Following is a directory of literary organizations that participated in the 2012 Creative Chicago Expo:
ALTERNATIVE PRESS CENTRE
2040 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60647 312.451.8133 | www.altpress.org
A library of independent, critical periodicals and books, and publisher of the Alternative Press Index.
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CHICAGO WOMEN IN PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 268107, Chicago, IL 60626
773.508.0351 | www.cwip.org
CWIP offers programs, services, and networking opportunities to advance careers for professionals in the publishing industry and allied fields.
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CHICAGO WRITERS HOUSE
1507 W. Edgewater Avenue, Chicago, IL 60660
616.648.3122 | www.chicagowritershouse.org
The Writers House Project is an investigation into community. We seek to create a hub for literature, offer physical space for writers, and provide artist services and residencies. Our long-term ambition is to acquire a building. In the meantime, we are a mobile endeavor sponsoring programs throughout Chicago and collaborating with existing literary and arts organizations.
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EXPRESSIONS FROM ENGLEWOOD
P.O. Box 21072, Chicago, IL 60621
773.651.2656
Expressions From Englewood is a print publication that features work from people who live, work, or go to school in this community. This initiative began in 2005 and the fifth volume was published in October 2011.
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MIDWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION
3022 Lexington Lane, Highland Park, IL 60035
847.433.2109 | www.midwestwriters.com
MWA is a networking base for experienced, professional non-fiction writers. Members work across the media spectrum from magazines, newspapers, web-sites and corporate publications to books, trade journals, film, speech writing and texts. Their specialties range from arts and entertainment, family, health, history, home, landscaping, real estate, travel and sports to medical, technical and business writing.
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OFF CAMPUS WRITERS WORKSHOP
3479 Regent Drive, Palatine, IL 60067
847.359.3494 | www.ocww.bizland.com
Ever since 1946, Off Campus Writers Workshop has been encouraging and inspiring Chicago-area writers as they develop their writing avocations and careers through programs about the craft of writing and the business of publishing, manuscript, critiques and online groups.
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POETRY FOUNDATION
61 W. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654
312.787.7070 | www.poetryfoundation.org
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry Magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
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SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS
P.O. Box 10419, Chicago, IL 606010
773.572.2402 | www.midlandauthors.com
Founded in 1915, the Society represents about 300 Midwestern authors, giving annual book awards, holding literary discussions and stimulating creative literary effort.
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WAITING 4 THE BUS POETRY COLLECTIVE
4000 S. Western Avenue, #2, Chicago, IL 60609
773.600.1564 | www.waiting4thebus.com
Waiting 4 The Bus is a loose collaboration of poets, performers and artists banded together to rescue poetry and spoken word from the scourge of genre and other common afflictions.
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WINDY CITY PUBLISHERS
2118 Plum Grove Road, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 888.673.7126 | www.windycitypublishers.com
A Chicago based hybrid-publisher, Windy City Publishers splits the cost of publishing a book and forms a partnership with the writer, sharing the common goal of producing a high quality book with a business plan to market and sell.
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WRITERS IN THE HEARTLAND
c/o Letraunik
2728 N. Hampden Court, #1605, Chicago, IL 60614
773.724.1554 | www.writersintheheartland.org
A residency program in Central Illinois founded to nurture emerging and established writers, our mission is to provide a tranquil environment conducive to artistic production and intellectual exchange.
