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06/17/2026

How are writing and running similar?

🎥 Watch this clip from this month’s Writers Who Run interview with Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 to find out!

Tap the ‘Writers Who Run’ link in bio to watch or read the full interview.

06/16/2026

📍🏠 HOME OF THE BOOK-THEMED GUIDED RUN

Read & Run Tours is home of the book-themed guided run, a one-of-kind program that blends fitness, literature, and community!

Guides develop running routes where the story takes place with stops that correspond to the book.

Between Read & Run Tours, Read & Run Chicago, and the Read & Run on the Road programs, over 50 authors have had their books brought to life and connected (often IRL!) with new audiences, including Rebecca Makkai, Ann Napolitano, Naomi Hirahara, and more!

👉 WHERE CAN I ATTEND ONE?

📍Chicago with Read & Run Chicago™️
📍D.C. and Seattle via Read & Run on the Road™️ organizers
📍And beyond — stay tuned here!

👉 AUTHORS: Interested in developing a program inspired by your book(s)? Here’s how:

- Apply to host your own Read & Run Tours-like event through the Read & Run on the Road™️ program

- Hire Read & Run Tours to plan and host an event inspired by your book

- Chicagoland area authors/books visit Read & Run Chicago™️ to pitch your book for consideration!

👉 RUNNERS: Want to host your own?

Visit Read & Run on the Road™️ to apply!

06/15/2026

The amount of times I had to load and unload those gd balloons 🤣

Five years into hosting community events through Read & Run Chicago™️ and now having launched event services for authors here, there’s so much more heavy lifting, tedious logistics, and coordination than I ever realized—but it’s ALL SO WORTH IT.

Do you host community events and what’s your take on this?

Let me know in the comments! 👇

06/13/2026

This morning, I got to go on a run with one of our past featured Writers Who Run!

This column is helmed by journalist Malissa Rodenburg and explores the work and experiences of just that—writers who run! Whether poets, horror writers, or nonfiction authors, the featured writers talk about the similarities between their two crafts and how one informs the other.

Ben Tanzer (Ben Tanzer) joined our community arm, Read & Run Chicago™️, for our Running Tour of LGNSQ, a tour highlighting the bilingual photography book LGNSQ, a gorgeous book with essays and stories about Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.

Tap the link in bio to read the column!

06/02/2026

Welcome to JUNE, readers & runners nationwide! 🌈

It’s Pride, it’s summer, it’s running through history—literary style. 💅

Here are this month’s ✨signature events✨ we created—the book-themed guided routes where stories take place—hosted by Read & Run Chicago and independent organizers with the Read & Run on the Road program.

📅 June 13
📍Chicago 👉
Running Tour of LGNSQ with contributing writer, author
Host:

📅 Sunday, June 14
📍D.C. 👉
Read & Run on the Road: Book Club Run of Best Offer Wins with author
Host:

➡️ Tap the ‘Events’ link in bio for tickets!

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05/23/2026

No one ever regretted stopping into a while on a walk… 😅

This , I thank all of the stewards, donors, and neighbors that help keep all the book-sharing boxes delightful. ❤️

Loved this telephone booth-style one I recently saw off the Monon Trail in Carmel, Indiana!

05/14/2026

📝 Writers Who Run: Wendy N. Wagner

Portland-based author and trail runner .n.wagner is a person you’d describe as “chipper” and “instantly disarming,” writes journalist in this month’s Writer Who Run.

Her most recent novel? Definitely not the same adjectives.

Girl in the Creek is set in the fictional Pacific Northwest town of Faraday—and it’s a “mindbending mystery.”

Creepy. Dark. Delightful.

Read this month’s Writers Who Run (no spoilers!) to learn more about Wendy, including her penchant for long distance, how she infuses fear into her writing, and what she’s reading.

Tap the ‘Writers Who Run column’ link in bio or visit readandruntours.com/blog.

05/11/2026

No volunteer was hurt in the process of making this reel. 😛

This week is your last chance to RSVP for the Dare2tri and Read & Run Tours Storytelling 5k on ✨Sunday, May 17✨!

As you run or walk, you’ll stop along the route to hear powerful, funny, and honest stories from Dare2tri athletes and volunteers, shared in the very places they happened.

From race-day highs to unexpected challenges, these are the moments that shape what it means to be an athlete.

What to Expect
👟 A guided 3.5-mile run or 1.2-mile walk/run option
🎤 Live storytelling stops throughout the course
☀️ A welcoming, community-focused pace (~12:00/mile)
👩🏽‍🦽‍➡️ A fully accessible route (flat, mostly paved, with some crushed gravel)
👟 An intro to guiding a runner who is blind or visually impaired

However you move—running, walking, or rolling—you’re invited.

Tap the ‘Events’ link in bio to save your spot.

💡 Thanks so much for the inspiration, !

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