Silver Tongue is a monthly reading series hosted by Columbia College Chicago. Anything including words tends to be accepted, be it prose, poetry, beatboxing.

SilverTongue publishes Mad Licks, a print zine, every semester that caters to anything with words. Edited by Columbia College Chicago students Mad Licks focuses on the mini-zine, not only trying to include quality stories, but quality design, trying to create a complete package that looks slick and entertains.

There’s no reason words can’t be pretty.

Silver Tongue has helped facilitate Chicago Zine Fest’s Friday Panel. This year’s panel “Writing about Health, Disability, and Accessibility in Zines: A Panel with Kerri Radley, Maranda Elizabeth, and Dave Roche ” is taking place Friday. March 8 at the Conaway Center, Columbia College (1104 S Wabash) from 1 - 3 pm.

Find Silver Tongue online: Website, Vimeo

Photo features Cristy Roads and Dr. Mimi Thi Nguyen at 2012’s Friday Panel “Gender, Race and Sexuality: A Discussion with Women in Self-Publishing” featuring Anne Elizabeth Moore, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Cristy Road”

Picture courtesy of Sophia Nahlia