Tune in to The Lit Show: Chapter 3! On Friday, November 6, ArtBar and GLIBA are co-hosting a literary themed art show with live author and artist presentations. ArtBar artists have been paired with authors to create unique pieces of art based on the author’s work. Artists will present their pieces live. The live event will be streamed on Facebook at 7PM CDT.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders, and novelist Andrew Krivak, author of The Bear, will discuss their work and our relationship to the natural world. This is an Indie Playlist event, created to support your local independent bookstore! Register here.
Join SOMOS for a reading and conversation with Makenna Goodman, moderated by Danielle Freeman. This event is part of SOMOS’s annual Prose Month celebration in November. Details here.
Throughout the month of October, Mississippi Today will be hosting some of Mississippi’s most celebrated authors in conversation with Mississippi Today editors and journalists. On October 27th, author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be in conversation with Brittany Brown, the inaugural Mississippi Today Emerging Reporters Fellow. Register here!
SubText Books is pleased to present a virtual event with William Souder to celebrate the release of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck on Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 PM. Souder will be in conversation with Daniel Slager, Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here.
Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Join Ninth Letter editor Jodee Stanley, alumna Jessica Tanck, and poet Kathy Fagan for an immersive virtual event featuring a poetry reading and a discussion. Register here.
We are thrilled to announce that Michael Kleber-Diggs is the winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His manuscript Worldly Things was selected by judge Henri Cole and will be published in June 2021. In addition to publication, Kleber-Diggs will receive $10,000.
Michael Kleber-Diggs was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Kleber-Diggs teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop. Worldly Things…
Michael Kleber-Diggs’s debut collection of poems, Worldly Things, won the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Michael teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, will present at Western Landowners Alliance’s “Beyond Fencelines: Women in Ranching Confluence 2020.” Register for the virtual gathering here.
Point Reyes Books hosts Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Elena Passarello in conversation about Aimee’s new book, World of Wonders. This event will be streamed on Crowdcast. Register here.
