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2017 Author’s Challenge Grant is here!
Dear Friends of the Guild, The 2017 Author’s Challenge Grant is here! For us, our camaraderie with authors here in Chicago is one of the brightest and most powerful reasons for our ongoing work, and we are so grateful to be able to continue sharing new voices with each and every one of you. As…
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Transnational Poetics, Reading and Conversation | Chopin Theatre | Nov. 5, 2017 | 6:00 PM
THE GUILD PRESENTS A CONVERSATION ON TRANSNATIONAL POETICS Sunday November 5th 2017, 6:00 PM- 7:30 PM Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60642 STUART COOKE | NATANIA ROSENFELD | TONI NEALIE Please join the Guild LIterary Complex in a conversation with authors and poets Stuart Cooke, Natania Rosenfeld, and Toni Nealie as we journey…
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Brooks In Translation | Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Brooks In Translation | Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Come for a night of bilingual Brooks with poetry, music, conversation, and more! Join the Guild Literary Complex in partnership with Our Miss Brooks 100, Brooks Permissions, Chicago Community Trust, and the Chicago Public Library as we bring you a very special Palabra Pura celebrating the life…
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GBOMA Semi-Finalists Announced
The 24th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards Semi-Finalists Are Announced! They are in alphabetical order by last name: Bianca Lisa Araujo | The Fusion of Fault Lines Jocelyn Ajami | “Still Until” Asia Calcagno | “Song From the street, A Golden Shovel Poem” Hannah Cantafio | “The Cure” Suman Chhabra | “Thin” Apple Rhodes Gunther |…
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CHICAGO CITY OF REFUGE INITIATIVE Readings and Remembrance, Oct 15th
CHICAGO CITY OF REFUGE INITIATIVE Readings and Remembrance: Writing and Witness with WENDY PEARLMAN | LUCINA KATHMANN interviewed by Unoma Azuah and Riad Ismat Please join the Chicago City of Refuge Initiative as we discuss writing as an act of witness as Chicago City of Refuge writers Unoma Azuah and Riad Ismat interview scholar Wendy…
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Community in Place – Audrey Petty & Vida Cross, Sunday Sept 17th
Sunday Sept 17th, 6:30 PM- 8:00 PM Volumes Bookscafe | 1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622 Join The Guild Literary Complex and Partner Volumes Bookcafe during Wicker Park Lit Fest weekend for a reading/conversation about Community of Place with the amazing Audrey Petty and Vida Cross. Vida Cross is a blues poet. Her work…
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Falling for Gwendolyn Brooks — This Sunday, September 17th!
Falling for Gwendolyn Brooks! With Brooks Permissions Sunday, September 17th, 2017 4:30-6:30 PM The celebration of the Gwendolyn Brooks centennial continues with a special look at the fall section of SEASONS: A Gwendolyn Brooks Experience. SEASONS is a unique look at the life and work of Ms. Brooks in this new book filled with thematic…
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GBOMA Submissions are OPEN! Deadline extended to Sept 10th –get moving folks
Exciting Announcement 24th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards 2017 SUBMISSIONS Extended to Sunday, September 10th at 11:59 PM! The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition is open to Illinois residents aged 18 and older. This annual event is always a crown pleaser with past winners including the esteemed poets Sename Amagashie, Lucy Anderton, Tara Betts, C.C….
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BrooksDay@Nite Photos are here. Check them out!
BrooksDay@Nite was a spectacular event held on June 7th celebrating the centennial Birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks on her actually 100th birthday, with one hundred one-minute performances, reception, and more. Presenters for BrooksDay@Nite included: Tyehimba Jess, Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, Nate Marshall, Kevin Coval, Marcus Dunlevy, Runako Jahi, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Patricia Smith ,Tara Betts, C. Russell Price,…
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Applied Words: Gender and the Arts | June 22 5:30-7:30 PM
Join us as C. Russell Price leads a panel that will start to tackle questions about gender and the arts like, “How does an increasingly gender inclusive society affect the way younger artists represent themselves in their life and in their work? What advantages and challenges will present themselves [in the art world] as a…
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A Very Special Palabra Pura with Latinx Poets Dr. Grisel Acosta & Vincent Toro, June 22, 7:00-9:00 PM
Join us for a very special Palabra Pura with Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta and Vincent Toro–two amazing Latinx poets in from NYC!–as we talk about memory, language and the way mythology moves through the modern experience. __________ Where: Pint Chicago 1547 North Milwaukee Avenue, Wicker Park, 60622 Thursday June 22 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM…
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Let the 50th Celebrations Begin: Guild Books Remembered, Lit Forward
Let the 50th Celebrations Begin: Guild Books Remembered, Lit Forward We are kicking off the 50th anniversary celebrations of Guild Books’s beginning. When, you ask? Sunday, May 21, 2017! 2 to 4 pm! Come, celebrate the vitality of independent literature and appraise how literature continues to contribute to social transformation at a time so different from…
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April Applied Words: Class and Opportunity, April 27th, 7:00-9:30 PM
Applied Words: Class and Opportunity, Hosted by the Guild Literary Complex Thursday, April 27th, 2017 7:00-9:30 PM filmfront, 1740 W 18th St, Pilsen, Chicago, Illinois, 60608 April’s Applied Words event, hosted by the Guild Literary Complex, combines a performance and a panel looking at access and the arts. This month’s performance includes multimedia pieces curated by…
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Of the Cuban Diaspora: Venturous Journeys among gluttOny and sniFFs
Join the Guild Literary Complex Wednesday, April 12th for Palabra Pura 7:30-9:30 PM La Bruquena 2726 West Division Street, Humboldt Park, Chicago, 60622 ~ FOR A SPECIAL EVENT~ Of the Cuban Diaspora: Venturous Journeys among gluttOny and sniFFs Jesús J. Barquet and om ulloa, both poets of the Cuban diaspora, will present new works where…
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Voices of Protest and Chicago City of Refuge in the Chicago Reader, with Osama Alomar and Aimee Levitt
Osama Alomar on the cover of the Chicago Reader this week. “Osama Alomar describes the Syrian conflict one very short story at a time. The emigre writer looks for peace of mind in America.” By Aimee Levitt @aimeelevitt, The Chicago Reader April 6, 2017 “When the writer Osama Alomar emigrated from Syria to Chicago in 2008, he…
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A Poet, A Novelist and an Essayist Walk Into a Bar…
You Haven’t Heard This One Before … Dear friends of the Guild Literary Complex, A Poet, A Novelist and an Essayist Walk Into a Bar… No, really, you haven’t heard this one before! Why? Because it’s the theme for the Guild Literary Complex’s annual benefit, “A Poet, A Novelist and an Essayist Walk Into a…
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Palabra Pura: Of the Cuban Diaspora: Venturous Journeys among gluttOny and sniFFs
Join the Guild Literary Complex For our April Palabra Pura Of the Cuban Diaspora: Venturous Journeys among gluttOny and sniFFs April 12, 7:30 – 9:30 PM La Bruquena Restaurant 2726 West Division Street, Chicago, Illinois 60622 Of the Cuban Diaspora: Venturous Journeys among gluttOny and sniFFs Jesús J. Barquet and om ulloa, both poets of the Cuban…
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Applied Words: Intersectional Women’s Issues and Representation in the Media, March 14, Columbia College Chicago
Applied Words Intersectional Women’s Issues and Representation in the Media Join us Tuesday March 14, 2017 6:30 PM-9:30 PM Columbia College Chicago, Conaway Center 1104 South Wabash Chicago, 60605 This month Applied Words looks at how women are represented in film, music, television and other popular media and what lasting effects these portrayals leave on…
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Applied Words is Back, Tonight at Chopin Theatre with a conversation around Segregation and Education in Chicago, and the impact of the Arts
Applied Words is back! Language is adhesive. By connecting artists and experts in various fields of study, Applied Words uses language as a platform for conversations about contemporary social issues at the local, national, and international level. Language takes on many forms such as words, dance, and visual art and in showcasing these languages alongside…
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Palabra Pura is Back with our 12th Season! Kicking off February 15, 2017, Love and Cólera/Rage with special performance by Marcus Dunleavy
Wednesday February 15, 2017 ~ 7:30-9:30 PM La Bruquena, 2726 West Division Street, Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois 60622 Each year the Guild Literary Complex opens the Palabra Program with readings by some of our wonderful Palabra Pura alumni. This year, on Wednesday, February 15, we’re kicking off SEASON 12 of Palabra Pura, the bilingual reading series…
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February 9th, Washington DC: Brooks Books at AWP with Guild Complex, Brooks Permissions, and The Golden Shovel Anthology
Join Guild Literary Complex, 826DC, University of Arkansas Press, The editors of the Golden Shovel Anthology: Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, Curbside Splendor Publishing, & Brooks Permissions To celebrate the launch of THREE brand new anthologies Honoring the work and legacy of the legendary Gwendolyn Brooks. Featuring performances by Terrance Hayes, Dottie Lasky, Kwame…
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Leon Forrest Prose Awards Finalists Are …
For Non-Fiction: “Ruminants” Brianne LaPelusa is a writer and artist living in Chicago. The current focus of her work involves the relationships between human and nonhuman animals, environments, bodies, technology, industry, mental illness, and witness. She is currently working on her thesis as an M.F.A. candidate in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College. …
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Leon Forrest Prose Awards Semi-Finalists Announced
Thank you to all of our contestants in the first Leon Forrest Prose Awards, & congratulations to our six semi-finalists! Semi-finalists in Fiction are Jerry Armour, by Kelly Xintaris Soaking, by Adam Mrjoian The Me Zone, by John Green Semi-finalists in Non-fiction are: Climbing the Pain Scale, by Kelsey Wiora Daughters Must Have Their Own Agendas,…
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Writers Resist with the Guild Literary Complex on January 15, 2017
Come out January 15, 2017, to join the Guild Literary Complex for a night of poetry that speaks to resistance and the need for social change. The Guild Literary Complex, one of Chicago’s oldest literary organizations, is proud to take part in Chicago #WRITERS RESIST, a day of readings and community events taking place across…
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You are invited to a Thank You to YOU Party
On December 8th, 2016, 6:00-9:00 PM we hope you will join us for a Thank you to You Party~ Uptown Lounge is helping the Guild throw a party to celebrate all things Guild, all things literary, all things Chicago, friendships, and most importantly you! The Guild Literary Complex wants to end the year with all…
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Annual Authors Challenge Grant is Issued
An appeal from the Board President Dear friends, As we witness the disturbing intolerance toward people and ideas that diverge from the mainstream, the work of the Guild Literary Complex has never been more important than it is right now. For the past 27 years the marginalized voices of women, people of color, people of different…
