Join us to celebrate the release of South Side photographer Rose Blouin’s To Washington Park, With Love, a vibrant collection of stunning black and white photographs capturing the events, people, and landscape of Washington Park during the summer of 1987.

Rose Blouin will be in conversation with writer and UChicago professor Eve L. Ewing, architecture critic Lee Bey, and journalist and political commentator Salim Muwakkil, moderated by UChicago and Arts + Public Life director Adrienne Brown.

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Award-winning authors Hanif Abdurraqib and Eve L. Ewing will reflect on the work and craft of writing. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom.

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Eve L. Ewing will take the stage to discuss culture shift, a guaranteed income, and why the key to economic change is recognizing that intimate, human stories are behind all the numbers.

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Isabella Hammad discusses Enter Ghost. She will be joined in conversation by Eve L. Ewing. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

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Women & Children First is excited to welcome National Book Award winning author Elizabeth Acevedo for a reading, conversation, and book-signing in honor of the release of Family Lore. For this event, Elizabeth Acevedo will be in conversation Eve L. Ewing.

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Come join us on July 29th for a literary festival on the South Side of Chicago designed with young readers and writers of all ages in mind! You will have the chance to meet and greet Eve L. Ewing and other big-name authors when you join our 2nd Annual Words of Wonder Literary Festival!

The event is free but registration is required. To reserve your spot, click here.

We're taking over Epiphany with an art showcase featuring up and coming artists in our Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellowship. Dr. Eve L. Ewing will be on stage to launch her groundbreaking new podcast, "GUARANTEED” on Friday, July 14.

Tickets are required for this event. For more info, click here.

Join us at The Silver Room and bring all your Eve L. Ewing books because she's coming to sign them all! Meet the illustrious author, and get a chance to shop her full collection of books including featured new comic book release, Black Panther #1!

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"You Remember Frank London Brown," explores and celebrates the legacy of Frank London Brown through the movements he shaped, the music he loved, the art he made, and the connections he held with those who loved him.

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No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks is a uniquely staged retelling of Brooks’s life written by Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall; using simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry by Manual Cinema set to music composed by Jamila Woods and Ayanna Woods. 

Eve will not be reading or performing at these events.

This event is free. For more information, click here.

Nicole Chung discusses her new book, A Living Remedy, a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost. Chung is joined in conversation by Eve L. Ewing.

This is an in-person event that will also be livestreamed. For more information and to register, click here.

No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks is a uniquely staged retelling of Brooks’s life written by Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall; using simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry by Manual Cinema set to music composed by Jamila Woods and Ayanna Woods. 

Eve will not be reading or performing at these events.

This event is free. For more information, click here.

Please join co-authors Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing for a virtual event celebrating Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game; an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up. This event is free to attend and will be held digitally via Crowdcast.

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Join us at The Silver Room on Saturday, January 7, 2023, from 12-2pm, and bring all your Eve L. Ewing books because she's coming to sign them all! Meet the illustrious author, and get a chance to shop her full collection of books.

This event is free. To reserve your spot, click here.

Diamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?

Join us for this limited-capacity in-person book launch event for Super Sad Black Girl with Diamond Sharp, Eve L. Ewing, Raych Jackson and Jamila Woods. Book signing and reception will follow.

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Arts + Public Life and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture invite you to an evening of conversation with Pemon Rami, Eve L. Ewing, Mark Larson, and Tracye A. Matthews.

Tickets are free but event registration is required. To register, please click here.

Join WBEZ’s Sasha-Ann Simons for a reflective conversation about Chicago’s Red Summer with Dr. Ewing on October 12th at 7pm at the Logan Center.

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Join us for an intimate evening with Dr. Eve L. Ewing in conversation about 1919 with novelist Dr. Sanderia Smith, co-founder of Kimbilio Center for Fiction and co-leader of PEN America/Dallas and Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation.

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Chicago 2017: After closing down dozens of public schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration sets out to shutter yet another, the top-ranked National Teachers Academy in the South Loop. Let The Little Light Shine tracks this passionate group of parents and students rising up for their beloved elementary school, it also reveals the bracing realities of systemic racism and gentrification.

Dr. Eve L. Ewing will moderate a panel discussion with guests Elisabeth Todd Breland, Elisabeth Greer, Jen Johnson, and Jianan Shi to celebrate teachers.

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Join us for an evening with Janelle Monáe and contributing author Eve L. Ewing. Each ticket includes one copy of The Memory Librarian.

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*Masks and proof of vaccination are required for attendees*

We invite you to 826 MSP's third annual Books for Breakfast fundraiser. In honor of the collaboration with our midwest sister chapter, 826CHI, we will be featuring young authors from both our chapters and TWO special guests, Danez Smith (from St. Paul) and Eve L. Ewing (from Chicago). Spend the morning virtually with us to hear from these talented writers and to support the creative power of the next generation.

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Join Imani Perry in conversation with Eve L. Ewing for a virtual event celebrating the release of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

This is a ticketed event and you can buy them here.

Join us on Wednesday, December 8 at 7:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM CT / 5:30 PM MT / 4:30 PM PT, as New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, discusses CALL US WHAT WE CARRY, with Eve L. Ewing.

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Join us this Friday at 5PM PT/8PM ET to celebrate the BEOTIS Artists with 2021 book releases. There will be readings, conversation, and good times!

This event is free but you must reserve your spot. Click here to RSVP.

Join us for the 3rd Annual Bike Tour to learn about the history of key places and people connected to the 1919 riots as well as the unveiling of our commemorative markers. The tour will also highlight important institutions connected to Black resistance and resilience like the Chicago Defender, Chicago Bee, Ida B. Wells, and Victory Monument.

This a free event. For more information and registration, click here.

Join us for a special afternoon with Eve L. Ewing and her new middle-grade novel, Maya and the Robot! Attendees get a free book and goodie bag!

Award-winning author, Eve L. Ewing, comes to Open Books Pilsen (908 W. 19th) Saturday, July 17 from 12noon - 2pm for a very special afternoon meet & read! Each attendee receives a free, signed copy of her book and goodie bag! There will be STEM Activities for the whole family and more free books from our warehouse!

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Join us for a special event with Burst into Books! Invite your family to come out to meet Eve L. Ewing as we celebrate her new book. You will receive a free signed copy of the book and be entered to win a gift card to a bookstore. Also, you will get to decorate your own bookmark!

This event is free but you must register here.

Join us for an outdoor book-signing in celebration of the release of Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing! Tickets are required— each ticket comes with a copy of the book. More info here.

57th Street Books is proud to celebrate the release of Eve L. Ewing's newest book, Maya and the Robot, with a limited capacity, in-person event signing. Tickets are $17 and include a copy of the book. More info here.

Tune in on July 13th at 6 PM central to watch award-winning author, Eve L. Ewing and Jacqueline Woodson discuss Eve’s newest book, Maya and the Robot!

This is a virtual event hosted by Semicolon Books. All tickets include the registration to the event and a copy of Maya and the Robot. More info here.