Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, August 4th: WILLIAM ALLEGREZZA edits the e-zine Moria and the press Cracked Slab Books. He has published five books, In the Weaver's Valley, Ladders in July, Fragile Replacements, Collective Instant, and...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, July 7th: MEGAN FERRELL moved to Chicago from St. Louis almost four years ago, and still won't become a Cubs fan. She earned a B.A. in English from Truman State University...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, June 2nd: KRISTIN FITZSIMMONS received her MA from the University of Chicago in 2008. She is currently an Americorps member at the Hull House Association in Uptown where she teaches English...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, April 7th: ELISABETH BLAIR is a folk vocalist and songwriter. She will be performing as the main vocalist in a performance art piece called "ALAS" May 1, 2, and 3 at...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, March 3rd: Originally from Michigan, JOSEPH GIBSON IRVIN earned his MFA from New School University in New York City. His first novel, A FENCE WE CAN CLIMB, is a midwestern gothic...  read

Tuesday Funk #10 Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, February 3rd: LYNN SUH: Born in Cambridge (MA), and raised in Paris, Chicago, and Seoul (Korea), Lynn has been a bit of a vagabond with few constants in...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, January 6th: SPENCER DEW is the author of the story collection Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008). His fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals. He is a regular reviewer...  read

Please join us at Flourish on Tuesday, November 11th for a special Love-themed Tuesday Funk. Dancing Girl Press founder KRISTY BOWEN commissioned fifteen poets to imagine the love letter and sold them boxed together under the title billet-doux. The result...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, October 7th: BRYAN ALASPA Bryan Alaspa has been writing in one form or another since he first sat down in front of his mother's electric typewriter in the third grade. At...  read

Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, September 9th: JOTHAM BURRELLO teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College where he directs the publishing lab. His work has appeared in literary journals, many of which you have...  read