Rachel Natale currently lives, dances, and writes in Chicago. She recently received the James Charles Cox Memorial Award in English at Loyola University, and her work has been published in Treehouse Magazine.
Tuesday 7/7: Author Ben Tanzer (The New York Stories) and poet Jonathan Travelstead (How We Bury Our Dead) share their respective collections. Seth Berg and Rumpus Sunday Editor Zoe Zolbrod join them…
Friday 6/26: Horror writer Jonathan Ryan reads from Dark Bride, the newest installment in his 3 Gates of the Dead series. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Express yourself constructively at…
Friday 6/19: Poets Nate Klug and Anthony Opal present their respective collections, Anyone and ACTION, at Seminary Co-op. 6 p.m. Local writer Ben Tanzer reads from The New York Stories:…
Friday 6/12: Live lit, loud laughs—The Kates! The Book Cellar, 7 p.m. Those chicks are on the loose again, this time featuring performers Liz Baudler, Niki Gee, Maggie Jenkins, and…
Friday 6/5: Mark Dostert discusses his memoir, Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago’s Other Side, with Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here). City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. CAKE…
Friday 5/29: Nathan Poole chats with Patricia Grace King about his short story collection, Father Brother Keeper. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m. Jessica Hopper discusses The First Collection of Criticism…
Friday 5/22: Witness Literature for All of Us, youth poetry bash style. Poetry Foundation, 1 p.m. City Lit Books welcomes David Masciotra and Kev Wright for an evening of Words…
Friday 5/15: Uncharted Books hosts “Technobabble,” a workshop for fiction writers and enthusiasts. To sign up, e-mail [email protected]. 6:30 p.m. The Book Cellar welcomes Tall Grass Writers Guild for an…
Friday 5/8: Zine writers, indie publishers, and comic artists gather for the sixth annual Chicago Zine Fest. Access Living, 5 p.m. Sandy Tolan talks Children of the Stone with Philip…
Friday 5/1: Nami Mun, Alec Nevala-Lee, Vu Tran, and Wailin Wong read at Open Books in a Celebration of Asian American Writers. Co-presented with the Chicago Writers Conference, 6 p.m.…
Friday 4/24: The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) opens at 11 a.m. and runs until Sunday at 5 p.m. You need to purchase tickets to attend the weekend-long event…
Friday 4/17: Head to Powell’s Bookstore for this month’s Bad Grammar Theater, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Farm Sanctuary co-founder and president Gene Baur provides the ultimate guide to mindful…