Literary Site Type: Reading Venue

Women & Children First is one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country, stocking more than thirty thousand books by and about women, children’s books for all ages, and the best of lesbian and gay fiction and nonfiction. The bookstore hosts book launches, talks, and readings across multiple genres.

Located on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project is a statewide membership-based nonprofit literary arts organization that serves as a resource for writers, publishers, booksellers, literary agents, educators, librarians, and readers in and near New Hampshire. It hosts the annual Writers’ Day writing conference; the Concord Book Festival; Writers’ Night Out, a monthly gathering of writers in various regions throughout the state; the biennial New Hampshire Literary Awards; and workshops on a variety of topics, ranging from craft to promotion.

Founded in 1979, Woodland Pattern Book Center is a nonprofit organization and writing center that also houses a bookstore with over twenty-five thousand small press titles, including a selection of poetry, chapbooks, broadsides, and multicultural literature. The center includes an art gallery where it hosts exhibitions, artist talks, readings, experimental films, concerts and writing workshops for adults and children.