About

MAKE Literary Productions, NFP is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose purpose is to publish contemporary literary writing through the biannual print publication, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, to stage readings and integrative arts events, and to educate through public forums on literature and writing and publishing workshops.

MAKE Literary Productions is partially supported by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine

Chicago is a storyteller’s city, and MAKE is the story’s magazine. Chock full of fiction, poetry, essays, art, and reviews MAKE is substantial in both feel and scope. MAKE expands on the Chicago tradition to entertain and to inform.

A biannual publication, MAKE circulates 1,000 copies twice a year throughout Chicago and beyond. Find MAKE in Chicago area bookstores and making the rounds at special events, such as readings and festivals. MAKE was founded in 2004 by Ramsin Canon, Sarah Dodson, and Mike Zapata.

These people currently make MAKE:

Creative Director, Johnathan Crawford

MLP Director/Managing Editor, Sarah Dodson

Fiction Editor, Kamilah Foreman

Nonfiction Editor, Kathryn Scanlan

Poetry Editor, Joel Craig

Reviews Editor, Mark Molloy

Portfolio Art Editor, Stacie Johnson

Story Art Editor, Caleb Lyons

Associate Editors, Joseph Drogos, LC Fiore, Hallie Paladino, Ellen Placey Wadey, Kate Sommer, Tom Mundt

Contributing Editors, Don De Grazia, Steffi Drewes, Joseph Drogos, Katie Geha, Lindsay Hunter, Aaron Michael Morales, Kathleen Rooney

Proofreader/ Copy Editor, Sarah Kramer

Assistant Managing Editor, Kristin Boyd

Intern, Connor Goodwin

Past mastheads

The Review Review review of issue #11

Reviews on Newpages.com

Review of issue 10 – At Play

Review of issue 8 – This Everyday

Review of issue 4 – Sister Cities: The International Issue

Review of issue 1 – The inaugural

Review of issue 9 on Fluid / Exchange by Steve Halle

March 2010, MAKE co-founder, 848 contributor and Gapersblock.com political columnist Ramsin Canon stopped by the WBEZ studios to talk MAKE with Allison Cuddy. And now, we will refer to him as our official spokesperson.

Listen HERE.848

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MAKE is available at numerous bookstores throughout Chicago, as well as the US.

CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF STORES CARRYING MAKE.

MAKE is distributed through Ubiquity Inc. and Ingram Periodicals.

To order a subscription for your library, contact SWETS.

MAKE is available anywhere, anytime, online.

Support MAKE Your subscriptions and tax-deductible financial support are immensely appreciated and keep us in action.

 

MAKE Literary Productions, NFP

(NEW ADDRESS)

2822 W. Dickens #3

Chicago, IL 60647

info and the rest

(info at makemag.com)

Interested in writing reviews?

Submit your contact information and samples of your previous work to the Reviews Editor

Sarah Dodson, Director/Managing Editor

e: sarah at makemag.com

t: 773.552.7440

A while back, we were on The Lit Show.  Listen up.

I submit that literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. Now we all know.

Nelson Algren

Chicago: City on the Make

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