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Story Week Story Week Festival: Literary Rock and Roll
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This Story Week signature event featured candid, humorous author readings along with complementary music selections. The event capped off with a Frankie Knuckles music tribute spun by Host/DJ Joe Shanahan, owner of Metro.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Fighting Violence
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Conversation with Kevin Coval, Mitchell S. Jackson, Audrey Petty and host Miles Harvey about Fighting Violence: The Power of Words.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Conversation with Playwrights
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Readings and conversations with Kia Corthron, Breath, Boom, Regina Taylor, stop.reset and host Lisa Schlesinger, In the Wake of the Graybow Riots.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Chicago Classics
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
In this annual Story Week marquee event, authors and prominent Chicagoans read selections that are by other Chicago authors or are related to Chicago. Linda Bubon, Kevin Coval, Jennifer Day, James Finn Garner, Bill Hillmann, Mitchell S. Jackson, Tina Jens, Sheryl Johnston, Billy Lombardo, Eric Charles May, Patricia Ann McNair, Christian Picciolini, James Porter, Donna Seaman, Joe Shanahan and Regina Taylor read their favorites from a wide array of work.
Hosted by literary publicist Julia Borcherts and playwright, actress, blogger, Body/Courage creator Danielle Pinnock.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Turning Issues Into Stories
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Crime figures prominently in Marlon James' recent book and also in Benice L. McFadden's Gathering of Waters. The authors discuss how those issues became a part of their stories, how their Caribbean heritages factor into their work, read selections from their new novels, and more. The discussion is followed by an audience Q&A.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Young Adult Fiction
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
For this panel, four award-winning Young Adult authors whose characters have gone on harrowing journeys to confront their own monsters read excerpts from their work and answer audience questions.
Host: Laurie Lawlor, This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year
Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray
Stephanie Kuehn, Complicit
Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia
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Story Week Story Week Festival: From Writing To Publishing
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
For this panel, guests discuss making the move from writing to actually having your work published, imparting invaluable advice and tips to writers about navigating the publishing and literary agent worlds. Followed by an audience Q&A.
Host: Donna Seaman, Booklist Senior Editor
Regina Brooks, Serendipity Literary Agency Founder/CEO
Naomi Huffman, Curbside Splendor Managing Editor
Johnny Temple, Akashic Books Publisher
Jessica Williams, William Morrow Editor
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Sci-Fi Fantasy
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
At this event, authors discuss the evolving landscape and popularity of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre. Authors readings included Jay Bonansinga's reading from the first book of the Woodbury quartet from The Walking Dead series and Audrey Niffenegger's reading from her sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife. The readings are followed by a Q&A and tips for writers.
Host: Mort Castle, New Moon on the Water
Jay Bonansinga,
The Walking Dead: Descent
C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans
Phyllis Eisenstein, Sorcerer’s Son
Audrey Niffenegger, Raven Girl
photo credit: Ben Browning
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Memoir and Fiction
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
At this event, a panel of authors discussed how and when memoir and fiction can intersect in their work.
Host: Patricia Ann McNair, Temple of Air
Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Swarm to Glory
Amina Gautier, Now We Will Be Happy
Megan Stielstra, Once I Was Cool
photo credit: Ben Bowen
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Edwidge Danticat
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Edwidge Danticat returns to Story Week. She discusses her recent most recent novel, Claire Of The Sea Light along with several of her lauded works throughout her career, including first novel Breath, Eyes, Memory. Discussion followed by an audience Q&A.
photo credit: Ben Bowen
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Story Week Festival: Eric Charles May, Preston L. Allen and Johnny Temple
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features a panel that includes Eric Charles May, Preston L. Allen and Johnny Temple.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Panel on the Publishing Ecosystem
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features a panel discussion with Donna Seaman, Eleanor Jackson, Inutro Bud, Nancy Zapras, Johnny Temple and Cheryl Johnston.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Chicago Classics with Rick Kogan
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features the culminating event of the festival where Rick Kogan gathers special guests to read from works by their favorite Chicago authors.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Barry Gifford
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features novelist, poet, and playwright Barry Gifford.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Stuart Dybek
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features author and poet Stuart Dybek.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Conversations - Why the Short Story?
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
In this podcast, authors Stuart Dybek, Roxane Gay, Katey Schultz, and Christine Sneed discuss the form of the short story with host Patricia Ann McNair.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Women In Action - New Plays
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
This podcast features a panel of female playwrights discussing their latest works, including Lisa Schlesinger, Bonnie Metzker, Ruth Margraff, Charlotte Meehan and Kimberly Senior.
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Literary Rock & Roll
From Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 18th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2014 offered six days jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
In This podcast, the Metro comes alive with readings by Eric Charles May, Preston L. Allen, and Christine Sneed, and a performance by Street Sounds paying tribute to the late David Hernandez with readings by Achy Obejas, Eduardo Arocho, Marta Collazo, and Carlos Cumpian.
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