Chautauqua Literary Arts

08/22/2025

The CLSC Octagon and the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will close at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, August 22, for the end of the Chautauqua Assembly Season.

Thank you for an incredible summer!

08/18/2025

08/18/2025

Join us today for a moderated discussion about our Week Nine CLSC selection, ‘The Lost Journals of Sacajawea: A Novel’ by Debra Magpie Earling!

📍 Alumni Hall Porch
⏰ 12:15 p.m.

08/17/2025

Join us today for our Week Nine Writers’ Center Faculty Reading, held in the 📍 Hall of Philosophy at ⏰ 3:30 p.m., featuring Alan King and Ellen Crosby!

A book signing immediately follows on the porch of Alumni Hall. 📚🖋️

This week, the two authors will be leading the writing workshops.

Alan King: ‘Creative Alchemy with Object Magic’

Ellen Crosby: ‘Writing Your Mystery Novel: Howdunnit.’

For more details and course registration please visit 🔗 learn.chq.org

08/16/2025

🚨 Announcements! 🚨

Today we rang in the new reading year during our annual Bryant Day Ceremony for the CLSC. We announced our Fall 2025 CLSC Unbound selection (event to take place via Zoom Webinar in mid-November) and two selections for the 2026 Summer Assembly Season!

📚 This is the Only Kingdom: A Novel by Jaquira Díaz
📅 Fall 2025 CLSC Unbound (mid-November)

📚 The Bog Queen: A Novel by Anna North
📅 Thursday, July 2, 2026

📚 Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls
📅 Thursday, July 30, 2026

We also announced Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson as a CLSC Young Readers selection for Week Six of the 2026 Summer Assembly Season.

Happy reading!

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08/16/2025

It's Bryant Day!

Ring in the 2026 CLSC Reading Year and see the first few book selections season!

📚 2026 CLSC Books will be available for sale and cookies will be served!

📍 Miller Bell Tower
⏰ 11:30 a.m.

08/15/2025

Join us today for the CLSC Unbound Book Discussion and Viewing Party!

📖 ‘Harlem Rhapsody: A Novel’ by Victoria Christopher Murray follows the extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman at the epicenter of the Harlem Renaissance, who discovered the literary voices that inspired the world.

🕵️‍♀️ Set in 1930s London, ‘The Queens of Crime: A Novel’ by Marie Benedict is a genre-bending homage to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, celebrating women that buck convention and seek justice for themselves—and others.

📍 Alumni Hall Ballroom
⏰ 12:15 p.m.

08/14/2025

Join us tomorrow for the Chautauqua Prize Award Ceremony and Presentation featuring ‘Whale Fall: A Novel’ with Elizabeth O’Connor!

📍 Hall of Philosophy
🗓️ Friday, 3:30 p.m.

Book signing immediately follows on the porch of Alumni Hall. 📚🖋️

08/13/2025

Join us today for a moderated discussion about our Week Eight CLSC Young Readers selection, ‘Grace Notes’ by Naomi Shihab Nye!

📍 Alumni Hall Porch
⏰ 12:15 p.m.

08/12/2025

🚨 Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet our Chautauqua Prize Guest Judges this summer! 🚨

Morning Muse: A Conversation with Andrew Krivák

📅 Friday, August 15
⏰️ 9:15 – 10:15 AM
📍 Ballroom, Alumni Hall

African American Literature, National Healing, and The Discourse of Mercy with Gena E. Chandler

📅 Thursday, August 21
⏰️ 9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
📍 Ballroom, Alumni Hall

Register for these Masters Series sessions today at tickets.chq.org!