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Schedule of Readers

**Upcoming in 2009**

Sunday, May 31, 2009

A Celebration of small presses! Newly released and local books by:

Gina Frangello,
London Calling
( Impetus Press)


Kyle Minor,
In the Devil's Territory
(Dzanc Books)
 

Kathleen Rooney,
Live Nude Girl 
(University of Arkansas Press)
 

Zach Plague,
Boring, boring, boring... (Featherproof Books)



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*2008*

January 27
Bruce Olds
Molly Dumbleton
Jill Pollack
Mike Zapata

Feb. 24
hibernating

March. 30
happy 2nd birthday,
Sunday Salon Chicago!
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Elizabeth Wetmore
Connor Coyne

April 27
Mahmoud Saeed
Sam Reaves
Lindsay Hunter

May 25
Celebrating Pilcrow Fest!
Chicago Literary Magazines Fiction Editors' Reading
featuring...
MakeMagazine: MikeZapata                                    Chicago Review, Robert Baird
Bruiser Review: Simon A. Smith

Fifth Wednesday Journal: Michael Newirth

June 29
A Reading by Students from Storystudio Chicago:
Philip Stone
Steven Sacks
Rahnee Patrick
Allyson Walters

July 27
Shannon Burke, Black Flies
Amy Guth, Three Fallen Women
Jill Summers
Ben Tanzer
, Lucky Man

August 24
Summer Vacation

September 28
Cancelled

October 26
Allison Amend
, Things That Pass for Love (OV Books)
Mickey Hess, Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory
Jane Hertenstein, Beyond Paradise, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady
Sharon Solwitz, Bloody Mary



November/December
Happy Holidays

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2009
Schedule to come...

from Brooklyn, NY comes...

Sunday Salon Chicago
Thank you all for coming out to hear our last reading of 2008! We'll see you back in the new year. Looking forward to our spring 2009 reading to honor and celebrate the wonderful and important work of small literary presses and their writers:

Sunday, May 31st: A Celebration of Small Presses! A reading from newly released and local books by:

Gina Frangello, London Calling ( Impetus Press)

Kyle Minor, In the Devil's Territory (Dzanc Books)
 

Kathleen Rooney, Live Nude Girl (University of Arkansas Press)
 

Zach Plague, Boring, boring, boring... (Featherproof Books)




UPCOMING...

You won't want to miss our last reading of the year. An amazing line-up! Come and join us...

Sunday, October 26th 7:30pm


Allison Amend was born in Chicago on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She attended Stanford University and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has received awards from and appeared in One Story, Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner and Other Voices, among other publications. Her debut short story collection, Things That Pass for Love, was published in October 2008 by OV Books. Visit her on the web at  www.allisonamend.com.

 


Mickey Hess
taught part-time for several universities in Kentucky and Indiana before moving to his current position as Assistant Professor of English at Rider University. His books include Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Music, Movement, and Culture (Greenwood, 2007), and Is Hip Hop Dead? The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music (Praeger, 2007). His writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, Punk Planet, and Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of McSweeney's Humor Category. He lives in Philadelphia.




Jane Hertenstein lives in Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood and has been involved in community building for the past twenty-five years. Jane has published three books: A young adult novel titled Beyond Paradise; Home is Where We Live, a picture book about life at a homeless shelter as seen through the eyes of a young girl; and Orphan Girl, the story of a bag lady Jane met at the shelter. Orphan Girl was highly praised in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Book Section as well as in other national review journals.


Sharon Solwitz's
story collection Blood and Milk (Sarabande, 1996) received the 1997 Carl Sandberg award and the Midland Author's prize for adult fiction, and was a finalist for the 1997 National Jewish Book Award. Her stories have been published widely; their awards include the Pushcart, the Nelson Algren and the Katherine Ann Porter. Her novel Bloody Mary (Sarabande, Inc.) came out in 2003. She teaches at Purdue University in W. Lafayette, and lives in Chicago, where she and her husband poet Barry Silesky edit Another Chicago Magazine.

 


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