Join us at Box Turtle to meet and connect with other writers in the community! Bring something you’ve wrote to read aloud, receive feedback and input from other writers. Get new ideas, and get inspired to write more. All genres, subjects, and forms of writing welcome.

Join us for the Uptown Shelby Art Crawl on Saturday, September 12th!

From 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., artists from the Cleveland County Arts Council will be popping up at participating businesses throughout Uptown Shelby. Stop in to watch artists demonstrate their work, shop their pieces, ask questions, and enjoy a little creativity along the way!

Find artists all around Uptown at participating businesses. A map of artist locations is coming soon! Enjoy live painting, basket weaving, pottery, song writing, and more.

At Box Turtle Books, we’re excited to welcome local writer Gray Rinehart! Gray is a USAF space operations veteran, an award-winning author of nonfiction, a singer/songwriter, and a craftsman. He is the only person to have commanded an Air Force satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr. Demento Show. His lunar colonization novel was compared to early Heinlein and Pournelle; his short fiction has appeared in Analog, Asimov's, and elsewhere; he has four albums of mostly science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired music; and he builds and carves a variety of woodcrafts.

No tickets needed, just pop in, explore Uptown, and enjoy the art!

And while you're here, don't miss Chalk Fest happening on the Court Square!

Join us at Box Turtle to meet and connect with other writers in the community! Bring something you’ve wrote to read aloud, receive feedback and input from other writers. Get new ideas, and get inspired to write more. All genres, subjects, and forms of writing welcome.

Join us in the Reading Room for our Monthly Audiobook Meetup! Think of it as a self-guided book club, a moment of peace for yourself among fellow book lovers. We’ll provide the coffee, you bring your headphones and listening device.

Looking for your next great audiobook? Check us out on Libro.fm and support our store with each audiobook purchase you make!

Box Turtle Books is excited to host Angela Leigh, poet and author of the new poetry collection Tattoos, Tacos, and Time, at our shop on June 27th!

Angela is a North Carolina-born author, a hopeless romantic, and a college professor who finds poetry in just about everything, and the former owner of Adventure Bound Books. “Tattoos, Tacos, and Time” is her first poetry collection. Readers can follow her on IG and TikTok @thattattooedprofessor and learn more about her on her website at angelawrites.studio.

Tattoos, Tacos, and Time is a a poetry collection for lovers and explorers. In it, Angela paints an unfiltered portrait of love, lust, partnership, loss, and transformation. “Tattoos, Tacos, and Time” traces the author's journey home to herself. Sapphic, sensual, sweet, raw, and empowering, this collection celebrates the quiet everyday moments and the ones that change everything.