JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss romance novels, one of the prompts on the Winter-Spring 2024 Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge. This popular book genre has something for everyone, even the horror fans among us. Listen below to find out more about our selections!
more: In the Mood for Romance
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
On this episode of Prompt to Page, Sean L. Corbin, the Poetry Gauntlet Coordinator for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, discusses his belief that "everything is a prompt."
"If you sit down to write a poem, you don't just pour it out," he says. "Something had to prompt you to do that."
more: Prompt to Page with Sean L. Corbin
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we ring in the New Year with the Winter-Spring 2024 Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge!
From now through June 30, 2024, keep track of books you read or listen to by writing the title and author in the matching bingo square. Complete all 25 squares for a chance to win a $100 Joseph-Beth gift card or an Amazon Kindle. You’ll also earn an enamel pin (while supplies last).
Ease into the challenge with our suggestions for books you can read in one sitting. Grab a cozy blanket to read under, and you'll be able to check off two prompts on your bingo card!
more: Books You Can Read in One Sitting
Start the new year with a new Books & Bites Bingo 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.
We polled the Books & Bites Facebook group to find out how many bingo cards you'd like to play this year. That's why in 2024 we'll bring you two Books & Bites Bingo cards instead of just one.
more: Read Even More in 2024 with Books and Bites Bingo
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
On this episode of the Prompt to Page writing podcast, we talk to poet and visual artist Jay McCoy, author of The Occupation.
more: Prompt to Page with Jay McCoy
Have you ever noticed how, when you find a recipe online, you often have to scroll...
and scroll...
and scroll...
just to get to the actual recipe?
more: Get Cooking with AtoZ Food America and AtoZ World Food
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
On this episode of the Prompt to Page writing podcast, we talk to Terena Elizabeth Bell, author of Tell Me What You See.
Terena discusses why the events of the last few years compelled her to write experimental short fiction, and she offers encouragement to listeners who want to write about current events.
more: Prompt to Page with Terena Elizabeth Bell
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
For Christopher Rowe, author of The Navigating Fox, writing prompts can help generate work when he's feeling stuck. In fact, one of his first stories to be widely published, translated into a dozen different languages, and reviewed in The New York Times was based on a writing prompt.
Christopher's favorite prompt will challenge you to rethink some of the decisions you've already made in a piece of writing. "Because I think that if you're going to write from a prompt at all, in any circumstance," he says, "you should just go with it.... If you're going to trust the prompt, you have to trust yourself to work with it."
more: Prompt to Page with Christopher Rowe
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
Comic artist, writer, and animator Bryce Oquaye considers mentorship to be "the most important part" of his journey, whether he's receiving feedback from other creators or working with young people.
more: Prompt to Page with Bryce Oquaye
Each month, we interview a published writer who shares their favorite writing prompt. Whether you’re just getting started or have written for years, you’ll find ideas and advice to inspire you and help you become a better writer.
Prompt to Page is brought to you in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
For New York Times bestselling author David Arnold, reading with intention is a kind of writing prompt.
"I think the most important thing about reading a lot is letting yourself become a sponge and soak in the words and soak in the pacing and soak in the stories," he says.
"But...occasionally let's look at the mechanics of it, and what is it about this sentence or this paragraph or this book that I'm loving so much, and is there something there that I can intentionally be like, I love that. Let me see if I can apply that in my own writing."
David offers examples from three books he loves, discussing how these passages helped him try different techniques in his own writing.
more: Prompt to Page with David Arnold