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.
Upcoming Events
GWENDOLYN BROOKS OPEN MIC AWARDS
30th Anniversary Celebration
6-9 PM | THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 2024
CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM
The Guild Complex is celebrating thirty years of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA), with performances from past winners along with a special celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Annie Allen, at the Chicago History Museum.
Learn more about the event here, or RSVP to reserve your (free) tickets with the link below.
FEATURED EVENT:
Guild Complex at 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest
The Guild Complex is excited to partner with two events at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest.
Printers Row Lit Fest is a free event on the streets of South Dearborn, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street in Chicago, IL. The literary festival will run from 10am-6pm on Saturday, 9/7, and Sunday, 9/8.
Saturday, September 7th @ 12pm (Center Stage): Printers Row Lit Fest with Exhibit B
Christian Aldana, Lindsay Hunter, Jessica Nirvana Ram, and Dan “Sully” Sullivan join Exhibit B for a special reading at the Midwest’s largest literary festival, Printers’ Row Lit Festival!
Sunday, September 8th @ 4pm (Center Stage): Annie Allen — Now: A Conversation
As its 75th anniversary approaches, Nora Brooks Blakely (Brooks Permissions) and Reginald Gibbons (Northwestern University) discuss the modern relevance and contemporary ideas from Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-wining book Annie Allen.
Program moderated by Adrian Matejka, Editor of Poetry magazine.
