in partnership with Maine State Library

 

Share you’re participating | Author information | For your Read ME programs | Statewide events

 

1. Share that you’re a participating library

We strongly encourage you to let your community know with an announcement online—on social media, in your e-newsletter, on your website, etc.

Announcement Image Landscape
(Use for Facebook, Twitter, websites, e-newsletters, and other digital uses)

Announcement Image Square
(Use for Instagram, websites, e-newsletters, and other digital uses)

 

2. Read ME Featured Author Contact Information

• Both Meredith Hall (Meredith.Hall@unh.edu) and Phuc Tran (Phucskywalker@gmail.com) are comfortable with registered libraries directly reaching out to discuss author events. All of the arrangements for these events will be between you (the library) and the authors. This includes any stipend agreements.  
• If you schedule an author visit, please use the provided Read ME flyers and images below in your marketing. MHC and MSL will help spread the word. Just be sure to let us know

 

4. Hosting a Read ME event with one of the featured authors or books? 

• Please let us know so we can add it to the Read ME event calendar on the MHC website.
• Program description (For sharing in a press release or other publicity.)
  Read ME is a statewide summer reading program offered by the Maine Humanities Council and Maine State Library that gets Maine’s adults all reading the same books. Each year a well-known Maine author recommends two titles by lesser-known Maine authors with libraries and their patrons participating in a summer of reading and discussing the featured books.2022’s featured books—recommended by Christina Baker Kline—are Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran and Beneficence by Meredith Hall. The Maine Humanities Council is a statewide non-profit that uses books, poetry, and big ideas to bring people together to discuss issues of importance. MHC programs and grants encourage critical thinking and conversations across social, economic, and cultural boundaries.
• Additional program ideas
• Sigh, Gone | Phuc Tran
  • Phuc Tran photo | Sigh, Gone cover
  • Handout/discussion questions
  • Book discussion flyer template | FB Event & web image
  • Author talk flyer template | FB Event & web image
• Beneficence | Meredith Hall
  • Meredith Hall photo | Beneficence cover
  • Handout/discussion questions  
  • Book discussion flyer template | FB Event & web image
  • Author talk flyer template | FB Event & web image

 

5. Statewide Events

• Summer Program Kick-off on Maine Calling 
  Friday | June 3, 2021 | 11:00 am – 12 noon | Listen on Maine Public
• Online Author talk with Phuc Tran (Sigh, Gone)
  Tuesday | July 12, 2021 | 7:00 – 8:00pm | Register now
• Online Author Talk with Meredith Hall (Beneficence)
  Thursday | August 25, 2021 | 7:00 – 8:00pm | Register now