Come share your stories and create your legacy.

Come share your stories and create your legacy.

Bring your date, your kids, your friends or just bring yourself and join in team haiku challenges, Exquisite Corpse and more. There'll be pizza, too!

Join Tucson Silent Book Club the 3rd Sunday of the month as we read silently in community with other readers from 1-2:45. If you want to stay and find out what other folks are reading we'll do that 2:45-3.

We have chairs available, but if you want to bring your own comfy portable chair please do.  In the cool months we'll have hot tea available, in the warm months we'll have cold bubbly water.  There's a fabulous reading porch when the weather is nice.  Definitely can hear 4th Avenue noise but it's just in the background.  Free parking on Sundays or ride the streetcar with a stop nearby.  BYO reading material.

We’re hosting! As you meander through the neighborhood, stop by our porch and listen to music. Maybe you’ll even be able to snag a porch swing. Here’s the line-up:

• 6:00 pm – Night Weather Band

• 7:00 pm – Chris Sahlin

• 8:00 pm – Ice 9

• 9:00 pm – Rob Paulus and Friends

Come share your stories and create your legacy.

You know those book groups where no one actually does the reading but everyone has a great time snacking and talking? Our monthly Silent Writing Hour is totally not that!!

Have a cup of tea and work on your novel, poetry, a letter you'll never send, or your Substack--anything goes, except the chatting!

Julie will greet you on our lovely porch 15 minutes before writing time for chitchat and encouragement should you wish to come a bit early. We will have tea and snacks on hand and look forward to an hour of shared company and nonverbal support.

Second Sunday of the month. (No meeting in December because of the Street Fair.)

Come share your stories and create your legacy.

Explore the world of romance novels trope by trope with Why Choose": A Romance Book Club. Each month, we gather to discuss a romance trope or theme and share examples and recommendations of their being done well and done badly. Come ready to gesture and exclaim about your favorite romances and leave drowning in an overflowing TBR. While book recommendations are offered for every meeting, reading them is not required to attend. 

What better time to celebrate sports of all kinds than Baseball’s Opening Day? Sports romances by trad and indie authors alike will be available at this pop-up, centering those written by historically and systemically excluded and marginalized writers. Play ball, indeed, amirite?

Please join us for the final author of our Winter Reading Series. Stephanie Reents will read from her debut novel, We Loved To Run. A short conversation will follow where Reents will answer questions about her work and offer fun "fast fiction" prompts to help free up our writing.

Goodreads says:

A fearless debut novel about a women's cross-country team and how far girls will push themselves to control their bodies, friendships, and futures.  With startling honesty and boundless empathy, Stephanie Reents reveals how girls—even those pitted against each other—find ways to love and defend one another.

Refreshments served. Limited seating: Register for Stephanie’s event

You know those book groups where no one actually does the reading but everyone has a great time snacking and talking? Our monthly Silent Writing Hour is totally not that!!

Have a cup of tea and work on your novel, poetry, a letter you'll never send, or your Substack--anything goes, except the chatting!

Julie will greet you on our lovely porch 15 minutes before writing time for chitchat and encouragement should you wish to come a bit early. We will have tea and snacks on hand and look forward to an hour of shared company and nonverbal support.

Second Sunday of the month.

Explore the world of romance novels trope by trope with Why Choose": A Romance Book Club. Each month, we gather to discuss a romance trope or theme and share examples and recommendations of their being done well and done badly. Come ready to gesture and exclaim about your favorite romances and leave drowning in an overflowing TBR. While book recommendations are offered for every meeting, reading them is not required to attend. 

It's the first bookstore pop-up of the year with Why Choose! Come celebrate Black Joy and find your new favorite Black romance author, whether they write Black romance (romance in which every main character and love interest is Black) or Interracial (romance in which or more characters is not Black). These books will be at the center, but you might see some other stuff too—including swag and merch made by Black creators!

Join Tucson Silent Book Club the 3rd Sunday of the month as we read silently in community with other readers from 1-2:45. If you want to stay and find out what other folks are reading we'll do that 2:45-3.

We have chairs available, but if you want to bring your own comfy portable chair please do.  In the cool months we'll have hot tea available, in the warm months we'll have cold bubbly water.  There's a fabulous reading porch when the weather is nice.  Definitely can hear 4th Avenue noise but it's just in the background.  Free parking on Sundays or ride the streetcar with a stop nearby.  BYO reading material.

You know those book groups where no one actually does the reading but everyone has a great time snacking and talking? Our monthly Silent Writing Hour is totally not that!!

Have a cup of tea and work on your novel, poetry, a letter you'll never send, or your Substack--anything goes, except the chatting!

Julie will greet you on our lovely porch 15 minutes before writing time for chitchat and encouragement should you wish to come a bit early. We will have tea and snacks on hand and look forward to an hour of shared company and nonverbal support.

Second Sunday of the month. (No meeting in December because of the Street Fair.)

Explore the world of romance novels trope by trope with Why Choose: A Romance Book Club. Each month, we gather to discuss a romance trope or theme and share examples and recommendations of their being done well and done badly. Come ready to gesture and exclaim about your favorite romances and leave drowning in an overflowing TBR. While book recommendations are offered for every meeting, reading them is not required to attend. 

Jessica P. Pryde is a reader, writer, editor, and librarian who is particularly interested in expanding people's reading worlds via romance novels. Her essay anthology Black Love Matters, which celebrates its fourth year in the world as of this February 1, explores how the Black experience is (and isn't) explored in contemporary romantic media. Join her for a pair of readings: one from Black Love Matters, discussing the hard truths of Black representation, and a more fun excerpt from one of her own forays into Black romance. Afterwards, she'll make space for a guided discussion about publishing's issues with representation and how we can challenge that as readers and writers (and—let's be honest—probably share several reading recommendations). 

Join Tucson Silent Book Club the 3rd Sunday of the month as we read silently in community with other readers from 1-2:45. If you want to stay and find out what other folks are reading we'll do that 2:45-3.

We have chairs available, but if you want to bring your own comfy portable chair please do.  In the cool months we'll have hot tea available, in the warm months we'll have cold bubbly water.  There's a fabulous reading porch when the weather is nice.  Definitely can hear 4th Avenue noise but it's just in the background.  Free parking on Sundays or ride the streetcar with a stop nearby.  BYO reading material.

Inside this poetry-writing workshop, we’ll begin with an exploration of how different languages discuss space (as bodily-orientation, as visible versus invisible, as temporal metaphor, as emanating from a landform) to get participants to rethink the space of English. We will also explore how prepositions themselves in English move emotional and imagistic weight. This linguistics tour will offer participants some fresh ways to rethink where things are. Register here.

Wyatt Welch (they/them) is a local Tucson poet and English teacher. Welch earned an MA in Linguistics from the University of Florida, and as a linguist, is interested in phonology and language revitalization movements. Welch's debut book of poetry, Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy, was released in 2022 by FlowerSong Press with many of these poems having previously been published in some really exciting journals. Welch is currently working on their third book, The Tarot, which is a comprehensive, tarotic poetry collection of the 78 cards.

Stephanie Reents is a narrative writer and teacher. She's the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Her new novel, We Loved to Run, is published by Hogarth/Penguin Random House. Her awards include two O. Henry Prizes for her short fiction, a Stegner Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship. Actual date is still pending.

You know those book groups where no one actually does the reading but everyone has a great time snacking and talking? Our monthly Silent Writing Hour is totally not that!!

Have a cup of tea and work on your novel, poetry, a letter you'll never send, or your Substack--anything goes, except the chatting!

Julie will greet you on our lovely porch 15 minutes before writing time for chitchat and encouragement should you wish to come a bit early. We will have tea and snacks on hand and look forward to an hour of shared company and nonverbal support.

Second Sunday of the month. (No meeting in December because of the Street Fair.)

Explore the world of romance novels trope by trope with Why Choose: A Romance Book Club. Each month, we gather to discuss a romance trope or theme and share examples and recommendations of their being done well and done badly. Come ready to gesture and exclaim about your favorite romances and leave drowning in an overflowing TBR. While book recommendations are offered for every meeting, reading them is not required to attend. This event is full. While this group is currently at capacity, sometimes spaces do open up. If you’re interested in participating, please let us know!

It's our grand opening! Come find your next favorite romance read with Why Choose, dedicated to uplifting historically and systemically excluded and marginalized voices. Used and new books by authors from numerous underrepresented cultural, social, and gender identities will be available to purchase, and you can share some time with your fellow booklovers! 

At a Letter Social, we slow things down. You’ll sit, write real letters by hand, and connect—quietly or conversationally—with others who enjoy putting pen to paper. Write to a friend, a family member, a future version of yourself, or someone you’ve been meaning to reach out to for years.✍️ No supplies? No problem. Paper, envelopes, pens, and prompts will be available for anyone who needs them. Bring your favorite tools if you have them, or just bring yourself. All experience levels welcome. Come for the writing, stay for the community. Reserve a spot.

Arizona Correspondence Society (ACS) is a Tucson-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the art of letter writing. Through Letter Socials, workshops, and community collaborations, ACS creates space for slow communication, meaningful connection, and creative expression in an increasingly digital world. In partnership with Write on Fourth Writing Center, ACS hosts Letter Socials that bring people together to write by hand in a welcoming, supportive writing space.

Contact: arizonacorrespondencesociety@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arizonacorrespondencesociety/