The first edition of the new Bridge Open Readings series and Open Mic will take place at the Open Books Pilsen store, 905 W. 19th St. on Saturday, February 18th from 2-4pm. Readings and open mics will be recorded and archived at bridge-chicago.org. Readers for our inaugural edition are:
Meghan Lamb, in addition to serving as Bridge Fiction Editor, is also author of COWARD (2022), Failure to Thrive (2021) All of Your Most Private Places (2020) and Silk Flowers (2017). She served as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and teaches creative writing through the University of Chicago, Story Studio, and GrubStreet. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, and Passages North, among other publications. She runs the shadow text reading series Significant Others, a project dedicated to elevating new books and the “behind-the scenes” texts that inspired them. In addition to being the fiction editor for the Bridge Journal, she serves as the nonfiction editor of Nat. Brut, a Whiting Award-winning journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields. She is also the front woman of Kill Scenes: an 80s horror film-inspired dark wave band.
Amanda Goldblatt is the author of the novel Hard Mouth (Counterpoint). Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Chicago Review, Guernica, NOON, and elsewhere. amandagoldblatt.com
Joel Craig is the author of poetry collections The White House (2012) and Humanoid (2021), both from Green Lantern Press. His poems and prose have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fonograf Editions Magazine, the Harriett Blog, Fence, Typo and others. He’s an artistic associate for the LitLuz festival and lives in Chicago.
Hosted by Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman. Readings start at 2, and the open mic after. For the open mic portion, please plan on reading no more than 10-15 minutes, max. All readings will be archived and available for streaming at the Bridge website in the readings archive.
Readings from 2-3pm; walk-in readers welcome from 3-4pm