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The Elting Memorial Library offers the residents of New Paltz a wide variety of services, collections, and resources. Its mission is to promote literacy, build community, and inspire lifelong learning. The Library’s extensive collections, unique historical holdings, cultural programs, services and events, provided in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, are an accessible resource for all.
Nationally known poets and fiction writers have been coming to Tuscaloosa to read from their work since 1972. Each year, the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series brings eight to twelve writers to campus for residencies. Many of these writers stay for two-day residencies and give readings, lead master classes, give craft talks, and interact with students at meals, receptions, and conferences. The Director of the Program in Creative Writing asks for suggestions of writers to bring to campus at the beginning of the Spring semester, and the schedule for the year is announced early in the Fall.
StoryStudio Chicago is a growing community of writers building Chicagoland’s premier center for writing and writers. Its mission is simple: teach the art and craft of writing in a positive, open, and encouraging community where students can develop their unique voices.
Four Seasons Books is a family-owned and operated bookstore founded in 1991. Located in the heart of downtown historic Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a small college town on the Upper Potomac River, Four Seasons Books offers a unique selection of quality new, used, and discount books. The full-service bookstore hosts a variety of author readings and signings, talks and discussions, and special events and performances.
Portland State University’s Creative Writing MFA Program hosts visiting writers throughout the academic year, as well as many author readings, talks, and lectures, and a monthly student reading series.
Red Emma’s is the worker cooperative behind the restaurant, bookstore, and community events space, dedicated to putting principles of solidarity and sustainability into practice in a democratic workplace. They host a variety of talks, panels, readings, workshops, and screenings, almost all are entirely free to attend.
Books Inc. is an independently owned and operated bookseller with several locations in California. Its history can be traced back to 1851 making it the West’s Oldest Independent Bookseller.
Counterpath is a publisher, gallery and event space, and bookstore. As a publisher, Counterpath was founded in 2006 and has published over sixty titles to date. Its gallery and event space, opened in late 2010 and hosts art, music, digital, film, and literary exhibitions, performances, and events. Its bookstore, part of the event space, carries titles published by small and independent presses.
Kaboom Books is a used bookstore in Woodland Heights near Downtown Houston. Their stock of one hundred thousand books ranges from current to long out-of-print titles. They regularly host author readings, book signings, and other literary events open to the community.
The newly-formed Center for Brooklyn History (CBH) is an exciting collaboration between Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library, combining materials collected over the past 157 years with BPL’s Brooklyn Collection and becoming the most expansive catalogue of Brooklyn history in the world.
