Guild
LITERARY COMPLEX
FOUNDED IN 1989
The Guild Literary Complex is a 30-year-old grassroots literary arts organization creating performance-based events in and around the Chicagoland area.
We partner and collaborate with other community groups on social and restorative justice issues, providing arts and advocacy programming for marginalized voices.
FEATURED EVENT:
Transvengence: Pride Edition
June 18, 2024 | 7:30 PM @ Clash on Clark
Celebrate Pride Month with Transvengence – Turn Up! Edition
FEATURING: Jack and Lynzo the Heartthrob, with your host, Joss Barton. Open mic starts at 7:30pm.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT:
TRANSVENGENCE
Launched in 2022 as part of the Guild’s Press Room series, the Transvengence reading series is the brainchild of your host, Joss Barton, a trans performer, poet and writer.
WRITER SPOTLIGHT:
Joss Barton
JOSS BARTON is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, and liberation. Her work blends femme-fever dreams over the soundtrack of the American nightmare. Combining prose poetry, non-fiction confessional essays, drag artistry, and spoken word stage performances, Joss examines the myriad states of queer trans womanhoods from historical, political, and pop cultural identities of death, desires, dreams, and disco.
Joss hosts the regular Transvengence reading and open mic series as part of the Guild’s Press Room programming.
