Give to the Guild Literary Complex
Support Our Work
Thank you for supporting the Guild Literary Complex! Your donation goes directly to ensure that inclusive, accessible, diverse, and engaged literary arts programming remains an integral part of the cultural life of Chicago, as it has for the past 35 years.
After submitting this form, you should receive a confirmation from us. Contact us at development@guildcomplex.org if you don’t receive a confirmation or if you have any questions.
Your financial support makes everything possible. It helps ensure that our unique, cross-cultural programs continue to provide an outlet for Chicago’s established and emerging artists and writers, and opportunities for provocative conversation between artists and audiences.
It helps us with things like paying featured artists and awarding contest prices, renting space for rehearsals and performances, hiring videographers to share event footage with new audiences, and keeping low ticket prices to all our events.
Donations to the Guild Literary Complex help to:
- Promote vibrant literature that contributes to society and community
- Produce programs that engage audiences with dynamic voices and ideas
- Showcase established and emerging writers in intimate settings
- Keep programs geographically and economically accessible
- Archive and disseminate programs beyond the event itself
- Provide honorariums to our artists
Your donations in action:
Honorariums
Your dollars help us pay honorariums to Chicago writers and artists.
Emerging Writers
Thanks to your generosity, we were able to put on events this year that showcased talented, up and coming writers and poets in Chicago.
Contest Prizes
Every year we award cash prizes to the winners of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award (GBOMA), and the Leon Forrest Prose Awards. This simply wouldn’t be possible if not for your generous contributions.