NEA Announces 2019 Big Read Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $1 million in grant funding to support community reading programs across the country. The grants, part of the NEA's Big Read program, will benefit 78 organizations in 31 states taking place between September 2019 and June 2020.
The initiative is the result of a partnership with Arts Midwest, which manages the grant program. It launched in 2006. Each NEA Big Read grantee has selected a title from the NEA Big Read library and will hold a variety of events and discussions designed to both highlight the book and encourage participation among a wide range of community members. Among the books selected this year are Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying, Joy Harjo’s How We Became Human, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea.
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