Switchyard Festival Tulsa, OK May 30th, 5pm @ Promenade Ballroom Included in the Ideas Track & Full Festival Pass Rebecca Makkai, “Researching into the Voice: The Great Believers and Approaching History as an Outsider”  Sponsored by TU’s Department of English and Creative Writing 6 days of music, literature and ideas Switchyard is a national festival of art and intellect featuring 40 keynote speakers and local and national performance artists – based in the heart of Downtown Tulsa. Switchyard will invite…

Your opening is the first thing an agent or editor will read—and you don’t want it to be the last. But you’ve seen your own first page so often that its strengths, flaws, gaps, and even typos are invisible to you now. So often, all we can think to do to polish it up is add more descriptors—perhaps the last thing it needs. In this class we’ll hone the crucial elements of reader orientation, clarity, intrigue, promise, diction, and perspective—the…

Phoenix Books is thrilled to present an evening with Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist Rebecca Makkai, who will discuss her recently-released, riveting new novel I Have Some Questions for You.  Rebecca will be joined in conversation by novelist and poet Maria Hummel at Phoenix Books in downtown Burlington. DATE: Wednesday July 12th, 7:00pm LOCATION: Phoenix Books Burlington, 191 Bank Street, downtown Burlington TICKETS: $3. Your ticket comes with a coupon for $3 off any of the author's books. Coupons expire at closing the evening of the event. Tickets can…

Northshire Manchester is delighted to welcome you back to this in person event at their Manchester, VT store! Rebecca Makkai,  will join Northshire Manchester to discuss her riveting bestselling new novel, a Northshire Staff Pick several times over and "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" - San Francisco Chronicle. She will talk about the book with fellow novelist Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of How Strange a Season.

Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival is delighted to return to Chilmark this summer on August 4-6, 2023 Join us on the grounds of the Chilmark Community Center with a line up of some of the country’s leading authors. Free and fantastic!

2023 National Book Festival Join us in the nation’s capital at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). If you can't join us in Washington, D.C. for a day of free talks and activities, several programs will be livestreamed, and video of all talks can be viewed online after the Festival concludes. Festival Information The 23rd annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held…

Saturday, August 19, 2023 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Mississippi State Capitol Building & grounds  400 High St, Jackson, MS 39201 Free & open to the public   Each August, the Mississippi Book Festival unites readers and authors in an exhilarating celebration of books.