Printers Row Lit Fest
📍 Printers Row, Chicago
🗓 September 12-13, 2026
⏰ 10 AM–6 PM
Another Chicago Magazine is excited to table again at the Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago’s annual celebration of all things literary. Taking place along Dearborn Street in the historic Printers Row neighborhood, it’s the Midwest’s oldest free outdoor literary festival. Check out the readings, panels, and tents from booksellers, artists, and publishers—including us!
We’ll be in the Small Press Tent (BB), the festival’s must-stop hub for indie publishers, lit mags, zines, artists, local authors, and some of the most exciting work happening outside the big publishing houses. Stop by and say hi!
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AWP 2027 in Chicago
📍McCormick Place—Lakeside Center, Chicago
🗓 March 17–20, 2027
Another Chicago Magazine is thrilled to be tabling and hosting two panels when the AWP Conference & Bookfair celebrates its 60th anniversary in our hometown this March!
Getting in the Way: Tales of Writing Activists
Palestinian poet Rasha Abdelhadi advises, “Whatever sand you can throw in the gears of genocide, do it now…Get in the way however you can.” Each presenter on this panel takes different actions to “get in the way” of social injustice, from working with prisoners to supporting Israeli/Palestinian nonviolent co-resistance. Presenters will read from related nonfiction and poetry and discuss how activism drives writing—and how that writing impacts both our audiences and ourselves.
Moderated by our executive editor, Karen Paley | Presenters: James Madigan, Aziz Sarah, Maoz Inon, and Bill Ayers
Who Reviews Books Anymore? The New Landscape of Literary Coverage
For indie and small press authors and publishers, the path to review coverage is shrinking. Major venues—like the Washington Post’s “Book World”—have disappeared, so where can serious attention come from? How can authors and presses pursue reviews realistically, particularly amid the rise of sponsored, pay-to-play coverage, comment sections, and social media? Panel experts from Booklist, the National Book Critics Circle, independent publishing, and publicity will discuss what new outlets exist that move the needle.
Moderated by our assistant managing editor, Laura Hawbaker | Presenters: Donna Seaman, J. Howard Rosier, Grace Talusan, and Sheryl Johnston
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Past Events
ACM AWP 2025 Off-Site Reading in LA
Photos from Another Chicago Magazine’s fabulous off-site AWP reading in Echo Park. Great view, great readings, great conversations.
Readers were ACM contributors Jeannine Pitas, Clara Burghelea, Rabha Ashry, Toti O’Brien, Antonia Crane, James Stewart III, Dolapo Demuren, and ACM associate managing editor Emily Page. Our poetry editor, Alex Wells Shapiro, emceed the event.
Massive thanks to host Noah Champion Buck, who shared his house and view.
ACM has started thinking about AWP26 in Baltimore—please contact us through Instagram or anotherchimagazine@gmail.com. Tell us if you’d like to read, sign books at the ACM table, or propose a panel.
ACM at AWP 2025
Another Chicago Magazine will be at AWP25, at table T352. Look for our yellow tablecloth and come say hi. CONTRIBUTORS: If you’d like to sign your new books, please notify us at anotherchimagazine@gmail.com by March 9.
If you’d like to attend our offsite reading in the backyard terrace of a private home in Echo Park, Friday, March 28, from 7 pm to 9 pm please write to us at anotherchimagazine@gmail.com for details. CONTRIBUTORS: If you would like to read, please notify us at the same address by March 9.
Authors signing books at our table and reading on 3/28 will be announced the week of March 10.
ACM Reading November 14 at Secret World Books
You are cordially invited to join Another Chicago Magazine for a reading at Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL on Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 pm. It’s our first local reading outside of the city, and features ACM contributors Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Liz Shulman, Jennifer Companik, and Rabha Ashry, along with ACM executive editor S.L. Wisenberg.
Please send any questions to anotherchimagazine@gmail.com.
Hope to see you there!
ACM Residency at Shannaghe in Belfast, Maine
After offering the residency to ACM for two years, the owners of Shannaghe decided to offer, instead, a free residency to a writer in the caring fields. We are grateful to Shannaghe owner and former ACM staffer Lee Reilly for gifting a residency to ACM nonfiction contest winners in 2023 and 2024.
Theresa Dietrich won the ACM nonfiction prize in 2024, receiving publication in ACM and a stay at Shannaghe. Brendan Toh won second place and publication, and Nancy Erhard won third and publication. Paula Carter was the first nonfiction winner in 2023.
Writers and artists may apply on their own to stay at Shannaghe. The cost is $25 to apply, and $100 a week, though scholarships are available.
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