Category: Chicago Community Events
Free Tickets to the Laugh Factory
FREE TICKETS to all English students for the show Verified Laughs every Wednesday at 8pm from now until the end of October. Verified Laughs is a social media based stand up comedy show where the audience votes on the winner through Instagram and Facebook after watching a series of five minute sets from some of…Continue reading Free Tickets to the Laugh Factory
Alumni Spotlight!
June 2018 MAWP grad Cynthia Nwakudu is a finalist for the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award! The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). The competition culminates in a live semi-finals event at which the top contestants selected by guest judges perform…Continue reading Alumni Spotlight!
Sunday Salon Chicago: A Literary Series
May 20, 2018 7:00 PM Celtic Crown Public House 235 W Cullom Ave Chciago, IL 60618 For more info visit the Facebook event page here.
Chicago Women in Publishing Hosts Panel of Notable Designers & Illustrators
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Where: U.S. Bank Building (40th floor), 190 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60603 United States Registration: Register Online here
Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project
Modern Languages and Studio X have invited Isabella Magni, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Newberry Library, to lead the faculty and graduate student workshop Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project on Friday, May 18, 10AM-12PM (IdeaLab2 in the library, JTR 207). Breakfast will be served before the workshop. The hope is to gather…Continue reading Making a Digital Edition: Introduction to Text Encoding and the Petrarchive Project
2018 Langston Hughes Society Luncheon
The Langston Hughes Society will be holding a special roundtable on the poetry of social justice as well as their annual luncheon at the College Language Association Convention in Chicago next month. The luncheon is a highly anticipated event, this year featuring award-winning poet, Nikky Finney. Electronic registration is open on their website at http://www.langstonhughessociety.org/.
Sunday Salon Chicago March Reading
Join us for our early spring reading with five fantastic writers at the Celtic Crown! Sunday Salon Chicago March 25, 2018 7:00 P.M. Celtic Crown Public House 2356 W Cullom Ave Chicago, IL 60618 Google map Facebook event link
Off Campus Writers’ Workshop
The OCWW is inviting all MAE and MAWP students free of charge to a weekly meeting of the most prestigious writing workshop in the Chicago Area. Off Campus Writers Workshop (OCWW) is the oldest continuously running writing workshop in the country. They hold weekly workshops with published authors in different genres, plus screenwriters, and agents. Every week…Continue reading Off Campus Writers’ Workshop