Poetry Reading with Aimee Noel
2026-05-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St, Tipp City, Ohio, 45371, United States
Join Aimee Noel (Poetry, January 2014) as she reads poems from her new published book Slag. Limited copies are available for request.

Salon with Memoir Authors Hester Kaplan & Alizah Holstein
2026-06-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Yellow House, 3842 Main Rd, Tiverton Four Corners, Rhode Island, 02878, United States
Visit The Yellow House for a salon style discussion, Q&A, and signing with Rhode Island based authors Hester Kaplan (Twice Born) and Alizah Holstein (My Roman History). Books and drinks available for purchase.

Hester Kaplan is the author of novels and story collections including The Edge of Marriage, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories series. She is the recipient of two NEA awards, and was named a Mark Twain Fellow for Twice Born.

Alizah Holstein holds a PhD in history from Cornell University and an MFA in nonfiction writing and literary translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her family in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Mirror In Our Music: Fred Joiner’s Book Release
2026-06-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Shadowbox Studio, 2200-D Dominion Street Durham, NC 27704, Durham, North Carolina, 27704, United States
Come celebrate Carrboro poet and curator Fred L. Joiner’s (Poetry, June 2015) new book of poetry, The Mirror In Our Music, out now via Birds LLC. The night will include readings by Fred Joiner, Nathaniel Mackey, Tyree Daye, Destiny Hemphill and Tsitsi Ella Jaji.

Featuring live music by Nicole Mitchell, Joe Westurland and Butler Knowles and original short films by Ben Felton.

Doors 6:30 pm / Show 7 pm.

Memoirist Deborah Sosin, in Conversation with Alison Cupp Relyea
2026-06-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Rye Library, 1061 Boston Post Rd, Rye, New York, 10580, United States
Visit the Rye Free Reading Room for an author event with Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction, January 2015) discussing her memoir: Escape Velocity: How One 70-Year-Old Push-Pulled Her Way Out of Her Too-Much-Not-Enough Family (70 Micro-Memoirs, 70 Words Each).

Join Rye native and award-winning author Deborah Sosin, now a Boston-based writer and psychotherapist, as she and local essayist Alison Cupp Relyea discuss the craft of writing a set of linked micro-memoirs about balancing family loyalty with forging one’s own path in life. This genre-bending new memoir includes 70 pencil drawings by artist Anna Hall. Copies of Escape Velocity will be available for sale and signing.

Kate Fussner Book Signing at Rozzie Bound Co-op
2026-06-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Rozzie Bound Co-op, 739 South Street, Roslindale, Massachusetts, 02131-2561, United States
Roslindale author Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021) will sign her books, 13 Ways to Say Goodbye and The Song of Us, at Rozzie Bound Co-op. Kate is a novelist, educator, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. She holds her B.A. in English from Vassar College, her M.Ed. from UMass Boston/Boston Teacher Residency, and her M.F.A. in Writing for Young People from Lesley University. Her debut novel, The Song of Us, was named a Notable Verse Novel 2024 by NCTE, long-listed for the MA Book Awards for YA/MG, and named a Best Children’s Book of the Year with outstanding merit by Bank Street College of Education. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both.

This event is part of RVMS’s Pride festivities.

Rozzie Bound Pride Deals:

Customers spend $30 and get a free Blind Date with a Book while supplies last.

Customers can get a free bookish pride sticker while supplies last.

Book Launch with Nathan Tavares
2026-06-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
Join Nathan Tavares (Fiction, June 2011) in conversation with Sara Farizan (WFYP, January 2012 & Mentor), to celebrate the release of his book The Disco at the End of the World. Preorder your book today to have it signed!

Nathan Tavares with Sara Farizan: The Disco at the End of the World
2026-06-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
Visit Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of The Disco at the End of the World with author Nathan Tavares (Fiction, June 2011), in conversation with Sara Farizan (WFYP, January 2012 & Mentor).

You can pre-order your copy of The Disco at the End of the World through the bookstore’s website. Books will also be available for purchase at the event. Books can be picked up 30 minutes before the event in the event space.

Grub Street Writers' Open Mic - Featuring L Scully and Kara Urion
2026-07-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Grub Street Center for Creative Writing, 50 Liberty Drive, Suite 500, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
Writers’ Open Mic is a monthly open mic event featuring all literary genres. Prose, poetry, flash fiction, pages from your graphic novel, a haiku about Market Basket; whatever you’re working on, come and dazzle a live audience in a low-key, supportive atmosphere.

Connect with a literary community, have a drink or two, hear inspiring features from established and emerging writers, and be the first to know what’s new and next in Boston’s lit scene.

Doors open at 6:30 to sign up for one of the coveted slots to read. Readings start at 7pm, with features at 8pm.

Writers’ Open Mic is free to attend, 18+, and registration is requested. Alcohol will be for sale for 21+ attendees.

Featured readers:

L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) is a living writer. They are the author of the recently released poetry collection SELF-ROMANCING from DOPAMINE Books and Semiotext(e). L is the cofounder of Stone of Madness Press, a literary magazine publishing queer, trans, and neurodiverse experiences, and the founder of [Working Title}, a New England-based queer literary event series supporting emerging writers. In 2024, L was an awardee of the Independent Press Award’s “40 Under 40 in Publishing,” and they recently received a 2026 Grant for Creative Individuals from Massachusetts Cultural Council. They swim outside all year, even in the winter.

Kara Urion is a writer currently based in Dorchester who has spent much of her life between Oakland, CA and an island off the coast of Maine. She has been an educator at Rikers Island, San Quentin State Prison and San Francisco Art Institute, and has worked in restaurants, the fishing industry, and as an interpreter. She was a 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow at GrubStreet, Fiction Editor at REVOLUTE magazine, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Prose at Randolph College. Her work explores mental illness, memory, addiction, and climate witness. You can find her in the water.

The Tiny Shed Arts & Discovery Series with Steven Cramer
2026-07-05 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Arlington Visitor Center, 4 Mystic St, Arlington, Massachusetts, 02474, United States
The Tiny Shed Discovery & Arts series continues with a novel, genre-blending match-up, as internationally touring guitarist and composer Nathaniel Braddock joins up in a collaboration with poet Steven Cramer (Poetry, Mentor).

Braddock performs solo fingerstyle guitar concerts drawing on his repertoire of African roots and American fingerstyle guitar music. He teaches privately, and has been on faculty at the Passim School of Music, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, and Chair of the Chicago Waldorf School’s guitar program.

Cramer is the author of seven poetry collections, has earned honors from Massachusetts Cultural Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Lesley University, where he founded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

The Tiny Shed Arts & Discovery Series is a collaboration of ArtsArlington and Arlington Tourism and Economic Development Committee, with support from Mirak Properties, the Mass Cultural Council, and Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area.

Events take place at The Arlington Visitor Center, located next to Uncle Sam Plaza in Arlington Center, by the Minute Bikeway at the intersection of Mass Ave and Mystic Street.

Book Launch: Blue Life by Mundy McLaughlin
2026-07-08 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Ben McNally Books, 108 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1S6, Canada
Visit Ben McNally Books in Toronto for a book launch event with Mundy McLaughlin (Fiction, January 2019) for her debut novel, Blue Life (Civil Sector Press). Mundy will be joined in conversation with writer Lilita Tannis with a signing to follow.

Set in late 1970s New York City, Blue Life follows the intertwined paths of Luna, an art student and Didi, an aspiring actress, who meet as performers in the legendary “Go-Go” dancing scene across the water in New Jersey.

Bonding on their shared experiences, Luna and Didi form an instant connection, but while Luna’s path ascends through her work as a burgeoning artist in New York City’s famed East Village, Didi’s life spirals downwards. Their divergent, but connected paths test both their friendship and their loyalty.

A Staged Reading of Gas Light Therapy by Patricia Lynn
2026-07-10 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, New York, New York, 10007, United States
Dr. Greg Stein is pumped. He’s ready. He is so ready to introduce his newest invention, THE VICTOR—a revolutionary device that can permanently erase a woman’s most traumatic memory. And after he conducts a clinical trial super quick? He can take his pretty baby into mass production. But after he tricks a seemingly naive woman into being his test subject, Greg is anything but pumped. Because the woman he picked? She is not naive. In fact, both she and THE VICTOR are far more powerful than they seem…

Very loosely inspired by Frankenstein, Gas Light Therapy is a twisted but witty exploration of mental health, identity, and the importance of recognizing that good intentions should never excuse dangerous actions.

Written by Patricia Lynn (WSS, June 2023)Directed by Jenn Susi

Rehearsal Stage Manager Heather Olmstead*

CAST

Alexander Settineri* as GREGMark Weatherup Jr.* as ALEXRita McCann as PATIENCEPatricia Lynn* as THE VICTOR

* Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of a contract in this Off-Off-Broadway production.

Alameda Book Con 2026 - featuring Abbie Harlow
2026-07-11 10:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alameda Main Library, 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, California, 94501, United States
Visit the Alameda Free Library for the 2026 Alameda Book Con, featuring a number of authors, including Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019), who will be talking about her book, The Butterfly’s Sting. All events are free and open to the public.

What The Universe Is: Jen Sperry Steinorth and Michael Mercurio
2026-07-14 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Jennifer Sperry Steinorth and Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) for the virtual poetry series What The Universe Is.

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (TRP, 2026), A Wake with Nine Shades (TRP, 2019), and Her Read, A Graphic Poem (TRP, 2021), recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Fred Whitehead Award and a Foreword Reviews Prize in Poetry. An interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she lectures at the University of Michigan and has received residencies and fellowships from Yale, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and elsewhere. She spins the O is for Octopus substack & is the biographer of CD Wright.

A poet, editor, and occasional critic, Michael Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, interviews, and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Thrush, The Common, Cream City Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Sugar House Review, Lily Poetry Review, and elsewhere. In the summer of 2025, Michael participated in the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop.

Michael is the founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, where established and emerging poets read together monthly on Zoom. In addition, he posts regular dispatches on his Substack, A Slight Case of Overthinking, including close readings of notable poems and musings on life as an aging Gen Xer.

No Ordinary Women: Book talk and signing with P O'Connell Pearson
2026-07-19 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Scrawl Books, 11911 Freedom Dr, Reston, Virginia, 20190, United States
Acclaimed author P. O’Connell Pearson (WFYP, June 2015) tells the inspiring story of the trailblazing women of the Progressive movement and their work that led to political, economic, and social change that impacts us to this very day in her new book for middle grade readers, No Ordinary Women: How Progressive Era Reformers Reshaped America. Visit Scrawl Books for a talk and signing to learn more about historical research and American history in the early 1900s.

E.M. Elliott and David Elliott with Mary Burchenal: Bonebag
2026-07-19 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
Visit Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of Bonebag with authors E.M. Elliott and David Elliott (WFYP, Mentor), in conversation with Mary Burchenal.

In this riveting middle-grade fantasy, New York Times bestselling author David Elliott and E.M. Elliott tell the story of a forest-dwelling boy forced to confront the mysteries of his life.

Trapped in a dark forest with his cold-hearted parents, Bonebag leads a cruel and isolated existence. However, he feels deep in his bones that things weren’t always this way: he has known happiness before. Why does it feel like it was in a past life?

When Bonebag discovers a locket that burns him to the touch, and a ghostly girl beckons him into the deep woods, he must grapple with the riddle of where he came from and how he came to be. Only then can he begin to rewrite his fate.

From New York Times bestselling author David Elliott and his son, E.M. Elliott, this powerful middle-grade fantasy will take readers on a quest that tackles the mystery of belonging with high-octane twists and turns along the way.

RSVP may be required for entrance to the event

Deborah Sosin in "Mortified" live
2026-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | WBUR City Space, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215
Join WBUR and Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction, January 2015) reading from her childhood diaries on “Moritified”– a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts as shared by their original authors in front of total strangers.

Self-Portrait in an Ekphrastic Mirror with Michael Mercurio (Workshop)
2026-07-25 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online Event
As a visual artist, writing about your own work – whether it’s an artist statement, exhibition placards, or grant proposals – can be a challenge. Ekphrastic poetry (a.k.a. poetry inspired by visual art) can help you think differently about the process. This 3-hour virtual workshop will include time reading and analyzing ekphrastic poems together, followed by a 45min period for drafting ekphrastic writing (it need not be poetry!) in response to a piece of art selected by the student and 45 minutes of sharing and discussion.

About the instructor: A graduate of the Lesley University MFA program in creative writing, Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) lives and writes in Western Massachusetts. His poems, critical essays, and interviews have been published in Palette Poetry, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), the Common, Thrush Poetry Journal, Bear Review, Sugar House Review, Lily Poetry Review, The Inflectionist Review, Rust + Moth, Coal Hill Review, and elsewhere. He has taught this workshop for the low-res MFA programs in visual arts at Lesley University and Clark University, and he is a regular instructor for Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop.

Author Talk - P. O'Connell Pearson
2026-08-02 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | City of Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North St, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, United States
Local author and historian P. (Patty) O’Connell Pearson (WFYP, June 2015) will be visiting the City of Fairfax Regional Library to talk about her newest book, No Ordinary Women: How Progressive Era Reformers Reshaped America. This book, recommended for ages 10 and up, details a period of time defined by rampant inequality. Through grassroots movements, people remade American society and government from the ground up. These activists were the Progressives, and thousands of them were women—even though women did not yet have the right to vote.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and author signature.

Writing About Illness with Grace & Humor with Sharisse Zeroonian
2026-08-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Wickford Art Association, 36 Beach St, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, 02852, United States
Instructor: Sharisse Zeroonian (WSS, January 2024)

Health and illness; it’s an inescapable part of life. But sometimes, it can be hard to write about. How do we do so in an emotionally balanced, powerful, and sensitive way? Come join this fun, interactive workshop to learn how!

Students will:

Use craft elements to fully capture the medical experience through in-class writing exercises

Examine examples of art and stories with a health focus

Learn how to temper the gravity of such subjects with humor and sensitivity

A Staged Reading of Eyes Shut. Door Open. by Cassie Seinuk
2026-08-21 21:30 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | The Tank, 312 W 36th St, New York, New York, 10018, United States
Gods and monsters don’t need an invitation. Neither do brothers. Eyes Shut. Door Open. is a psychological horror play dressed in the glamour of the New York art scene. TURNER STREET has everything — the paintings, the opening, the girl. What he doesn’t have is an exit from his past. Not with Palmer at the door. Not with Johanna’s real agenda sharpening in the dark. And not with the shadow that’s been waiting at the edge of every good thing Turner has ever had. One apartment. One night. One living nightmare. Can you own what you built from someone else’s suffering?

Cassie M. Seinuk (WSS, June 2013 & Mentor) – PlaywrightChristopher Randolph – DirectorMichael Underhill – TURNEREmma Svitil – JOHANNAGilberto Saenz – PALMERJaine Ye – Stage Direction ReaderPatrick R. Greene – Original sound design and composerCMS Productions – Producers
