Women & Children First

Phone:

(773) 769-9299

Type: Indie Bookstore

Website:

E-mail:

wcfbooks@gmail.com

Founded more than thirty years ago in Chicago, Women & Children First is only 3,500 square feet in area, most of which is one large open room. The store carries more than twenty thousand books, as well as journals, cards, and gifts.

Address: 5233 N. Clark Street

Chicago, IL 60640

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City Guide

Chicago

by Zach Dodson

City Guides

Zach Dodson, cofounder of Featherproof Books, an independent publisher of fiction based in Chicago, takes us on a down and dirty tour of some of Chicago's most popular reading venues, with a few stopovers along the way.

Upcoming Events

Catherine Wagner and Dana Ward Harriet Reading Series

Poetry

Reading

Poetry Foundation

May 30, 2013 - 7:00pm

Spring Book Bling Reading Tour! No Lizard Kings

Poetry

Reading/Book signing

Transistor

June 8, 2013 - 7:30pm

Beverly Art Center Writers Group

PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction

Workshop

Beverly Arts Center

June 10, 2013 - 7:00pm

Bill Yarrow

Poetry

Reading

RHINO Reads!

June 28, 2013 - 6:00pm

Spring-Summer Book Bling Reading Tour!

Poetry

Reading

Quenchers

July 2, 2013 - 7:00pm

Conferences & Residencies

Chicago Humanities Festival

Festival

Chicago, Illinois

House of Two Urns Chicago Winter Writer's Residency

Residency

Chicago, Illinois United States

MFA Programs

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MFA

Northwestern University

MFA and MA Programs

Columbia College Chicago Nonfiction

MFA

Writing Contests

Wag's Revue

Winter Writers' Contest

Magazine Articles

Building a Museum of Their Own

by Alex Dimitrov

News and Trends

September/October 2012

Plans are under way by the American Writers Museum Foundation to develop the first national museum dedicated entirely to the history and influence of American literature.

Poetic People Power

by Rebecca Keith

News and Trends

May/June 2012

As literature concerned with today’s often-grim realities gains new prominence, a handful of literary organizations are highlighting the connection between poetry and politics and strengthening the network of socially conscious writers.

Literary MagNet

by Staff

News and Trends

July/August 2011

Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue’s MagNet features the jubilat, the Yale Review, River Styx, Kugelmass, the Drum, and Knee-Jerk.

Directory of Writers

Judith Cooper

Fiction Writer

Chicago, IL

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu

Poet

Chicago, IL

Bill Yarrow

Poet

Lincolnwood, IL