Poet Nicole Cooley loves tiny things: dollhouses, miniatures, but especially tiny texts. She’ll discuss the opportunities that short-form writing can provide for readers and
Literary Arts
Week Six at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will offer workshops focused on getting lost and getting in trouble. Writers Leslie Daniels and Nicole Cooley will
Beth Livingston’s mind began to wander as she sat out on the porch of the historic Athenaeum Hotel. Being surrounded by so much history, she
Flannery O’Connor contended in her essay “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” that there was no writer “hotter after the dollar” than Henry James, or
It’s hard to hear in the Amphitheater sometimes. It’s an issue in 2016, and it was an issue in 1977 when anthropologist Margaret Mead
NOTE: David Doubilet's Young Readers event has been postponed to 7 on July 28. National Geographic photographer David Doubilet has made a career out of
Poet Jim Daniels said when people think of literary film adaptations, they often think of franchises such as the Harry Potter series. With his Brown Bag,
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will offer a prose workshop focused on place as well as an advanced poetry workshop to students in Week Five.
James Frey didn’t just ruin Oprah’s Book Club when it was revealed that parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces were fabricated —
Susan Dworski Nusbaum thinks reading poetry can be like finding a friend. Chautauquans may have already found a friend in Nusbaum, who has lived in
Here’s the thing about jellyfish: They represent a world full of unknowns, a world where heartbeats persist in the face of tragedy and a world
Gregory Donovan thinks online literary journals have helped revitalize the world of words. But when Donovan started working with the online journal Blackbird, he
The Great American Picnic has become an iconic Chautauqua event — iconic enough that footage from it appears in the Chautauqua Promise Campaign video,
The Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will have a full house in Week Four. In addition to the regular poetry and prose workshops, the
When Ann Hood was asked to do a TED Talk a few years ago, she blanked. She spent a lot of time thinking about
From his rural beginning in Alabama, to a march at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C., John Lewis fought his