Guild Literary Complex

Latest Past Events

2013 Prose Awards

Chopin Theater 1543 W Division

Every fall we recognize outstanding short fiction and non-fiction from across the State of Illinois and award $250 cash prizes to one outstanding writer in each category. Please join us on October 23, 7:30 pm, at the Chopin Theater, located at 1543 W. Division Street, as we celebrate the authors at a special reading and […]

$5 – $7

Applied Words: Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan

The Original Sears Tower 930 S. Homan Ave.

If urban design is the language of the city, where is the story – and who tells it? In "Re-Built: Writers on Architecture and the Urban Plan" the Guild Literary Complex presents Chicago authors examining human-scale relationships with the built environment, the history of Homan Square, and what comes next. This reading is part of […]

Poetry: What’s Class Got To Do With It??!!

Lunt Lake Co-op Apartments (Community Room) 1138 W Lunt, Chicago

A reading on the theme of “working class poetry,” this is a program of Occupy Rogers Park Chicago and is co-sponsored by Guild Complex and Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies. Featured readers include poet and scholar Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and poet Adam Gottlieb. An open mic begins the program, so bring your own poetry related […]

Free