Writing in Tampa BayJuly 22, 2026
Clearwater has five library branches, a large chain bookstore and a handful of cafes, and they solve different problems. Clearwater East for long sessions and evening hours, Countryside if you need a room with a door, North Greenwood for natural…
Writing in Tampa BayJuly 23, 2026
St. Petersburg has the best spread of working rooms in the county. West St. Pete opens at eight, Book and Bottle runs to nine with real wifi, The Book Lounge goes to ten at weekends, and Gulfport has reading carrels,…
Writing in Tampa BayJuly 25, 2026
Dunedin has two rooms worth planning around and they cover opposite ends of the day. The library runs until eight on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Back in the Day Books stays open until nine Thursday through Saturday. Both sit inside…
Writing in Tampa BayJuly 27, 2026
Largo Public Library is the answer to almost every version of this question. Nine in the morning until eight at night Monday through Wednesday, two floors, a cafe inside, bookable group rooms, a quiet garden and a park across the…
Writing in Tampa BayJuly 28, 2026
Palm Harbor has an independent district library that opens at nine and runs to seven four days a week, with a coffee bar and a separate children's wing. The Barnes and Noble on US 19 covers evenings until nine, and…
Writing in Tampa BayJuly 30, 2026
Tarpon Springs has a library open until eight on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with used books at five for a dollar and museum passes you can check out, and a bookshop with a rentable reading lounge that opens at eleven…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 1, 2026
Tim Dorsey wrote 26 novels about a Florida serial killer with a moral code, and researched every one like history. He wrote the first while working nights at the Tampa Tribune, sent an agent the whole manuscript instead of a…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 2, 2026
Two literary magazines are published in this region and both take submissions. Saw Palm, run by graduate students at USF, publishes work connected to Florida and reads from July to October. Tampa Review, published by the University of Tampa since…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 4, 2026
You do not need a professional to record a parent or grandparent talking about their life. You need a phone, two hours, and the discipline to ask about rooms and objects instead of dates. Record it, do it more than…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 6, 2026
Almost every family has a box and almost nobody opens it, because the job looks enormous and the photographs are unlabelled. The order that works is stabilise, sort roughly, label with the people who still remember, scan what matters, and…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 7, 2026
Roughly a dozen venues in this region run regular literary programming, and they want completely different things. Tombolo runs a national author calendar. Largo Public Library hosted fifteen hundred people for a romance festival. The Gilded Page rents its back…
Writing in Tampa BayAugust 9, 2026
Haslam's on Central Avenue was the largest independent bookstore in Florida, more than thirty thousand square feet, opened in 1933 and run by three generations of one family. It closed in March 2020 and never reopened. The murals have been…
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