Mission:

The Charlottesville Reading Series presents in-person readings of poetry and prose in a monthly event for community members in Charlottesville. We recruit emerging and established writers from diverse backgrounds, both locally and nationally.

• We believe there is power in hearing words read out loud by their writers.
• We champion unknown and emerging writers alongside established and well-published ones.
• We look to surprise and delight our audiences with a mixture of readers who carry within them fresh insights, strange lands, and breath-taking literature.

We hope to build lasting relationships between our writers and audience members by encouraging discussion at the beginning and end of each event, as well as during intermission. The Charlottesville Reading Series is currently held at New Dominion Bookshop on the Historic Downtown Mall.