The Fifth-Ever Black Warrior Review Contest Has Begun!
Friend-of-Switchback Black Warrior Review is now accepting contest entries. Guest Judges this year are Larissa Szporluk (poetry) and...
Oneiromance is a Publish Chicago featured book!
Kathleen Rooney's Oneiromance (an epithalamion) has been selected by Publish Chicago as one of their July 2009 Featured Books! Congrats,...
Revised contest timeline...
Hey y'all, The upcoming year might be a little challenging for us Switchbackers, as editors leave the city (one already left, miss you...


Hanna Andrews @ Women and Children First!!!!
Friday, JUNE 26th @ Women and Children First 5233 N. Clake St., Chicago, IL @ 7:30 PM. Come witness the amazing and magical nature of our...
Black Ocean microreviews Rooney
As part of their new series. Check it HERE! Don't blink or you'll miss it!
Slam CTA Harassment with Poetry
The Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team who battle street abuse has now turned its attention towards harassment on the CTA. "They...
This Week's Myopic Reading Series
This Sunday, June 21, Switchback Books' Advisory Board Member, Simone Muench, will be reading at the Myopic Reading Series alongside...
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"It's a tiny little book, but they want to burn it like a witch"
A teen book burns at the stake Christian rights group joins library fray The Christian Civil Liberties Union is suing the West Bend...
A Closer Look at the Lit 50 Reveals Feminist Poets & Publishers Rule
Incidentally I have read several of the Dancing Girl Press books including Daniela Olszewska’s “The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe,”...