

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Water Street Writers Reading Series
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 01 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us Sunday, February 1st, for our next Water Street Writers event!

Featuring the talents of Teresa Dzieglewicz, Donna Vorreyer, Diana Lund, and Vince Vieceli!

Open Mic after the program too!

Doors open at 5pm, show starts at 5:30pm at the gorgeous Water Street Studios in Batavia.


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Teresa Dzieglewicz is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). With Natasha Mijares, she organizes "Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River." Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children's book, Belonging, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago, on Potawatomi land. 

Find out more at: https://www.teresadzieglewicz.com


Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Unrivered ( 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Recent work has appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Colorado Review, Harpur Palate, Baltimore Review, Salamander, and many other journals. Donna lives in the western suburbs of Chicago and runs the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey. She is the co-founder/co-editor of Asterales: A Journal of Arts &amp; Letters.

Find out more at: https://www.donnavorreyer.com


Diana Lund has taught college mathematics across the country, managed computer software projects at Bell Labs and Motorola, and tried her hand at writing. But the latter only came after she’d lost her memory and had forgotten much about grammar and storytelling. She fought her way back and returned to college—Northwestern University—for a creative nonfiction certificate. Lund then wrote memoirs Remind Me Why I’m Here and A Waking Mind about brain injury from an automobile accident.

She is currently penning a memoir trilogy about her parents, now deceased, combining her writing with her mom’s and great grandmother’s. “They were with me in Paradise, till we fell, separate and together” starts the synopsis of the first book of the trilogy.

Lund has spoken on the national radio show Weekend America, Chicago Public Radio, WGN News, and at various conferences. Her work has appeared in various newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.


A former stand-up comedian who worked with Ellen DeGeneres, Ron White, Kathleen Madigan and Joe Rogan among others, Vince Vieceli is the co-author of “Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago”, the first book ever published on the subject. He got his start in comedy after Dennis Miller used his material on “Saturday Night Live."  Vince is currently working on a collection of humorous essays.


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Everyone is welcome! Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds pay our authors, so let’s give them a good night! ﻿So please like and share and all that jazz. 

In addition to fine literary entertainment, you may purchase signed copies of our authors’ books. Refreshments will be available from Water Street Studios’s bar. 

Water Street Studios has graciously donated their gallery to us, all that they ask is that we respect the art and their space. In return, as they are a nonprofit, we ask you to consider becoming members to support their unique programming. (Which includes some writing classes this go round!)

This event is emceed by Eric Bodwell. Susan Ward Trestrail Photography will document the evening, while Kevin Moriarity will record the show for our archives and your enjoyment. 

Experience Water Street Writers four precious Sundays a year in the fully accessible main art gallery at Water Street Studios. For more information, contact Cathy Borders here or at waterstreetwriters@rolreadlocal.com.

To learn more, including submission guidelines, please visit our website: https://waterstreetwriters.com

Submit to become a featured reader at waterstreetwriters@rolreadlocal.com. 

Submissions are chosen by committee. 

Submissions are always open. We pick from the slush pile each and every event. Multiple submissions are okay. Our last upcoming event of the 2026-2026 season will be on April 19th, but don't worry, we'll be back at it again in September.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, comedy, entertainment, nonprofit, workshops, music, open-mic, it, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 57

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Batavia
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Water Street Studios
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- **full address**: Water Street Studios, 162 S Water St, Batavia, IL 60510-2447, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: The Republic of Letters (https://allevents.in/org/the-republic-of-letters/23566223)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 01 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Water Street Studios, 162 S Water St, Batavia, IL 60510-2447, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Republic of Letters
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, comedy, entertainment, nonprofit, workshops, music, open-mic, it, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Water Street Writers Reading Series ?
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