Jun 04 5:30 p.m.

Event
Richland Library Sandhills

Writing Workshop: Starting Your Novel

Discover essential tools and techniques to kickstart your genre fiction novel. This workshop is an immersive session to provide you with the foundational skills and confidence to embark on your writing journey.

Event Type(s):

Writing

Audience(s):

Adults, Teens (12-18 years)

Jun 22 2:30 p.m.

Event
Richland Library Ballentine

Meet the Author: C. Hope Clark

South Carolina has its share of history and scandal. Hear how author C. Hope Clark chose South Carolina as the basis of all her fiction, finding it the perfect locale for the mystery genre.

Event Type(s):

Author Event

Audience(s):

Adults

Jul 10 6:00 p.m.

Event
Richland Library Ballentine

Meet the Author: Poland and Clark

Tom Poland and Robert Clark will share images and stories from their 50-50 Expeditions about the cultural riches, natural history, and back-road life of the Palmetto State.

Event Type(s):

Author Event

Audience(s):

Adults
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Call Me by Your Name
Staff Picks

2023 Charleston Literary Festival Authors

  • Bland L.
  • Tuesday, October 03
The Charleston Literary Festival, which will run from 3 to 12 November, has entered the lit-fest big leagues, to judge from the roster of writers participating this year. In addition to contemporary fiction stars such as Rebecca Makkai and Claire Keegan, luminaries such as Lorrie Moore, Richard Ford, and Margaret Atwood are also on the list. Nonfiction is well represented too, with noted historians Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore, public TV regular Lucy Worsley, perennial best-seller Tracy Kidder, and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik
Our Best Intentions
A Likely Story
Staff Picks

2023 First Novel Prize Longlist

  • Bland L.
  • Thursday, July 27
The longlist for the 2023 First Novel Prize has just been announced. This prize, created by the Center for Fiction to honor the best debut novel of the year, was first awarded in 2006. This year's prizewinner will be announced in December. In the meantime, check out these longlist titles from our collection.
Time Shelter
The Gospel According to the New World
Staff Picks

2023 International Booker Prize

  • Bland L.
  • Tuesday, June 27
Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter has won the 2023 International Booker Prize. This prize was created in 2004 to recognize works of fiction that weren't eligible for the regular Booker Prize (awarded to books by authors hailing from anywhere in the British Commonwealth). Check out this prizewinning title, as well as these other nominees for the 2023 prize.
Blog
Richland Library Main

Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to Columbia

  • Margaret D.
  • Friday, June 23
On October 28, 1938, First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt visited Columbia. Remarkably, we have photographs of this visit in the Walker Local and Family History Center at Richland Library.
Blog
Richland Library Main

Kids in Print 2023

  • Heather M.
  • Wednesday, April 26
Congratulations to the illustrators and writers featured in this year's edition of Kids in Print!
All This Could Be Different
When We Were Sisters
Staff Picks

2022 National Book Award Longlists

  • Bland L.
  • Friday, September 16
The 2022 National Book Award longlists have just been announced. The finalists will be named on 4 October. In the meantime, check out these contenders in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature, and translated literature.
Post-traumatic
Brown Girls
Staff Picks

Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Longlist

  • Bland L.
  • Monday, August 01
The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize was created in 2006 to honor the best debut fiction of the year. The longlist for this year's prize has just been announced. Check out these exciting new first novels from our collection.
Project Hail Mary
The Penny Dreadfuls
Staff Picks

Favorite Reads of The Teen Center Creative Writing Club

  • Thomas M.
  • Tuesday, July 12
Enjoy some fond favorite reads from members of the Teen Center's creative writing club, known as Prompt & Circumstance. Science fiction, horror, fantasy, manga, poetry, Russian literature, and picture books collide in this fun mash-up of influences. You are sure to find a great read or even inspiration in this list.
Never Simple
Beatrix Potter
Staff Picks

New in Biography and Memoir

  • Bland L.
  • Wednesday, June 01
Liz Scheier’s Never Simple, about her difficult upbringing as the child of a mother with Borderline Personality Disorder, has been getting a lot of notice, as has Mary Laura Philpott’s Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives, a set of
Chasing Me to My Grave
Refractive Africa
Staff Picks

2022 Pulitzer Prizewinners

  • Bland L.
  • Monday, May 09
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes have just been announced. Check out the following prizewinners and finalists in the categories of fiction, biography, general nonfiction, history, and poetry.
Blog
Richland Library Main

Kids in Print 2022

  • Heather M.
  • Saturday, May 07
Congratulations to the illustrators and writers featured in this year's edition of Kids in Print 2022!
The Book of Mother
Cursed Bunny
Staff Picks

2022 International Booker Prize

  • Bland L.
  • Tuesday, April 19
The long list and short list titles were announced this month for the 2022 International Booker Prize. This prize was created in 2004 to recognize works of fiction that weren't eligible for the regular Booker Prize (awarded to books by authors hailing from anywhere in the British Commonwealth). The winner will be announced on 26 May, but in the meantime, check out these nominees from our collection.
Blog
Richland Library Cooper

In Defense of Short Stories

  • Charlotte D.
  • Friday, June 30
Short stories sometimes get a bad rap - but these collections just might change your mind about the writing form.
Blog
Richland Library Main

Publishers In South Carolina

  • Thomas M.
  • Tuesday, January 25
Over 20 publishing and self-publishing contacts representing many genres and formats from across The Palmetto State!