Fiscal Year: 2024

The Northern Arizona Book Festival's 2025 Indigenous Writers' Symposium will take its inspiration from Tommy Orange's THERE, THERE. Programming will include a launch event with Orange, a large-scale art installation,...

"Where we live" in Athens, Georgia is fluid, changing with each new resident. Every community member's origins inform where we, as a city, are going. Our focus is on "The...

In 2025, the Kansas City Public Library will proudly host its 8th Big Read, featuring the memoir "Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body" by local author...

Collaborating with DeKalb Co. Public Library, GA Center for the Book, and a diverse network of community partners, 7 Stages will organize and promote a series of literary and artistic...

THE BEST WE COULD BE by Thi Bui will help teen and adult San Diegans understand more about what it means to be an immigrant here, through one family’s personal...

Peter White Public Library's NEA Big Read --based on Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?"--consists of community-wide events focused on the people who shape/have shaped/will shape WHERE...

Taller Comunidad la Goyco will offer a shared intergenerational experience for living in our changing city of Santurce through activities inspired by The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros....

The Arts & Justice Collective hosts Big Read Cape Cod, exploring themes within "Citizen: An American Lyric." We are a group of non-profit or mission driven organizations based on Cape...

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum will partner with local and regional partners to offer diverse programming for audiences of all ages inspired by The Cold Millions. In collaboration with author Jess...

The Iowa City NEA Big Read is the premier program associated with the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s exhibition on the Black Midwest, funded by the Terra Foundation...