Literary Arts

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Sony Ton-Aime, the Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts, displays the newly announced selectionsof the 2022 Chautauqua Literary and

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER “I am not a writer. I am a reader,” said Amber Sipior prior to coming to Chautauqua and taking a

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER "Chautauqua: Water" Water is one of the planet’s most valuable resources and is a constant presence in people’s lives. This

Cooley SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Samuel Beckett once said, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” It is this

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Goldbach “Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill,” writes Eliese Colette Goldbach in her

Mao SARAH VEST  - STAFF WRITER When someone says “speculative fiction” or “science fiction,” most people think of books like Dune or The Handmaid’s Tale.

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Cooley Writers work in cycles of generating and revising, and both of these processes can stem from unusual places, according

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Coffin The relationship between time and memory is critically important to consider when writing memoirs, according to Week Eight prose

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Harper There are two kinds of death: That of the body and that of the mind. The Rev. Lynn Casteel

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Lucas Poetry is a method of expression that can be used by everyone for a variety of different purposes, both

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Friends of Chautauqua Writers’ Center literary contests coordinator Bethanne Snodgrass hosts the annual contest awards ceremony last Sunday via Zoom.

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts Sony Ton-Aime talks with Eula Biss, The Chautauqua Prize-winning author of Having and

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Coffin The source for a writer’s inspiration can come from anywhere or anything. For Week Eight’s writers-in-residence for the Chautauqua

JOHNSON SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Structure is a literary device that — when used correctly — is unnoticed by the reader but critical to

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Tankersley Currently, there is a cacophony of voices in the media giving different answers to the complicated question: “What is

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER O'Neil To January O’Neil — Week Seven’s poet-in-residence for the Chautauqua Writers’ Center — place is an important aspect of