https://www.eileenfavorite.com/flash daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1609247703379-YCZADV1MW6PQIY5FZ9Z3/download.jpg Flash Non/Fiction - The Wonder Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1557936745899-YCJK8HAI1MXANTVZBTG8/download-1.jpg Flash Non/Fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1557936763805-7KD8CUWT9CR71LY7J97G/download-2.jpg Flash Non/Fiction https://www.eileenfavorite.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/a1f582ee-30de-4571-86a4-12be52c0fc91/Headshot+2021.jpeg Home - Sunday Salon At 7:00, March 29, I’ll reading at the Sunday Salon Chicago. Join me, Elise Paschen, Melissa Fraterrigo, Judith Valente, and Tim Hillegonds at ROSCOE BOOKS, 2142 W Roscoe St, Chicago, IL 60618. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/48c9faf3-5b30-45e9-bd86-190578a3ef70/Headshot_Sara-Levine-c-Jeffrey-L-Kurysz-1024x683.jpg Home - My feature article about Sara Levine’s new novel, The Hitch, recently appeared in New City Not Heart-To-Heart, More Like Spleen-to-Spleen: Sara Levine Discusses “The Hitch” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/4b3b0305-290b-48d8-b71f-1855b2c557ce/haircut-834280_1920-jpg-1536x1024.webp Home - The Same Country “THE SAME COUNTRY”—a short fiction is live at The Manifest Station. I https://www.eileenfavorite.com/novel daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1557916633129-MWPS4OPOJ121FUFLK3AX/Heroines_0.jpg Books and Anthologies - The Heroines Praise for The Heroines "On a picturesque acreage near Prairie Bluff, Illinois, thirteen-year-old Penny Entwhistle and her mother, Anne-Marie, run a retreat where literary Heroines seek temporary refuge from their tragic destinies. Franny Glass, Madame Bovary, Scarlett O'Hara, Catherine Earnshaw, and others find respite from their varied cries, but must return to their books eventually and suffer the fate that awaits...Favorite offers a fun take on the impact literature can have on our lives." -- Publishers Weekly “By not explaining too much, Eileen Favorite keeps the conceit neat and droll and produces a surprising debut novel.”—The Guardian (London) “Eileen Favorite’s THE HEROINES is a magnificent mix of teenage angst, literary homage and the supernatural.”—New Zealand Listener “An intelligent understanding of literature and feminism…Favorite handles drastic plot twists impressively…Funny and energetic.” —Library Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/ca749202-67ad-4ba8-a006-7ddbffbf8cb7/Collage+of+all+Heroine+covers.jpg Books and Anthologies - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eileenfavorite.com/upcoming-classes daily 0.75 2019-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1557931749009-FKSMTQGOO9QWIK647M0E/download.jpg Upcoming Classes UPCOMING CLASSES TAUGHT BY EILEEN FAVORITE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1562676582822-N0Z7ZUFKXY12D1C0221V/NUSPSwordmark_587.png Upcoming Classes https://www.eileenfavorite.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1612199916650-G4S1KHI75TMHVSMU4Y1G/CTERJK2U4RHFLDA3STNFVEII5Y.jpg NONFICTION - The police jumped to protect my white teen daughter and her friends. If only Black girls received the same care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/c60a7dba-f876-4736-94de-8655c742b218/C202210-CS-Mothers-Childhood-Dolores.jpg NONFICTION Young girl in a First Communion dress in 1936, eyes closed outside her graystone apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1557934868038-XR4UIWMX8HV45UYBVY4Y/download-3.png NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1620230636110-7GA5HLC0NKF9MVZ0DEFQ/EssayDaily_logo_wider_heart.png NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/9a4ffc73-6a9e-4c1a-a9e2-c6cb3f49732d/Midwest%2BReview%2BCover.jpg NONFICTION - On Aerial Views Flying over an environmentally damaged industrial landscape with my father. Winner, Midwest Essay Contest, Midwest Review. Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020 https://www.eileenfavorite.com/work-in-progress daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1558027097198-Q545881Q76HKDV3S30ZP/0.jpg The Worship of Storms (Novel in Progress) Excerpts Written by Eileen Favorite and Illustrated by Christopher Sullivan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/98201566-628e-484b-b8f6-a44bce4d473d/images.jpg The Worship of Storms (Novel in Progress) Excerpts Maggie gets an Annie Lennox haircut in an early chapter of the novel, THE WORSHIP OF STORMS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1558025544002-SD9MVQL38XHBD9YEPT18/rorry+and+his+dad+copy.jpg The Worship of Storms (Novel in Progress) Excerpts Maggie takes pictures of Rory’s father beating him up. https://www.eileenfavorite.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1625252408198-K4I9XVJ71SYY4GVXTL5T/Headshot+2021.jpeg About https://www.eileenfavorite.com/poetry daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1609248442088-8V7MOK1U3MKNLS7WSZZQ/download-1.jpg Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1609248688873-SXSLZAD64JR5I0GH40M5/laundry-chute-117678714.jpg Poetry https://www.eileenfavorite.com/img-sofia daily 0.75 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1493746032449-CRW72DLOPXQ5D6Q8O4FQ/bio-extended.jpg Image https://www.eileenfavorite.com/love-the-art-hate-the-artist daily 0.75 2023-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/36adce7f-d7bd-4034-b650-f3fc5c4dc2d0/download-2.png Love the Art, Hate the Artist - C. Borrelli’s Feature Article about My Class, Love the Art, Hate the Artist May 5, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/a3f5c455-c502-4f25-8546-e7022121a728/download.jpg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/3ebd78a9-13d2-4e3f-bc68-c6e195d61506/WSJart.jpg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Make it stand out Click on the picture to read the Full Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/cae8e820-eee5-4751-a37d-044ff45e88d3/download.jpg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Letter to the Editor April 4, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/3fa940c2-9720-40a4-8e14-e371a640f8e6/Lulu+and+I+at+TEDxWrigleyville.jpeg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Make it stand out MY DAUGHTER LULU AND I AFTER MY TEDX TALK AT WRIGLEY FIELD.TEDX TALK CAN YOU LOVE THE ART https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/05035f4c-4e7d-4ee7-a992-eff2402c019f/download-1.jpg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Conversation about So-Called Cancel Culture Talk with Sasha-Ann Simons on WBEZ Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/0f11409b-784d-493b-829c-80147ae7d47f/images.jpg Love the Art, Hate the Artist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eileenfavorite.com/podcast-war-stories-from-the-womb daily 0.75 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/1666974316126-ENJJ3439IG8RJJ3VH1D8/unsplash-image-Kt5hRENuotI.jpg Podcast: War Stories from the Womb Coastal Road in Ireland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/0058f12e-7521-455b-8fc6-b8ce0f8d669d/40513_423276263799_7753678_n.jpg Podcast: War Stories from the Womb https://www.eileenfavorite.com/interviews daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/3d836b5f-6d6f-44c1-a169-1eb19e036ef4/download.jpg Author Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/67159707-6e0a-4ec6-ab63-7676fa78a158/SL.png Author Interviews Author S.L. Wisenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/8eba53e5-23f4-4639-b85e-a33ee8025645/download.jpg Author Interviews - Erica Stern I talked with author Erica Stern about Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story. Stern blends memoir, research, and ghost story to explore the ways women’s lives and health are impacted by childbirth. From Hypertext August 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd759250b77bdf83fb201f0/f85a1185-89f9-42d8-8ea8-eaddbafa9071/Headshot_Sara-Levine-c-Jeffrey-L-Kurysz-1024x683.jpg Author Interviews - Sara Levine Read my feature article about Levine’s raucous new novel, The Hitch.” From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world. 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