Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage (On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.) Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Samira Ahmed is The New York Times bestselling author of ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Christian Aldana (they/she) is the author of The Water We Swim In (Sampaguita Press, 2023) They are a Filipinx artist, educator, and community ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Ignatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. He is the author of the novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books) and Salt Pruning, ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer and literary translator in Chicago. She received an NEA fellowship for her work on ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Erisa Apantaku (she/her) is a Black/biracial, queer journalist, filmmaker, and educator from the lands of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ottawa, Ojibwe, ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Zukauskas) has been trapped on planet earth since 1973. He’s an award winning writer.

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 3:30pm Heather Augustyn is Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing at Purdue University Northwest. She is author of eight books ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Ben Austen is the author of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change, which was named one of the best books ... Read more

Jazz Showcase Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4:30pm Diego Báez is a writer, educator, and abolitionist. He is the author of Yaguareté White (Univ. of Arizona, 2024). He is the ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Peter C. Baker's first novel, Planes, was published in 2022. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of ... Read more

Center Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 1pm Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu writes to explore her identity as an immigrant raised by a single mother. Born in Mexico City, raised ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Mitchell Bisschop is a seasoned theatre artist and playwright from Los Angeles with over 20 years of experience in theatre, sketch, and ... Read more

Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Sharon Nagel is one half of the writing duo that is Juneau Black. She is a public librarian and ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am Derek Black is a doctoral student in history at the University of Chicago. Since 2016, they have spoken to many ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Kathleen Blackburn is the author of the memoir Loose of Earth. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Observer, ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm Nora Brooks Blakely (Literary Administrator, Author) founded Brooks Permissions, in 2001, to license and promote the work of her mother, Gwendolyn Brooks, by ... Read more

Center Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 3pm Gayle Brandeis is the author of nine books, most recently Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss. Her essays, short fiction, ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 11am Michael Burke is the author of the short story collection, What You Don’t Know About Men, and the plays Let’s Spend Money and ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm Nancy Burke is a poet, fiction writer, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapy activist. Her work has appeared in Story International, Gramercy Review, After Hours, American ... Read more

North Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm Gerald Butters is a Professor of History at Aurora University and teaches in the Masters of Liberal Studies graduate program at Northwestern University. ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 12pm Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al ... Read more

North Stage Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am Susanna Calkins, a historian and educator, writes the award-winning Lucy Campion historical mysteries set in 17th century London and the Speakeasy Murders set ... Read more

Plymouth Court Stage Sunday, Sept. 8th at 2pm Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Waters (the Today Show Jenna Book Club pick for January ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (2nd floor) Sunday, Sept. 8th at 11am The Rev. Amity trained as a scientist before taking a leap of faith to take part in a young adult ... Read more

Grace Place Stage (1st floor) Saturday, Sept. 7th at 12pm Paula Carter is the author of No Relation, which was shortlisted for the Stanford Libraries William Saroyan International Prize. Her ... Read more