Quraysh Ali Lansana at Volumes Bookscafe Saturday!
Join us the weekend of Wicker Park & West Town Lit Fest for a special reading from the newest book from the amazing Quraysh Ali Lansana! He will be reading […]
Fuller Award Celebrating Rosellen Brown, October 6th, 7:00-9:00 at Poetry Foundation
Join the Guild Literary Complex, The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, and the Poetry Foundation as we celebrate the great writers of Chicago. This year we are celebrating one of […]
Wicker Park and West Town Lit Fest Sept 15-18
The Guild Literary Complex is back for our Fall 2016 season! Launching us off is the Wicker Park and West Town Lit Fest, September 15-18th with Guild Events partnered with Volumes […]
Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic awards submissions EXTENDED to September 15, 2016
Call for 2016 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic awards submissions DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 15th! Guild Literary Complex announces its open call for poetry submissions for the 23rd Annual Gwendolyn Brooks […]
Palabra Pura: A Night of Corridos
The Guild Literary Complex presents: PALABRA PURA: A Night of Corridos July 20, 2016 7:30 – 9:00 PM, La Catrina Cafe 1011 W 18th St, Chicago, Illinois 60608 Hosted by Juan […]
4th Annual BrooksDay is Here! Join us June 7th, Chicago Cultural Center
Tuesday, June 7, 2016, Time: 10:00 am until 6:00 pm Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602. Join us for the fourth annual BrooksDay, celebrating the works […]
May 26th! Artist Talk on music, Mary J. Blige, race and the role of women in the artistic markets, meets with RAP 101
Thursday May 26, 2016. Wicker Park Chicago Guild Literary Complex Presents: Where Margins Meet 5:30 – 7:30 PM Artist Talk with Danny Alexander, Volumes Bookcafe 7:30 Door, 8:00 – 9:45 […]
Palabra Pura with Miguel López Lemus of Lobo Estepario Press:
Palabra Pura with Miguel López Lemus of Lobo Estepario Press presents: Palabra Pura as part of the Guild Literary Complex Una noche bohemia. A bohemian night. Poetry, song, music, storytelling […]
Guild Literary Complex Invites you to a BrooksDay Preview at the MCA
The 4th Annual BrooksDay is right around the corner, and to pique your interest the Guild Literary Complex in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a preview […]
RAP 101, Chicagos newest DIY underground music scene
Welcome to Chicago’s newest DIY underground hip-hop event. On the last Thursday of the month (August and December excluded) the Guild Literary Complex hosts an a cappella hip-hop series with […]
Palabra Pura Curated by Ricardo Gamboa, March 16
Palabra Pura March 16, 2016 ~ “Turnt in Relevant Opacity” With THIS MONTH’S CURATOR: RICARDO GAMBOA Ricardo is an artist, activist, and an academic working in his native town […]
We are back! The Guild welcomes 2016, opening with Palabra Pura
This year opens with a splash on Wednesday, January 2oth! The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the 11th season of PALABRA PURA returning with “One Poet / One […]
Announcing the 2015 Prose Awards Semi-Finalists!
The Guild Literary Complex is proud to announce the three semi-finalists from each category who will read their work at our Annual Prose Awards event.
Cozy Up with Rare Books in November!
Rare Book Auction To Support The Guild The nights are getting longer, making it a perfect time to settle in with a good book. And November provides a unique opportunity for book lovers: […]
Get in on our final summer events!
July includes our last hurrah before we take a little summer vacation, so be sure to join us for this month’s Palabra Pura (July 15), curated by Ruben Quesada, and […]
April Lit Forecast at the Guild Complex
This month’s forecast includes vast geography, musicality, and respect, all played out in the first three weeks. Outside temperatures may vary, but the artists and projects featured by the Guild […]
Lions all month long
March roars like a lion all month long. No lambs about it. The Guild means business. And it begins with a Voices of Protest “Home Edition” on Thursday, March 12. […]
Be Embraced
February is a winter month of storms (check), sub-zero temperatures (check), and gray skies (check). While the Guild doesn’t control the weather, every month we program events that bring people […]
New Year Greetings with news and notes
Happy new year to you! All of us at the Guild wish you a happy, healthy, and productive 2015. For our part, we’ll work on “productive” with a January party […]
Celebrating in November
It’s November! Time to recover from your Halloween-candy coma with a trio of festive Guild Literary Complex events! But before we put our party hats on, we want to remind […]
October begins now
You know the saying good things come in pairs? We couldn’t agree more and this month we have quite the literary duo – Palabra Pura: Want and our Annual Prose […]
We’re Back!
…and we’re ready to kick off the fall with a whole month of spotlighted readings and events—but not to fret, we won’t kill your grooves. We’ll keep them going. First […]
The Guild Goes Dark in August
So far, 2014 has been one of the best in our 25-year history. It’s only July, and we’ve put on as many events as we did in the entirety of […]
Congratulations to the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Participants!
To put it short: We are overwhelmed by last night’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award & Reading. Chicagoist offered up their thoughts: “If you attend one poetry reading a year, […]
July is for Lovers of Poetry
Well, July is for lovers of many things: Bike riding, beaches, camping, gardening, back porches, front porches, other people’s pools…and, yes, poetry. Until we can book a spot for a […]
June? Yes, please.
June is here! Our Director John Rich took a trip to Slovenia to attend the International Cities of Refuge Network conference, our Marketing Coordinator finished up her Master’s program, and […]
ANNOUNCING 25 WRITERS TO WATCH
Our 25th Anniversary benefit, REVEAL, is just two weeks away. Originally, we thought we’d wait for the big day to announce our 25 Writers to Watch—a collaboratively-assembled list of 25 […]
The Poetics of Speaking Freely
The Guild’s commitment to spotlighting divergent voices extends beyond the borders of Chicago in Voices of Protest. On April 25 and 26, the Guild brings Manal Al-Sheikh (Iraq) and Mazen […]
Things That Are Important
That title is a bit vague, but we’ve booked April with events that encompass a lot of what the Guild values: International perspectives, freedom of speech, access to what nourishes […]
Lucky Number 7
They say seven is a lucky number—well, we are co-producing seven, (yes, seven) events in March to get everyone ready for spring! Call it the luck of the Irish, but […]