Wasted Pages was an independent writing workshop, presented by CHIPRC until its closure in 2018. Write on.
It operated outside of the academic writing framework, which comes with a hefty price tag and aesthetic pretenses. Wasted Pages was an open-format workshop for both new and experienced writers. Participants submitted their work for commentary and critique from the group. The workshop is a community that supports expression, experimentation, and the free exchange of ideas. We aimed to provide a res
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12/27/2018
Wasted Pages alum and friend, Alison Thumel, has a new chapbook out from Chicago's own {dancing girl press & studio}!
[fearnotes] | alison thumel Alison Thumel is a Chicago-based writer. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, and Ninth Letter. Her first chapbook, LIFE OF, won Salt Hill’s Dead Lake Chapbook Contest in 2016. _____________________________________ [you are a near-death experience] If you hav...
11/18/2018
Struggling with ? That's OK: nobody's perfect! Pick up a pen tonight—it's too cold for anything else. ⛄
30 Pieces Of Writing Advice From Cheryl Strayed, Toni Morrison, & More If you’re one of the many writers trying your hand at NaNoWriMo this year, (that’s National Novel Writing Month, for the uninitiated) then you well know we’re approximately half way through the month of November — and hopefully, you’re well on your…
11/01/2018
Eat some Halloween candy and read this interview with Johnny Misfit about the running the CHI PRC in F Newsmagazine! 🍭🎃
Been There, Zine That An interview with Chicago Publishing Resource Center director John Wawrzaszek on the space's five-year run
09/20/2018
One of the Wasted Pages Writers' Workshop co-founders Ben Spies got his most recent workshopped story, Secret Fatalities, published in the literary journal The Disappointed Housewife. Congrats Ben!
Secret Fatalities ~ fiction by Ben Spies “It is real,” he said, “but you can only do it on the Sega Genesis version. It’s down-forward-A-B-down, or something.” The south Jersey sun was hot, and the community …
08/25/2018
We have special treats for attendees of today’s broadside workshop, our last at the CHI PRC! (It’s also Stan’s birthday.) 🍩
07/17/2018
Our home CHI PRC is hosting an afternoon of poetry this Saturday at 2pm. Poet and educator Paul Lubenkov, joined by Elizabeth Metzger Sampson (director of Chicago Poetry Center). Come on out WP alums. Free and open to the public!
07/14/2018
Thank you to everyone who braved rain, humidity, and inky hands to make it to today’s installment of Poetry By Design! If you couldn’t make it, there is another one coming up in August. ☀️
07/04/2018
Hey all, next Wasted Pages six-week fiction cohort starts July 23! Dust off those old stories you never got to share, or scribble up a new one! Space fills up fast. Email [email protected] to register!
06/09/2018
We’re at Printers Row Lit Fest! Swing by the CHI PRC table in the Poetry Foundation tent for special offers on our anthologies and to learn about our upcoming workshops. 📖
05/30/2018
Wasted Pages community member and cofacilitator of our sold-out upcoming workshop, Annabel Lang, has a great essay in Jet Fuel Review! 🎉🎉🎉
Annabel Lang Spring 2018 There was nothing about that land that wasn’t ugly and you could tell it didn’t mind. It was low and hot and flat and where roots reached down for soil they hit sand. If my early geography...