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A Month Of… I Don’t Know You, but You’re Great!

Come to our next Show! A Month Of…Storytelling Stage 773 1225 West Belmont Ave Wed. July 9th 7:30 Food 8:00 Stories $10 or free with a shared dish or story posted here. Facebook invite. After each A Month Of… the audience chooses a theme for the next show. And all month long the audience and …

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4 Places to Visit for the Chicago Bibliophile

While it always seems like there’s so much literary history in other cities like London and New York with the Sherlock Holmes’s and the Jay Gatsby’s, Chicago has it’s own rich history of famous authors and attractions that celebrate this history. The following are four places to visit this summer for the bibliophile looking for …

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Enjoy June with These Storytellers

Get the chance to get out of the comfort zone of your neighborhood and branch out to hear and tell your own stories with these events this June.  The following events are open to the public and range from all ages.  With many of the following events in different states it is good for storytellers …

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The Metaphorical Root Beer Float

There are stories that I like to consume and those I like to produce. Personally, I prefer to consume fiction and produce non-fiction. Almost every story I choose to tell is about something that really happened to me…with a little embellishment here and there for effect. So I don’t expect to enjoy listening to Andrew …

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21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition

Like Storyluck.org, the Guild Literary Complex is dedicated to giving diverse, emerging, and often under-served voices opportunities to share their creative work with the Chicago community. Much of this inspiration stems from African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks who spent much of her life writing in the South Side of Chicago and who collaborated with …

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A Month Of… I’ve Never Met You, but You’re Great!

A Month Of… Stage 773 1225 West Belmont Wed. July 9th $10 or Free With A shared dish or story posted here! Facebook invite I’ve Never Met You, but You’re Great! Stand on a busy sidewalk and compliment people. We have already started working on this task as a community. And our hosts are brainstorming …

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The Cruel World of Middle School

I’m a middle school teacher and a daily witness to some of the coolest, most awesome moments, but also some of the cruelest. Middle school can be an awkward place where everything you do is judged by your peers, parents, and teachers– or at least it can feel that way. So, I decided, why not …

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What a Find!

I thought it’d be mean to just glue a coin somewhere. All that does is make people sad. So instead I used an un-gettable coin to put a person in a position to see something they COULD get: a flash drive in sealed container. It took me a long time to decide what to put …

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208 Pennies for Your Thoughts

The way I see it, there are only a handful of ways coins end up on the sidewalk. Coins are either placed on the sidewalk intentionally or dropped on the sidewalk by neglect. In the case of the task, because the coins have to be glued, intention is implied. People who intentionally glue coins on …

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Gabrielle Zevin at this Year’s Printer’s Row Literary Festival

If you’re like me, you still indulge in young adult literature from time to time, and there’s no one better than Gabrielle Zevin to transform a story about an adolescent character into a relatable and deep-cutting story for all ages. I first read her novel Elsewhere in 2007, about a teenager who is killed in …

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