Our events and programs are designed to strengthen, support, and celebrate independent bookstores. We do this through a variety of annual, on-going opportunities.
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Each fall, we join our neighboring indie bookselling association, the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA), to host the Heartland Fall Forum, one of the largest and most exciting regional trade shows in the country. The show features a in-depth series of education, exhibit hall, and author events. 
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Our winter catalog is an essential holiday sales tool for publishers and booksellers. With a circulation of nearly 350,000, bookstores give this marketing tool directly to their customers, often opting to distribute the catalog via community newspapers, direct mail, and saturation mailing. We also create a shoppable online version of the catalog for any e-commerce platform.
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With the Heartland Fall Forum occurring in the fall, each spring we bring additional educational and networking opportunities to booksellers throughout our region. These opportunities are hosted in different states and cities every year.  
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Midwest Connections, our regional co-op program, helps booksellers sell titles that resonate in our region, and helps publishers ensure these titles get devoted display treatment and additional promotional attention.
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The Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards is an annual program in which our booksellers nominate and vote on their favorite books of the year in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, YA/middle grade, and children's picture book. These awards are presented to the authors at the Heartland Fall Forum.
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Modeled after the popular Record Store Day, Bookstore Day is a nationwide party celebrated by participating indie bookstores every spring. 

This year, Bookstore Day is on April 30, 2016.