Wednesday, June 6
at 7:30 p.m.
Maxine Chernoff
Poetry Reading
Friday, June 8 through 10
Neighborhood Festival
Monday, June 11
at 7 p.m.
hosted by
Sappho's Salon
Tuesday, June 12
at 6 p.m.
Peter Coviello
in conversation with
Kim O'Neill
Reading and Conversation
Wednesday, June 13
at 7:30 p.m.
Yrsa Daley Ward
Please note: this ticketed event will be held at Wilson Abbey. BUY TICKETS HERE!
Friday, June 15 at 7 p.m.
Crystal Chan
Book Launch Party
Saturday, June 16
Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
LGBTQIA Pride
Storytelling Show
curated & hosted by Jeremy Owens
Wednesday, June 20
at 7:30 p.m.
Christina Henry
Book Launch Party
Friday, June 22
at 7:30 p.m.
Sam Wein
Fruit Mansion
Poetry Reading
Tuesday, June 26
at 7 p.m.
Rebecca Makkai
Book Launch Party
Friday, June 29
at 7:30 p.m.
Sophie Lucido Johnson
Book Launch Party
Thursday, July 19
at 7 p.m.
Ottessa Moshfegh
in conversation
with Jac Jemc
Reading, Conversation, and Book-signing
Annual Used Book Sale benefiting the Women's Voices Fund
Saturday, July 28 through
Sunday, July 29
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unday, May 6 at 2 p.m.
Music of the Ghosts
by Vaddey Ratner
Sunday, May 13 at 4 p.m.
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
by Nagata Kabi
S
unday, May 13 at 5 p.m.
Saving Montgomery Sole
by Mariko Tamaki
Tuesday, May 15
at 7:30 p.m.
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
by Kathleen Rooney
Sunday, May 20
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Suggested Reading:
The Pleasure of Their Company
by Doris Grumbach
Monday, May 21
at 7:15 p.m.
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
by Janet Campbell Hale
Social Justice
Book Group
Sunday, June 17 at 4 p.m.
Inside This Place Not of It
edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
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Dear Friends of Women & Children First,
Sunny days are here and Clark Street is bustling as the neighborhood prepares for our beloved summer traditions: the
Andersonville Farmers Market (begins May 9),
Wine Walk (May 20),
Midsommarfest (June 8 - 10), and the
Sidewalk Sale (July 28 & 29). Check out the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce's
Events Calendar to learn more!
We have some fabulous ticketed events this May, beginning with
Samantha Irby's Chicago
 launch party celebrating the re-issue of her first essay collection
Meaty (
Buy tickets
HERE) and the hilarious
Franchesca Rams
ey in conversation with powerhouse
Luvvie Ajayi on May 30. Get all the details and buy tickets for that event
HERE.
Thank you for all of your support so far this year. From our phenomenal event with
Cecile Richards to
Independent Bookstore Day, we have so many reasons to be grateful for our community that keeps our feminist bookstore thriving!
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Wednesday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m.
After a forty-year absence, the Viola da Gamba Music Festival has returned to the picturesque isle on the tip of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula. Sheriff Dave Cubiak enjoys a rare day off as tourists and a documentary film crew hover around the musicians.
Patricia Skalka is the author of Death Stalks Door County, Death at Gills Rock, and Death in Cold Water, winner of the Edna Ferber Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
READ MORE
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Thursday, May 3 at 7 p.m.
Please note: this ticketed event will be held at Wilson Abbey
We're thrilled to host the Chicago launch celebration for the reissue of Irby's first essay collection,
Meaty
. This new edition is fully updated, includes new content, and has a killer new cover.
READ MORE
Samantha Irby
is the author of the
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
and writes a blog called bitches gotta eat.
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Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Join us as we welcome blake nemc, author of
Sharing Plastic, and special guests Aerin Cooper, Nora Gaines, and Kiam Marcelo Junio. This event will celebrate hybrid forms, incorporating readings, sound work, and more.
blake nemec is a writer, teacher, and sound/media artist based in Chicago whose work extends the extraordinary musicality of everyday conversations by unprotected workers, pansexuals, and gender variant people. READ MORE
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Chelsey Clammer
with special guest Deborah Siegel
Saturday, May 5 at 6 p.m.
Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award,
Circadian
is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative using poetic language and lyric structures.
READ MORE
Chelsey Clammer
is the author of
BodyHome
. Her work has appeared
in the
Normal School, Black Warrior Review,
the
Ru
mpus
, and
McSweeney's,
among others.
Deborah
Siegel is the author of
Sisterhood,
Interrupted, co-editor of the literary anthology
Only Child, and founder of the website She Writes--the largest online community for women who write.
READ MORE
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Melissa Broder in conversation with Megan Stielstra
Conversation and Book-signing
Please note: this ticketed event will be held at Uptown Underground (4707 N. Broadway). Tickets on sale HERE.
In celebration of her new novel, The Pisces, Melissa Broder (@sosadtoday) will be in conversation with local author Megan Stielstra. READ MORE
Melissa Broder is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry magazine, the Iowa Review, Tin House, and Guernica and has been awarded the Pushcart prize.
READ MORE
Megan Stielstra is the author of three collections: The Wrong Way To Save Your Life, Once I Was Cool, and Everyone Remain Calm. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, the New York Times, Catapult, PANK, and elsewhere. READ MORE
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 Judith Valente
Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.
In this accessible guide to the good life, journalist and poet Valente (Atchison Blue) illustrates how St. Benedict's sixth-century monastic manual for healthy communal living can address contemporary conundrums, such as the echo chamber of social media, information overload, and the challenges of "workaholism and over-achieverism."
Judith Valente
is an award-winning journalist, poet, and essayist who has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for her broadcast work. She has also twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
READ MORE
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Faisal Mohyuddin
with Jacob Saenz & Emily Jungmin Yoon
Friday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.
To help celebrate the release of Faisal Mohyuddin's new poetry collection, he will be joined by local poets Jacob Saenz and Emily Jungmin Yoon.
READ MORE
Faisal Mohyuddin's debut full-length collection, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and is a Summer 2018 Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. READ MORE
 Jacob Saenz's poems have appeared in Pinwheel, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and other journals.
READ MORE
Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, and the forthcoming A Cruelty Special to Our Species. READ MORE
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 Elizabeth Rosenthal
Wednesday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m.
At a moment of drastic political upheaval,
An American Sickness
is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system--and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. READ MORE
Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, was a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at the New York Times for 22 years before becoming the editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health and health policy. READ MORE
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Rita Bullwinkel with
Jac Jemc
& Anne Yoder
Friday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m.
In Bullwinkel's debut collection, we find ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of tuning harps, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches.
READ MORE
Rita Bullwinkel's writing has been published or is forthcoming in Tin House, BOMB, Vice, and Guernica. READ MORE
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago. Her novel The Grip of It received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal and was recommended in Entertainment Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Esquire, and Nylon. READ MORE
Anne Yoder's
fiction, nonfiction, and criticism have appeared in
Bomb, Tin House,
and
BlackBook
, among other publications.
READ MORE
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Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Reading, Signing, and Q&A
Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with black residents. READ MORE
Linda Gartz is a documentary producer, author, blogger, educator, and archivist. Her documentaries and TV productions have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS, and elsewhere. READ MORE
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Julia Fine
in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger
Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, Maisie Cothay has spent her childhood sequestered in her family's manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie's father, an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter, has warned Maisie never to venture into the wood.
READ MORE
Julia Fine received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their son. READ MORE
Audrey Niffenegger
is the author of the international bestsellers
The Time Traveler's Wife
and
Her Fearful Symmetry
. She is also a fine artist who has published four illustrated books, including
Raven Girl
and
The Night Bookmobile.
READ MORE
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Franchesca Ramsey in conversation with Luvvie Ajayi
Wednesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.
Reading, Conversation, Book-signing
Please note: this ticketed event will be held at Wilson Abbey (935 W. Wilson).
In this sharp, funny, and timely collection of personal essays, Franchesca Ramsey explores race, identity, online activism, and the disintegration of real communication in the age of social media and call-out wars.
READ MORE
Franchesca Ramsey is a social justice advocate, comedian, actress, writer, video blogger, and the host of the award-winning web series Decoded on MTV. READ MORE
Luvvie Ajayi is a
New York Times-bestselling author, speaker, and digital strategist. A fourteen-year blogging veteran, she is the voice behind Awesomely Luvvie, a humor blog that covers everything pop culture.
READ MORE
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Michelle Falkoff
in conversation with Amelia Brunskill
Thursday, May 31 at 7 p.m.
For this local author book launch, YA author Michelle Falkoff will be in conversation with Amelia Brunskill, author of The Window.
READ MORE
Michelle Falkoff's fiction and reviews have been published in ZYZZYVA, DoubleTake, and the Harvard Review, among others.
READ MORE
Amelia Brunskill lives in Chicago with her husband and her dog, Max the corgi. She is a librarian READ MORE
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Katie Watson in conversation with Amy Whitaker
Friday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Join a unique conversation between Katie Watson, a Northwestern professor and lawyer, and Amy Whitaker, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. Whitaker and Watson will discuss how culture, ethics, medicine, and politics do and don't play out in local practice through the services Planned Parenthood provides in Illinois every day.
READ MORE
Katie Watson is an award-winning professor who has taught bioethics, medical humanities, and constitutional law for fifteen years at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
READ MORE
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Saturday, June 2 at 7 p.m.
Reading, Conversation, Book-signing
Please join us in celebrating the publication of Tommy Pico's latest poetry book Junk. For this reading and conversation, Pico will be joined by Erika T. Wurth.
Tommy "Teebs" Pico is author of the books IRL and Nature Poem. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry, and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts
Erika T. Wurth's publications include a novel, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, two collections of poetry, and a collection of short stories, Buckskin Cocaine. READ MORE
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Book Drive for
Common Pantry!
Tuesday, May 1 - Tuesday, May 15,
during store hours
We are proud to be a book donation drop-off site for
Common Pantry! Common Pantry is Chicago's oldest continually operating food pantry. For over 50 years Common Pantry has provided hot meals, groceries, and social service assistance to low-income individuals and families on Chicago's North side. Common Pantry serves over 350 kids whose guardians are clients of the food pantry. This summer, Common Pantry is asking for your help to provide these amazing kids with a few good books to read over the summer vacation, a time when learning loss can be prevalent. Please consider donating a new book purchased through Women & Children First or a gently used kids book from
May 1st through May 15th. We're accepting books for kids 0 to 12. Thank you for your participation!
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