On May 22, we'll welcome Carmen Maria Machado to Chicago -- she'll be in conversation with @meganstielstra.bsky.social. This is a FREE event -- all the info is here:

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April 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Congrats to all the Chicago literary VIPs featured in this year's Newcity Lit 50, including friends @jesskeller42.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, Bette Cerf Hill, @mbwwelch.bsky.social, and @awmuseum.bsky.social Carey Cranston & Allison Sansone! #ChicagoIsLit 📚
Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Bette Cerf Hill, Bonnie Sanchez-Carlson, Jessica Keller and Ananda Lima Black magazine page with Lit 50 in stylized white typeface, the cover of the Newcity special section Images of Newcity Lit 50 honorees Andrea Change, Faylita Hicks, Allison Sansone and Carey Cranston
June 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Proud to write for Third Coast Review and promote Chicago's literary events & books!

You can support my work and many other arts writers with a small donation to our year-end fundraiser: third-coast-review.fundjournalism.org/support

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December 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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For all you book lovers & writers: my latest #ChicagoIsLit 📚 column for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social highlights a monthlong literary Pub Crawl from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, a WWII novel debut at Illinois Holocaust Museum, events w/authors across the city & more! Link below. #FreedomtoRead
Two men in shadow walk under an umbrella on the orange cover of novel The Umbrella Maker's Son Author Gillian Flynn appears on a poster for StoryStudio's Pub Crawl, February 2025 Event posterfor A Season of Light at Call & Response Books, including author Julie Iromuanya
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#ChicagoisLit in December with literary events from WBEZ, @awmuseum.bsky.social, Poetry Brothel Chicago & 57th Street Books, plus an illuminating new Poetry Foundation exhibit. More in my @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social column linked below!
A person wearing a black dress stands on stage with an audience in the background holding phones up with many twinkling lights. A series of vintage bronze frames on a wall, which show pictures of poets reading and burlesque and circus acts. An exhibition room at the Poetry Foundation bathed in red, purple and green light, with a series of floor-to-ceiling windows along the left side.
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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#ChicagoIsLit in March: literary icon & NYT bestseller @roxanegay.bsky.social joins @wbez.org March 26 for a chat about new book "The Portable Feminist Reader," which she edited. So you know it's good!

Stay tuned for my review of this @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social book during #WomensHistoryMonth
Text reading "An evening with Roxane Gay and Sasha-Ann Simons" next to headshots of both Black women. Gay is wearing a gray sweater with her head resting in her hand. Simons is wearing a light colored top with a small pattern and large hoop earrings.
February 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM