Tuesday Funk started the year off right, with a full house and five great readers! Michelle Young told a story about buying her home and the safety it made her feel. Next, Carole Hodorowicz shared a story of a young...  read

Andrew Huff has been a PR professional, a journalist, the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, a professional blogger for a ghost hunter "reality" show, and host of 20x2 Chicago, a show in which 20 interesting people have two minutes...  read

James Gordon is an award winning actor, author, Poet, and champion storyteller. He has written over 20 books across the genres poetry, children's, and mystery and suspense. James is a member and Facilitator of Artistic Cabal called Act Pack Dark....  read

Michelle Young started telling stories and performing as a stand-up comic right before Covid. Post-pandemic, she has performed at various curated storytelling events throughout Chicagoland. Michelle also co-hosts Do Not Submit, a Storytelling Open Mic at Friendly’s in Berwyn, and...  read

Born and raised in Chicago, Carole Hodorowicz has always loved reading and writing. She went to college at Eastern Illinois University, where she studied journalism and English. Please join Carole and our other fantastic readers on Tuesday, January 7, 2025...  read

Kathryn Kruse is the director of Residency on the Farm, an interdisciplinary artists’ residency program. In February her collection of short stories, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone, is debuting from Jackleg Press. Her work has...  read

Start the new year off with some great live lit! Chicago's favorite eclectic monthly reading series returns to the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Jan. 7, with stories and readings by James Gordon, Andrew Huff, Kathryn Kruse, Mare Swallow...  read