Texas Book Festival First Edition Literary Gala
Fairmont Hotel Austin 101 Red River Street, Austin, United StatesThe Texas Book Festival is excited to announce the 2023 First Edition Literary Gala headliners, award-winning authors Ann Patchett, Roger Reeves, and Abraham Verghese. The Texas Book Festival is a non-profit organization, with the mission to connect authors & readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. Gala proceeds make it […]
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, United StatesTen Evenings presents celebrated authors generously sharing their research and creative process in conversational lectures. Online and in-person.
Book the Writer: Pop-Up Book Group
Hybrid event (private home in Manhattan, NY and on Zoom). In-person tickets to this event are sold out. You may join the waitlist for in-person tickets or purchase tickets for the simultaneous Zoom at the link below.
Palm Springs Readers’ Festival 2024
Hotel Zoso 150 S Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CAThe Palm Springs Readers' Festival February 2 - 4 @ Hotel Zoso Presented by The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs
Authors on Tap: Marie-Helene Bertino and Rebecca Makkai
Exile in Bookville 410 S. Michigan Avenue (2nd Floor), Chicago, IL, United StatesIn conversation celebrating Marie-Helene Bertino’s new novel Beautyland. In person event, registration is required.
AWP Conference: “East Coast, West Coast, Best Coast: Writing the Midwest”
Kansas City Convention Center 301 W 13th St #100, Kansas City, MO, United States“If you opened me up, you’d find Ohio,” writes Maggie Smith. Writers from all coasts wrestle with the question of how to write place, but it’s especially charged in the Midwest, where our forests and lakes, our asphalt and industry are so often called fly-over country. How can stories dig deeper into the truth of […]
Battle of the Genres (AWP offsite event)
Parlor KCMO 1707 Locust St, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPart cocktail party, part game-show-style fun, this event will be a chance for you to mingle with fellow writers and experience the Battle of the Genres. The below authors will compete for the title of the Ultimate Craft Champion, while you cheer them on with drinks, cheers, and good-natured heckling.With Melissa Febos, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Maurice […]
AWP Conference: “What Exactly Do You Do?: Jobs as Guides into Our Characters’ Worlds”
Kansas City Convention Center 301 W 13th St #100, Kansas City, MO, United StatesIn Other People's Trades, Primo Levi describes his "vagabond and dilettantish curiosity" about jobs other than his own. This panel features writers who have thought deeply about what their characters do for work—at times fulfilling, at times dangerous, occasionally invented, and usually calling for arcane knowledge, skills, and habits of mind. From sponge diver to […]
Paperback Book Tour: Women & Children First at the Swedish American Museum
Swedish American Museum 5211 N Clark St, Chicago, IL, United StatesWomen & Children First and StoryStudioChicago are thrilled to present Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Greta Johnsen to celebrate the paperback release of I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU!
Paperback Book Tour: Schuler Books
Schuler Books Gateway Center 7260 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield Township, MI, United StatesWe’re thrilled to welcome Rebecca Makkai to West Bloomfield to present the New York Times Bestseller I Have Some Questions for You - named a Best Book of 2023 by People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more - soon out in paperback! Tickets are required for this […]
