Program/Grant: NEA Big Read

This community-wide reading program offers matching grants of up to $20,000 for programming connected to the theme of America250.

What happens when a small town turns its most famous storyteller into a destination? A nationwide celebration of Midwestern literature.

Over $1 million in grants will support 65 organizations presenting community literary programming across the country.

What happens when a survivalist, a novel, and a small-town library come together? A day of fire-starting, squash-picking, and rediscovering our place in the natural world.

This community-wide reading program offers matching grants of up to $20,000 for programming that uses the theme of "Our Nature" as inspiration.

$1.07 million will support 62 grantees in presenting community literary programming across the country.

Sarah Smarsh's 2018 memoir Heartland, a book about rural issues, was discussed in rural communities across South Dakota.

Ross Gay’s poetry book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude spurred murals, conversations, and connection in this small Kentucky city.

Two art films, one focused on land and another an homage to the sky, were inspired by Andrew Krivak’s The Bear.