Spring is StoryBall season, so new profile pic! (This is us at last year's Emerald City-themed StoryBall.)

Get your ticket now for this year's event - May 7 at Ravneswood Event Center - and help us solve the case of the missing manuscript. 🙀

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A Master Class: Criticizing Pop Culture with Taylor Crumpton - StoryStudio Chicago Pop culture is power, and power needs to be critiqued by those who are impacted by it. Students will discuss instances of pop culture that are important to them and come away with strategies for criti...

This two-hour in-person master with @taylorcrumpton.bsky.social is next Monday! Writers will discuss instances of pop culture that are important to them and come away with strategies for criticizing pop culture in the form of an essay.

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How to Close Read and Influence People: Reading Like a Writer 2.0 with Julia Fine - StoryStudio Chicago Over five weeks, we’ll unpack a highly acclaimed novel for parts, focusing each session on a particular craft aspect of the text. Students will come away with not only a newfound appreciation for…

Reading Like a Writer with @finejuli.bsky.social, writers will close-read published texts (including The Talented Mr. Ripley!) to study how they're constructed, and what strategies writers can employ in their own work.

Five weeks, in person, starts April 7.

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A Master Class: Criticizing Pop Culture with Taylor Crumpton - StoryStudio Chicago Pop culture is power, and power needs to be critiqued by those who are impacted by it. Students will discuss instances of pop culture that are important to them and come away with strategies for…

We're so excited about this unique in-person Master Class with journalist and writer @taylorcrumpton.bsky.social. Join us on March 30 for this two-hour workshop on criticizing pop culture in the form of a written essay.

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Writing Rage (Winter 2026) with Connor Shioshita Pickett - StoryStudio Chicago This class is for writers who want to grow into the space between a wordless emotional response and incendiary text on the page. We will investigate our own personal relationships with anger, inform…

Writing Rage is for writers who want to grow into the space between a wordless emotional response and incendiary text on the page.

This four-class workshop is IN PERSON and begins March 16.

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Chicago! We could not be more thrilled to host writer Edwidge Danticat at the studio for our next Breakfast & Book Club event. This happens Wed., Feb. 18 at 9:30 am -- join us for coffee, treats, and a great discussion about Danticat's books. Register now!

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Join us on 2/18 in person at the studio for our next Breakfast & Book Club event -- we'll be discussing Edwidge Danticat's essay collection We're Alone with the author herself!

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"Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real."

Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

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The Actor’s Toolkit for Fiction and Memoir Writers with Robert Falls - StoryStudio Chicago No acting experience is required, and no performance activities in class! Using method-acting and improvisation inspired techniques, this class will help writers explore character from a unique…

The Actor’s Toolkit for Fiction and Memoir Writers with Robert Falls is a single-session IN-PERSON class happening December 18. Using method-acting and improvisation inspired techniques, this class will help writers explore character from a unique perspective.

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Open House at StoryStudio - StoryStudio Chicago New to our community and want to know what we’re all about? Join StoryStudio for an Open House! An Open House at StoryStudio is exactly what it sounds like: a…

Friends, our in-person Open House happens one week from today, Sept. 30! Come hang out with staff, find out what's coming up at the studio, and take a sampler class.

This is a free event, but registration is required: buff.ly/4NmDEwi

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Grab your spot in our free in-person Open House, September 30. Learn about upcoming StoryStudio events and programs, meet our staff, and take a free sample class!

Register now: buff.ly/4NmDEwi

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Photo of a passage from Sandra Cisneros' book "Loose Woman." The passage reads, "This weight on the other side of the bed is only books, not you. What I said I loved more than you. True. Though these mornings I wish books loved back."

Sandra Cisneros, from "Bay Poem from Berkeley," in "Loose Woman" (Vintage Books, 1995)

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This class is filling quickly -- if you're interested (and you should be, because it's going to great!), register now!

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NEW EVENT ALERT! On August 13, please join us at Sulzer Library at 6 pm CT for a free event: Authors In Conversation.

Our five featured StoryBoard Conference instructors will take the stage for a conversation with our Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai.

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Write-Ins & Write-Outs with StoryStudio - StoryStudio Chicago Join StoryStudio for our periodic write-ins, either virtually or in-person, depending on the session and the season! Whether we’re meeting at the Studio, or over Zoom, we’re ready to host…

Our free Write Out at Begyle Brewing happens next Monday, July 21. Join us for a drink and a few hours of writing. RSVP now: buff.ly/UoEptrX

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Telling Your Truth II With Dionna Griffin-Irons Summer 2025 - StoryStudio Chicago Telling Your Truth II offers an immersive experience that allows writers to experiment with low-stakes improvisation exercises, while guided peer discussion helps unveil high-stakes truth on the page.

Telling Your Truth II With Dionna Griffin-Irons offers an immersive experience that allows writers to experiment with low-stakes improvisation exercises, while guided peer discussion helps unveil high-stakes truth on the page. IN PERSON starting this Wed 7/9.

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The Lit(erature) Improv Jam! With Eric Rampson - StoryStudio Chicago Chicago is the home of improvisational theater. Sure, it’s mostly used for comedy, but at its core, improv is really just a framework for creativity. Can the ideas and “rules” of improv applied to…

Chicago! This one's for you. Sure, improv is mostly used for comedy, but at its core, improv is really just a framework for creativity. Can the ideas and “rules” of improv applied to prose writing? Let's learn how with 6 in-person classes starting Aug. 6

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StoryBoard Festival - StoryStudio Chicago The StoryBoard Festival will be in-person at the Newberry Library on August 16 & 17, 2025. Tickets on sale now.

Wooohoo! Tickets are going quickly for our StoryBoard Festival, August 16-17 at the Newberry Library. The whole schedule of panels, classes, and social events is available now. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, you'll find plenty here for you.

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This year's StoryBoard Festival (formerly Writers Festival) has not one, but FIVE "keynotes" -- each of the authors at the StoryBoard Conference are also presenting a craft lecture at the Festival.

August 16-17 at Newberry Library. Get your tickets now: buff.ly/wVY8fg8

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StoryBall – Our Annual Fundraiser! Stories Matter Foundation is pleased to present our annual fundraising event, StoryBall, in-person for 2025.

Did you know? L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz right here in Chicago 125 years ago! It's why the theme for this year's StoryBall is The Emerald City. Have you gotten your ticket yet? Don't wait -- they're going really quickly!

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"[People] dug for unreality more than for treasure, unreality being their last great hope because then they could doubt that what they knew about themselves was true." - Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

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Unboxing my new novel "The Blue Door" from
@newdoorbooks.bsky.social! (And thank you to Lexi the cat for helping with the unboxing 🐈.) #Unboxing #Video #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Chicago #ChicagoWriters

Poetry and Play: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Ola Faleti - StoryStudio Chicago Get rid of writer’s block and take a new perspective on poetry with this multimedia workshop. Visual artists, poets, both, and neither are welcome!

Get rid of writer’s block and take a new perspective on poetry with this multimedia workshop. Visual artists, poets, both, and neither are welcome!

This class with poet Ola Faleti is IN PERSON at StoryStudio on March 5.

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This is going to be so great! Please join us March 5 at Chopin Theater. This is a free program!

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Tomorrow night (2/21) at City Lit, join our instructor Kathryn Kruse for an author event in conversation with @fulmerford.bsky.social. There'll be door prizes and general merriment!

Come one, come all!

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Just a few spots left for our FREE Write-In and Social this Saturday (2/8) at the studio. Come get some work done, and have some fun with us!

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Chicago filmmaker Andrew Davis debuts first thriller novel 'Disturbing the Bones' Chicago's Andrew Davis is an acclaimed director, best known for films like "The Fugitive" and "Under Siege." Now, he's debuting his first novel with co-author Jeff Biggers, destined to be a screen thr...

"A terrifying mystery. Explosive politics. It's personal for a Chicago cop & an archaeologist who makes a startling discovery" Thanks #Chicago @abc7.bsky.social
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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Join us 12./15, #Chicagowriters, for our first Cash Mob event.

It's easy, just show up at @roscoebooks.bsky.social (2142 W. Roscoe) at 6 pm, buy books, hang out with the StoryStudio community, and then go get a drink at a bar down the street. Low pressure, high fun!

Right Here. Here. Originally written for and performed at Is This a Thing? — I Just Can’t Quit You at O’Shaughnessy’s Public House, Chicago, February 14…

Here's my #SaturdayNightLive essay originally written for Is This a Thing? here in Chicago. Theme: I Just Can't Quit You, Valentine's Day 2022. #SNL #ChicagoWriters #storytelling

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