Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. We publish one print issue per year and feature online content year-round. We are headquartered in Chicago and Durham, NC.
Readers for this event include:
Andrew Farkas
Kristin Lueke
David Welch
Performers for this event include:
Jack Langdon
Erica Miller
Janne Lee
Andrew Farkas is the author of seven books: The Great Indoorsman: Essays (University of Nebraska Press), The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), Sunsphere: Stories (BlazeVOX Books), Self-Titled Debut: Stories (Subito Press), Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: Stories (Alternating Current Press), Movies Are Fine for a Bright Boy Like You: Stories (Whiskey Tit), and The Ancient Mysteries of Las Vegas: a Play (KERNPUNKT Press). He is also an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Washburn University. He can be found at https://thegreatindoorsman.org/
Kristin Lueke is a Chicana poet, essayist, and creative strategist.
She is the co-founder and Strategic Director of Field of Practice, an award-winning, women-owned design studio focused on social change and equitable futures. The studio’s work has been honored by the Webbys, Communication Arts, and the STA 100, and featured in Faculty Magazine. Kristin is the author of the chapbooks here i show you a human heart (2025) and (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press, 2013). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as Best New Poets and Best of the Net, and appears in Sixth Finch, Wildness, HAD, LETTERS, Variant Lit, Poetry Society of New York, Frozen Sea, Maudlin House, and Heavy Feather Review, among others.
David Welch is the author of The Book of Echoes (JackLeg Press, 2025), a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry; Everyone Who Is Dead (Spork Press, 2018); and a chapbook, It Is Such a Good Thing to Be In Love With You (The Laurel Review/Midwest Chapbook Series, 2015). He is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Welch lives in Chicago and teaches occasionally at DePaul University and StoryStudio Chicago.
Jack Langdon (b. 1994) is an Ojibwe composer and performer of experimental music. He writes concert music and performs nontraditional work for pipe organ and the Ojibwe wooden flute, the bibigwan. He is currently a PhD student at Northwestern University, and his most important teachers have been Katherine Young, Ash Fure, Linda Catlin Smith, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Jay Alan Yim. His musical work investigates incompleteness, indifference, mimesis, silence, and material brevity. He is currently devising systematic approaches to non-harmony through his book project A Family of Things Rendered as Magic Chords. Jack’s musical orientation seeks points of resonance between Anishinaabe thought and the tradition of experimental music.
Erica Miller is a cellist and painter based in Chicago. They create music that interweaves the sound of acoustic cello with electronics and is a wide ranging exploration of stormy sonic landscapes, drones, and unique sounds that are evocative and cinematic. Erica has performed, recorded, and toured with artists including Lykanthea, Tim Daisy, aperiodic, and the Emmy winning performance collective, Manual Cinema. She has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edgar Miller Legacy, Garfield Park Conservatory, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Constellation Chicago, and has been featured on The Wire Magazine. She has composed and produced music for Lykanthea's soon to be released, debut album, Some Viscera.
Janna Lee is a Chicago artist who uses her voice to explore various facets of herself, and enjoys blurring the line between angel and demon. She is the vocalist of Snek Trio, a psychedelic free jazz party band, and Obsequies, an improvised death folk duo. Her solo work combines harsh noise and haunting vocals that probe the dark recesses of a woman’s psyche. “The One That Got Away,” her third solo album on Black Ring Rituals, was number three in The Wire’s list of best noise releases of 2023. Her versatility as a vocalist has garnered a diverse range of collaborations, including Galaxxu, Unmanned Ship, Ben Zucker, and Scarlet