Oakton Chicago Writers Series presents author Donald Evans May 2

Award-winning author Donald Evans of Oak Park will read selections from his collection of work starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, at the Student Center at Oakton Community College’s Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road. Admission to this Chicago Writers Series event is free and open to the public.

Evans is the author of “Good Money After Bad” and editor of “Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Year.” His short story collection, “An Off-White Christmas,” will be released later this year. He also holds the distinction of winning the Chicago Writing Association’s Spirit Award in 2016.

“Oakton is proud to host Donald because of his connection to Chicago, and he is well thought of in the literary circles, having founded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,” Donovan Braud, Ph.D., chair of Oakton’s English department, says. “He also contributes his expertise to the American Writers Museum and helps select the winner of the annual Harold Washington Literary Award.”

A former journalist, Evans earned his bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Illinois and his master’s degree in fiction writing from Syracuse University.

Funded by the Oakton Educational Foundation and student activity fees, the Chicago Writers Series attracts award-winning fiction and nonfiction writers and poets to Oakton to perform, engage and educate. Oakton’s connection to native Chicago authors, as well as those who have called Chicago “home,” allows the community to access diverse, inspiring and relevant authors in a space outside the traditional classroom.

For more information, contact Braud at 847-376-7026 or dbraud@oakton.edu.