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.