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  • Fierce Reads Sour and Sweet Tour with Mary E. Pearson, Axie Oh and D.L. Taylor

    St. Charles City-County Library 427 Spencer Rd, St. Peters, Missouri, United States

    Join the St. Charles City-County Library for the Fierce Reads Sour and Sweet Tour, a celebration of young adult romantasy novels! Featuring Mary E. Pearson, Axie Oh (WFYP, June 2017) and […]

    Free

  • Suzanne Cope presents Women of War, in conversation with Matthew Goodman

    Community Bookstore 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, United States

    Suzanne Cope (Nonfiction, 2007) presents Women of War, in conversation with Matthew Goodman. Suzanne Cope is a scholar and narrative journalist, and is the author of Power Hungry: Women of the Black […]

    Free

  • Flower Talk with Sara Levine

    Garden in the Woods 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

    Join children’s book author and environmental educator Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) to expand your learning about pollinators in this interactive and playful program that includes an opportunity to have […]

    $35

  • Author Talk & Book Signing with Cindy House

    Obodo Serendipity Books 3588 Main Street, Stratford, Connecticut, United States

    Visit Obodo Serendipity Books to see Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) in conversation with Zach Miko about her memoir, Mother Noise. In the opening of this “unexpectedly uplifting...masterfully crafted memoir” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grapples with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. She […]

    Free

  • Jasminne Paulino launches “The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez” with Lofty Pigeon Books

    Lofty Pigeon Books 743 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, United States

    Join Lofty Pigeon Books for the launch of The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez, Jasminne Paulino's (WFYP, June 2023) powerful debut novel in verse about a neurodivergent seventh grader who dreams of traveling to the stars one day. Jasminne will be joined by New York Times–bestselling children's author Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) for a reading, […]

    Free

  • The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez Book Launch

    Sleepy Hollow Bookshop 95 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States

    Visit the Sleepy Hollow Bookshop for a book launch event with Jasminne Paulino's (WFYP, June 2023) debut novel, The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez. Jasminne will be in conversation with Claribel Ortega, NYT-bestselling author of the Witchlings series.

    Free

  • Cambridge Common Writers Presents: Still Healing by Rosalind Kaplan

    Online Zoom Event

    Please join us for the virtual launch of Rosalind Kaplan's (Nonfiction, June 2020) memoir-in-essays, Still Healing! Rosalind will be in conversation with her fellow cohort member Robbie Gamble. There will be an opportunity for a Q&A at the end of the event. The American view of doctors vacillates between seeing them as heroes with hearts […]

    Free

  • Writing Picture Book Memoirs with Andrea Wang, Author of “Watercress”

    Online Event

    Using her own Newbery Honor and Caldecott-winning picture book, Watercress, as well as books by others as examples, Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) will discuss the differences and similarities between fiction PBs and memoirs, including elements such as plot, structure, theme, and research. Andrea will also talk about some of the methods she’s used to […]

    $30

  • You Can’t Kill a Poet Presents: Loose Bricks by Boston Gordon

    Tattoed Mom 530 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Celebrate the launch of Boston Gordon's (Poetry, January 2015) newest poetry book, Loose Bricks! The event will include readings by other poets, such as July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013). Books […]

    Free

  • 8th Annual Bronx Book Festival

    The Bronx Book Festival

    Meet authors and illustrators at the 8th Annual Bronx Book Festival, founded by WFYP alum Saraciea J. Fennell. Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) will be this year's YA Keynote […]

    $25.02