Independent Bookstore Day at Literary Arts

This Saturday, April 26, is Independent Bookstore Day! Come celebrate with us at 716 SE Grand Avenue from 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m for a day full of books, community, festivity, and surprises!

☕️ Free drinks and snacks all day long!

🎨 Free tote bag! Featuring art of our beautiful new storefront for anyone spending $50 or more.

🎧 Libro.fm Golden Ticket! One lucky browser will win 12 free audiobook credits.

🎡 Prize Wheel! Earn a spin with everypurchase, with opportunities to win free books, merch, gift cards, eventtickets, and more!

 📸  Photo booth!

🎈 Doors open at 10:00 a.m. and we’ll kick off the day with a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Story Time from the wonderful storytellers at Adventures in Spanish (10:30 am).

📖 From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. our neighborhood friends, the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), will be at the store with a letterpress and an exclusive bookmark print.

📝 From 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., preview Literary Arts programs for writers with a free pop-up writing class from local author and Literary Arts Teacher, Michelle Kicherer.

🎨 From 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. get crafty with a hands-on Zine Making Workshop lead by Kathleen Barnett, art director, graphic designer, IPRC Board Member, and educator.

📚→  We are honored to be among many amazing Central Eastside indie bookstores and recommend you make a day of it by visiting our friends at Mother Foucault’s, Postcard (in Cargo), Propeller (in Urbanite), and Up Up Books. If we’re one of many bookstore stops for you on this day save your receipts—we’re offering 10% for shoppers who bring a day-of receipt from another independent bookstore.

🧶 Did you know that Saturday, April 26 is also Local Yarn Store Day? Our fellow Central Eastside friends Ritual Dyes are offering 10% off their purchase to visitors with a receipt from Literary Arts! And of course we’ll be doing thes ame for anyone with a receipt from them!

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Independent Bookstore Day (Indie Bookstore Day, or “IBD”) was established in 2013 to promote, celebrate, and highlight the value of the Independent bookstore community. The day has been observed on the last Saturday of April every year since 2013. This year there are over 1,200 stores participating across the country.

Independent Bookstore Day is organized by the American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, that works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.