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Call for Entries for WMG Literary Series 2025
Aftermath: Election Edition

Event Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025 | 2–4 p.m.
Place: 1332 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607

Entry Due Date: November 20, 2024 | Notifications: December 2, 2024

Curated by WMG’s Literary Events Curator Jae Green, “Aftermath” is a yearly literary event that focuses on renewals, farewells, reconsiderations, new beginnings, and psychic housekeeping.

For our second annual season we are asking for literary and text-based mixed media submissions that reflect on the Harris/Trump presidential race and the myriad of avenues that intersect for the creative, feminist community.

In one way or another our world will change November 2024 – let’s make as many voices as possible heard…and understood.

  • Submit up to three poems, one short form fiction or one mixed media piece.
  • Have a completely new concept in mind for this Call? Don’t be afraid to contact us and tell us about it. We love new forms and concepts.
  • The in-person reading is on Sunday, January 26th from 2 to 4 pm at WMG. There are also opportunities to have your literary works published on the WMG website. Please, include your interest in one or both programs when submitting.
  • Submissions must be received by November 20, 11:59 p.m. Decisions will be emailed by December 2, 2024.

If you know of someone whose work might fit here, please spread the word! Although we can’t afford to pay readers, this is a great opportunity to sell books and read with other talented people in a very special environment.

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WMG’s Literary Events Curator

Jae Green – WMG Literary Events Curator Jae Green is connected to Woman Made Gallery since its early days when the organization was located at its first location in Ravenswood Manor on Chicago’s northwest side. Jae is a visual artist, writer and published poet. She serves since 2020 on WMG’s Board of Directors and is also part of WMG’s Program Committee. In celebration of Woman Made Gallery’s 30th Anniversary she co-juried the Generations group exhibition in 2022 together with Gallery Coordinator, Marisa Miles.

WMG’s Former Literary Team

Nina Corwin  Much gratitude goes to Nina Corwin and her years of service as WMG’s Literary Events Curator until Covid prevented us from planning any public events. Nina is a published poet, Founding Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and psychotherapist/advocate for victims of sexual assault. She is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women. She has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions.

Jennifer Steele Thank you Jennifer Steele for your service as WMG Literary Events Outreach Coordinator for several years. She is a published poet and educator and serves as Partnerships Coordinator for Teen Services at Chicago Public Library.  She served as co-founder and co-curator of the Revolving Door Reading Series. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Callaloo Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Warpland Journal, So To Speak, and others, and is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow. She has taught creative writing and digital media arts across Chicago since 2008 and has collaborated with numerous youth organizations and cultural institutions, designing innovative arts programming.

 

Kurt Eric Heintz We are grateful to Kurt Eric Heintz who served as WMG’s Literary Events Audio Recordist through 2019. Kurt once taught computer graphics programming at Columbia College, and worked as an independent web developer. He’s since become the lead video director at Britannica. Kurt is known for his poetry videos, begun in the early 1990’s. He also video-conferenced his colleagues’ poetry in the late 1990’s — years before Skype and the iPhone. He was a technical advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization in its earliest years, and is the video content editor for Another Chicago Magazine.

 

Thank you Angela Narciso Torres, for your wonderful work and support for WMG and our past Literary Program!

 

 

Woman Made Gallery is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events; The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Illinois Arts Council Agency; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.