A Writer's Guide to Hanover, New Hampshire

The Howe is Hanover's public library, and it is open seven days a week. You can book its study rooms and meeting rooms. Exhibits hang in the Ledyard Gallery.

Rauner holds Dartmouth's rare books and manuscripts along with the College Archives, and visitors may study in its reading room. Staff usually pull requested items once you arrive.

Baker-Berry is one of the Dartmouth Libraries, which say they are open to everyone. Many digital resources work on campus over the Dartmouth network, and visiting scholars and registered guest borrowers can check out books. The Evans Map Room is in the building. Hours change through the year.

Norwich Public Library, in Norwich, Vermont, has a community room and runs its own NPL Writing Group. It stays open into the evening on Thursdays and closes Sundays.

Kilton is the West Lebanon, New Hampshire, branch of the Lebanon Public Libraries. It opened in 2010, and the libraries call it the first new library in New Hampshire to earn LEED Gold. Its three public meeting rooms include one that seats 100, and there is a courtyard. It is closed Sundays.

Still North is an independent bookstore in downtown Hanover with a café and bar that bakes its own bread. The shelves hold staff picks and indie bestsellers, plus Dartmouth course books. The store hosts readings and takes space reservations. It stays open late Thursday and Friday.

The Norwich Bookstore has served Norwich, Vermont, and the Upper Valley since 1994. It hosts author readings.

Volunteers run this used bookstore in White River Junction, Vermont, for the nonprofit COVER Home Repair, and all proceeds go to home repair across the Upper Valley. Drop off book donations on Mondays.

The Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, Vermont, opened in November 1935. Kari Meutsch and Kristian Preylowski have run it since 2017. Some of its author events are held off-site. It is closed Wednesdays.

Umpleby's bakes on South Street, the same street as the Howe Library, and it is open every day from morning into mid-afternoon.

King Arthur Baking's flagship campus in Norwich, Vermont, puts a bakery, a café, a store, and the Baking School in one place. The café serves pastries and lunch with free Wi-Fi. In fine weather, eat on the lawn. It is open daily except major holidays.

AVA, a nonprofit art center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, runs a coworking room in its Johnson Sisters Library, and any AVA membership gets you in. The room has fast Wi-Fi and a conference table that seats ten. It is open Monday through Saturday.

Mon Vert is an organic café on the same street as the Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, Vermont. It serves a locally sourced breakfast and lunch with espresso and organic teas, and it pours craft beer and wine. It is open six days a week.

PINE is the Hanover Inn's farm-to-table dining room, overlooking the Dartmouth Green. The inn sits next to the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum. PINE serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and cocktails, and the patio opens in warmer months.

Sawtooth is a restaurant and bar with its own stage. Wednesday is comedy night, with an open mic. Karaoke runs on Tuesdays, and the calendar adds improv and live music. It is open evenings only and closed Sundays and Mondays.

The Salt hill pubs have hosted local and touring musicians since 2003, and there is never a cover charge. The Lebanon pub is open daily from lunch.

Simon Pearce's restaurant is in the historic Quechee Mill in Quechee, Vermont, above the Ottauquechee River waterfall. The glassblowing workshop shares the building, and the company invites visitors to watch. Lunch is served daily, and dinner Wednesday through Sunday.

The Howe runs two workshops of its own, the Howe Writing Group and the Howe Writing Salon. Poets can join its Poetry Book Club, and the library hosts author talks.

The New Hampshire Writers' Project is a nonprofit for New Hampshire writers, with a mailing address in Bedford. It teaches workshops and masterclasses and holds the 603 Writers' Conference each year. Writers meet monthly at its Writers Night Out.

Founded in 1929, the League of Vermont Writers is open to anyone who writes, published or unpublished. Its mailing address is in Burlington. Writers can read at its Zoom open mic, and the League runs programs for writers in person and online.

The Center for Cartoon Studies is a cartooning school in downtown White River Junction, Vermont. It offers an MFA, with a low-residency option, and one- and two-year certificates. Writers who want to start smaller can take a seven-week online seminar or the free self-paced cartooning course.

Bookstock is a free festival of words on and around the Village Green in Woodstock, Vermont. A volunteer nonprofit runs it. Expect author talks and masterclasses, along with a large used book sale.

Rauner is one of 29 member libraries in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Its fellowships are open to U.S. citizens and to foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents.

New Hampshire Humanities is a nonprofit based in Concord. Through Humanities to Go, its statewide speakers bureau, scholars give free public programs. It also makes Community Project Grants, which it calls the state's only grant program devoted to public humanities.

Vermont Humanities, based in Montpelier, runs a Speakers Bureau and the statewide Vermont Reads program. Its grants for humanities projects range from small Rapid Response grants to multi-year Partnership grants. The Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities supports projects on women writers.

Steerforth Press has published books since 1994 and is now an imprint of Pushkin Press US, with a West Lebanon, New Hampshire, address. Its list includes American history and politics, true crime, and memoir.

Chelsea Green, founded in 1984, moved to White River Junction, Vermont, in 1997. The employee-owned press publishes books on the politics and practice of ecologically based living, from organic farming and gardening to local economies and integrative health.

The American Economic Review is the American Economic Association's general-interest economics journal. It was established in 1911 and publishes twelve issues a year. Its editor, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, is at Dartmouth College. Preparing an article for the American Economic Review

The New Hampshire Writers' Project gives these awards every two years for books by New Hampshire natives and residents. The categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's picture books, and middle grade and young adult. Self-published books are considered.

Vermont Humanities presents the Vermont Book Award each year for books by Vermont writers, meaning those who live in the state more than half the year. Categories cover creative nonfiction, fiction, children's literature, and poetry. Vermont College of Fine Arts established the award in 2014.

The Vermont Arts Council's Creation Grants help Vermont artists and artist groups make new work.

These Vermont Arts Council grants support work that builds mastery of an artist's craft or makes an artist's business more viable.

The Book Arts Workshop is a bindery and letterpress studio, stocked with metal and wood type, that community members share with Dartmouth students and faculty. Anyone 15 or older can drop in during Open Studio. Letterpress work starts with an orientation session, and community members pay a materials fee.

Two Rivers is an artist collective and printmaking studio with three intaglio presses. Artist members get full access to the facilities. Most of its workshops run on weekends, and AVA Gallery handles registration.