Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel, The Enhancers, forthcoming from Meekling Press. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, Tin House, NY Tyrant, and MAKE, and has been recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and is a staff writer for The Millions. She writes, lives, and occasionally dispenses pharmaceuticals in Chicago.

Please join Anne and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

Robbie Q. Telfer is a writer, performer, and teaching artist in Chicago. His work has appeared in hundreds of places and yet he still feels empty inside. He’s been an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam and has a collection of poetry from Write Bloody Publishing. He runs a bi-weekly writing workshop webinar called More of a Comment Than a Question and he works for The Morton Arboretum and Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves trying to help the wild spaces of Illinois.

Please join Robbie and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

William Harold Holbrook is a writer, teacher, and homemaker originally from Painesville, Ohio who now lives in Evanston. He is the creator and curator of The Old-Time Moan, an online gallery of orphaned and found photographs collected from flea markets and antique stores across the Midwest. He is currently working on a memoir about growing up in northeast Ohio and the trauma associated with that. You can find him on Instagram @misterbyl and @theoldtimemoan.

Please join William and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

We hope to get back to Hopleaf really really soon, but until then, we have a SPECIAL show for you on Tuesday, October 11! It will be outdoors on the patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball), and will feature your co-hosts Andrew Huff & Eden Robins, Anne K. Yoder, Robbie Q. Telfer, and TF newcomer William Harold Holbrook!

The show will begin at 7:30pm, bring a coat and a 21+ friend and your cocktail-drinkin' pants, and RSVP on Facebook!

While the prerecorded shows on YouTube have been fun, they are quite a bit more work than our live show, both for the cohosts and the readers, and they're no replacement for being together with all our friends and fans in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf. So, sadly, until we can safely do the show in person again, Tuesday Funk is going on hiatus.

Hopefully that day will come soon. In the meantime, please be safe, wear a mask, and vote.

Tuesday Funk on the first of September once again happened on our YouTube page, but that didn't slow down our readers. Maggie Kast started us off with a portion of a novella in her new book, Side By Side But Never Face To Face. Next Veronica Arreola read an essay about what she means when she says she's a "professional feminist." Then Keidra Chaney shared a story about nurturing and hate in gardening.

After a brief intermission, Kathleen Rooney read an excerpt of her new novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Rayshauna Gray closed out our evening with an essay about the history of the Roseland neighborhood and her family's history in it. You can watch the whole show below.

Tuesday Funk is going to go on temporary hiatus, so this is the last show for a little while. Keep an eye on this site and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to be alerted as to when your favorite eclectic monthly reading series will return.

Join us tonight at 7:30pm on YouTube Live for readings by Kathleen Rooney, Veronica Arreola, Rayshauna Gray, Keidra Chaney and Maggie Kast!

Rayshauna Gray enjoys reading, writing, and doing fun stuff with her friends. She's jazzed about her work with Harvard, the Cambridge Historical Society, Boston Book Festival, and the National Organization for Women's legislative task force. When she's not chronicling life lessons, she's petting dogs and trying to get birds to come home with her.

Please join Rayshauna and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, on the Tuesday Funk YouTube channel. The show starts at 7:30 pm. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poems on demand. Her most recent books include the novel Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin's Press, 2017) and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte (Spork Press, 2018). Her reviews and criticism appear in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Chicago magazine, and her World War I novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey has just been released by Penguin and is purchasable here.

Please join Kathleen and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, on the Tuesday Funk YouTube channel. The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!.

Veronica I. Arreola is a professional feminist, writer, and soccer mom. Veronica's writing has been featured in USA Today, New York Times, as well as Bitch Media where she serves on the board of directors. Veronica's pandemic project was to jump into the podcast pool with "The Feminist Agenda" where she talks to other professional feminists about their work and how they stay organized. By day she works on diversity in science issues at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Veronica is the founder of the 50th Ward Action Network, a collective of politically-minded neighbors on the far northside of Chicago where she lives with her husband and their high school senior (!!). You can find her on Twitter & Instagram at @veronicaeye.

Please join Veronica and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, on the Tuesday Funk YouTube channel. The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!.