Hannah Gamble is a writer, director, and spiritual practitioner. Gamble has two poetry collections: Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast and The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom. Their web series, Choose Me: An Abortion Story, premiered in 2020, and won awards from the Montreal Independent Film Festival and the Miami Independent Film Festival, among others. Currently, Gamble is developing a new web series about underground queer living room party culture in the midst of a big city apocalypse.

Please join Hannah and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Huizache, Ecotone, The Sunday Morning Transport, NIGHTMARE, NPR's Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere.

Please join Juan and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

This Kay Daly is not the gun-toting Republican who failed in her bid for representative of the 13th Congressional District of North Carolina in 2016. She is not the pioneering female advertising copywriter and inspiration for Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. Regrettably, she is not the president of the Betty White Fan Club. This is a simpler Kay Daly, a purer one, perhaps. This is the Kay Daly who loves Chicago, hangs with her husband, pets her cats, works as an editor at an education nonprofit, has a Ph.D. but doesn’t go by “doctor,” and hopes to publish a novel someday. Go easy on her.

Please join Kay and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

Gint Aras has been trapped on planet earth since 1973. He's an award winning and anthologized author whose works include the novels Finding the Moon in Sugar and The Fugue, and the memoir Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen. His short prose and translations have appeared in over a dozen journals, including Quarterly West, Antique Children, LitReactor, Hypertext and the St. Petersburg Review. The textbook titled What is a College Student? is his most recent publication. He lives in Oak Park, IL with his family.

Please join Gint and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.

After a long hiatus, Tuesday Funk is finally back in 2024! Join us for the return of Chicago's favorite eclectic monthly reading series in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf in Andersonville. We'll have readings by Gint Aras, Kay Daly, Jasmine Davila, Hannah Gamble and Juan Martinez. Andrew Huff and Eden Robins cohost.

As in the beforetimes, admission to Tuesday Funk is free, but you must be 21 to attend. Doors open at 7pm sharp (tables tend to fill up fast, so don't be late!) and the show will start at 7:30pm. Please RSVP on Facebook, and while you're there, go ahead like and follow us so you get our announcements in your news stream.

Andrew Huff has been a PR professional, a journalist, the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, a professional blogger for a ghost hunter "reality" show, and host of 20x2 Chicago, a show in which 20 interesting people have two minutes each to answer one question. He's also cohost of the live lit show Tuesday Funk, where he's normally known for his topical haiku. He lives in Chicago's West Ridge neighborhood with his wife and three cats.

Please join Andrew and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

Eden Robins loves novels best, but they take forever so she also writes short stories and self-absorbed essays. Her first novel, WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP, is coming out November 1st! She co-hosts a science podcast called No Such Thing As Boring with an actual scientist and this very live lit show. Previously, she sold sex toys, wrote jokes for Big Pharma, and once did a stand-up comedy set to an audience who didn't boo. She has been to the bottom of the ocean and will never go to space. Find out more scintillating tidbits on Twitter and Instagram @edenrobins.

Please join Eden and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel, The Enhancers, forthcoming from Meekling Press. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, Tin House, NY Tyrant, and MAKE, and has been recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and is a staff writer for The Millions. She writes, lives, and occasionally dispenses pharmaceuticals in Chicago.

Please join Anne and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

Robbie Q. Telfer is a writer, performer, and teaching artist in Chicago. His work has appeared in hundreds of places and yet he still feels empty inside. He’s been an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam and has a collection of poetry from Write Bloody Publishing. He runs a bi-weekly writing workshop webinar called More of a Comment Than a Question and he works for The Morton Arboretum and Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves trying to help the wild spaces of Illinois.

Please join Robbie and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!

William Harold Holbrook is a writer, teacher, and homemaker originally from Painesville, Ohio who now lives in Evanston. He is the creator and curator of The Old-Time Moan, an online gallery of orphaned and found photographs collected from flea markets and antique stores across the Midwest. He is currently working on a memoir about growing up in northeast Ohio and the trauma associated with that. You can find him on Instagram @misterbyl and @theoldtimemoan.

Please join William and our other amazing readers on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, on the back patio at Nighthawk Chicago (4744 N. Kimball). The show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. RSVP on Facebook, and hope to see you there!