Fiction

Children's book in English and Spanish.

Chicago is built on a foundation of meat and railroads and steel, but its identity long ago stretched past manufacturing. A city of opportunity from the get-go, it continues to lure new residents from around the world, and from across a region rocked by recession and deindustrialization. But the problems that plague the Belt don’t disappear once you get past Gary. In fact, they’re often amplified. Chicago’s glittering downtown towers stand in sharp contrast to the struggling south and west sides. A city defined by movement that’s the anchor of the Midwest, bound to its neighbors by a shared ecosystem and economy, Chicago’s complicated – both of the Belt and beyond it. Which makes it a perfect subject for a book.

A.B. Drea, a fiction MFA student at Columbia College in Chicago, edited this Beat poetry inspired collection of literary essays, including fictional and non-fictional pieces.

A compilation magazine of prose by high school students in the Young Chicago Authors group. YCA group serves as exposure to a lively literary community, that "transcendes cultural and socio-economic boundries." Taken from YCA About page.

Poetry collection

Fiction in different formats, photography, art journal

Short fiction (novella) on the events that followed a meeting of the (fictional) Constantin Constantius society

Collection of literary submissions in a variety of formats

Fiction about a found letter in a small town that ends up exonerating an African American family member who left town years before for an uncalled for unjustice.