Aug
9
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Julia Borcherts a Chicago-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Time Out Chicago, Metromix, Red Eye, ChicagoBoxing.com and has also edited the 2008 Not For Tourists Chicago guide.
Julia teaches fiction writing workshops at Columbia College and is a co-founder of (and regular reader at) Reading Under the Influence.
Her work has been part [...]
Jul
4
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Ashley Murray is a freelance magazine writer and full-time middle school tutor. She teaches children ages ten to fourteen in a wide variety of subjects, including everything from fifth grade social studies to eighth grade Algebra. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is currently involved in the terrifying process of completing her first [...]
Jun
15
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On May 24, 2008 The Parlor hosted its first annual Emerging Writer’s Festival. From a national pool of applicants, six writers were chosen. Needless to say, it was an amazing event. One of these writers will return for his or her own episode of The Parlor.
This episode of The Parlor is presented in two parts:
Part [...]
Jun
6
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On May 24, 2008 The Parlor hosted its first annual Emerging Writer’s Festival. From a national pool of applicants, six writers were chosen. Needless to say, it was an amazing event. One of these writers will return for his or her own episode of The Parlor.
This episode of The Parlor is presented in two parts:
Part [...]
May
18
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Chances are, you’ve never heard of James Lower, but, according to his dad, he’s actually pretty cool. When not teaching creative writing to 4th graders or hypothesizing about which side of the poverty line his MFA will lead him to, he writes fiction and creative nonfiction of variable lengths.
His work has appeared in various online [...]
Apr
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Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow, a collection of stories that will be published by Les Figues Press in January of 2009.
Her work has appeared in journals such as 3rd bed, Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, the2ndhand, Sidebrow, and La Petite Zine, and is forthcoming in the second volume (F-K) of [...]
Mar
9
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Ben reads from his book “Lucky Man” a story of a band of close friends who make their way through high school and college.
After working for many years on stage and screen Ben Tanzer now lives in Chicago where he tends to his vineyards, shoots pool, dabbles in social work, compulsively watches High School Musical [...]
Feb
11
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Take Your Own Advice, the story of a young kid who discovers he can predict the future, is a look at the “golden child” phenomenon encouraged by all of the systems we set up for kids, but it’s not as Teen Wolf as that sounds.
Reviews:
[A] striking debut…reading his succinct stories is as natural as breathing. [...]
