― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

While the Chautauqua Bookstore storefront is closed and unstaffed according to current NY guidelines, we will fulfill as many orders as possible promptly by arranging for them to ship to you directly from our book distributors (look for books with the status: "Usually Ships in 1-5 Days").  Orders that include items only found at Chautauqua Bookstore or from certain small vendors will be fulfilled as soon as we are able.  If you would like us to remove items from your order that we cannot provide promptly, let us know in your order notes.  We will of course only charge for what we can provide to your communicated standards.  Thank you for your support.  Keep well, and keep reading!

― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

Let a new book help teach you something new to do!

― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

You'll never regret having an unread book at hand.  Have you read these past CLSC selections?

― Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants

New March Releases:

The Chautauqua Janus Prize will be awarded for the third time this summer, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations. In addition to receiving a $5,000 award, the winner gives a lecture on the grounds during the summer season and appears in a forthcoming issue of the literary journal Chautauqua. Eligibility and submission information can be found on the CHQ website's Chautauqua Janus Prize page.

Named for Janus, the Roman god who looks to both the past and the future, the prize will honor writing with a command of craft that renovates our understandings of both. The prize is funded by a generous donation from Barbara and Twig Branch.

The guest judge is Hilary Plum. Plum will also be a prose writer-in-residence at Chautauqua Writers’ Center during the 2020 summer.

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― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

What are you doing this summer?

Apply to work at Chautauqua Bookstore for the 2020 CHQ season today!  We welcome your interest and expertise.

(And no; we won't expect you to track our guests' hat trimmings.)

  Check out our posted positions here 

- Alan Gratz, Ban This Book: A Novel

Battle of the Books gets Chautauqua County fifth-graders excited about reading. A lively academic competition, Battle of the Books improves reading comprehension, builds vocabulary, and teaches teamwork and good sportsmanship.

For more information on participating in the Battle of the Books, click here.

Whether or not you're participating -- check out these great books that have been selected for the 2020 battle!  The list was compiled with 5th graders in mind, and most have a recommended reading age of 8-12 and grade level 3-7.

The 2019 edition of Chautauqua is now available.

Moxie is the 16th issue of Chautauqua, a literary manifestation of the values and aesthetics of Chautauqua Institution.  Chautauqua publishes writing that speaks to Chautauqua's tradition of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance — and when, where, and how those values and questions intersect.

Find out more about the Chautauqua literary journal and the submissions process.