The Guild Literary Complex, a community-based literary organization, presents and supports diverse, divergent, and emerging voices through innovative programs including performances and readings. We look at literary culture and ask – what’s missing?

Proud of the traditions of literary excellence and community-based events established by Guild Books, the Guild Complex has carried on this legacy through our provocative, eclectic and stimulating programs for nearly 20 years. Along with its current ongoing programs (see menu at top), the Guild's past programs have included The International Writers Exchange, Muslim Women Writers, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry national tour, Andrés Montoya and Cave Canem Literary Prizes and cohort residencies, other author events and special programs.

Since its formation, the Guild Complex has established itself, in the words of the Illinois Arts Council, as Chicago's premiere literary center. The Complex has twice been selected as a model literary center by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Guild Literary Complex

P.O. Box 478880

Chicago, IL 60647-9998

877-394-5061

Managing Director

Kimberly Dixon

kdixon@guildcomplex.org

Board of Directors

Michael Puican, President

Elena Sznajder, Vice-President

Reginald Gibbons, Treasurer

Susana Darwin, Secretary

Kurt Heintz

Parneshia Jones 

Alex Kotlowitz

Vesna Neskow

Lew Rosenbaum

Kristie Willis

Organizational Partners and Friends:

Arena Cultural

Art Against War

California Clipper, 1002 N. California

Cave Canem

Center on Halsted

Chicago Park District

City of Chicago, Dept. of Cultural Affairs

contratiempo

Decima Musa

Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Rafael Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center at the University of Illinois Chicago

Printers Ball

Printers Row Book Fair

Tianguis Books

University of Iowa’s International Writers Program

Foundation and Corporate Supporters:

Alphawood Foundation

Arts Work Fund of the Chicago Community Trust

Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Chicago Arts Assistance Program

Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

Illinois Humanities Council

Joyce Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Poetry Foundation

Woods Fund of Chicago

In addition, the Guild Complex has received arts jobs preservation support from the Illinois Arts Council made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts through funds allocated from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.