Community and Engagement

Author Kelly Yang (Front Desk) understands the meaning of positive reinforcement, especially when it comes to encouraging emerging writers to find their own voices. In this vein, she recently launched...

Here’s a proposition: Rather than delight your kid once or twice a year with a big, expensive present that will eventually get put aside, why not surprise them with a...

The SciFidea Writing Center has announced the inaugural SciFidea Award – Dyson Sphere Science Fiction Writing Contest. SciFidea is based in Singapore, and aims to “encourage and develop science fiction...

The Power Foods Virtual Book Club has ended but feel free to watch any of the three sessions by clicking the links below. Each week Dr. Barnard walked us through this...

  As an alumnus/alumna or student of USC Dornsife, you are invited to enter the USC Dornsife Magazine Creative Writing Contest. The winner will have their work published in USC...

Header illustration by Raúl Gil for Reedsy I’ve been helping judge the Reedsy Prompts contest since 2020. In this weekly short story contest, we supply five loosely...

We are delighted to introduce Book and Brew as one of our official reading groups for 2020, who applied to shadow the #ReadingWomen campaign to celebrate 25 years of the Women’s Prize...

Lawerence Cosentino There’s a perfectly positioned tree stump near the Potter Park Zoo, equipped with an accidental backrest, where you can watch the river flow, the grass sway and deer...

Two Marblehead middle schoolers were among those honored by The Massachusetts Center for the Book in its 23rd annual Letters About Literature program last month.The state-wide reading and writing initiative...

Graphic courtesy of Adriana Colón. Spring is upon us, which means no more cozying up at home with a nice book, a blanket, and a cup of tea. Instead, I’ve...