Printer's Ball tomorrow!

Come one, come all to the Printer's Ball. Beginning at 5:00 tomorrow night, the Luddington Building at 1104 South Wabash Avenue will be packed with local and national literati for the annual Poetry Foundation event for schmoozing, freebies, readings, demonstrations, and music til the wee hour of 11:00 p.m... Come watch Switchback Books poet Kathleen "K-Roo" Rooney take on Advisory Board member Simone "The Orange Crush" Muench in the Literary Death Match event at 7:45. Hosted by Tod Zuniga with celebrity judges Nami Mun, Jay Ryan, and Barry Hite. Will one of our women take the top spot?? Come and find out! See you there.

Participating literary organizations include: ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) • A Day in the Air • After Hours • ALARM • Alimentum—The Literature of Food • Allbook Books • Alternative Press Center • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • The American Prospect • Anchor Graphics • Anti Gravity Surprise • A Public Space • AREA Chicago • Artful Dodge • Artifice Magazine • The Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago • Aufgabe • Bateau Press • Beard of Bees Press • The Believer • Bellevue Literary Review • The Bird Machine • Black Lodge Press • Black Ocean • Black Swan Press • Book/Mark • Build Shop, Columbia College Chicago • BULL: Fiction for Thinking Men • Busy Beaver Buttons • CALYX Books • CALYX Journal • Canarium Books • Cannot Exist • Carpe Articulum Literary Review • Casagrande Press • Cave Wall • Charles H. Kerr • Chicago Amplified • Chicago Artists' Coalition • Chicago Artists' News • Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Publishing Industry Programs • Chic-A-Go-Go • Chicago INNERVIEW Magazine • Chicago Literary Scene Examiner • Chicago Magazine • ChicagoPoetry.com • Chicago Reader • Chicago Review • Chicago Subtext • Chicago Underground Library • CHIRP • Cider Press Review • Columbia College Library • Columbia Poetry Review • The Common Review • Conclave: A Journal of Character • Confrontation • contratiempo • Court Green • Cram • Creative Nonfiction • Crosshair Press • Dalkey Archive Press • dancing girl press • Danny’s • Demeter Press • Dan Grzeca • Draft Magazine • Drag City Records • Dreaded Biscuits • The East Village Inky • Elbowing off the Stage • Eleven Eleven • The Encyclopedia Show • Etruscan Press • Euphony • Evanston Print and Paper Shop • Exact Change Press / Exact Change Only • Eye Rocket Books • f magazine • featherproof books • Fence • Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College • Free Lunch • Fresh Squeezed Poetry • Front Forty Press • Gapers Block • Geneva13 Press • Georgia Review • Gival Press • Great Books Foundation • The Green Lantern • Guild Complex • The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing • Hair Trigger • Harold Arts Residency Quarterly • The Hat • Hayden’s Ferry Review • Haymarket Books • HERE • High Desert Journal • Homolatte • Hotel Amerika • Hourglass Books • House Press • The International Socialist Review • In These Times • The Iowa Review • JAB (Journal of Artists’ Books) • Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering • Journal of Ordinary Thought • Jubilat • Lake Claremont Press • Les Figues Press • Light Quarterly • Lilies and Cannonballs Review • Lilith Magazine • Literago • Literal Latte • Literary Deathmatch • Litmus Press / Ether Sea Projects • Little Bang • Lumpen • The MacGuffin, Schoolcraft College • MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine • Mandorla • McSweeney’s • Mental Graffiti • Mermaid Tenement Press • Mildred Pierce Zine • Milk Machine • Milk Magazine • Milkweed Editions • The Missouri Review • The Mom Egg • Moonlit • Mother Jones • Mule Magazine • Muumuu House • The New Anonymous • Newcity • The New York Quarterly • Ninth Letter • Noemi Press • Northwestern University Press • Off Campus Writers Workshop • One Story • Open Books • Open City • Open Letter Books • Opium Magazine • Orange Alert Press • Other Voices Books • The Oxford American • Packingtown Review • Painted Bride Quarterly • Palabra • Palabra Pura • paper egg books • Platypus Review • Playboy • Please Don’t • Poetry • Polyphony • The Point • PRA Publishing • Preacher's Biscuit Books • Prompt • Proximity • The Puddin’head Press • Puerto del Sol • Quickies • Quimby’s • Ray’s Reading Series • RCP Publications • Reading Under the Influence • reconstruction room • Red Rover • Redivider • Revolution Books • Rhino/The Poetry Forum • Ribald Crow Powder Magazine • Rock for Reading • Roctober Magazine • Rose Metal Press • The Saint Ann’s Review • Salamander • The Same • Sara Ranchouse Publishing • Say What Magazine • 2nd Story • Second City Third Person • Silver Tongue • Smartish Pace • Snow City Arts • Soberscove Press • Socialist Worker newspaper and SocialistWorker.org • South Loop Review • Spinning Jenny • Spire Press • Spoon River Poetry Review • Stampland • STOPSMILING BOOKS • Story Week Reader • Strange Times Press • Sunday Night Sex Show • Switchback Books • Sycamore Review • Tampa Review • Tarpaulin Sky Press • The Taylor Trust: Poetry & Prose • Tebot Bach • THE2NDHAND • Think Journal • Third World Press • Thumbs and Knuckles • Time Out Chicago • TriQuarterly • Try Less Hard • Tuesday; An Art Project • Two Lines • Two With Water • Ugly Duckling Presse • University of Tampa Press • UNSCENE • upstreet • Venus Zine • Versal • virtual artists collective • Visual Studies Workshop • Washington Square Review • West Branch • Woman Made Gallery • Writer’s Studio (University of Chicago – Graham School of General Studies) • Wurlington Press / Build Your Own Chicago • You Are Beautiful • Young Chicago Authors