Whistlestop Bookshop
Whistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the lovely and historic Cumberland Valley in southcentral Pennsylvania. It hosts signings, readings, concerts, parties, and similar events.
Literary Site Type: Reading Venue
Third Place Books: Seward Park
Third Place Seward Park is a general-interest bookstore featuring new and used books with a used-book-buying counter open seven days a week. The shop opened its doors in May 2016 in the Seward Park neighborhood of south Seattle.
Hammer Museum
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer Museum is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas. Admission is free and many award-winning poets and writers are featured in readings and talks.
Kaboom Books
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.
Focal Point
The Focal Point is a live music venue and listening room that hosts live bands and musical acts, as well as other performances and events.
Murder By the Book
One of the nation’s oldest and largest mystery specialty bookstores, Murder By the Book carries over twenty-five thousand books: new and used, hardcovers and paperbacks, first editions, collectibles, gift items, mystery magazines, and more. The shop regularly hosts hundreds of mystery, crime, and fantasy book signing events throughout the year.
Tattered Cover Book Store: Colfax Avenue
Tattered Cover Book Store has grown over forty-three years into one of the premier bookstores in America, with eight unique locations in the Denver Metro area. The stores are filled with antique furniture and lots of nooks and crannies for browsing and reading. Tattered Cover has decades of experience hosting authors, averaging nearly five hundred writers, illustrators, celebrities, and other special guests each year. They sell e-books, new and used books, bargain books, and rare collectible editions.
The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center
The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center, the only community center for the literary arts in Central New York State, hosts readings by many established and emerging poets and authors each year. The series has been in operation since 2001.
University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing Program
Though officially founded in 1978 by professor and poet Ron Wallace, the Program in Creative Writing has been around for almost as long as the Department of English; over the years its students and faculty have included such distinguished writers as Jean Toomer, Eudora Welty, Delmore Schwartz, Wallace Stegner, Saul Bellow, Lorraine Hansberry, James Merrill, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Doerr, Lorrie Moore, Lauren Groff, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Danez Smith.
Cherrywood Coffeehouse
Cherrywood Coffeehouse is a cafe and performance space in Austin, Texas, that hosts a variety of musical and literary events, including Artistic Words Live, an open mic show featuring poetry, comedy, and live music.
Photo by Patricia Jaurrieta.
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