Advancing Literacy in Arkansas and Beyond
Let’s Advance Literacy, Together.
The Sandbox invites community literacies workers to write thought provoking, accessible, brief policy memos, reports, or essays on a timely issue within literacy learning and practice.
Advancing Literacy in Arkansas & Beyond
We aim to promote literacy in all its forms through scholarly research, policy initiatives, advocacy, and community engagement.
Powered by the Brown Chair in English Literacy Initiative at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, we do this work through a vision centered on an ethics of justice, imagination, community accountability, and love.
Literacy Programs
From our academic journal The Sandbox to community workshops and events, there are tons of ways to get involved and help grow literacy within our communities.
Literacy Grants
We offer financial support to individuals and organizations working on the ground – empowering people to thrive in their chosen literacies.
Explore Literacy Potential with the Possibilities Hub
Through the Possibilities Hub, we explore literacy through a variety of topics and lenses, learning how to grow both our own personal literacies and those of our communities.
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Upcoming Events @ CLC
Arkansas Author’s Children’s Book Festival
Saturday, April 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am CDT - 2:00 pm CDT - DATE: April 12thm 2025 TIME: 11AM-3PM LOCATION:UCA, Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts Join us at the book festival celebrating children's reading. REGISTER HERE
Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT - The Community Literacies Collaboratory is proud to present: Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work Facilitated by Stephanie Keene When: Tuesdays, 4/22/25 - 5/13/25 Where: Virtual Cost: Free; A copy of the
Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT - The Community Literacies Collaboratory is proud to present: Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work Facilitated by Stephanie Keene When: Tuesdays, 4/22/25 - 5/13/25 Where: Virtual Cost: Free; A copy of the
Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT - The Community Literacies Collaboratory is proud to present: Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work Facilitated by Stephanie Keene When: Tuesdays, 4/22/25 - 5/13/25 Where: Virtual Cost: Free; A copy of the
Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 7:30 pm CDT - The Community Literacies Collaboratory is proud to present: Possibilities Hub Reads: Black Liturgies + Black Women Writers at Work Facilitated by Stephanie Keene When: Tuesdays, 4/22/25 - 5/13/25 Where: Virtual Cost: Free; A copy of the
CLC Presents Friday Night Reads
Friday, February 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CST - 9:00 pm CST - Join the CLC for our first Friday Night Reads in observation of the National African-American Read-In This Friday Night Reads will be a silent book club the last day of Black History Month. Grab a beverage,
Celebrate Black History with Music! @ Springdale Public Library
Saturday, February 15, 2025 @ 1:00 pm CST - 2:30 pm CST - The Springdale Public Library invites you to celebrate Black History Month with a live concert featuring Clifford Nichols and an ensemble performance from the historic St.James Baptist Church. Join us as Mr. Nichols and the ensemble
2025 Symposium | Crafting the Irresistible: Creative – Critical Literacies & Community
Monday, October 20, 2025 - Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @ 12:00 am CDT - The symposium will explore how the interplay between the creative and critical can bolster literacies scholarship, pedagogical practices, political and activist expression, and community formation and transformation. We are particularly eager to receive proposals that
Possibilties Hub Reads: Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - Tuesday, November 12, 2024 @ 6:00 pm CDT - 8:00 pm CST - PLEASE NOTE: This is the event listing for the total event. If you download the calendar event, it will run every day (Sun-Sat) until the event is complete. For the individual
Possibilties Hub Reads: Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 @ 6:00 pm CST - 8:00 pm CST - Register Now "Throughout Holler, Child, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned turned to hope. This collection peers deeply into lives of [people] experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings–exploring how race, power, and
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