September 9, 2021 – 7:30 pm
Penn State Rolling Reading Series – Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802 – with Leah Huizar, author of Inland Empire. Reading is also available via Zoom! Register here.
September 10-12, 2021
Writers Association of Northern Appalachia Annual Writers Conference – Oglebay Resort Center, 465 Lodge Drive, Wheeling, WV 26003
October 7-9, 2021
Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival – Panel on Saturday, October 9 @ 11 am – “Creating Space for Our Stories: Building and Sustaining the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia”
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Past Events
Saturday, July 10, 2021 – 7 pm
Crystal Radio Sessions Virtual Reading Series, hosted by KGB Bar , with Olivia Dunn, Rick Hilles, and Amy Deneson – Event Links to come
Thursday, June 25, 2020 – 8 pm
WCONA LIVE! Online Reading Series, hosted by the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia – Watch on Facebook or YouTube
March 12-15, 2020
Appalachian Studies Association Conference – University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY – Panel on Friday, March 13 @ 2 pm – “New Voices from the Writers Conference on Northern Appalachia” – with MindyDawn Silvergarden, Damian Dressick, author of 40 Patchtown, and Matthew Ferrence, author of Appalachia North
March 5-8, 2020
AWP Conference – Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 900 E. Market St., San Antonio, TX 78205 – Books for sale at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series Bookfair Table (T1965)
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 – 7 pm
Live Recording (Listen here) of the 400th Episode of the Writer’s Bone Podcast at Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478 – with Hosts Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy and Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, author of Holding On To Nothing
Thursday, November 7, 2019 – 7 pm
Yuba Lit Reading Series – The Stone House, 107 Sacramento St., Nevada City, CA 95959, with Devi S. Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, and Ben Preston
October 25-27, 2019
Easton Book Festival in Easton, PA – All below events are on Saturday, Oct. 26
11:30 am – In-Conversation with Kris Waldherr, author of The Lost History of Dreams @ Sigal Museum Decorative Arts Gallery, 342 Northampton St., Easton, PA 18042
2 pm – In-Conversation with Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End, @ First United Church of Christ’s Sanctuary, 229 Church St., Easton, PA 18042
4:30 pm – Debut Authors ’19 Panel @ First Presbyterian Church’s Social Hall, 333 Spring Garden St., Easton, PA 18042 – with Kris Waldherr, author of The Lost History of Dreams, Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End, Christie Grotheim, author of The Year Marjorie Moore Learned to Live, and Keena Roberts, author of Wild Life
Sunday, October 20, 2019 – 3 pm
Webster’s Bookstore Café, 133 E. Beaver Ave., State College, PA 16801, with Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End
Saturday, October 12, 2019 – 7 pm
Crystal Radio Sessions Reading Series – KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 – with Stephanie Jimenez, author of They Could Have Named Her Anything, David Ryan, author of Animals in Motion, and Rhea Dhanbhoora
Thursday, September 26, 2019 – 7 pm
Live Novel Class Podcast from Barrington Books Retold – 176 Hillside Road, Cranston, RI 02920 – with Host Dave Pezza and Daniel Ford, author of Black Coffee – Discussing Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Guerrilla Lit Reading Series – Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002 – with Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth, and Brian Birnbaum, author of Emerald City
September 12-15, 2019
Montana Book Festival in Missoula, MT – “The Fractured American Dream in Fiction” Panel with Susan Bernhard, Emily Strelow, Rebecca Clarren, and Erin Pringle
September 6-8, 2019
Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia in Wheeling, WV – “I Finished My Novel… Now What?” – Saturday, September 7, 2-3:15 pm
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Barnes & Noble, 541 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA 01605 – In Conversation with Edwin Hill, celebrating the publication of The Missing Ones, second novel in the Hester Thursby mystery series
Saturday, August 17, 2019 – 6 pm
Briar Valley Vineyard – 345 Stein Rd., Everett, PA 15537 (Bad weather location: Briar Valley Winery – 107 E. Pitt St., Bedford, PA 15522) – with Camille-Yvette Welsch, Nicole Miyashiro, Lisa Mangini, Lindsay Detwiler, Jim Furry, and Michael Herncare
Thursday, August 8, 2019 – 7 pm
Shakespeare & Co. Upper West Side, 2020 Broadway (between 69th and 70th Streets), New York, NY 10023, In Conversation with Katherine Forbes Riley about her debut novel, The Bobcat
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 – 7 pm
Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478, In Conversation with Katherine Forbes Riley about her debut novel, The Bobcat
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 – 7 pm
Harvard Coop – 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 – In Conversation with Jason Allen about his debut novel, The East End
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 – 7 pm
Belmont Books – 79 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478 – In conversation with Joshua Furst about his phenomenal new novel Revolutionaries
Saturday, May 4, 2019 – 7 pm
May Story Slam at Belmont Books! – 79 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478 – Hosted by Steve Almond – Judges are Meredith Goldstein, Louise Miller, and James Charlesworth
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Providence Book Festival – Debut Diaries Panel with Susan Bernhard, William Dameron, and Vanessa Lillie
Friday, March 29, 2019 – 7 pm
Enso Winery, 1416 SE Stark St., Portland, OR 97214 – with Debut Authors ’19, including Kate Hope Day, Susan Bernhard, K Chess, Aatif Rashid, Julia Phillips, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Rachel Howard, Layne Fargo, Daniela Petrova, William Dameron, Marco Rafala, Keena Roberts, and Caitlin Starling
March 27-30, 2019
AWP Conference, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232- with Debut Authors ’19 (Table T10045)
Saturday, March 23, 2019 – 1 pm to 4 pm
Barnes & Noble Bethel Park, 301 South Hills Village, Pittsburgh, PA 15241 – Local Author Signing Event with over a dozen authors TBD
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 – 7 pm
The Cardigan Connection (Point Street Reading Series) at Askew, 150 Chestnut St., Providence, RI 02903 – with Elinor Lipman, Christopher Castellani, and T Kira Madden ($10 admission includes $5 toward purchase of a book by one of the authors)
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 – 7 pm
Goodnow Library, 21 Concord Road, Sudbury, MA 01776 – with Katrin Schumann, author of The Forgotten Hours, and Susan Bernhard, author of Winter Loon
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Print: A Bookstore – 273 Congress St., Portland, ME 04101
Monday, March 4, 2019 – 7 pm
McNally Jackson Williamsburg, 76 N. 4th St., Unit G, Brooklyn, NY 11249 – with Katrin Schumann, author of The Forgotten Hours, and Susan Bernhard, author of Winter Loon
Saturday, February 9, 2019 – 7 pm
So and So Books, 704 N. Person St., Raleigh, NC 27604 – with Amy Rossi and Jessica Dionne
Thursday, February 7, 2019 – 6 pm
Newsfeed Cafe at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116 – with Katrin Schumann, author of The Forgotten Hours, and Susan Bernhard, author of Winter Loon
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 – 7 pm
Penguin Bookshop, 417 Beaver St., Sewickley, PA 15143 – with Jamilla Rice, Daniel M. Shapiro, and Kim Sousa
Saturday, January 26, 2019 – 2 pm
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library, 1 Furnace Rd., Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Thursday, January 17, 2019 – 7 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, MA 02446 – with Susan Bernhard, author of Winter Loon
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 – 7 pm
Book Launch for The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill
Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478
Monday, December 3, 2018 – 6 pm
Four Stories Reading Series at The Burren, 247 Elm St., Somerville, MA 02144 – with Sean Van Deuren, Lauren Kay Johnson, and Dariel Suarez, author of A Kind of Solitude