Everything takes effort but only some things deserve that sweat. Ashley Ray, Carrie Cook, Sarah Mathers, Carrie Shemanski break down money and power and other elusive concepts of value. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

Master shade-throwers Stephanie Weber, Eunji Kim, Elizabeth Gomez, Maggie Hendricks, and special guest host Carly Oishi have some feelings about that. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

We've got enough frustration to power a small country. Luckily, Jillian Ebanks, Jess White, and Lindsay Eanet are here to help us out.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

Did you know, there is a dog The Gallery Cabaret? And also, stories about puppies, relationships, and many other types of animals as well from Kim Nelson, Margaret Benson, Corinne Mucha, and Jessi Chartier. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

We're back and we're not over! We absolutely warrant all the the attention we previously received: LeeAnn Yops, Lisa Farver, JH Palmer, and Carly Oishi make that clear.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

Bring your grievances and appetites to our last show of 2018. We've got Kim Nelson, Sarah Becan, and Stephanie Weber with a digestif for your holiday meal.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

We teamed up with the U.S. Pizza Museum for a battle of the slices! This boy-girl pizza party features the following regional styles facing off in an epic showdown: The Midwest Classic: Detroit (Megan Kirby) vs. St. Louis (Theo Hahn repping Dennis Lee) The Out-of-Town Cousins: California Pizza Kitchen (Rosamund Lannin) vs. Neapolitan (Heather Kenney) The Major Leagues: Chicago (Maggie Hendricks) vs. NYC (Jasmine Davila)  

Talk politics with Chloe Riley, Samantha Abernethy, Hope Rehak, Leah Jones, and special guest co-host Ines Bellina. Then go research Chicago's mayoral candidates, the election is scheduled for February 26, 2019.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

We're going full Libra for this year's Lit Crawl. Transformation. Justice. Maybe turning into actual snakes. Find out what that means from F. Amanda Tugade, Erin Watson, Stephanie Weber, and special guest co-host Carly Oishi.

We can't talk enough about what bears your ungrateful mind through this terrible world (thank you Carmen Maria Machado, with a nod to Ray Bradbury). Join us and Al Rosenberg, Jessi Chartier, and Melanie LaForce for more tales of the physical.

Hey girl hey, pssssst, Lily Be, Ola Faleti, and Karen Clanton want to holler at you about street harassment, but they'll never ask you to smile. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

Miss Spoken teamed up with Book Fort for Pitchfork Music Festival, bringing the dulcet tones of Ines Bellina, Eunji Kim, and Allie Wachowski to a stage made of paperbacks and hardcovers, that's right a literal fortress of periodicals.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

Trin Garritano, Karen Shimmin, Meagan Dahl, and JH Palmer take you to charm school. (We go high for the first 120 minutes then the last 10 is primal screaming and voter registration.) Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

Join us for #ladylivelitcon and nerd out with superfans Megan Kirby, Anne Abel, LeeAnn Yops, Kathleen Rooney, and Keidra Chaney. Harry Potter. Baseball. Music. Magritte. Luke Perry. Think of it like a panel, and by by panel we mean stories about fandom, plus a special bonus narrated raffle!  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd - Elizabeth Gomez, Margaret C. Benson, Maggie Hendricks Gaines, and Veronica Arreola talk sports! Featuring guest co-host Carly Oishi, Rosamund took the month off to get married and let's be real once asked who Aaron Rodgers was. Batter up! Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

Let's get weird with Kristin Lueke, Cinnamon Cooper, Lauren Catey, and Rebekah Frumkin.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

Swoon hardcore with Genevieve Diesing, Katie Colt, Amanda ReCupido, and Calamity Wyatt for Girl Crush. Bonus raffle from our friends at Toy de Jour, Chicago's premier destination for art, farts, and toys vintage and new.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

New year, new show, new us. Do your face, cue up your speakers, and listen to War Paint, featuring Ashley Ray, Taylor Lacy Klassman, Wendy McClure, and Jessica DiMaio! Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

For our last show of 2017, head home for the holidays with Sara Wolfson, Fran Hoepfner, and Lisa White. Bring an appropriate housewarming gift, unresolved family baggage, and a donation for the Chicago Greater Food Depository. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.   

Keisa Reynolds, Meagan Dahl, and Megan Henricks share their deepest and darkest.  Possibly some less serious secrets as well. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. 

The kind of girl you read about/in the new wave magazines joins us for Freaks and Geeks: Maggie Wagner, Jessica DiMaio, Julie Marchiano, and Veronica Arreola bring the geeky, weird, and sometimes both. Also, we find out everyone's favorite OTP!

This month’s theme is The Other Woman, and here’s a mild spoiler: we’re going to start out classic, then get ~*experimental*~. We won’t say much more. The mystery is part of the other, after all. Featuring Lisa Farver, Morgan Elizabeth-Karadjian McNaught, Lindsay Porter, and Katie Johnston-Saurus Dean. 

Double agents. Passing. Going undercover. There’s a lot of ways to be not what you seem, and this Wednesday Brooke Allen, Allie Wachowski, Kim Nelson, and Bea Cordelia get into these cases of Mistaken Identity with humor, grace, guts.   Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.    Reader bios: Bea Cordelia: Bea Cordelia is an award-winning, Chicago-bred, internationally...

We’ve got a big appetite for Lucy Knisley, Sarah Becan, Nadine Kenney Johnstone, and Lauren Jordan. We’re also three years old! We were three last month too but uh, we forgot. Grab a slice of pie, celebrate our birthday, and find out about the many ways we are fed.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.