🌟 Heartland Updates: Education, Awards & Coffee Chats! 🌟 📣 Help Build Heartland's Education Program! We're crafting two exciting days of learning: 🔹 Job-Focused Retreats - Oct 14 🔹 General Education - Oct 15 ➡️ Got topic ideas or dream speakers? Share with us. 🏆 2025 Heartland Booksellers Award - Open for Nominations! Calling all MIBA booksellers & publishers! Submit: 📖 Books by authors from IL, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD or WI 📖 Books with Midwest-specific content Let's celebrate our region's literary voices! ☕ Monthly Meet-Ups with Grace & February Got Heartland Fall Forum questions? Just want to chat books? Join their Google Meet sessions! June dates: 6/10/25 at 10am Central and 4pm Central 6/24/25 at 10am Central and 4pm Central All of the links have been included below, along with in our weekly newsletter and on our website. (fb)

✨Celebrating Our April Roadmap Contest Winner! 📚 A big thank you to everyone who participated in the MIBA Roadmap Contest for April and Independent Bookstore Day! We loved seeing your bookstore visits and purchases—keep supporting those amazing local bookshops. How to enter: 1. Post a photo of the bookstore you visited or books purchased 2. Tag the bookstore. 3. Tag us. 4. Use the hashtag #MIBARoadmapContest. Each month, we pull one $50 gift card winner. Each year, we pull one $500 gift card winner!!!! The winner gets to pick the bookstore of their choice to get their gift card from! So many books! The next winner could be you. Get out there and support your local indie bookstores! Happy reading and exploring! 📚✨ #SupportLocalBookstores #BookstoreAdventures #MIBACommunity #SupportLocalBookstores #BookstoreAdventures #ShopLocal #midwestbookstores #contest #bookstore #supportindiebookstores #MIBAroadtrip #BookLovers #IndieBookstores #BookCommunity #BooksChangeLives (fb)