The Vampire’s Quest\: Book II in the Vampire Angel Series
Join us for a reading of the most recent book by Chicago author Damian Serbu. A sequel to The Vampire’s Angel\, The Vampire’s Quest (Quest Books) marks the return of beloved heroes Xavier and Thomas. When Archangel St. Michel orders Xavier to go on a quest to America\, he is forced to violate Vampire Council laws and abandon his lover\, Thomas\, leading to a suspenseful race against time where the stakes are nothing short of Xavier’s soul. Called the Anne Rice of gay horror\, Serbu captivates readers with this new tale of suspense\, love\, and the supernatural.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T223000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/family-women-book-group-17 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/family-women-book-group-17 SUMMARY:Family of Women Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T223000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/meet-candidate-brad-trowbridge URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/meet-candidate-brad-trowbridge SUMMARY:Meet the Candidate\: Brad Trowbridge DESCRIPTION:Brad Trowbridge is running for a judicial post in the Cook County 8th Judicial Subcircuit (see a map of the subcircuit and Trowbridge’s biography at http\://bradforjudge.com). His work on issues that greatly affect women and children is known and respected by many program directors and advocates in the field of domestic violence. Come by the store today to meet Trowbridge and some of his strong supporters at this special Meet the Candidate forum. Refreshments will be served.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T011500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T031500Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-womens-literature-book-group-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/classics-womens-literature-book-group-3 SUMMARY:Classics of Women's Literature Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T013000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/granta-magazine-reading-conversation URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/granta-magazine-reading-conversation SUMMARY:Granta Magazine Reading & Conversation DESCRIPTION:Featuring Chinelo Okparanta and Nami MunGranta\,
Granta\, the British publication with the impeccable literary pedigree and the envelope-pushing sensibility\, celebrates its winter 2012 issue\, "\;Exit Strategies\,"\; with a reading and conversation between writers Chinelo Okparanta and Nami Mun. Granta New Voice Chinelo Okparanta is an alumna of the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Pushcart and Whiting Award–winner Nami Mun is author of the acclaimed novel Miles from Nowhere and faculty in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T013000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/catherine-theis-and-jessica-savitz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/catherine-theis-and-jessica-savitz SUMMARY:Catherine Theis and Jessica Savitz DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading
Catherine Theis
The Fraud of Good Sleep
Jessica Savitz
Hunting is Painting
Join us tonight for a reading by two Chicago-area authors who are also Iowa Writers’ Workshop alums. Catherine Theis’s poems have appeared in Fence\, Gulf Coast\, LIT\, Volt\, and many other journals. Her first published collection\, The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets)\, was winner of the 2011 Cranshaw Prize. Jessica Savitz was the inaugural winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize. As part of that award\, her first book of poetry\, Hunting is Painting\, was published by Lake Forest College Press’s imprint&\;NOW Books.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120219T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120219T013000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sappho%E2%80%99s-salon-midwinter-dance-party-and-mixer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/sappho%E2%80%99s-salon-midwinter-dance-party-and-mixer SUMMARY:Sappho’s Salon Midwinter Dance Party and Mixer DESCRIPTION:Sappho’s Salon Midwinter Dance Party and Mixer
$7-$10 sliding scale includes food and wine
Come shimmy\, shake\, and groove off the midwinter blahs at our first-ever Sappho’s Salon dance party! Sappho’s house DJ SpinNikki will get your body moving with a funky mix of classic disco and soul\, global sounds\, pop\, indie\, and electronic dance music. Bring your pals and meet new ones at our monthly party for lesbians and their friends. Light refreshments and beverages will be provided
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120222T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120222T033000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-book-group-36 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/womens-book-group-36 SUMMARY:Women's Book Group DESCRIPTION:This month's book is Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120228T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120305T030000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/awp-week-february-28%E2%80%93march-4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/awp-week-february-28%E2%80%93march-4 SUMMARY:AWP Week February 28–March 4 DESCRIPTION:The annual Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference will be taking place in Chicago this year. During this week\, writers\, publishers\, editors\, and academics will descend on Chicago to participate in hundreds of readings\, panel discussions\, and other literary events. In celebration of AWP\, during this week Women &\; Children First will host back-to-back readings featuring conference participants.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120229T013000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/margot-livesey-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/margot-livesey-0 SUMMARY:Margot Livesey DESCRIPTION:The Flight of Gemma Hardy
In her new novel\, acclaimed writer Margot Livesey reimagines the story of Jane Eyre. Set in remote Scotland in the mid-twentieth century\, The Flight of Gemma Hardy (HarperCollins)\, traces the misfortunes and misadventures of a strong-willed orphan girl who finally comes into her own. Livesey\, author of six previous novels\, including 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award–winning The House on Fortune Street\, is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
“The fabulous Margot Livesey has written a book steeped in remote landscapes\, secret histories\, and great love. Orphan Gemma is a modern-day Jane Eyre\, thoroughly engaging and bracingly unsentimental. The prose is meticulous\, the tale transporting. Trust me\, you will love this book.”—Karen Joy Fowler\, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T174436Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120301T013000Z UID:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/poetry-reading-awp-women%E2%80%99s-caucus URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/poetry-reading-awp-women%E2%80%99s-caucus SUMMARY:Poetry Reading by the AWP Women’s Caucus DESCRIPTION:Featuring\: Kathryn Kysar\, Patricia Smith\, Martha Collins\, Cynthia Hogue\, Lois Roma-Deeley\, and Keli Stewart
At tonight’s event\, poets from the AWP Women’s Caucus will read from their work. Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry\, Dark Lake and Pretend the World\, and editor of Riding Shotgun\: Women Write About Their Mothers. Patricia Smith is author of six poetry volumes\, including Blood Dazzler\, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award\, and Teahouse of the Almighty\, a National Poetry Series selection. Her latest book\, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, debuts at AWP. Also author of six volumes of poetry\, most recently\, White Papers\, and a book-length poem\, Blue Font\, Martha Collins has also co-published two collections of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. Cynthia Hogue has published seven volumes of poetry\, most recently The Incongnito Body (2006) and Or Consequence and When the Water Came\: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (co-authored with photographer Rebecca Ross)\, both published in 2010. Lois Roma-Deeley’s most recent book of poetry is High Notes\, which was a finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize. Keli Stewart’s stories\, plays\, and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous literary journals. In 2010\, she received the first place Gwendolyn Brooks poetry award\, chosen by the Illinois poet laureate. She has recently completed her debut poetry collection.
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