Haunted Hemingway, Ghost Stories

Name: Haunted Hemingway, Ghost Stories
Start: 2025-10-24T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 339 N Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

339 N Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302 | Oak Park, IL

F@H's features a haunted Hemingway Birthplace so join us for an evening of literary ghost stories read by Chicago area writers. Featured authors will be announced as they are confirmed:
Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator and Core Faculty at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers University, Newark). Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the Story Prize, the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Lima is also a translator and a photographer. Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago and New York.
Nat Holtzmann is a writer and bookmaker who frequently collaborates across mediums with other artists. Her debut story collection, Slight (TEMPER Press, 2025), blurs the lines of short fiction and prose poetry to probe the dark waters of girlhood. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions, and is featured in or forthcoming from Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, Necessary Fiction, The Minnesota Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sahar Mustafah’s debut novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by New York Times Book Review and one of Marie Claire Magazine’s 2020 Best Fiction by Women. Her award-winning short stories have been recently featured in Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, and Redline: Chicago Horror Stories. Her second novel, The Slightest Green, is forthcoming this November from Interlink Books. Mustafah writes and teaches outside of Chicago.
Nick Medina, born in Chicago, Illinois and a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Nick Medina writes horror, thriller, and mystery fiction that pairs social issues with local and Native American folklore. In addition to writing, he enjoys live music, ghost stories, and spending time with family. His third novel, The Whistler, is out now. Connect with him on www.nickmedina.net, Instagram (@nickmedinawrites), Threads (@nickmedinawrites) and X (@MedinaNick).