Literary Events

Come hang with us at the Pop-Up Book Fair!!!

Submitted by Jacobsknabb on Fri, 11/30/2012 - 21:22

 

BUY some freshly toasted BOOKS at the POP-UP BOOK FAIR on DEC 9TH!
 
In conjunction with Chicago Writers House and The Chicagoan, Another Chicago Magazine & Curbside Splendor Publishing present: 
 
A POP-UP BOOK FAIR!  
 
Chicago's finest independent publishers will be on hand hocking their goods.  Quimby's Bookstore will also stock a table with a selection of books/zines penned by Chicagoans. The bar will be open so grab a cocktail and listen to live music all afternoon as you ogle some books and satiate your bibliophiliac needs!
 
FREE with an RSVP by clicking here!
 
Otherwise $5 at the door.  
 
This tasty event is 21+ unless minors are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
 
Current list of participating Chicago publishers (check back for updates):
 
&Now Books
7 Vientos
826chi
Agate Publishing
Allium Press
Anobium 
Another Chicago Magazine
Anything Goes Publishing
Artifice
Burial Day Books
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
Chicago Zine Fest
contratiempo
Convulsive Editions
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Dancing Girl Press
Dream of Things
Ginger Piglet
Graze Magazine
The Handshake
Kenning Editions
MAKE Magazine
Other Voices (OV) Books
Poetry
Quimby's Books
Solace in So Many Words
Soup & Bread Cookbook
Switchback Books
Two With Water
 
Sweet Tunes provided by:
 
Good Evening
Mr. Mayor and the Highballers
Wooden Wing
&more!

This week in literary events

Submitted by guest on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 11:46

Check out these readings this week:

Tonight: Two Cookie Minimum, 9pm, The Hungry Brain (more info here)

Tuesday: WRITE CLUB, 7pm, The Hideout (more info here & here)

Wednesday: So You Think You Have Nerves of Steel, 8pm, The Empty Bottle (more info here)

Also Wednesday: The Encyclopedia Show, 7:30pm, Vittum Theater (more info here)

Friday: Waiting 4 the Bus, 7:30pm, Studio A (more info here)

Also Friday: Punk Rock Karaoke Benefit for the Chicago Zine Fest (ok, not a reading, but karaoke for a good cause), 9pm, Beauty Bar (more info here)

See you all there!

ACM & Curbside Splendor Publishing host a [pre]release celebration at the Uptown Book Expo!

Submitted by Jacobsknabb on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 18:39

 

 

ACM & Curbside Splendor host a reading of present and past contributors this Saturday, November 19th from 5-6pm, celebrating ACM's forthcoming Issue 50.2, the second in our all Chicago issue, Curbside Splendor's recent Issue 2, and Curbside Splendor's new book Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski, coming out April 2012.

Readers include:

Chris Bower 

Philip Jenks

Natalie Edwards

James Tadd Adcox

Ben Tanzer

Ben Spies

Paul Luikart

Sondra Morin

Come to this, but more important, come to the Expo running all day Saturday Nov. 19 and Sunday Nov. 20. Support Chicago Independent Publishing! 

For more information about the Uptown Book Expo, click here!!!