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Resources
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THE2NDHAND
Another Chicago Magazine
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Bruiser Review
Chicago Home and Garden
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Chicago Magazine
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Chicago Review
Chicago Weekly (@ University of Chicago)
Common Review
Conscious Choice
Contrary Magazine
Daily Herald
Gay Chicago
In These Times
Lumpen
Metromix Chicago
Make Magazine
Milk Mag
Mule magazine
No Touching magazine
Newcity Chicago
Other Voices Magazine
Poetry
Proximity Magazine
Red Eye newspaper
Rhino (Evanston)
Stop Smiling
Books: Time Out Chicago
TriQuarterly
Two with Water
UR Chicago
Venus Zine
Yoga Chicago
Book Publishers
Academy Chicago Publishers
Agate Publishing
Answer Tag Home Press
Arcadia Publishing
Book-Band
Center for American Places (Columbia College)
Chicago Review Press
Cracked Slab Books
Dancing Girl Press
Featherproof Books
Flood Editions
Fractal Edge Press
Front Forty Press
Great Books
Green Lantern Press
Haymarket Books
Independent Publishers Group
Ivan R. Dee
Kenning Editions
Lake Claremont Press
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Other Voices Books
Paper & Carriage
Puddin’head Press
Punk Planet
Sourcebooks
Switchback Books
Third World Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Illinois Press
Web
AREA Chicago (online newsletter that lists events)
Bookslut
Centerstage Chicago
Chicago Poetry
Chicagoist
Chicago Manual of Style online
Daily Candy
Gapers Block
Golden Rule Jones
Huffington Post: Chicago
ChicagoWrites
De-Extravaganza
Collective of Chicago Crime Writers
Mediabistro: Chicago
Pete Lit
Planet Esme Everything related to children’s literature, including occasional (and very popular) events.
Please Don’t
Poets Free Lunch An online, nonprofit publication, which “seeks to give all serious poets in the U.S. a free subscription.”
Shoot the Messinger
The Printed Blog
Venues
Barbara’s Bookstore
The Book Cellar
Chicago Public Library
Green Lantern
Quimby’s
Myopic Books
The Neighborhood Writing Alliance
The Newberry Library
Powell’s Bookstore
Seminary Co-op Bookstores/57th Street Books
Unabridged Bookstore
Women and Children First
Reading Series
The Bookslut Reading Series
The Danny’s Reading Series
Discrete Reading Series
The Dollar Store
Literary Gangs of Chicago
Myopic Poetry and Fiction Series
Nextbook
Parlor Reads
Reading Under the Influence
The Reconstruction Room
The Red Rover Reading Series
Second Story
Series A
Story Club A story-based open mic that is being held at a monthly basis at Uncommon Ground with featured performers.
Sunday Salon Chicago
The University of Chicago Committee on Creative Writing
Tuesday Funk The Gothic Funk Reading Series (first Tuesday of every month).
Twilight Tales
Benificent Organizations, Most of Which Host Events
826 Chicago
The American Library Association
Association for Women Journalists, Chicago
Chicago Artists Resource
Chicago Publisher’s Gallery
Chicago Women in Publishing
The Guild Complex
I Love Libraries
The Poetry Center of Chicago
The Poetry Foundation
Printer’s Ball
The Public Square
Ragdale Foundation
Society of Midland Authors
Story Studio Chicago
Uptown Writer’s Space
The Writers Workspace
Young Chicago Authors
Festivals
Chicago Humanities Festival
Printer’s Row Book Fair
Midwest Literary Arts Festival
Pilcrow Literary Festival
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