tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55493028983241263512024-03-21T18:37:43.832-07:00Uncalled-for Readings Chicagomostly queer, mostly prose reading seriesuncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-66649485942272819222011-12-13T14:04:00.000-08:002011-12-13T14:17:31.197-08:00Photos from October readingJason Pettus from the <a href="http://www.cclapcenter.com/">Chicago Center for Literature and Photography</a> was kind enough to share his photographs from the October reading:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsUlDbLb4rY72JUW6-oB9rIRl7dkomU_VxaozmagCfquXr_-kpPiGSjyeru-tT4cC9tQ-x3Q4U55MKVWD49xJuFmxMF2rB6s0x4XMQetQ98Bm9dxwi1dhM5tobeyxld26hh1oyFx3wibY/s1600/uncalled1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsUlDbLb4rY72JUW6-oB9rIRl7dkomU_VxaozmagCfquXr_-kpPiGSjyeru-tT4cC9tQ-x3Q4U55MKVWD49xJuFmxMF2rB6s0x4XMQetQ98Bm9dxwi1dhM5tobeyxld26hh1oyFx3wibY/s400/uncalled1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685737999196817874" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Katherine Scott Nelson, author of <a href="http://www.cclapcenter.com/haveyouseenme/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Have You Seen Me</span></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSbg13jVKPDOwxxmG6gpNbgzAkYbU-j40NW98V0bckUVa91NGbD3dFprYJlny36n38lMiNfL7tnJsrznhcT8YrHUgGYZrquNLOEFsiCyV8JBoi_7y71l3GLeYeY15-5q4zWRsZ4yMscqCl/s1600/uncalled3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSbg13jVKPDOwxxmG6gpNbgzAkYbU-j40NW98V0bckUVa91NGbD3dFprYJlny36n38lMiNfL7tnJsrznhcT8YrHUgGYZrquNLOEFsiCyV8JBoi_7y71l3GLeYeY15-5q4zWRsZ4yMscqCl/s400/uncalled3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685738467367417250" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Cynthia Barounis and Claire Leeds, authors of <a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/crude.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Light Sweet Crude</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjputOUw7ongEdgYp9sjaCGbBA5uGzuqrg9hscbN4YfYbCMHIe2KqKU_bED-l8HkAiEdIyGuA0S03IMyLbZgmLGrsnDAQzvxLdai9e36pbFTJz2Lc7EjzQSlR3V9YzNa1JRjaEZ4zNrXlWd/s1600/uncalled5.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjputOUw7ongEdgYp9sjaCGbBA5uGzuqrg9hscbN4YfYbCMHIe2KqKU_bED-l8HkAiEdIyGuA0S03IMyLbZgmLGrsnDAQzvxLdai9e36pbFTJz2Lc7EjzQSlR3V9YzNa1JRjaEZ4zNrXlWd/s400/uncalled5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685738794197854050" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Alvin Orloff, author of <a href="http://www.alvinorloff.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Why Aren't You Smiling?</span></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks, Jason! And thanks again to our readers and audience.<br /><br />Uncalled-for Chicago is taking a break until February-ish. See you in 2012!<br /></div></div>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-88524454204026945642011-12-13T14:00:00.000-08:002011-12-13T14:03:47.317-08:00Audio from 8.14 readingWe are pleased to announce that the audio recording of this past August's Underground reading at Woman Made Gallery, curated by Uncalled-for Readings Chicago, is now available on <a href="http://www.wbez.org/story/underground-reading-and-performances-93872">WBEZ's Chicago Amplified site</a>.<br /><br />This reading featured performances by Jami Sailor, Liz Mason, Dalice Malice, Robin Hustle, Mairead Case, and Marie Hunt. Enjoy!<br /><a href="http://www.wbez.org/story/underground-reading-and-performances-93872" target="_blank"></a> <div> </div>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-76115958480057618642011-10-09T20:16:00.000-07:002011-10-09T20:30:57.340-07:00Thursday 10/27: Orloff, Barounis, Leeds, & NelsonPlease join us for the October installment of Uncalled-for Chicago, featuring special out-of-town novelist ALVIN ORLOFF on tour promoting his new book WHY AREN'T YOU SMILING?; poets CYNTHIA BAROUNIS & CLAIRE LEEDS, whose collaborative chapbook, LIGHT SWEET CRUDE, is out now on dancing girl press; and memoir/fiction writer KATHERINE SCOTT NELSON, whose novella, HAVE YOU SEEN ME, is being published this month.<br /><br />The details:<br /><br />Thursday, October 27<br />8 - 10 p.m.<br />The Hive*<br />1902 N Milwaukee Ave, Apt 2<br /><br />Please BYOB.<br /><br />*The Hive is a living space as well as a performance space - I think there may be a finicky doorbell, but we'll have someone downstairs letting people in if we need to. Call me (Megan) at 703 dash 434 dash 0383 if you can't get in.<br /><br />--<br /><br />The bios:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alvinorloff.com">ALVIN ORLOFF</a> began writing in 1977 as the teenage lyricist for his best friend's now utterly forgotten punk band, The Blowdryers. He's gotten some degrees, appeared in some literary journals, blah, blah, blah. Most importantly, he is the author of three novels: I Married an Earthling, a gender and genre-bending sci-fi send up, Gutter Boys, a twisted tale of thwarted love and ghosts set in the decadent Manhattan of 1981, and his most recent, Why Aren't You Smiling? a satiric romp through the queer fringes of the early 1970s spiritual revival. He lives in San Francisco's über-hipsterized Mission District and works in a funky, old used bookstore.<br /><br />CYNTHIA BAROUNIS is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the co-author, with Claire Leeds, of the chapbook <a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/crude.html">LIGHT SWEET CRUDE</a> (dancing girl press, 2011). Her poetry has also appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review and is forthcoming in Partner Dance Press’s 21/21/Chicago anthology.<br /><br />CLAIRE LEEDS lives and works on a farm in southern Wisconsin, holds a BA in Creative Writing and is currently working toward a BS in Nursing.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.katherinescottnelson.com">KATHERINE SCOTT NELSON</a> is the author of <a href="http://www.cclapcenter.com/2011/09/download_a_sneak_preview_of_cc.html">HAVE YOU SEEN ME</a>, a novella which will be published this month by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. Hir writing has also been featured on Fiction at Work and the Rumpus. Ze lives in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.katherinescottnelson.com.uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-30936360579152049342011-07-31T11:43:00.000-07:002011-07-31T12:29:54.037-07:00Sunday 8/14: Reading for Woman Made's Underground Show<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Please join us for the August installment of Uncalled-for Readings Chicago, which is designed to support Woman Made Gallery's </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=group&gallery=underground-art2011&pic=1">Underground show</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, curated by Ruby Thorkelson in collaboration with </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.underground-library.org/">Chicago Underground Library</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.spudnikpress.com/">Spudnik Press</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. The show features a slew of underground and self-published artwork and publications produced by women, queer, trans, genderqueer and gender-nonconforming writers and artists.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The reading will feature the following six writers who have been involved in underground writing and publishing, as well as music, in various capacities:<br /><br />MAIREAD CASE<br />CURIOUSER JANE (a.k.a. DALICE MALICE)<br />MARIE HUNT<br />ROBIN HUSTLE<br />LIZ MASON<br />&<br />JAMI SAILOR<br />(bios below)<br /><br />We'll hear readings in two sets, each of which will close with music performed by </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Curiouser Jane</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> (a.k.a. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Dalice Malice</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">) and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >Marie Hunt</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, respectively.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Sunday, August 14, 2011</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">2 p.m.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.womanmade.org/">Woman Made Gallery</a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">685 N. Milwaukee Ave</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Chicago, IL</span><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Mairead Case</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> is a writer, editor, and critic. She is a member of the Dil Pickle Club, Non-Fiction Editor at </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.anotherchicagomagazine.net/"><i>Another Chicago Magazine</i></a></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >, a columnist at </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://proximitymagazine.com/"><i>Proximity</i></a></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >, and Volunteer Coordinator for <a href="http://youngchicagoauthors.org/blog/">Louder Than a Bomb</a>. Mairead is at work on a short story collection, supported by a CAAP grant and recently excerpted by </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/"><i>f</i><span style="font-style:normal">eatherproo</span></a><i style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/">f</a> </i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >and <a href="http://vol1brooklyn.com/2011/02/06/sunday-stories-summertime/">Vol. 1 Brooklyn</a>. She programmed a radio show about dreams for Neighborhood Public Radio at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and her comic about Serge Gainsbourg, drawn by David Lasky, is forthcoming in </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i style="font-family: verdana;">Best American Comics 2011.</i><br /></span><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Curiouser Jane</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> (a.k.a. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Dalice Malice</span><span style="font-size:85%;">) is a zinester, blogger, queer-poly trans grrrl, academic, writer, poet, monologist, anarchist, dreamer, catholic, roller skate loving, one-woman firing squad. She blogs at <a href="http://curiouserjane.tumblr.com/">curiouserjane.tumblr.com</a> and is a weekly contributor for <a href="http://www.prettyqueer.com/">Prettyqueer.com</a>. Oh & she’s a folk singer: <a href="http://www.prettyqueer.com/author/jane/dalicemalice.bandcamp.com">dalicemalice.bandcamp.com</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Marie Hunt</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> is an Oak Park poet, singer and songwriter. She has been a featured poet on the <a href="http://www.romantichours.com/">Romantic Hours</a> website, as well as soloist and assistant musical coordinator at Bethany Union Church in Beverly. Mrs. Hunt has also been a featured soloist in such venues as the First United Methodist Church in the Loop, the First United Methodist Church of Oak Park, and Hyde Park Union Church. She has produced five recordings under her record label <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pashin-Productions/136181593118798">Pashin Productions</a>, and has recently released five books of poetry (a pentalogy entitled “The Palm”) from her own <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/DeLores-Press/104866339601904">deLores Press</a>. She can be seen this fall performing “Alone / Together” (along with her husband, tenor Henry Hunt) for her third company, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scavenger-Hunt-Productions/109928615764732">Scavenger Hunt Productions</a> at Woman Made Gallery.<br /><br /><a href="http://robinhustle.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robin Hustle</span></a> lives in Chicago. She writes and draws about sex, health, language, and public space. Her zines include Mirror Tricks, Curdled Milk, Leftovers Again?!, and Power of the Impotent. From 2007 to 2008 she co-edited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeleton_News">The Skeleton News</a>, a free monthly newspaper. Her drawings have been shown at Roots and Culture and Gallery 400, and she has presented slide shows and lectures about prostitution across the country. She is currently working on a solo band called Landscaping and a nursing degree.<br /><br /><b>Liz Mason</b> has been self-publishing zines for fourteen years. Her work has been printed in such publications as <i>The Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>Punk Planet</i></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:85%;" >, </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Venus</i></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:85%;" >,</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Lumpen</i></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:85%;" > and </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>The Zine Yearbook</i></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:85%;" >. She has appeared on a reality show to provide instruction on publishing zines, which NBC executives referred to as “pamphlets” as if they were Marxist propaganda. Her most recent published work is <a href="http://www.quimbys.com/product_info.php?products_id=24205"><b><i>Caboose #7: Britney Spears 101</i></b></a>, which focuses on her experience undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer, as seen through the lens of consumerism, celebrity obsession and public scrutiny. <a href="http://lizsmasoniclodge.blogspot.com/"><b>She also has a blog called Liz’s Masonic Lodge, and you should totally, totally, totally, totally visit it by clicking on this very sentence.</b></a><br /><br /><b>Jami Sailor</b> wants to make a split zine with you. Her current projects include <i><a href="http://yoursecretaryisout.wordpress.com/">Your Secretary</a> </i> and <i>Archiving the Underground</i> (with Jenna Brager). Her long running zine, <i>No Better Voice</i>, was featured in Alison Piepmeier's <i> Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. </i></span></p>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-2116050332916336692011-06-13T18:46:00.001-07:002011-06-13T19:12:18.894-07:00News and UpdatesHi! Welcome back! We've been busy. So have you. Here's the latest on Uncalled-for Readings Chicago.<br /><br />First, the fabulous Tim Jones-Yelvington has decided to take a break from working on this project, bequeathing the series in the meantime to me (this is Megan). Tim may guest-curate an event here or there, but for now, I'm flying solo.<br /><br />Second, we've got two really terrific readings coming up in 2011:<br /><ul><li>Save the date! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday, August 14th</span> at 2 pm at <a href="http://womanmade.org/">Woman Made Gallery</a>: Uncalled-for is coordinating a reading in conjunction with Woman Made's "Underground" show, curated by Ruby Thorkelson. So far we've got <a href="http://lizsmasoniclodge.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liz Mason</span></a> (Caboose, Punk Planet, Lumpen), <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://yoursecretaryisout.wordpress.com/">Jami Sailor</a> </span>(Your Secretary, No Better Voice, Archiving the Underground), <a href="http://robinhustle.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robin Hustle</span></a> (Mirror Tricks, Curdled Milk, The Skeleton News), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mairead Case</span> (Punk Planet, AREA, Proximity, the2ndHAND) on board, with a few other folks in the works. </li><li>In late October, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alvinorloff.com/">Alvin Orloff</a> will be in town to read from his new novel. Also reading will be fiction/memoir writer <a href="http://www.katherinescottnelson.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Katherine</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sco</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">tt Nelson</span></a> and poets <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cynthia Barounis & Claire Leeds </span>(check out their collaborative chapbook <a href="http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/crude.html">Light Sweet Crude</a>, out now on Dancing Girl Press). More details TBD.</li></ul>More soon on both of these events - please check back in a few weeks.uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-68456690955637108852011-03-16T08:49:00.000-07:002011-03-16T09:02:47.372-07:00Monday 4/2/2011: Cris Mazza and Lidia YuknavitchPlease join us for the April installment of Uncalled-for Chicago, featuring the terrific LIDIA YUKNAVITCH promoting her new book, a memoir called THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (Hawthorne Books); and Chicago's own CRIS MAZZA, reading from her new novel VARIOUS MEN WHO KNEW US AS GIRLS (Emergency Press).<br /><br />Monday, April 4, 2011<br />6-8 p.m.<br />Barbara's Bookstore<br /><div>1218 S Halsted St<br /></div> Chicago, IL<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lidiayuknavitch.net/">Lidia Yuknavitch</a> is the author of the new memoir <span style="font-style: italic;">The Chronology of Water </span>from Hawthorne Books, as<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>well as three books of short stories and a forthcoming novel. Her<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>stories have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Ms.</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Iowa Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Zyzzyva</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Exquisite Corpse</span>,<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Another Chicago Magazine</span>, as well as in several national anthologies. She has twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Award, and is the editor of <a href="http://www.chiasmusmedia.net/">Chiasmus Press</a>. Her essay <a href="http://therumpus.net/2011/02/about-a-boob-or-the-hermeneutics-of-a-womans-body/">"About a<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Boob, or the Hermeneutics of a Woman's Body"</a> was just awarded a "<span style="font-family: monospace;"></span>Best of the Web" essay award. She lives with her husband<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Andy and her son Miles in Portlandia.<span style="font-family: monospace;"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.cris-mazza.com">Cris Mazza</a> has authored sixteen books,<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>most recently <span style="font-style: italic;">Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls</span>, a novel. Her<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>other fiction titles include <span style="font-style: italic;">Waterbaby</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Trickle-Down Timeline</span>, and<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>the critically notable <span style="font-style: italic;">Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?</span> In 1995<span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">-</span></span>1996, Mazza was co-editor for the original Chick-Lit anthologies:<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Chick-Lit 2: No Chick</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Vics</span>. In 2006, her essay "Who's Laughing Now: Chick Lit and the<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Perversion of a Genre," explaining the co-opting and corrosion of the<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>title, appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Poets & Writers Magazine</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Chick Lit:</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The New Woman's Fiction</span> (Routledge). In addition to <span style="font-family: monospace;"></span>fiction,<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Mazza also has published a memoir, <span style="font-style: italic;">Indigenous: Growing Up</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Californian</span>. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>San Diego County. She currently lives 50 miles west of Chicago and<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>at Chicago.<br /><br /><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/on-memoir-and-experiment-the-chronology-of-water-by-lidia-yuknavitch/">Roxane Gay reviews Lidia Yuknavitch's THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER at HTMLGiant.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bigother.com/2011/02/18/the-big-other-interview-43-cris-mazza/">Davis Schneiderman interviews Cris Mazza about VARIOUS MEN WHO KNEW US AS GIRLS at Big Other</a><a href="http://bigother.com/2011/02/18/the-big-other-interview-43-cris-mazza/">.</a>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-50541857553145575982011-01-24T21:04:00.000-08:002011-01-24T21:15:19.637-08:00Sat 2/26/2011: MILDRED PIERCE Chicago release party<p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The next Uncalled-for Chicago is doubling as the release party for <strong><a href="http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/">MILDRED PIERCE</a> ISSUE #4</strong>, "Comedy and the Grotesque" .... please join us in celebrating at <a href="http://www.quimbys.com/" _mce_href="http://www.quimbys.com"><br /></a></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.quimbys.com/" _mce_href="http://www.quimbys.com">Quimby's Bookstore</a> (1854 W. North Ave) ...</span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">on <strong>SATURDAY, February 26th</strong>, 2011 at 7 pm.</span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mildred Pierce</span></a> is a (maga)zine, cofounded in 2005 by John Bylander and Uncalled-for Chicago co-host Megan Milks and coedited by the same. It is a somewhat annual zine dealing in art, writing and countercultural cultural criticism. This issue features, along with the artists and writers listed below, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marc Baez</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Berndt</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sabrina Chap</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Max Eisenberg</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eamon Espey</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joyce Kuechler</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Leeyanne Moore</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy Joe Roche</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sean Samoheyl</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pippi Zornoza</span>, and others. The cover is designed and screenprinted by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Edie Fake</span>.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span><a href="http://mildredpierce.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ef-cover_press-release.jpg" _mce_href="http://mildredpierce.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ef-cover_press-release.jpg"><img style="width: 284px; height: 153px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-630" title="EF cover_press release" src="http://mildredpierce.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ef-cover_press-release.jpg" _mce_src="http://mildredpierce.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ef-cover_press-release.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Providing readings and performances at the Chicago release party are contributors <strong>James Tadd Adcox</strong>, <strong>Edie Fake</strong>, <strong>Jim Joyce</strong>, <strong>Vicky Lim</strong>,<strong> Ed Choy Moorman</strong>, and <strong>Ellen Nielsen</strong>!!!!!<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wine and refreshments plus limited-edition zines! HOLY COW see you there.</span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">--<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://jamestaddadcox.com/" _mce_href="http://jamestaddadcox.com/">James Tadd Adcox</a> is editor-in-chief of <a href="http://www.artificemag.com/"><em></em></a><em><a _mce_href="http://www.artificemag.com/">Artifice Magazine</a></em>. He has had fiction published in <em>TriQuarterly</em>, <em>Kill Author</em>, <em>Another Chicago Magazine</em>, and <em>Mid-American Review</em>, among other journals.</span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://ediefake.com/" _mce_href="http://ediefake.com">Edie Fake</a> is the author of <em>Gaylord Phoenix</em>, now available as a collection from <a href="http://www.secretacres.com/" _mce_href="http://secretacres.com/">Secret Acres</a>. He’s received a <a href="http://www.chancesdances.org/fierceness" _mce_href="http://www.chancesdances.org/fierceness">Critical Fierceness Grant</a> for queer art and was one of the first recipients of <a href="http://www.printedmatter.org/" _mce_href="http://printedmatter.org/">Printed Matter</a>’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in <em>Hot and Cold</em>, <em>Creative Time Comics</em>, and <em>LTTR</em>.<em></em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.quimbys.com/" _mce_href="http://www.quimbys.com">Quimby’s Books</a>. </span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Joyce</span> graduated from St. Rita High School in 2004. His zine, <em>Or Let It Sink</em>, explores desire, failure, and personal mythology. Jim works in the education field and enjoys keeping a journal.</span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vicky Lim</span> has a zine (<em>Dear Jaguar</em>) and a blog (<a href="http://vickyalways.blogspot.com/" _mce_href="http://vickyalways.blogspot.com">Personal Statements</a>) and lives in Chicago.</span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Choy Moorman</span> is a New Jersey-raised, Minneapolis College of Art and Design-schooled, Chicago-based cartoonist. He is the editor and publisher of the 2009 Xeric Award-winning <em>Ghost Comics </em>anthology from Bare Bones Press. (<a href="http://edsdeadbody.com/" _mce_href="http://edsdeadbody.com/">http://edsdeadbody.com/</a> + <a href="http://edchoymoorman.wordpress.com/" _mce_href="http://edchoymoorman.wordpress.com/">http://edchoymoorman.wordpress.com/</a>)</span></p> <p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://ellennielsen.net/" _mce_href="http://ellennielsen.net/">Ellen Nielsen</a><a href="http://ellennielsen.net/"></a> is an interdisciplinary artist whose body of work includes writing, performance, objects, video, and graphic design. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</span></p>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-72788702629208151022010-09-29T14:19:00.000-07:002010-09-29T14:28:38.056-07:00Tues 10/12/2010: Daniel Allen Cox & Brandon WillPlease join us for the October installment of Uncalled-for Chicago, featuring special out-of-town author DANIEL ALLEN COX on tour promoting his new book KRAKOW MELT; with an opening reading by Chicago writer BRANDON WILL.<br /><br />Tuesday, October 12, 2010<br />7-9 p.m.<br />The Yellow Door Project<div>3065 North Rockwell</div><div>Chicago, IL<br /><br />Please BYOB.<br /><br />--<br /><br /><span id="contributorinfo.app.tmpl">DANIEL ALLEN COX</span> is a Canadian author, columnist, and former sex worker. Daniel is the author of the acclaimed novel <span id="contributorinfo.app.tmpl">is the author of the novel <a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=287"><i>Shuck</i></a>, published by Arsenal Pulp Press and shortlisted in 2009 for a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award. </span>His stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies <a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=291">Second Person Queer</a> (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) and <a href="http://www.thievesjargon.com/press/content/yott.php">Year of the Thief</a> (Thieves Jargon Press, 2006), as well as in numerous magazines. He has appeared at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, on Canada’s national broadcaster CBC Radio One, and at McGill University. Daniel was formerly an editor for Outsider Ink magazine, an interviewer for the punk journal New York Waste, and a video porn star.<span id="contributorinfo.app.tmpl"> His second novel, <a href="http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=326"><i>Krakow Melt</i></a>, is now available from Arsenal Pulp Press.</span><br /></div>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-58161873104524426572010-07-29T15:25:00.001-07:002010-08-06T11:36:38.910-07:00Sat 8/14/2010: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Ivan Faute & Mike KitchellThe next Uncalled-For Chicago is in August, featuring these fab folks at this fine location:<br /><br />SATURDAY August 14th<br />7-9 p.m.<br />Rough House Theater<br />2131 N Milwaukee Ave<br />BYOB<br /><a href="http://polysemique.blogspot.com/"><br /></a><a href="http://www.mamohanraj.com/">MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ</a> is the author of numerous books in many genres. Her books include <span style="font-style: italic;">Bodies in Motion</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Silence and the Word</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Torn Shapes of Desire</span>,<span style="font-style: italic;"> Aqua Erotica</span> (ed.), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Best of Strange Horizons</span> (ed.), and <span style="font-style: italic;">A Taste of Serendib</span> (a Sri Lankan cookbook). Other work can be found in <span style="font-style: italic;">Oasis</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Harpur Palate</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Vol. 3,</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Best Lesbian Erotica 2003</span>. She is founder of the <a href="http://www.speculativeliterature.org/">Speculative Literature Foundation</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://ivanfaute.com/">IVAN FAUTE</a> writes fiction and plays in Chicago. His short stories, novels, plays, microfiction and experimental works often explore the power of memory to persuade and control our lives. Common themes also include the nature of reality and the obsessive desire we have to categorize everything. <span class="text_exposed_show">He is author of the chapbook, <a href="http://www.rocksawpress.com/faute.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is How We Will Live, Now That We are Free</span></a> (Rocksaw Press). Y</span>ou can find his work in various literary journals, small run magazines, zines, and occasionally on stage.<br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://topologyoftheimpossible.com/">MIKE KITCHELL</a> lives in DeKalb, IL, and has stories forthcoming from <span style="font-style: italic;">No Colony</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Artifice Magazine</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">PANK</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Lamination Colony</span>. He has an obsession with killing himself in the ocean and refuses to acknowledge whether or not this obsession is "serious" or "ironic." He documents his presence in the world at <a href="http://topologyoftheimpossible.com/" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://topologyoftheimposs</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>ible.com/</a>.</span>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-91855903828184135882010-04-06T19:06:00.000-07:002010-04-06T19:16:57.149-07:00Sat 5/8/2010: Nathalie Stephens, Kareem Khubchandani, & Trish BendixPlease join us for Uncalled-For Chicago's May edition, featuring the following wonderful writers/performers:<br /><br />SATURDAY MAY 8th<br />7-9 p.m.<br />Las Manos Gallery<br />5220 N Clark St<br />BYOB<br /><a href="http://polysemique.blogspot.com/"><br />NATHALIE STEPHENS</a> (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Her many books include <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780976718550/the-sorrow-and-the-fast-of-it.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Sorrow And The Fast Of It</span></a> (2007), <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/paper-city">Paper City</a> </span>(2003), <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/0973974265/je-nathanael.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Je Nathanaël </span></a>(2003/2006), <span style="font-style: italic;">L'injure</span> (2004) and <a href="http://www.edhexagone.com/ficheProduit.aspx?codeprod=330624"><span style="font-style: italic;">...s'arrête? Je</span> </a>(2007) for which she was awarded the Prix Alain-Grandbois by the Académie des Lettres du Québec. Other work exists in Basque and Slovene with book-length translations in Bulgarian. There is an essay of correspondence (2009): <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982264508/absence-where-as-claude-cahun-and-the-unopened-book.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book)</span></a>, first published (2007) as <span style="font-style: italic;">L'absence au lieu</span>. Also a collection of talks, <span style="font-style: italic;">At Alberta</span> (2008). Besides translating some of her own work, Stephens has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, John Keene, and Édouard Glissant. She lives, she thinks, in Chicago.<br /><br />KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI moved to Chicago in 2008 to begin his career as a full time graduate student in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Since this move, he has adapted and performed a one-person show, "Material Boy," has curated "KalaKranti: an evening of queer South Asian performance," and has performed at <a href="http://www.serendipitytheatre.org/">Serendipity Theater</a>'s "Second Story," and <a href="http://aboutfacetheatre.com/">About Face</a>'s "The Homo Show." He was born in Gibraltar, raised in Ghana, and then spent eight years in the North East before moving here. He hearts Chicago.<br /><br />TRISH BENDIX is a writer living in Chicago with her girlfriend, two pugs and two cats. She writes about the intersection of queer women and pop culture/media as blog editor of <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/">AfterEllen.com</a> and pens fiction by night and weekend. She has written on queer life & art, music, pop culture, media and feminist issues for publications such as the <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/">Village Voice</a>, Time Out Chicago, Out, Punk Planet, Planet Out/Gay.com, Rockpile, the Chicago Tribune's ChicagoNow and <a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/">Bitch</a>. Her fiction has appeared in the Q Review and CellStories and she has an essay in the upcoming Seal Press anthology <span style="font-style: italic;">Dear John, I Love Jane</span>.uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-37737558559423789482010-02-24T19:53:00.001-08:002010-02-28T10:16:22.205-08:00Sat 3/6/2010: Cathy Halley, Erica Adams, and Tim Jones-Yelvingtonplease join us for our second event, featuring CATHY HALLEY, ERICA ADAMS, and TIM JONES-YELVINGTON.<br /><br />SATURDAY<br />march 9, 2010<br />7 p.m.<br /><a href="http://www.lasmanosgallery.com/">las manos gallery</a><br />5520 n clark st<br /><br />byob...!<br /><br />CATHY HALLEY is the online editor at the <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/">Poetry Foundation</a>. She's also a collage artist and writer whose poems have appeared in <a href="http://pocketmyths.blogspot.com/">Pocket Myths</a>, and that's about it, because she doesn't have the stomach to try to publish, and won't expect to before she's dead. Rather than spelling this all out, she was going to make a joke about how her book of poems is forthcoming from Posthumous Press, but then you'd all go scurrying to Google that instead of Pocket Myths, which deserves the attention. She's at work on an episodic memoir, a bunch of filthy stories and an historical novel set in WWII Greece.<br /><br />ERICA ADAMS is a 500-year-old witch living in a 27-year-old body.<br /><br />TIM JONES-YELVINGTON is a Program Associate at Crossroads Fund, a foundation that supports community organizations working on issues of social and economic justice in the Chicago area. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in <a href="http://www.artificemag.com/">Artifice</a>, Sleepingfish, Annalemma, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, Storyglossia and others. He blogs at <a href="http://perverseadult.blogspot.com/">Ejaculations of a Perverse Adult</a> and contributes to <a href="http://bigother.com/">Big Other</a>.uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-51432144067042270992010-02-24T19:27:00.000-08:002010-02-24T19:51:16.377-08:00pictures from first event<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNF8Ynmzk39t9yt-wvJIl-IERhfDkqxcvV3OZlBOxO7vByfBIHswxzRTUsyXztvMRWTH-y3EfkzvvtP46u3CxNE5b6Yz0b02HYdVS8ydQUALzTXt9cv30slIcSJZ-kUSrFBDhyp5RcIBd/s1600-h/opening+remarks.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNF8Ynmzk39t9yt-wvJIl-IERhfDkqxcvV3OZlBOxO7vByfBIHswxzRTUsyXztvMRWTH-y3EfkzvvtP46u3CxNE5b6Yz0b02HYdVS8ydQUALzTXt9cv30slIcSJZ-kUSrFBDhyp5RcIBd/s400/opening+remarks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442019582230945394" border="0" /></a>Las Manos Gallery, 1/9/2010<br />all photos courtesy Mieke Zuiderweg<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d9Js9iwBy7Eisc7CR2PorWVjNpRUGITbWAwIt3N3IDDWaxzshpTlwM_uHtYrYFRLt3iG6HP8OihXcD8xpSA023i8Aw9FmxqHdpg0JnYJv5NYC0H8IlqUu1b3k1xfsAZ0mweBSHI16KhG/s1600-h/shelly1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d9Js9iwBy7Eisc7CR2PorWVjNpRUGITbWAwIt3N3IDDWaxzshpTlwM_uHtYrYFRLt3iG6HP8OihXcD8xpSA023i8Aw9FmxqHdpg0JnYJv5NYC0H8IlqUu1b3k1xfsAZ0mweBSHI16KhG/s400/shelly1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442020131013483986" border="0" /></a>M. Shelly Conner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQEw5DwDp_1cPamD79fN-rUHhXV2YcXzIcx3Wswc1S2JEW-tAZW1rniVDT34oVBalXCJPyiHSn9B_ADZZoJqYxWrMoH5J9DYRa2E2_0gmhiAkBW4zZev69dK4lGm5lUpD3nM47CEl_fKlW/s1600-h/megan1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQEw5DwDp_1cPamD79fN-rUHhXV2YcXzIcx3Wswc1S2JEW-tAZW1rniVDT34oVBalXCJPyiHSn9B_ADZZoJqYxWrMoH5J9DYRa2E2_0gmhiAkBW4zZev69dK4lGm5lUpD3nM47CEl_fKlW/s400/megan1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442020896647900658" border="0" /></a>Megan Milks<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPg0xFKsVSdz6U5bfk3rtvPyLBOxSBLPUcCiO-mRa9GjGIEU5Bkf0r41ruQ9WctdGPd_fcWKAY4cEfIfgeMPHJqE6rJOl70fNckO0ajjdhFg50KXl_-U_98sRyaCWWJX9vzeqYE80RUFp7/s1600-h/mecca.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPg0xFKsVSdz6U5bfk3rtvPyLBOxSBLPUcCiO-mRa9GjGIEU5Bkf0r41ruQ9WctdGPd_fcWKAY4cEfIfgeMPHJqE6rJOl70fNckO0ajjdhFg50KXl_-U_98sRyaCWWJX9vzeqYE80RUFp7/s400/mecca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442021966018356946" border="0" /></a>Mecca Sullivan<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1hJVxJMnG8ZOGs_kKoKitvMpVM8dkIUeoYh3XNYZOqQfyC_7uLhc0QDLjQJU_VBqydfwDGAbcsFviZbcLy5Fh_vpKbkdH4OrK8_D_hQahqRYt49ie_6Gm01iPVtRIghfKcs-tQn_rLaS/s1600-h/audience.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1hJVxJMnG8ZOGs_kKoKitvMpVM8dkIUeoYh3XNYZOqQfyC_7uLhc0QDLjQJU_VBqydfwDGAbcsFviZbcLy5Fh_vpKbkdH4OrK8_D_hQahqRYt49ie_6Gm01iPVtRIghfKcs-tQn_rLaS/s400/audience.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442022614636723106" border="0" /></a>thank you!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>uncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549302898324126351.post-83229478911108700902009-12-29T19:03:00.001-08:002009-12-29T19:59:46.595-08:00Saturday 1/9: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Megan Milks, M. Shelly Connerwe invite you to our first event:<br /><br />SATURDAY<br />January 9, 2010<br />7 p.m. at <a href="http://www.lasmanosgallery.org/">Las Manos Gallery</a><br />(5220 N Clark St)<br /><br />MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN is from Harlem, New York. Her fiction has appeared<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>and is forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies, including <span style="font-style: italic;">Crab Orchard Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Best New Writing</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bloom</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadelphia Stories</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lumina</span>,<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Baby Remember My Name</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">X-24: Unclassified</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Woman's Work</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Homeboy Review</span>,<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Baobab South African Journal of New Writing</span>, as well as literary<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>publications from Columbia, Yale, Temple, and Howard Universities. She was<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>awarded the Smith-Shonubi Scholarship in fiction. She holds a B.A. in<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Afro-American Studies from Smith College and an M.A. in English and<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Creative Writing from Temple University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D.<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where her<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>dissertation focuses on the relationships between genre, form, and<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>identity in contemporary black women's writing. Mecca is also working on<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>her first novel, tentatively titled <span style="font-style: italic;">She Woke Up With the Words in Her</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:monospace;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Mouth</span>.<span style="font-family:monospace;"><br /><br /></span>MEGAN MILKS is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in the anthologies <span style="font-style: italic;">Fist</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:monospace;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">Wreckage of Reason:</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:monospace;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">XXperimental Writing by Contemporary Women Writers</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">The &NOW Awards: The</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:monospace;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Best Innovative Writing</span>; and <span style="font-style: italic;">30 Under 30</span>. Stories are published or about to be in <span style="font-style: italic;">DIAGRAM</span>,<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Sidebrow</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Mad Hatters Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Pocket Myths: The Odyssey</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Wigleaf</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Wild</span>. Her<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>short story "Kill Marguerite" was published in May by <a href="http://www.anothernewcalligraphy.com/">Another New<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Calligraphy</a>. She co-edits <a href="http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com/">Mildred Pierce Magazine</a>.<span style="font-family:monospace;"><br /><br /></span>M. SHELLY CONNER is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Chicago. Her comedy sketches have been produced by Second City Chicago and<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>the 2007 Black Playwrights Festival hosted by the Black Ensemble Theater. Her article, "First Wave Feminist Struggles in Contemporary Black<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>Motorcycle Clubs" was published in the Fall 2009 issue of the<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span><a href="http://ijms.nova.edu/">International Journal of Motorcycle Studies</a> (IJMS). She is currently<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>working on a novel that explores issues of race, class, gender, and<span style="font-family:monospace;"> </span>sexuality in three generations of an African American family.<br /><br />FREE! BYOBuncalled-for chicagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281435996848252125noreply@blogger.com0