Literary Site Type: Reading Venue

Hill-Stead Museum

Reading Venue

Designed by the fourth registered female architect in the country, Theodate Pope Riddle, the Hill-Stead Museum was originally a home for the Pope family. Since then, the home, a 33,000 square foot, 1901 Colonial Revival mansion, has welcomed over a million visitors since its public opening in 1946. It remains one of the few early twentieth century country estates open to the public. Every year, Hill-Stead Museum utilizes its 152 acres to offer over thousands of tours and an array of programs in art, architecture, gardens, and natural science.

Third Place Books: Ravenna

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

Founded in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle in 2002, Third Place Books is a general interest bookstore with over forty thousand books.

The Ravenna location has Vios Cafe, a full-service sit-down Greek restaurant located at the back of the bookstore. Third Place Pub is located below Vios Café and the bookstore. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the bookstore, café, and pub. The bookstore hosts readings, discussions, signings, and other literary events throughout the year.

North Figueroa Bookshop

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

North Figueroa Bookshop is a general interest bookstore in the heart of the historic Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, a joint venture of Rare Bird and Unnamed Press, two Los Angeles–based independent book publishers, with the collaborative support of founding publisher sponsors, Grove Atlantic and MCD Books. The custom-design literary space seeks to connect the independent publishing community with readers, booksellers, authors, and book lovers. The shop hosts literary and community events.

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independent bookstores

Brooklyn Poets

Reading Venue, Writing Center

Brooklyn Poets cultivates literary community and craft through a wide range of educational programs and events accessible to all, both in-person at their location in Brooklyn Heights and online. Their space is open to the public five days per week and includes a small bookstore, community space, and a variety of free and paid programming. Their poetry workshops, taught by award-winning poets, range from one-hour drop-ins to three-hour intensives to multi-week workshops to their yearlong mentorship program.

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book signings | reading series | writing workshops

Arts + Literature Laboratory

Reading Venue, Writing Center

Arts + Literature Laboratory is a community-based contemporary arts center in Madison, Wisconsin. The center supports visual and literary arts, music and performance, and youth and adult arts education through an active calendar of exhibitions, readings, concerts, and educational programs, including a monthly reading series. The 10,500 square foot space in Madison’s downtown Capitol East District houses galleries and performance space, a writing center and small press library, artist studios, and a dedicated education studio.

SAiD Pan African Library

Reading Venue

The Pan African Library, in association with the Society for Africans in Diaspora (SAiD), educates the public in the study of African narrative, cultures, leadership, and achievement. The library hosts both intimate and extravagant events in their state-of-the-art space, including exhibitions, performances, talks, readings, book signings, theater, dance performances, film screenings, film shoots, and fundraisers.

Georgia Center for the Book

Reading Venue

The Georgia Center for the Book is the state affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Center helped create and remains a major sponsor of the AJC Decatur Book Festival that draws 60,000 people to the city every Labor Day weekend. All events are free and feature author readings and talks.

Georgia Center for the Book
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literary venues

McNally Jackson Books: Seaport

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

The South Seaport location in lower Manhattan overlooks the East River and has two stories full of books—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s, art—as well as magazines and stationary items. The bookstore hosts literary events regularly throughout the week.

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book stores

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