Amy Danzer

Saturday afternoon’s music-filled celebration of the new book THE PLAN OF CHICAGO: A CITY IN STORIES by Nelson Algren Award-winner Barry Pearce, published by Cornerstone Press. Huge congrats, Barry! So excited to dig in!

Book details: www.publishersweekly.com/9781968148119

Every year, CSPAN’s Book TV records a number of programs at Printers Row Lit Fest. You can now view this year’s recorded programs here, along with recorded programs from previous years: www.c-span.org/search/?sear...

Next Tue. (11/11), in celebration of Mark Turcotte's appointment as the Illinois Poet Laureate (!!!), DePaul University's English Department is hosting a special reading. Free and open to the public. Stop through!

Wednesday night!

Sunset in Albany Park, Chicago - 10.27.25

TODAY: 6PM-8PM
Chicago's 11th Annual ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE

Parade will move south down N. State from W. Randolph to W. Van Buren

Anyone interested in joining the Poets and Writers Guild, show up at 4pm on W. Wacker between Dearborn and State

artsinthedark.com

SAT., 10/18 is the 11th annual ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE, a rare and wonderful opportunity for kindred spirits to bring creative energy to downtown Chicago and participate in playful solidarity.

For details and to sign up: tinyurl.com/4e8bpzks

Sunset/moonrise w/Ana
Chicago, IL
10.7.25

It's Banned Books Week (10/5-11, 2025)
Join the fight against censorship by celebrating the right to read.
For information about Chicago area events this week, visit: www.facebook.com/events/17104...

10/20 at the Black Ensemble Theater, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will present Jackie Taylor - author of more than 100 plays and musical bios, thousands of poems, a screenplay, and two books - with this year’s Fuller Award for her lifetime achievements.

www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-fulle...

Flashback Friday to that gorgeous weekend earlier in the month when several city streets in Chicago's Printers Row neighborhood were transformed into a booklover's paradise.

Photo credit: @donseeley.bsky.social

Thur., 10/2 at 18th Street Casa de Cultura, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame presents Nuestros Corazones Literarios (Our Literary Hearts).

Free and open to the public.

For details and to RSVP: tinyurl.com/mu388d9v

View from 18th Street
(Chicago)

This year's Harold Washington Literary Award-winner Sandra Cisneros with Booklist’s Editor in Chief Donna Seaman ❤️🎉

Mayor Brandon Johnson just proclaimed today SANDRA CISNEROS DAY and September LITERARY MONTH IN CHICAGO. 🎉❤️🙌📚

A couple ways to celebrate:

Tonight: The Harold Washington Literary Award dinner, where Sandra will be honored (ticketed event)

Saturday: Printers Row Lit Fest - FREE & Open to the public

It's the 40th anniversary of Printers Row Lit Fest and Newcity published a gorgeous "oral history" - a collective mosaic of stories about Lit Fest. Read here: lit.newcity.com/2025/09/01/a...
And join us this weekend: 10am-6pm on Sat., 9/6 & Sun., 9/7

In case you missed my chat with voice of Chicago Rick Kogan, you can listen to it here: wgnradio.com/after-hours-...
(And if you listen close enough, you'll hear Tino's debut on radio.)

After Hours with Rick Kogan | WGN Radio
#2025printersrowlitfest #PrintersRowLitFest2025 #2025prlf

Will be talkin' Printers Row Lit Fest w/Rick Kogan on After Hours with Rick Kogan tonight (Sun., 8/31) around 6:30pm. Tune in! wgnradio.com/on-air/
#2025printersrowlitfest

The ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE’s poets and writers guild is calling all poets, writers, and bibliophiles at large to get involved in this year’s parade – whether it's sharing ideas, helping us get organized, participating in the parade, or promoting it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We’re thrilled to have a powerful lineup for the 40th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest. We have 7 Pulitzer Prize-winners in the mix! For details: printersrowlitfest.org

Sat., 9/6 & Sun., 9/7
10am-6pm

I’m helping to organize a poets and writers guild for the Arts in the Dark Parade, slated for Saturday, October 18. If you have ideas for the parade, would like to help participate, promote, or support in some other way, we would love to hear from you (by 8/29)! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Last call for 2025 Printers Row Lit Fest volunteers!

We are looking for:
- Author Escorts
- Stage Managers
- Program and Venue Support
- Greeters and individuals to help out in the Info Booth

For details and to apply: form.jotform.com/241338550893...

Just ONE MONTH AWAY! Join us in Historic Printers Row for Chicago's 40th annual Printers Row Lit Fest: printersrowlitfest.org

Chicago's 40th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest: Sept. 6 & 7

70+ programs on 6 stages ft. 200+ authors and presenters
150+ booksellers/exhibitors

Join us for the largest literary event in the Midwest and one of the longest running literary festivals in the country!
printersrowlitfest.org

My guy Billy Lombardo is presenting a writing workshop on Scene and Summary as part of The NU Summer Writers' Conference: Sat., 8/2 at 1pm

Registration info here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...
Full schedule here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...

Saturday (7/12), the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame inducts its next class:
•Timuel Black
•Oscar Brown, Jr.
•Harriette Gillem Robinet

1pm ceremony followed by a courtyard reception
at Woodson Regional Library Auditorium

FREE, but seating is limited
For details & to register tinyurl.com/2ey4xzm2

View of Chicago skyline from Museum Campus

Final weekend for the Africa Fashion exhibition at the Field Museum

#fieldmuseumchicago #fieldmuseum #africafashion

6.14.25 #nokings

A moving reading and discussion of DEFIANT ACTS, debut novel by James Stewart III. Interviewed by dear friend Ignatius Valentine Aloysius. Cutest book tour assistant ever. 🥰