It's starting!



3rd Annual Printers' Ball Announced

Expanded Chicago literary festival includes month-long reading series

Chicago--The 3rd Annual Printers' Ball is scheduled for Friday, July 20th, at the Zhou B. Art Center in the heart of Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. Created by local print publications, book publishers, and literary organizations, the festival provides readers an opportunity to celebrate and explore Chicago's vibrant print scene. For the first time, a variety of literary organizations including Bookslut, Stop Smiling, The Dollar Store, ACM, Danny's, Myopic, and Palabra Pura will host a month-long series of collaborative readings leading up to the July 20 literary festival.

What: 3rd Annual Printers' Ball in celebration of print literature in Chicago.

Where: Zhou B. Art Center, 1029 West 35th Street o Chicago

Free parking o Close to public transportation

When: Friday, July 20th, 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

Features: Live music! Punk Planet presents Magic Lantern. Venus Zine presents The Blue Ribbon Glee Club and The 1900s o DJs from WLUW & Flameshovel Records o Demonstrations by Gnoetry & Reading Under the Influence o Installation by Chicago Underground Library o Free featherproof T-shirts to the first 100 attendees o Posters by Delicious Design League o Special offer subscriptions & more!

The Printers' Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago, hosted by Poetry, in collaboration with more than eighty local literary organizations. The festival showcases a diverse selection of print publications including magazines, journals, and weeklies. Event organizers expect to give away more than 6,000 free magazines at this year's Printers' Ball.

Participating literary organizations include:

ACM o After Hours o Alarm Magazine o AREA o Bailliwik o Beard of Bees o bleached whale design o Bookslut o Busy Beaver Buttons o The Canary o Chicago Innerview o Chicago Quarterly Review o Chicago Reader o Chicago Review o Chicago Underground Library o Chicagoland Tails Pet Magazine o Columbia Poetry Review o The Common Review o contratiempo o Court Green o Cracked Slab Books o The Danny's Reading Series o d'cypher press o Delicious Design League o The Dollar Store o Em Press o f magazine o featherproof Books o Flameshovel Records o Free Lunch o Front Forty Press o Gnoetry o Green Lantern o The Guild Literary Complex o Haymarket Books o Hourglass Books o In These Times o International Socialist Review o Journal of Ordinary Thought o Jack Black's Body o Kedzie Press o Love, Chicago o Literago o Lumpen o LVNG o The Machine o MAKE o Milk Magazine o Moonlit o Mule Magazine o Myopic Books & Poetry Series o Newcity o Other Voices o Palabra Pura Series o Poetry o The Poetry Center of Chicago o The Poetry Foundation o Press of the Third Mind o Puddin'head Press o Punk Planet o Reading Under the Influence o Reconstruction Room o Red Rover Series o Rhino o Roctober Magazine o Rose Metal Press o Rubba Ducky o Screwball Press o Select o Seven Ten Bishop o shelter o Shortpants Press o The Skeleton News o Small Happy o Stop Smiling o StoryQuarterly o Switchback Books o Terry Plumming o Tia Chucha Press o THE2NDHAND o Time Out Chicago o TriQuarterly o Try Less Hard o UR Chicago Magazine o Venus Zine o Visual Arts Collective o WLUW o The Writers WorkSpace o You Are Beautiful o And others...

The Printers' Ball is open to the public and admission is free. For more information, visit printersball.org or email editors@poetrymagazine.org.