Columbia College Chicago Creative Writing Department presents the 19th Story Week Festival of Writers from 15- 21 March, 2015
From Sunday, March 16 through Saturday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presents its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 will offer six days that are jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored in part by the Chicago Public Library, Chicago Cultural Center, and Metro.
07/30/2015
Marlon James!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/29/man-booker-prize-2015-the-longlist-in-pictures
Man Booker prize 2015: the longlist - in pictures Man Booker prize 2015 longlist released
06/04/2015
Folks we love:http://lit.newcity.com/2015/06/04/lit-50-2015-who-really-books-in-chicago/
Lit 50 2015: Who Really Books in Chicago | Newcity Lit If there’s one thing that was made abundantly clear in polling the literati for this year’s Lit 50 list, it’s that the Chicago literary scene is an incredibly
04/01/2015
Columbia College’s Story Week Festival 2015 | Newcity Lit Relevancy and Change in Columbia College’s Annual Story Week Festival.
03/23/2015
Still can't get enough? Chicago Humanities Festival has Scott Simon coming up on April 9.
http://chicagohumanities.org/events/2015/spring/scott-simon
Scott Simon | Chicago Humanities Festival Scott Simon discusses his latest novel, "Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime," based on the tweets he sent out about his mother from her bedside during her final days.
03/23/2015
Building Worlds with Words: Science Fiction and Fantasy at StoryWeek a review by Elena Colás The light, airy eighth floor of Columbia College was already buzzing with students, by the time I arrived nearly forty-five minutes early for “The Real Within the Unreal,” a conversation about scie...
Thanks for coming to Story Week. See you next year!
03/20/2015
Joshua Lukasik reviews the StoryWeek panel Turning Issues into Stories Sitting onstage in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, the host, Johnny Temple, owner of Akashic Books, began the discussion by asking Marlon James and Bernice F. McFadden about the use of historical ev...
03/20/2015
An Evening with Edwidge Danticat by Elena Colás The crowd in the Pritzker Auditorium of Harold Washington Library was made up of about equal parts college students and elderly ladies, the two pillars of the public library system. I found myself ...
03/19/2015
Today: YA Fiction, Turning Issues Into Story, Playwrights, publishing bootcamps. See schedule at www.colum.edu/storyweek
Publishing boot camps today
03/17/2015
GO NOW! Film Row Cinema: Arnie Bernstein, Susan Hope Lanier, Cyn Vargas (pictured.)