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from Brooklyn, NY comes...Sunday Salon Chicago
UPCOMING...
Sunday, May 25th In celebration of Pilcrow Fest... Local Literary Magazines: A Fiction Editors' Reading Come check out our local literary magazines, pick up an issue, and hear the editors read their own work! featuring editors from the following local magazines... Another Chicago Magazine, Sharon Solwitz MakeMagazine, MikeZapata Chicago Review, Bobby Baird Bruiser Review: Simon A. Smith Fifth Wednesday Journal, Guest editor Another Chicago Magazine: 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. Mike Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is co-founder, co-publisher, and fiction editor for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. He has produced and written for comedy revues at Second City's Donny's Skybox, The Viaduct, The Trap Door Theater, and the Apollo Theater Chicago, and is co-creator, co-writer of the television pilot Settling Up. He is also a 2008 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient for Prose. Currently, he is working on novel which takes place in Chicago, New Orleans, and Quito, Ecuador. Chicago Review: Robert P. Baird is the editor of Chicago Review and a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Bookforum, and Chicago Magazine.
Bruiser Review: Simon A. Smith is the editor of Bruiser Review. In a past life, he was a regular contributor for Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight program. His fiction has appeared in Look-Look Magazine, Storyglossia, Dogzplot, Banana King, The Columbia Chronicle, Insolent Rudder and a few others. He is currently working on his first novel, Escape From Dreamland, and hopes to have it finished by the end of this year.
Fifth Wednesday Journal: Michael Newirth is guest fiction editor of the current issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal. He was fiction editor of Bridge Magazine prior to its 2006 demise. His stories, essays, and reviews appear in numerous publications and anthologies, including Other Voices, Another Chicago Magazine, Open City, Time Out Chicago, The Baffler, Pushcart Prize XXII, and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy. * |
The Sunday Salon
A Prose Reading Series
WHEN: The LAST Sunday WHERE: The Charleston bar Join our mailing list or contact us about reading... Read a Review of Sunday Salon at new midwest lit mags to check out: Chicago's Make Magazine www.makemag.com Lisle, Illinois' Fifth Wednesday Journal www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com Madison, Wisconsin's Ugly Accent www.uglyaccent.com Check out Chicago Literary Happenings @ www.literago.org |
