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SUMMARY:Write Club Chicago Launches its 17th Season of ‘Live Lit’ at 
 GMan Tavern\\, October 20
DESCRIPTION:Write Club Chicago\\, announces its combatants competing in i
 ts 17th season launch Tuesday\\, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at GMan Tavern\\, i
 n Chicago’s Lakeview East neighborhood\\, 3740 N. Clark St.\\nWrite Clu
 b Chicago returns to Chicago Tuesday\\, Oct. 20 with its infamous “bout
 ” format\\, in which three rounds of combatant writer-performers face o
 ff with original\\, seven-minute essays on competing topics to win prize 
 money and claim the cherished Loving Cup of Deathless F***ing Glory. The 
 October 20 list of combatants are Breon Arzell\\, Christopher Bigelow\\, 
 Elizabeth Gomez\\, Archy Jamjun\\, Jean Marie Koon and Binkey Tolefree. W
 inners are decided by the audience following each “bout.”\\nWrite Clu
 b Chicago\\, initially founded by Ian Belknap and Lindsay Muscato\\, is t
 he world&#8217\\;s foremost competitive reading series\\, featuring the m
 ost audacious and fearsome of writers and performers. The evening offers 
 quick\\, crafted performed essays: an immediate art form that takes audie
 nces on a seven-minute ride they will not forget. Belknap first described
  the show as “Live Lit\\,” a turn of phrase which then became widely 
 applied to the variety of storytelling shows produced throughout the city
 .\\nTickets are a suggested donation of $25 and are available at the door
  the night of the event\\, doors open at 7 p.m. More information availabl
 e at WriteClubNation.com.\\nImage: Combatant Loretta Perkins with the Wri
 te Club Chicago audience\\, photo by Sarah Elizabeth Larson\\nhttps://www
 .gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/chicago/events/write-club-chicago-la
 unches-its-17th-season-of-live-lit-at-gman-tavern-october-20-2026-10-20
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