As part of Write On’s collaboration with StoryStudio Chicago, we are pleased to welcome two of their fiction writers for a week-long residency. Join us for a conversation with Spencer Hendrixson and Katherine Oh Yeaple about their writing process. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. Spencer Hendrixson is a writer born/raised/based in Chicago. His…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is The Silver Man: The Life and Times of Indian Agent John Kinzie. About the book Witness the…

DUE TO POWER OUTAGES AND WEATHER-RELATED CONDITIONS, TODAY’S DISCUSSION GROUP HAS BEEN CANCELLED! Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is Masters of Empire: Great…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is Swede Hollow by Ola Laarsmo, translated by Tiina Nunnally. About the book When Gustaf and Anna Klar…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is The Light Keeper’s Legacy book three in the Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series by Kathleen Ernst. About the…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan. About…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treur. About the book A member of…

Join us for coffee and light refreshments and a conversation with poet-in-residence Sean Chambers about ways your writing is influenced by music. He’ll speak particularly about funk music’s influence on his work. Sean Chambers, MFA, is a writer of creative nonfiction and poetry, and an education leader passionate about the craft of writing, the deconstruction of rhetoric, cross-cultural…

Write On is pleased to partner with Novel Bay Booksellers to celebrate the publication of The Prophecy of the Wolf, the latest novel by author Thomas Davis. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas Davis has published, in addition to his new novel, The Prophecy of the Wolf, five novels, including In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams that won the Edna…

Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have a focus on the Great Lakes or on water in general. Works of fiction, nonfiction, and more are discussed both in-person and virtually. This month’s selection is The Bridman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien by Martha Bergland. About The Birdman of Koshkonong: Thure…