Community and Engagement

There are competing theories about how to pick the best book club book. When I nobly started a book club in my early 20s, I had grand ambitions of filling...

Nobody likes to spend money on a new book only to face that overwhelming feeling of disappointment when it doesn't live up to your expectations. The solution is to check...

Taj Francis Grist’s Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest celebrates stories that offer vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. From 1,000 submissions, our reviewers and...

On the surface, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams is a love story that connects two artists across generations. But in reality, it’s a story about a...

Step into a public library and you know what to expect.First, there’s the smell: a paper bouquet of nothing and everything, including notes of vanilla, sawdust, wet coats, rubber soles...

Three creative Glenfield Middle School students won the sixth annual Friends of Anderson Park short-story contest. From left: Desmond MacBride (“Bird-Brain,” about an obsessed birdwatcher), Madhuja Ghosh (“Fairy Tales,” about...

The Jilly Cooper Book Club was set up about a decade ago by two friends who’d had enough of book groups where someone would insist, ‘We really must do Dostoevsky...

Special to the Arizona Daily Star Writers from Washington, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have captured the top prizes in the 11th annual Literary Awards Writing Competition hosted by the Tucson...

Jenna Bush Hager describes her May 2024 Read With Jenna pick as a book “you’re going to open and fall madly in love with.”“Real Americans” by Rachel Khong is the...

Who is behind it? Danielle Venton, science reporter, and Francesca Fenzi, Forum digital community producer. Francesca Fenzi and Danielle Venton What is it? We’ll read a climate book every few months...