Creative Writing

Full text of more than 500,000 works of poetry, drama and prose from the eighth century to the present day.

Drama Online contains playtexts, video, audio plays, scholarly books and major reference works on drama.

Modern American Poetry is an assemblage of resources including poems, audio, media files, essays, images of poets and book jackets, bibliographies, archives, and teaching resources.

UChicago Library's special collections is comprised of rare books, manuscripts, and archival collections.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a consortium of Chicago-based archives, libraries, and museums that document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences.

The Newberry Library is an independent research library in Chicago with extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and primary sources focused on the humanities, including American Indian and Indigenous studies, history, literature, genealogy, and the history of printing and cartography.

The Chicago Public Library Special Collections encompass archives, manuscripts, photographs, and rare books primarily focused on Chicago history, urban development, local neighborhoods, civic life, and the city’s literary and cultural heritage.