Burnaway is excited to announce Open Book, our first editorial book club.

Held in-person and virtually, Open Book is a literary program for curious readers who are interested in engaging with stories touching on both art and our coverage region of the South and Caribbean. At a time marked by AI-generated content and declining reading habits, Open Book serves as a space for critical thinking, thoughtful discussion, and gathering. Through this program, we hope to continue fostering a community of engaged readers across our coverage region and beyond. We are excited to kick off Open Book with “Hothouse Bloom” by Austyn Wohlers, selected by Burnaway’s Editor and Artistic Director Courtney McClellan (@courtneylmcclellan). Courtney will lead a virtual book club on Tuesday, September 15 from 7-8PM EST and an in-person book club in Atlanta at Larakin on Thursday, September 23 from 6-8PM EST. Register for the virtual book club and the in-person book club at the links in bio. — Open Book is a hybrid program in which Burnaway’s editorial staff will select and announce a new book each season. Featured books may be fiction, non-fiction, essay collections and other forms of published writing and will touch on art and our coverage region of the South and Caribbean. In-person events will be held in different locations across our coverage region in accordance with editor-at-large locations (Atlanta, the Caribbean, the Carolinas, and New Orleans), and virtual events will be held on Zoom within the same week.