Author Reading

Join us to celebrate the launch for Of This Much I'm Sure: A Memoir by Nadine Kenney Johnstone.

Join us for the launch celebration of Renee Engeln's new book, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. 

Join us for a free reading and book-signing with bestselling author Jen Sincero! 

Women & Children First is honored to welcome Morgan Parker for a reading from her acclaimed collection, There Are More Beautiful Things

Join us for a not-to-be-missed conversation about starting over featuring Meredith Maran and Gina Frangello. Maran and Frangello will be discussing Maran's new memoir, The New Old Me.

In collaboration with Columbia College Chicago's Creative Writing Department, we're proud to host an evening of poetry featuring:

Beginning with an essay about Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized

Join us for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with Mrtha Hall Kelly and Melanie Benjamin.

Join us for an evening of poetry with Nickole Brown. For this event, Nickole will be joined by local poets Simone Muench and Mark Turcotte.

Vita E. and Kayla Weeden will share poems consecutively, working as if on a timeline of their two very separate lives.