El Paso, TX —
In person: Priyanka Kumar appearing at Outdoor Writers Association of America
Join Priyanka Kumar for her keynote address at the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2024 Conference.
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Virtual: Claire Wahmanholm and Ed Pavlic appearing at the Annual Gathering of Poets with Jacar Press
Instructors will be Michelle Bitting, Danusha Lameris, Mary O’Donnell, Ed Pavlic, and Claire Wahmanholm
Email jacarpress@gmail.com to inquire if there is a spot open.
Houston, TX —
In person: Weijia Pan at Basket Books, featuring Kevin Prufer and Adele Williams
Celebrate the launch of Motherlands by Weijia Pan at Basket Books & Art, featuring reading by the author followed by conversation with Kevin Prufer and Adele Williams. This event is cosponsored by Inprint Houston.
Brooklyn, NY —
In person: Weijia Pan at Unnameable Books, featuring Lucie Xinyue Huang
Celebrate the launch of Motherlands by Weijia Pan at Unnameable Books, featuring reading and conversation by the author and Lucie Xinyue Huang.
New York, NY —
In person: Weijia Pan at Poets House, featuring Chen Chen
Celebrate the launch of Motherlands by Weijia Pan at Poets House, featuring reading and conversation by the author and Chen Chen.
Authors / Interviews
Four questions with Daywork author Jessica Fisher
How do artists work within constrictions of time? How can our existence be traced through art? How does writing ekphrastic poetry compare with linguistic translation? How is historical time considered with care in stretching both towards the past and into the future? These are some of the questions poet Jessica Fisher unpacks with her work in Daywork and in our Q&A below!
Milkweed Staff: Daywork takes its title from the giornata—the term in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day. When did you first discover this concept? And what…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Milkweed Books Presents Joselyn Takacs with Lauren Langston Klein
Join Milkweed Books and Milkweed Managing Editor Lauren Langston Klein as we welcome author JOSELYN TAKACS in launching her debut novel, Pearce Oysters, out now with Zibby Media. The program will include a reading from the author, followed by an editorial conversation with Lauren Langston Klein. They will discuss novel-writing as a craft, the editorial process, publishing how-tos, and moderate a lively Q + A.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A divided family. A devastated community. And the disaster that brings them all together.
Pearce Oysters, a family drama set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Moon Palace Books
Join Heidi Barr (Minnesota author of Collisions of Earth and Sky & 12 Tiny Things), Chris La Tray (Montana’s Poet Laureate and author of Becoming Little Shell), and Krissy Kludt (Wisconsin-based director of Writing the Wild) on Monday, October 21st at 6:30pm as they discuss Stories from the Trail, a new anthology about moving through wild spaces and share more stories and readings from recent work.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
Olympia, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Browsers Bookshop
Join author Chris La Tray for a reading and discussion about his memoir Becoming Little Shell.
Bellingham, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Village Books
Join Village Books in welcoming Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray as he shares his memoir, Becoming Little Shell.