Chautauqua Literary Arts

You can still register for this month's prose workshop. https://learn.chq.org//prose-workshop-the-art-of-the-inter

You can purchase or renew your CLSC Membership though the Chautauqua Bookstore. The CLSC membership entitles you to a 20% discount on all CLSC books, as well as a 10% discount on all other books in the Bookstore. https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/sh/2021-clsc-membership

#2021CLSC Alert We are thrilled to announce On Vanishing by Lynn Casteel Harper as our 2021 CLSC selection for Week 8: The Human Brain Our Greatest Mystery.

Highly recommend the new book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, which features a number of speakers from Chautauqua's vario...us platforms: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jericho Brown, Rev. William Barber, Martha Jones, Donna Brazile, Annette Gordon-Reed, Isabel Wilkerson, Imani Perry, Sherilynn Ifill and Joshua Bennett. See more

We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our next workshops. Apricot Irving and Cathy Linh Che will lead these workshops. Register at https://learn.chq.org

The Mirror Project Reading Circles will, through monthly reading and discussions of books, challenge our fears and beliefs and strengthen our bonds as a community. Our first selection is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Happy reading everyone! Email [email protected] to reserve your spot.

Congratulations to our CLSC author, David Treuer, on winning the California Book Awards' nonfiction gold medal for last week's CLSC book The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. You can watch his CLSC presentation on the CHQ Assembly. https://assembly.chq.org/videos/david-treuer-2020

In this week's Chautauqua Literary Arts e-newsletter, look back on our incredible Week Nine in the literary arts, and see our first 2021 CLSC selection! Thank you for joining us on our CHQ Assembly platforms all our wonderful 2020 offerings are available on demand year-round! https://mailchi.mp/chq/chautauqua-literary-arts-2021-preview

Join us for our final Prose Brown Bag of the 2020 CHQ Season with Jack Wang at 12:30 p.m. EDT on the Virtual Porch! We hope to see you there: https://porch.chq.org/ue/event/6613/ #CHQ2020 #chqwriterscenter

Join us at 5:00 p.m. EDT today for a special conversation with 2017 CLSC author, Sandra Cisneros, and composer, Derek Bermel, to discuss CHQ's 2017 production of the world premiere of Mango Suite! Find us on the CHQ Assembly Video Platform: https://assembly.chq.org//the-house-on-mango-street-with-s #CHQ2020

Join us today at 3:30 p.m. EDT for our final 2020 CLSC event of the season featuring our Week Nine selection: THE DISPLACED: REFUGEE WRITERS ON REFUGEE LIVES edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Join us on the CHQ Assembly Video Platform: https://assembly.chq.org/videos/viet-thanh-nguyen-2020 #chq2020 #CLSC2020

What a historic season, we have had! Today at 3:30 pm EST, we will host our last 2020 CLSC Presentation. Join us, won't you? https://chqdaily.com//viet-thanh-nguyen-to-shine-spotligh/

Join us for lunch at 12:30 p.m. EDT for our Poetry Brown Bag lecture featuring our Week Nine poet-in-residence Ralph Black! See you there: https://porch.chq.org/ue/event/6612/ #CHQ2020 #chqwriterscenter

Our Week Nine CLSC and CLSC Young Readers selections: CLSC: Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE DISPLACED: REFUGEE WRITERS ON REFUGEE LIVES brings together writers from all over the world to make their stories heard. These essays reveal moments of uncertainty, resilience in the face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity, forming a compelling look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. Join us today (Monday) at 12:30 p.m. EDT for our final CLS...C Book Discussion of the season led by Director of Literary Arts, Sony Ton-Aime, and Chautauqua interlocutor Julie Brown Phillips! Find us on the Virtual Porch: https://porch.chq.org/ue/event/6611/ Then, on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. EDT on the CHQ Assembly Video Platform, join us for a conversation with editor Viet Thanh Nguyen here: https://assembly.chq.org/videos/viet-thanh-nguyen-2020 CLSC Young Readers: THE NIGHT DIARY by Veera Hiranandani is set in 1947 when India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu, twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs. Or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. Engage this book with reading prompts and creative crafts by following @chq_clubhouse as they post about it throughout the week. #CHQ2020 #CLSC2020 #clscyr2020

If you have not, we encourage you to enroll in this workshop. It's going to be good one. There are still spots available. https://learn.chq.org/c/poetry-workshop-poems-of-self-other

Our first 2021 CLSC selection is RUST: A MEMOIR OF STEEL AND GRIT by Eliese Colette Goldbach! This book will be our Week Nine selection and connects our CLSC vertical theme of "The People" to the CHQ 2021 Week Nine theme of "Resilience". You can purchase this selection via the Chautauqua Bookstore here: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781250239402 Keep an eye out for a special edition of the Chautauqua Literary Arts newsletter and more announcements for next year's... CLSC selections to come. #CLSC2021 #CHQ2020 #BryantDay2020

Today is Bryant Day! Join us at 3:30 p.m. EDT to ring in the new reading year with us and hear the first CLSC announcements for 2021! Find us here: https://porch.chq.org/ue/event/6626/ #CHQ2020 #CLSC2020

Chautauqua Literary Arts Week Nine Preview https://mailchi.mp//chautauqua-literary-arts-week-nine-pre