Doors/signup opens: 6:00p CDT
Show start: ~6:30p CDT
FREE show, RSVP required

We've got a birthday bash coming up, and you're invited! Join us in celebration of the sixth anniversary of Chicago's first and only fiction-focused, experimental open mic as we make our debut at Golden Dagger!

What is UNREAL? We're a reading/performance event that takes place on the third Tuesday of every month, devoted exclusively to fictional narratives and innovation in form. We encourage the sharing of all kinds of work, so long as it's entirely untrue: microfiction, a selection from a novel, character monologues, comics, as-yet-unnamed experimental and hybrid forms, whatever you can dream up. If you've got a mode of performing a part of your narrative in 7 minutes or less, we want to experience it. If your piece includes additional audio/visual components, be sure to let us know when signing up for an open mic slot so that we can do our best to accommodate.