JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15-Oct. 15, so what better time to discuss books by Hispanic-American authors? It’s one of the prompts on the Summer-Fall Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge!
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A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find motivation to keep writing.
Brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame author Fenton Johnson doesn't believe in writer's block. "Fighting with the white page over a week, a month, a year, sometimes 10 years," he says, "that's what we call writing.... That's just part of the process."
Fenton shares several writing prompts that can help you move beyond the blank page. He also discusses his most recent book, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life. Listen below!
more: Prompt to Page with Fenton Johnson
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss feel-good fiction. It’s one of the prompts on the Summer-Fall Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge!
Our picks include two summer-soaked novels set in New England; a classic mystery; and a cozy fantasy so good, it busted Michael out of his reading slump. Listen below!
more: Feel-Good Fiction
A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find motivation to keep writing.
Brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
Poet Leatha Kendrick believes that creativity is a habit. "To exercise your creativity is to keep it active and alive," she says. "You have to get up and walk to the library and then something can happen."
Exercise your creativity with Leatha's favorite writing prompt. It will help you turn off your conscious mind and remember forgotten details. Listen below!
more: Prompt to Page with Leatha Kendrick
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss books about the internet or social media. It's one of the prompts on the Summer-Fall Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge!
Whether horror, dystopian fiction, or a mystery, our picks will make you think about what it means to be human in a digital world.
more: Scroll-Stopping Reads
While you're working on your summer reading logs, why not participate in the Books & Bites Bingo Summer-Fall reading challenge?
Reading challenges are a great way to set reading goals for yourself, discover new authors and genres, and have fun while doing it.
more: Challenge Yourself with Books & Bites Bingo
A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find motivation to keep writing.
Brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
"A teacher giving a prompt is the same as the world nudging you to write something," says poet and educator Christopher McCurry.
On this episode, Christoper shares two prompts that will inspire you and help build your writing skills. Consider them a nudge to create something new.
more: Prompt to Page with Christopher McCurry
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
We're wrapping up the 2025 Winter-Spring Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge with science fiction!
Our picks include a prequel from a popular YA dystopian series; a novella for fans of Star Trek: First Contact; and a bittersweet comic novel about an alien sent to Earth to learn about humans.
more: Beam Me Up a Good Sci-Fi Novel
A JCPL librarian interviews published writers about their favorite writing prompts. These exercises can help inspire, focus, and improve your creative writing.
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, a novelist, essayist, or poet, you’ll find motivation to keep writing.
Brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
For author Wes Blake, a former West Jessamine High School English teacher, writing about his obsessions helped him find his subject matter.
"When you write about what obsesses you," he says, "it guides you towards things that are important to you, maybe in some way that you don't fully understand."
more: Prompt to Page with Wes Blake