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Connecticut Authors Trail 2019

The Connecticut Authors Trail is back! Twenty-five libraries will host…

Welcome to Margaret Gibson, CT’s Newest Poet Laureate

The Connecticut Office of the Arts recently announced the appointment…

2019 Young Writers’ Competition

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is launching its sixth annual writing…

Take Your Child to the Library Day!

Saturday, February 2, 2019 is Take Your Child to the…

Searchable Sea Literature

Searchable Sea Literature is devoted to works by North American authors,…

Letters About Literature: Writing to a Favorite Author

This is a guest blog post by Malavika Kannan, a…

Collected Audio Clips – 2018 CT Book Award Winners

2018 Connecticut Book Award Winners

The Connecticut Center for the Book named the winners of…

Finale! The Great American Read 2018

October 23, 2018 marks the finale this The Great American…

October 19-20: National Day on Writing

Writing is a critical skill, as critical as reading well…

2018 CT Book Award Finalists

Connecticut Center for the Book, a Connecticut Humanities program, has…

Books By CT Authors Published in 2018 (So far…)

Did you know that 73 books for adult readers were…

Mini-BookCon 2018

What is Mini-BookCon 2018? Mini-BookCon 2018 is an opportunity for publishers, agents,…

Connecticut’s 2018 National Book Festival Selection

When visitors come to Connecticut’s booth at the Parade of…

Save the Date: Connecticut Book Awards-October 14

The deadline has passed for submission to the 2018 Connecticut…

PBS Kids Writers Contest

Connecticut Center for the Book is pleased to support Connecticut…

The Great American Read

Designed to spark a national conversation about reading, literacy and…

Guess What? It’s National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month and the Academy of American…

Next Up: Passport to Connecticut Libraries

Over 100 Connecticut libraries are participating in Passport to Connecticut…

Books + Arts = Fun!

Connecticut Center for the Book is very excited to partner…

Celebrate Women’s History Month

The amazing collections of the Library of Congress, National Archives and…

Fresh Voices Poetry Competition

Fresh Voices Poetry Competition offers students the opportunity to write and…

Save the Date: Director of National Book Awards to Speak Mar 20

Lisa Lucas, Director of the National Book Foundation, will speak at…

Hartford Creative Composition Contest

This contest is for students in grades 4-12 who live…

Ex Libris

Once upon a time a books were cherished, kept forever…

Poetry Out Loud!

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation…

READ Local – Welles-Turner Memorial Library

Great opportunity for Connecticut Authors! “READ Local” is a Local…

2017 Connecticut Book Award Winners

  The Connecticut Book Awards were held on October 22,…

And the 2017 CT Book Award Finalists Are…

The 2017 Connecticut Book Awards finalists are in!

September is Library Card Sign-up Month!

September marks the 30th anniversary of Library Card Sign-up Month—a time…

Windham-Campbell Prizes Literary Festival 2017

The Windham-Campbell Prizes has published the full schedule for its…

2017 National Book Festival

Books! Authors! Costumed characters! It was all that and much…

And now for a nice book selection from NPR…

Actually, there is a little something for everyone in these…

100 Years Since The War To End All Wars

It has been 100 years since the United States entered…

Helen Sheehan Book Prize

Elephant Rock Books is accepting manuscripts for full-length YA novels…

BROADSIDES: Writers’ Response to selected ENDWORKS Artworks

Historically broadsides were large sheets of paper printed on one side…

Summer Reading 2017

Reading well takes practice, practice, practice — especially for children!…

Route 1 Reads

About Route One Reads Connecting the 2,369 miles of U.S….

We’re Moving!

In just a few more days we’ll be in our…

Connecticut Book Awards Are Back!

The Connecticut Book Awards – on hiatus since 2011 –…

Studio 170

This is soooo cool. Danbury Public Library has developed a…

Application Open for Yale Writers’ Conference

‘Tis the season – the season to apply or register…

Finding Books In Your Library From Almost Anywhere

Did you know that if you use Chrome as your…

Volunteers Needed for New Haven Reads

New Haven Reads is seeking volunteers to help tutor children…

Wesleyan Bookstore Moving Downtown

Wesleyan University’s bookstore, as probably anyone from Middletown knows, is…

The Winners Are In! 2016 National Book Awards

  Fiction Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Non-Fiction Ibram X….

Storybook Trail in East Lyme

What a cool idea! East Lyme’s new Storybook Trail combines…

Little Free Library

You may be wondering: What’s a Little Free Library? Very…

Submissions Being Accepted for the Tassy Walden Awards

Are you an unpublished writer or illustrator of children’s books?…

Letters About Literature

Letters about Literature is a wonderful opportunity for students to…

Maritime Literature of North America

It’s not all Herman Melville and Moby Dick or Hemingway’s…

Stephen King to Open Main Stage at National Book Festival

The Library of Congress announced today that Stephen King will…