Chautauqua Literary Arts

Chautauqua Literary Arts To learn more about our festival, workshops, and more, visit our website below! June 20-23, 2018.

Chautauqua Literary Arts convenes readers and writers of all ages in community, conversation, intensive craft development, and exploratory learning opportunities. The Chautauqua Writers' Festival convenes writers from near and far for workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry--as well as panels, keynotes, and breakout sessions that connect the craft of writing to the urgent social concerns of our time.

What an incredible Sesquicentennial Chautauqua Literary Arts summer assembly season! Thank you to all of our featured au...
08/23/2024

What an incredible Sesquicentennial Chautauqua Literary Arts summer assembly season! Thank you to all of our featured authors, faculty, community members, and friends for joining us, celebrating the Literary Arts, and coming together with us from near and far to read and write this summer.

Sign up for our monthly newsletter via poetry.chq.org to stay up to date on our year-round initiatives and our announcements for next summer!

08/22/2024

When Nicole Cuffy won the first-ever Chautauqua Janus Prize in 2018 for her work Atlas of the Body, it helped put some “wind in her sails” after a time of

Join us for our final CLSC Author Presentation of the summer featuring Nicole Cuffy and her debut novel, Dances, at 3:30...
08/22/2024

Join us for our final CLSC Author Presentation of the summer featuring Nicole Cuffy and her debut novel, Dances, at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy.

A book signing will immediately follow the presentation on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

08/21/2024

What is identity? What if you don’t know your identity? What if, all of a sudden, your identity is perceived differently? These are all questions that young readers will examine

We're thrilled to share our first 2025 CLSC selections with you all, which were announced on Bryant Day this past Saturd...
08/20/2024

We're thrilled to share our first 2025 CLSC selections with you all, which were announced on Bryant Day this past Saturday, August 17th.

Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders is our Week Three Selection for the week themed Art in Action: Building Community through the Arts.

Blackout by Angie Thomas, et. al., is our Week Seven selection for our week themed Kwame Alexander and Friends. We also announced Angie Thomas' book Nic Blake and the Remarkables as a 2025 CLSC Young Readers selection.

Both CLSC presentations will take place in partnership with the Chautauqua Lecture Series and will thus take place in the Amphitheater on their respective dates.

See clsc.chq.org for more information and sign up for our newsletter at poetry.chq.org for more CLSC updates each month after the summer assembly season.

08/20/2024

The CSLC Alumni Association is the organization that represents all the "graduates" of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Cricle.

Come celebrate the 2024 winner of The Chautauqua Prize with us this afternoon at 5 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy. Tanan...
08/19/2024

Come celebrate the 2024 winner of The Chautauqua Prize with us this afternoon at 5 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy. Tananarive Due will present on her award-winning book, The Reformatory, and receive the physical Prize for her work.

Join us!

08/19/2024

The Chautauqua Prize In 1937, Tananarive Due’s great-uncle Robert Stephens was buried at the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida, beside hundreds of other boys who never returned home.  Not long

Happening now! Join us for our final Chautauqua Writers' Center Faculty Reading featuring Tim Seibles and Denene Millner...
08/18/2024

Happening now! Join us for our final Chautauqua Writers' Center Faculty Reading featuring Tim Seibles and Denene Millner in the Hall of Philosophy.

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings of this week, our Poetry Faculty, Tim Seibles, will lead a workshop titled " Pitbull or Poodle: Tone and Its Effects in Poetry”, where, focusing on tone, writers will become more capable of expressing various ideas and the accompanying emotions.

In the afternoons of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, our Prose Faculty, Denene Millner, will lead a workshop titled “The Business of Writing” in which participants will develop working knowledge to give their books their best chance in the competitive world of publishing.

Both workshops still have room for you! Register today at learn.chq.org.

08/17/2024

Denene Millner and Tim Seibles will be starting their residencies at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center for the final week of the season with a faculty reading at 3:30 p.m. Sunday

It's Bryant Day!Ring in the 2025 CLSC Reading Year with us today at 11:30 a.m. in Miller Park and see the first few sele...
08/17/2024

It's Bryant Day!

Ring in the 2025 CLSC Reading Year with us today at 11:30 a.m. in Miller Park and see the first few selections for the 2025 Reading Season!

08/16/2024

More than four weeks after inclement weather and travel cancelations forced Valeria Luiselli to postpone her Week Four Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle presentation on July 18, the author is

Join us at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy today for our rescheduled CLSC Author Presentation featuring Valeria Luis...
08/16/2024

Join us at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy today for our rescheduled CLSC Author Presentation featuring Valeria Luiselli and her novel, Lost Children Archive, our CLSC Selection for Week Four.

A book signing will immediately follow on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

08/15/2024

Imbler For science journalist Sabrina Imbler, sea creatures always came first.  “All animal life is deeply inflected by my personal and subjective experience of the world,” Imbler said. “I was

Join us at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy today for Sabrina Imbler's CLSC Author Presentation of How Far the Light ...
08/15/2024

Join us at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy today for Sabrina Imbler's CLSC Author Presentation of How Far the Light Reaches, our CLSC Selection for Week Eight.

A book signing will immediately follow on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

08/14/2024

In a program centered around water, Chautauqua’s recent weather has been the perfect welcome to this week’s CLSC Young Readers book selection, The Umbrella Maker’s Son, by Katrina Leno. At

Join us for the Week Eight Chautauqua Writers Center Faculty Reading at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy featuring Ji...
08/11/2024

Join us for the Week Eight Chautauqua Writers Center Faculty Reading at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy featuring Jim Daniels and Kristin Kovacic!

Join us at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy for the CLSC Author Presentation featuring Aimee Nezhukmatathil and...
08/08/2024

Join us at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy for the CLSC Author Presentation featuring Aimee Nezhukmatathil and Matt de la Peña in conversation.

A book signing will immediately follow on the Porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, where books will also be available for purchase.

08/08/2024

Matt de La Peña and his novel Mexican WhiteBoy Matt de La Peña and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, whose friendship has spanned more than 10 years, will share some of their conversations

08/07/2024

At their peak in the late 1800s, over 4 billion American Chestnuts called the United States home, making up nearly a quarter of all trees in the Eastern United States.

08/07/2024

Happy CLSC Recognition Day!

08/07/2024

Emilee Arnold / staff photographer Members of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Class of 2024 process Sunday evening from the Amphitheater to the Hall of Philosophy for the class

08/07/2024
Congratulations to the CLSC Class of 2024 and the 2024 Guild Graduates!
08/07/2024

Congratulations to the CLSC Class of 2024 and the 2024 Guild Graduates!

We're thrilled Phil Klay is here with us today for a special Master Series Masterclass this afternoon. He joins us after...
08/06/2024

We're thrilled Phil Klay is here with us today for a special Master Series Masterclass this afternoon. He joins us after serving as a 2024 guest judge for The Chautauqua Prize this Spring.

08/05/2024

The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and its companion CLSC Young Readers program, are joining forces this week with the selection Mexican WhiteBoy, by Matt de La Peña. At 1:15

08/05/2024
Join us at 3:30 p.m. today for our Week Seven Chautauqua Writers Center Faculty Reading featuring Anis Mojgani and Sarah...
08/05/2024

Join us at 3:30 p.m. today for our Week Seven Chautauqua Writers Center Faculty Reading featuring Anis Mojgani and Sarah Grace McCandless.

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings of this week, our Poetry Faculty, Anis Mojgani, will lead a workshop titled “Collaborating with Oneself”, focused on allowing words to come out for us to find, and using findings to guide our creative work. In the afternoons of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, our Prose Faculty, Sarah Grace McCandless, will lead a workshop titled “Based on a True Story: Your Personal Life on the Page”, which will help participants uncover the personal story they were meant to tell.

Both workshops have very limited space! Register today at learn.chq.org

The CLSC Class of 2024 Vigil Ceremony is this evening. Join us first at the Sacred Song Service at 8:00 p.m. in the Amph...
08/05/2024

The CLSC Class of 2024 Vigil Ceremony is this evening. Join us first at the Sacred Song Service at 8:00 p.m. in the Amphitheater to celebrate Wonder, Awe, and the attributes of the CLSC Class with the Department of Religion and then process with us over to the Hall of Philosophy for the traditional Vigil Ceremony at 9:00 p.m.



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