Newsletter Highlights It's time to vote for spring book club titles! Head to our page  and hit the polls.   Oh, and be sure you're registered to vote for bigger things , too.   We're hosting a book club breakfast at the RVA Poetry Fest on April 11th at 10am, you can sign up here  if you'd like to volunteer to bring food!   Our spring social is at Stony Point! Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 4th, 2-6pm and RSVP here . Looking Ahead Upcoming This Month: We have the hono

February brings an author book club, Palentine's social, member book reviews on the blog, a new interview, an opportunity to meet the author Kate Moore and more! Hi friends! Don't forget that we plan book clubs on a quarterly basis, you can use the list below to get ahead on your library loans and planned book exchanges so that you have more than a few weeks notice to get your hands on it.   Borrowing Books On hand, I have copies of Red Rising, They Called Us Enemy, The Everl

An author interview with Kate Moore about her path from theatre to writing and the inspiration behind her work on the Radium Girls, one of our January 2026 book club picks. We were so fortunate to host her for our virtual book club and now we get to hear from her again!

A mini review from local book blogger Stephanie on Gillig's ephemeral and romantic fantasy, The Knight and the Moth.

Welcome to the first RVA R+W newsletter! Hey friends,   I'll be thrilled if this just lands in all of the right inboxes. (There should be an unsubscribe button at the bottom if it shouldn't be in yours). If this is all legible and coherent and the photos show up correctly, then that's just bonus points for me on this round.   By the way, hi! My name is Breelyn and I'm so glad you're here.   Anyway, this first newsletter is a bit of a test drive for a few things, including the

Updates from the first weeks of 2026: Two authors to virtually attend our book clubs this month, Silent Reading Party with SolBird books to become a monthly event, and a date and time was nailed down for us to participate in the 2026 Richmond Poetry Festival! Hi friends!   It's mid-January and I am here with some new ideas and a few updates to share. Thank you to everyone who reached out with kind words about the first newsletter, I am so glad that you liked it and plan to co

An interview with author Rebecca Danzenbaker discussing everything from go-to bookstores to favorite foods to her character's hometowns in Virginia.

An interview with author Emily Thiede discussing everything from publishing to favorite animals to where her characters would live if they were in Virginia.

RVA Readers + Writers is a social organization based in Richmond, Virginia, with a book club that meets both in-person and online. We read a wide variety of genres and are always looking for local authors and community-focused recommendations. A quick look at our process: Every three months, we use books suggested on our "want to read" shelf on our bookclubs page to create polls organized loosely by genre. Here, members can vote on books they're interested in reading during

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