Imagine a city vibrant enough to host more than thirty spoken word performance series each month. More than 200 active publishers. Thriving book stores. And an Alliance of more than fifty literary organizations. Welcome to the Chicago Literary Alliance, where organizations come to connect and collaborate. We invite you to browse through these pages, or use the Searchable Directory to look up an organization that might be a good fit for you to: volunteer, take classes, get hired, rent space, read in public, publish a book, and more.







