Midwest Booksellers

☀️Look at Erica! How wonderful is she standing in front of @sewardchapters? An impromptu trip to Seward, NE paired with our indie bookstore roadmap led her all the way to the bookstore. Congrats on being the August roadmap contest winner!

A big thank you to everyone who came out for Drag Story Time yesterday, and of course immense gratitude to the wonderful Miz Diagnosis!! We're looking forward to having more special guest readers for our weekly First Chapter Story Time, which is every Saturday at 10:30am 🥰🌈✨📘

If you're not sure where you are, try our new sign, located over the Regional Interest section! And remember: if you find yourself in Next Chapter Booksellers, you are also in St. Paul, the greatest Minnesota metropolis this side of the Mississippi! Stay cool, readers!

🤩 Join us for this exclusive and unbelievable event the opening night of Heartland! Multi-Grammy Winning Musician Jack White in conversation with NYT Bestselling Author & Cultural Critic Hanif Abdurraqib. Register today to see this amazing duo and more!

Excited to be part of @BooksXAmerica, a new film about a writer who travels to 50 states, reads 50 books, & interviews 50 authors—in 50 days! 🤯 We loved being their featured Kansas bookstore 📚 for their interview w/ Laura Moriarty about THE CHAPERONE (@penguinrandom) 🤗

👋 Goodbye July and hello August! And hello to Beth, our most recent roadmap winner. She snapped this charming pic at Reading in Public Bookstore + Cafe, as one of her stops on a bookstore crawl in Iowa.

📣Registration is officially open for all attendees! Booksellers we are looking specifically at you. Here are 3 things you can do right now: 🎟️ register for the show 🏨 book your hotel (September 27 deadline) ✍🏾 apply for a Heartland scholarship (August 31 deadline )

Thanks so much, @ReaderDriftless! #bookstoreroadmap

As a fellow St. Paul non-profit, we're kindred spirits with @thefriends. Their upcoming gala Opus & Olives is celebrating 20 years! When you attend you support early literacy, workforce development, and lifelong learning opportunities for all. Tickets available now!

The cat is out of the bag, or rather the fox is out of the mitten? Either way we're thrilled to announce we've partnered with Running Press Kids to use art from Winter Tales: Stories and Folktales from Around the World as the theme of our winter catalog.

In the week leading up to Amazon Prime Day, we'd like to commemorate the thing that sets bookstores apart from e-commerce giants, and that's booksellers. If you agree that we are a crucial part of bookselling, show some love to the indies this week! #theFutureIsIndie @ABAbook

📣 Heartland Fall Forum is back! October 18-20 in Detroit, MI. We're in the process of rolling out registration for all. Right now, there are a number of ways you can engage with us and start preparing for the show. Check out our website to learn more.

🌸 Yay Tony! Our May roadmap contest winner snapped this pic outside of Zumbrota Literary Society. His prize? A $50 gift card to the bookstore of this choice. We'll be back next month with another randomly selected winner.

📣 Announcing the 2023 Midwest Bookseller of the Year 🎉 Pamela and Jeffrey Blair of EyeSeeMe African American Children's Bookstore. Join us June 19 at 4 pm CT for a live celebration to grant the award to the Blairs. Register here: forms.gle/54w3Jfp31Ui6wz…

We are so excited to be able to welcome booksellers across the world 🌎 to our city! 💖📖

🏆Introducing our roadmap contest grand prize winner! Deanna had this photo snapped on Indie Bookstore Day at Chpater2Books. 🙏Thanks to all 547 of you who participated over the last year. Our new contest year has begun and we'll be back with another winner in June.

New additions to the 2023 @MidwestBooks Indie Bookstore Roadmap, a thread…

"If you stop reading, you give your imagination away to the man." —Soman Chainani

👏🏾 Congrats to Angela, our March roadmap winner! We love seeing the map used to visit all the great indie bookstores across the Midwest. 📚 Don't forget April is the last month to enter the contest before we draw for the $500 grand prize. Good luck!

One of the signs of spring at Watermark is the return of the outdoor furniture! Come enjoy this bright and sunny day with an iced coffee and a good book ☀️🌷 @ShelfAwareness