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This year the event will take place on September 3rd, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The event will be held outside Burrowes Building at Penn State University Park campus.

The theme of Marathon Read 2025 is “Awakenings: Resilience in Literature.” We have in mind the power literature possesses to wake us from our many slumbers-emotional, intellectual, political, sexual, spiritual. Resilience showcases our ability to overcome personal and collective adversity, remaking worlds in which people rise, resist, rebuild, and rest.

• When? September 3rd, 2025, from 10am to 10pm
• Where? Lawn in front of Burrowes Building
• What? Sharing literature within the Awakenings: Resilience in Literaturetheme. Bring your own text in any language or read from books available at the podium!Readings from The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunder, and more!
• Why? We love reading and sharing our languages and literacy!

Check out our book raffle at the sign in table for a chance to be given one of our very own Marathon Read books!

For more information or to share feedback directly, contact Olivia Beveridge at odb2@psu.edu.