Announcing the Chautauqua Anthology
Chautauqua Literary Arts is pleased to announce an exciting transition for the Chautauqua journal, which will see its final publication this summer in its current form. It will be reconstructed and rejuvenated as the Chautauqua Anthology, co-edited by Kwame Alexander and Jill Gerard.
For decades, Chautauqua literary journal has been a literary manifestation of the values and aesthetics of Chautauqua Institution. Each volume is a portable Chautauqua season between covers. The sections loosely reflect the categories of experience addressed during those nine summer weeks, playing one writer’s vision off another’s in the spirit of oblique, artful dialogue.
The Chautauqua way is also reflected in how this book has been historically curated. Each year, in partnership with Chautauqua Literary Arts, graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington work as members of the editorial team, guided by professional editors and an advisory board. They read and discuss submissions, fact check and edit, search for art, and participate in the artistic process of building a book. You can read our last few volumes, which have been published on the Chautauqua Journal website.
In 2025, we will honor the long legacy of the journal at Chautauqua and those who have diligently worked to share our Chautauqua traditions on the page by expanding its reach as an anthology, which will see its inaugural publication as a special edition at Chautauqua Institution in May 2025, and will then hit the shelves in bookstores across the U.S. in September 2025.
Submissions are open for our inaugural 2025 publication. As Chautauqua looks to 2025, we invite you to explore what it means to be American or to live in this land. Submit your poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, micro-essay, and flash fiction that explores what it means to live in America, to be American. Read America as Patchwork Quilt: A Chautauqua Anthology call for papers and submit online! Learn more at anthology.chq.org.