Live Lit

 

 

December 2019.

My dream to publish short personal essays in a beautiful online format was made real five years ago on December 10, 2014.

I leaped with joy when people actually showed up at Curt’s Cafe that cold December night.

In May 2019, we celebrated Thread’s fifth anniversary at the Skokie Theatre to a sold-out house of 140. In addition to 14 beautiful issues totaling 84 essays, I’m SO proud of the three spots Thread earned on the notables list of Best American Essays.

My unending gratitude goes to those of you who have submitted your work, read or told your story on stage, showed up for a reading or supported this whole endeavor on social media.

All of it speaks to how art works best.

When we do it together.

Cafe photo courtesy of Jill Howe.

 

Photo highlights from Threadaversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

    An Evening of Personal Stories

         with these outstanding Chicago storytellers

 

Eileen Dougharty

Jeremy Owens 

Diane Kastiel

 Jill Howe  

  Nestor Gomez

Ada Cheng

David Barish

Sheri Reda  

Scott Whitehair

With special guests:

The Grant Street Writers and Richard Reeder

 

Thursday, May 2, 2019

7:30 p.m. in Skokie Theatre

 

 

Thursday, May 2, 2019
7:30 – 9:30 pm

 

 

 

 

         Video from Thread’s Second Live Lit Event

                                                           at Curt’s Cafe South, Spring 2015

 

 

Highlights from the Fall 2017 Reading 

         Evanston Public Library (September, 10 2017)                 

 

                                         

Highlights from the Fall Reading at Tommy Nevins

                   October 16, 2016

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                                    Reading at The Curragh in Skokie

                    April 2016

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Ellen & Allen

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Bobbie Scheff

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Ellen & John

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David telling

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                         Reading at Curt’s Cafe South

                                                                                            Fall 2015

                       Photographs by Gay Pasley

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                            Moments from April’s 2015 Thread Reading at Curt’s Cafe South.

                                                      (Photographs by Jill Howe)

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And some from the launch at Curt’s Cafe North in December 2014:

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