Chautauqua Literary Arts has begun accepting submissions for the Chautauqua Janus Prize, now in its fourth year. This unique literary prize celebrates an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations.

The 2021 winner will be selected by guest judge Rion Amilcar Scott, who will also lead a prose workshop during the 2022 summer season with the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. Scott is the author of the 2019 story collection The World Doesn't Require You.

Entries for the 2021 Chautauqua Janus Prize will be accepted through March 31, 2021. Visit chq.org/janus for more information about eligibility and submission guidelines. 

November's CHQ Mirror Project reading selection is Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.

Register for a Reading Circle Discussion Session here.

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Fall is the perfect time to pick up a mystery -- catch up with Mimi Goldman's latest case in the Chautauqua Murder Mysteries by Deb Pines.

October's CHQ Mirror Project reading selection is Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

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― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

It's officially Fall!  The days are getting shorter; all the better to spend an evening curled up with a new book.  Check out these September releases, in stock now.

Right now, we're offering The Tyranny of Merit for 20% off in conjunction with upcoming programs with Michael J. Sandel at CHQ Assembly. Check it out below!

The Mirror Project, a partnership between the African American Heritage House and Chautauqua Institution, in collaboration with the Institution's Literary Arts program, hosts monthly Mirror Project Reading Circles.  Each month, readers read one book about diversity, race relations, and/or the state of society, and meet online to discuss it in open and welcoming conversations. 

February 2021's pick is The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Sign up for Reading Discussions on the Online Classroom.

Visit the Chautauqua Mirror Project for more information.