Kate Fussner at Children’s Book World for The Song of Us

Children's Book World 17 Haverford Station Rd, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States

Join Children's Book World in Haverford, PA for a reading with Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021) from her debut novel, The Song of Us. Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found spending time with […]

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Virtual Book Banter with Karin Cecile Davidson

Online Event

Book Banter is a free, fun, interactive event that streams live. Join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube! In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods […]

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Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series — E.B. Bartels (Nonfiction), Janet Hurley (Nonfiction), and Kate Kearns (Poetry)

University Hall Amphitheater 99 Brattle St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

The evening's reading will include E.B. Bartels, Visiting Writer, nonfiction, plus: Janet Hurley, Alum, nonfiction (June 2008), and Kate Kearns, Alum, poetry (June 2008), presented by Cambridge Common Writers. There will be a reception following the reading.

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[Working Title] reading hosted by L Scully

Faro Café 5 Arrow St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) hosted a curated evening of readings by queer Boston writers. There will be a few open mic slots at the end of the curated reading.

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Kate Kearns discusses YOU ARE RUINING MY LONELINESS

Print: A Bookstore 273 Congress St, Portland, Maine, United States

“You Are Ruining My Loneliness is a beautiful lyrical collection that moves with agile intelligence through poems that stand out for their imagery, apt figurative language, and varied poetic forms. In the poem “Night Walk,” where “rain puddles full as plums…each lit / with its own moon,” the speaker wonders,“I’m alone out here, or /seem to […]

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Pollinator Garden Storywalk with Sara Levine’s “Flower Talk”

Pratt House Museum 19 West Ave, Essex, Connecticut, United States

Walk around the Pratt House Pollinator Garden and listen to Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006)'s Flower Talk to learn about flowers and pollinators. Parking available at Essex Library and Town Hall.

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The Golden Land Book Signing with Elizabeth Shick

Edgartown Books 44 Main Street, Edgartown, Massachusetts, United States

Join Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019) at Edgartown Books in Edgartown, MA for a signing of her debut novel The Golden Land.

Reading – (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius

Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading/workshop of a new play in development, (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius (WSS, June 2015), at the Boston Center for the Arts. (UN)HOUSED tells the story of a single mother, Elianie, and her recent college graduate daughter, Skylar, who has moved back home. As Skylar tries to navigate the […]

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The Art, Power and ABC’s of Talking With Young Children to Build Skills and Connection with Rebecca Rolland, EdD

Online Zoom Event

Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted, exhausted, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations. Harvard lecturer, speech pathologist, and mother, Rebecca Rolland (Fiction, June 2017) offers an essential, evidence-based […]

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What the Universe Is: Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock

Online Zoom Event

Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us - both built and natural - and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By […]

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Meet the Author – Pamela Petro at Books on the Square

Books on the Square 471 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Join Books on the Square on Thursday, August 24th at 6:00 p.m. for a reading and discussion with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty), author of The Long Field. Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as […]

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