Myrtle Beach Condo

By Donald G. Evans

            I’ve never been to Myrtle Beach, but know plenty of people who have. In fact, for some friends the Myrtle Beach trip is a ritual, an annual excursion built around sun, water and golf. They revere Myrtle Beach and all it encompasses, like some people revere favorite sports teams or whiskeys.

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            At the silent auction Saturday, you’ll have a chance to bid on a stay in a Myrtle Beach condo, donated by Rob Jackson.

            Rob is a writer and most recently the dedicated founder of The Great Lakes Cultural Review, of which I’m the Chicago editor. We had a five-city launch of the inaugural issue yesterday—Cleveland, Toronto, Buffalo, Milwaukee and at Open Books in Chicago. By all accounts, the simultaneous launch was a big success and the infant journal is alive and kicking.

            It’s a great idea and a beautiful first issue, filled with a lot of great writing, including some of our local luminaries like Stuart Dybek, Don DeGrazia, Bayo Ojikutu, Brendan Short and Jessie Morrison. Rob’s told me that he wants to bring Chicago’s great literature to other Great Lakes cities and vice-versa. I love the concept. It’s a mutual benefit for writers and readers to discover some of these great talents, and I think building content around the Great Lakes has meaning, and legs.

           

            Do yourself two favors this weekend: secure a trip to Myrtle Beach and get a copy of this new great literary journal.

Donald G. Evans is the founder and executive director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. He is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and editor of the anthology Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year. His short story collection An Off-White Christmas will be published by Simon & Schuster later this year. He is the current Senior Artist-in-Residence at Chicago's Cliff Dwellers Club and the Chicago editor of the upstart journal Great Lakes Cultural Review. He serves on the committee that selects the annual Harold Washington Literary Award recipient, as well as the Chicago Literary Advisory Council of the American Writers Museum.