August 2012

Meet Our Readers: Gregory A. Wilson

Gregory A. Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing, fantasy and science fiction along with various other courses in literature. His first academic book was published...  read

Meet Our Readers: Rajan Khanna

Rajan Khanna is a fiction writer, blogger, narrator, and graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop. His work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, GUD, PodCastle, and The Way of the Wizard, among others. His articles have appeared at...  read

Video: Stacy Bierlein takes us out the way we came in

At our August Tuesday Funk reading, Stacy Bierlein, author of the collection A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends, chronicled a steamy Hollywood affair backward through time to its origins, and it sounded a little like this... And if you...  read

Meet Our Readers: Rae Carson

Rae Carson was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author for Fall 2011. Her debut novel, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was a finalist for the Morris, Norton, Cybils, and Ohioana Awards, and was named to ALA's 2012 Top...  read

Meet Our Readers: Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His first novel, Pandemonium, won the Crawford Award and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil's Alphabet, was named one of the best...  read

Submissions for our special September 14th reading are due tomorrow!

Attention, Chicago Writers Conference attendees! You have until tomorrow night to get us your submissions for our rare special Friday edition of Tuesday Funk. The reading will take place the evening of Friday, September 14th, at the non-profit Open Books...  read

Meet Our Readers: Adam Rakunas

Adam Rakunas lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter. His work has been published by So New Media and Futurismic. He is currently working on a science fiction novel about sex, violence, and labor relations. Please join Adam...  read

Tuesday Funk likes the "Great Dysmorphia" release party

Our friend and former Funker, Stephen Markley, author of Publish This Book, will be reading from his new release The Great Dysmorphia: An Epistemological View of Ingesting Hallucinogenic Mushrooms at the 2012 Republican Presidential Debate at Black Rock on August...  read

Video: Sara Ross Witt keeps the line moving

Factory towns are dying throughout this great land of ours. At our August Tuesday Funk reading, co-host Sara Ross Witt read us a powerful story about one such factory town, and the cost of keeping it running... And if you...  read

Only five days left for submissions for our September 14th reading!

We'd like to remind you that for the next five days we're still accepting submissions for our rare special Friday edition of Tuesday Funk. The reading will take place the evening of Friday, September 14th, at the non-profit Open Books...  read
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Tuesday Funk is an eclectic Chicago reading series, hosted by Andrew Huff and Eden Robins, showcasing a mix of fiction, poetry, essays and performance. Join us next on Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640. Admission is free.

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