With February being a month for love, we’ve got a tonic for you lovers of Chicago literature. Let’s just call it a love potion—a match made in heaven: The Guild Lit Complex is excited to be partnering with Columbia College for Story Week 2014. Our new-found relationship is blossoming with events to celebrate Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods…
This winter, the Guild is getting out and around just about every week. Kinda like a doctor making house calls, and if you think of the Guild as a literary tonic, that’s not far from the truth. Join us this January as we round out the month’s programs with a lively Palabra Pura and a…
Palabra Pura is the longest running bilingual reading series in Chicago. When asked to curate November’s Palabra Pura “El Amor”, multimedia artist Miguel Lopez Lemus engaged this legacy by inviting past Palabra Pura participants to contribute an original, unpublished poem or essay on the theme of Amor. The resulting collection, Cantalogia I, is at once…
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED! The Guild Literary Complex is proud to announce an open submission period for our Annual Prose Awards. Every fall, the Guild Complex acknowledges emerging and established writers via a judged competition and recognition event at the historic Chopin Theatre in Chicago. A cash prize of $250 in each category (fiction and non-fiction)…
Join us Wednesday, July 17, for our monthly bilingual poetry night at La Bruquena Restaurant (2726 W. Division, 2nd Fl.). We will kick things off with an open mic at 7 pm followed by readings from Yolanda Nieves, Maya Emma Nnena Ruth Odim, and our July curater, Sandra Posadas. Be sure to check out our event page…
The Guild Literary Complex, Third World Press, and The American Writers Museum present the first annual BROOKSDAY at The Chicago Cultural Center! Join us, as we are creating the first annual marathon reading of the works of Gwendolyn Brooks on her birthday! We want to honor her tremendous legacy as an artist and an iconic figure of…
PALABRA PURA: “ONE POET / ONE POEM” Wednesday, Janurary 16, 7:30pm, FREE La Bruquena Restaurant (Upstairs), 2726 W. Division The Guild Literary Complex is pleased to kick off the eighth season of PALABRA PURA with “One Poet / One Poem”. Join us as past readers retake the stage to share their work in…
BUY TICKETS HERE. Pink slime. Bullets. Parking meters. Lead poisoning. Exes. Asbestos. Trash and trash talking. Poetry meets the stage in Unnatural Spaces – a fast-paced, often-funny look at the environmental choices we all make to eat, look beautiful, get around, stay on budget, and make it through the day. Unnatural Spaces is the latest…
We were sorry to wave goodbye to dear friends and fabulous staff members Andrea Pelose (Marketing) and Cathleen Nilles (Design), but they’ve graduated and are moving on to new opportunities. We wish them well! Meanwhile, we’re happy to introduce two new Guild team members: Anthony Romero (Marketing Assistant) and Jessi LeDonne (Design Intern). Anthony –…
Check out June’s events below, or visit our Calendar…
Did you miss our March “Applied Words/Social Activism” with Michelle Boyd, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard and Brenda Parker at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum? Well you can see it re-aired on community station cable channel CAN TV21 (or CAN TV19) in Chicago on the following dates: Monday, June 11th, 8:00 AM, Channel 19 Friday, June 15th,…
**THE WILDCARD VOTE IS NOW CLOSED – stay tuned for the June 5 announcement of the wildcard winner and other semifinalists who will compete in the final event June 18th!** Below are the 19 poems entered in the anonymous Facebook Wildcard Vote for this year’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. Listen and choose your favorite…
Thanks to all of you who applied – we’ll be notifying each of you of your status by the end of May.
Thanks to all of you who applied – we’ll be notifying each of you of your status by the end of May.
The Guild Literary Complex invites you to join us for our third annual benefit “Illuminate,” to be held Tuesday, May 8th, 6:30-9pm at the new DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago. This year’s theme is the art and craft of graphic novels and begins with cocktails and appetizers (6:30) followed by a panel…
2011 GBOMA contestants **PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for 2012’s competition is now closed; the final event will be held Monday, June 18th.** CLICK HERE to listen to the poems that entrants submitted for the FACEBOOK WILDCARD VOTE. The Guild Literary Complex is proud to announce its call for poetry submissions for the 19th Annual…
We’re introducing a new series devoted to writers who teach. Learn more about the launch event here.
This month’s events…
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