Flagstaff Writers Connection: September 2021

The Literary Community comes together each year in the last full week of September to honor our freedom to read and share ideas—even unpopular ideas. Banned Books Week spotlights historic and current attempts to censor literature in schools and libraries.

You might be surprised at some of the books that have been banned in the past. Here is a short list:

The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Some people have an underdeveloped sense of irony.)

Think of how much poorer your life would have been if the censorship of these books had been successful.

This year Flagstaff Writer's Connection invites you to read a brief excerpt of your favorite previously or currently banned book and post it to our website in the comments below. Or you can post it to our Facebook Page. You can also put it on You Tube and submit it to the National Virtual Read Out.