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Uncharted: a “25 Writers to Watch” kick-off
02/25/2015 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
As part of the Guild’s 25th anniversary last year, we highlighted 25 Chicago area Writers to Watch. This year, we program all of them—starting now!
“Uncharted” features readings by Eric Charles May, Coya Paz, Roger Reeves, and Kathleen Rooney. The theme is an open field for the imagination, but expect to hear stories about adventure, wandering, crossing boundaries, and more.
Uncharted is pay-what-you-can ($5 suggested donation). Audience contributions support honorariums for featured authors.
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VENUE: Schubas Tavern, 3159 North Southport Avenue (21+ venue)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Eric Charles May is the author of the novel Bedrock Faith. An associate professor in the Fiction Writing Program at Columbia College Chicago and a former reporter for The Washington Post, his fiction and nonfiction have been published in such literary anthologies as Criminal Class Review, Briefly Knocked Unconscious By a Low-flying Duck, Fish Stories: Collective I, Sport Literate, Angels in My Oven, and f Magazine. His writing has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
Coya Paz is a poet, Artistic Director of Free Street Theater, and an Assistant Professor in the Theatre School at DePaul University. She is also a founding member of Proyecto Latina, and the co-founder of Teatro Luna, where she served as co-Artistic Director from 2000-2009. Recent projects include Nerds, Sluts, (Commies) and Jocks and DOPE at Free Street Theater, and The Americans, based on interviews. Coya holds a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and is a regular commentator on race, media, and pop culture for Vocalo.org (FM 90.7).
Awarded a 2014-2015 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Roger Reeves’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry, Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, and 2014 Pushcart Prize. King Me, his first book of poems, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2013. He is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. The author of seven books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, she is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Award from Poetry magazine and her novel in poems Robinson Alone (Gold Wake, 2012) won the Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry. Her debut novel O, Democracy! has just been released by Fifth Star Press. Her latest chapbook with Elisa Gabbert is The Kind of Beauty that has Nowhere to Go (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013), and recent essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Sun Times, Salon, The Believer, Coldfront and The Rumpus.
ABOUT THE VENUE
A diverse line-up of live music seven nights a week. Indie Rock, Folk, Country, Rap, Jazz– it’s all here at Schubas. And food, too. Schubas is located at 3159 N Southport.