Introducing An Off-White Christmas by Donald G. Evans, featuring a dozen stories set on or around Christmas. The stories explore life changes and chaos in times of heightened drama, when family and friends merge to form cohesive units, happy or otherwise. The stories range from a gambling spree in Las Vegas to a caravan traveling to Baraboo; from a teepee hotel in Kentucky to a retro movie theatre in Arizona; from a jolly Santa lookalike to a frustrated Dickensian actor; from students to retirees. Christmas, in these stories, is a character as much as a setting—it acts as a plot to create tension, but each story is unique. It’s hardly all sugar plums and pure white flakes, but always there’s that hope. Just as the notion of a “white Christmas" evokes well worn traditions of the holiday, these “un-white Christmas” stories introduce potential traditions that could expand and augment the Christmas spirit.
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More about Donald G. Evans
Donald G. Evans is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and the short story collection
An Off-White Christmas. He is the editor of Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year. He was named to the Newcity Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago Hall of Fame and won the Chicago Writing Association’s Spirit Award for lifetime achievement in 2017. He founded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2010 and as executive director conceives and enacts the diverse endeavors of the organization—providing educational programming, mounting literary exhibits and events, collaborating with other literary and arts groups, and, most notably, leading the planning and production of CLHOF’s annual induction and Fuller Award ceremonies. Don also contributes his expertise to the American Writers Museum’s programming committee and, for the past seven years, has served on the Near South Planning Board committee to select the winner of its annual Harold Washington Literary Award. He has been awarded residencies at the Clearing House Folk School, the Cliff Dwellers, and Saltonstall Arts Colony; served as an editor for Great Lakes Review; done a variety of journalism work; and taught off and on for the last two decades, most recently at the Newberry Library. He lives just outside Chicago with his son, Dusty, and wife, Margaret.
More about Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
The mission of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame is to honor and preserve Chicago’s great literary heritage. We do this through educational programming, awards, exhibits and other special events, particularly our annual induction ceremony. We are also in the process of creating a repository of detailed information about Chicago’s past, present and future literary life, through such projects as the Chicago Literary Map, the Chicago Book of the Day, and the Chicago Literary Calendar. The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame began in 2008 as a project of the Chicago Writer’s Association. At that point, the project had neither shape nor definition, it was just an idea. Throughout the rest of 2008 and most of 2009 founder Donald G. Evans worked with CWA president Randy Richardson to build a website. At the same time, he put into place procedures for induction into the CLHoF, assembled the first nominating and selecting committees, and with the large contributions of Valya Lupescu, put on our first induction ceremony at Northeastern Illinois University’s Auditorium. With that, the induction process was in place, and ever since a new class has been inducted annually. Over the next four years, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame expanded its programming and reach, and added the Fuller Award (a lifetime achievement honor) and Budding Literary Masters (competition for young writers) to its annual traditions. The scope of the organization required greater support, and an independent board, and so in January 2014 the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame became our own nonprofit 501 c(3) entity.
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