Looking forward to visiting Grand Rapids Public Library to share work and words!
LOCATION: St. Cecilia Music Center, 24 Ransom Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI DATE: Saturday, July 12, 2025
7:00-9:30 PM Moderated Conversation, Book Signing
TOPIC: Writing about Michigan and the Midwest.
Looking forward to meeting students and visiting with faculty and students at BGSU
Looking forward to conversing with author Anne-Marie Oomen at this Michigan Notable Books event.
Glen Lake Library Info: Website here Saturday, May 24 at 3pm!
10115 W Front St, Empire, MI 49630
Phone: (231) 326-5361
Books will be for sale at the Library through Cottage Book Shop
Boyne District Library, 201 E Main St, Boyne City, MI 49712, 231-582-7861
Library info
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
989.419.4236
Looking forward to this Michigan Notable Books Event.
Book sales by?
Library info: Oscoda County District Library Website here Facebook page
430 W. Eighth St.
Mio, MI 48647
989-826-3613
Looking forward to this Michigan Notable Books event
Harrison District Library Website
Thursday, May 22· 1:00 – 2:00pm
(Luncheon at 12:30 is full)
Book sales by Sleepy Dog Books
info from site
MICHIGAN NOTABLE AUTHOR TOUR: BONNIE JO CAMPBELL
Discussion starts at 1:00 pm, FREE EVENT
Event Info:
Bonnie Jo Campbell’s bestselling novel The Waters (1/9/24) was a Today Show “Read with Jenna” Book Club selection.
Her other novels include Once Upon A River, a National Bestseller that was adapted into an award winning film, and Q Road.
Campbell’s short story collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Women and Other Animals, an AWP Grace Paley Prize winner.
Address: 125 W. Beech St, PO BOX 380, Harrison, MI 48625
Phone: 989.539.6711
BJC will appear (remotely) on Good Day Northern Michigan to discuss her up north Michigan tour in celebration of her book being awarded the Michigan Notable Books honor in 2025.
Looking forward to visiting Southwest Michigan’s latest hometown Book shop!
33 Battle Creek Street, Galesburg, Michigan 49053
Here is a link to the FB event.
Kalamazoo Writers Dis-Organization
Where Southwest Michigan Writers come together – everyone welcome!
Tuesday May 6, 4-6pm
Kalamazoo Public Library Downtown – VanDeusen Room
Jay Whistler
Fiction Writer & Editor
On Voice, Tone & Mood in Writing
So often, agents, editors, and readers provide vague feedback along the lines of “the voice on this piece doesn’t feel genuine,” or “this doesn’t strike the right tone,” without any specifics to back up their statements. In this craft-based session, Jay helps define these ambiguous concepts using concrete examples. She will allow time for exercises to help writers revise their work in a deeper way.
Author photo by Anita Pazner
As always, we invite local writers to meet up, share news, stories, information, and struggles. Let’s dream together—we need each other more than ever in 2025! Bring snacks for yourself or to share if you like. Contact us at KalamazooWriters@gmail.com
Join us to celebrate Michigan writing and Michigan authors.
For more information or to purchase tickets, check out this link.
Elizabeth Kerlikowske will be talking to us about how to teach writing to kids!
Kalamazoo Writers Dis-Organization meeting
Where Southwest Michigan Writers come together – everyone welcome!
Tuesday March 4, 4-6pm
Kalamazoo Public Library Downtown – VanDeusen Room
Helping Kids Write
Elizabeth Kerlikowske is a poet, retired professor, and 30-year veteran of Poet In The Schools. She will discuss strategies for teaching creative writing in the classroom. There will be hand-outs, take-aways and free copies of Poems That Ate Our Ears. Grown-up kids will benefit as well!
And as always, we invite local writers to meet up, share news, stories, information and struggles. Let’s dream together—we need each other more than ever in 2025! Bring snacks for yourself or to share if you like. Contact us at KalamazooWriters@gmail.com
Event with Milkweed Editions, in conversation with Lisa Durose
December 3, 6pm, in the Open Book Literary Center,
1011 South Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
"November 23, 2024 1:00pm".
Cary Barbor, culture reporter and host of Gulf Coast Life Book Club
for public radio station WGCU on the West Coast of Florida
will moderate the panel, The Mystery & Magic of Women
with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Tessa Fontaine, Sally Wen Mao,
and Tea Obrecht at Miami Book Fair 2024.
Bonnie Jo will be in conversation with Cait West, author of the memoir Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy. We will be discussing The Waters.
November 14 at 6:00 pm at Books and Mortar Bookstore, 966 Cherry St SE, Grand Rapids.
Visiting Professor Lisa Durose’s literature class.
We’ll talk about Heidi Bell’s book, Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse and BJC’s book The Waters and also writing in general!
“Literature Lovers’ Night Out” event on Sunday, November 10th at 2:00p.m in Stillwater, MN
“Literature Lovers Night Out,” a monthly literary event founded by Pamela Klinger, Valley Bookseller. The event will be held at the Lowell Inn, 102 2nd Street N, Stillwater MN. Bonnie and three other authors will each speak for 15 minutes: Elyssa Friedland, Jackpot Summer, Ann Hood, The Stolen Child, and Emily Franklin, The Lioness of Boston. Tickets are $15.00.
For more information click here.
Paperback release event: BJC in conversation about The Waters with Dawn Burns, author of Evangelina Everyday.
Celebrate the release of Heidi Bell’s first collection of stories from Cornerstone Press. Information here.
For more information about this fabulous event, click here!
Looking forward to talking with Heidi Bell, my line editor on The Waters and the author of Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse, new from Cornerstone Press.
Looking forward to a conversation between Bonnie Jo Campbell and Christina Clancy, author of Shoulder Season and Second Home.
Nashville, TN. On Friday evening, October 25, Bonnie Jo will join “Authors in the Round” dinner held at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
10:30-11:30 AM Saturday, 26th Oct. 45- to 50-Minute Moderated Discussion with Rachel Khong, followed by 10- to 15-Minute Q&A.
Book sales by Parnassus Books.
A program of HUMANITIES TENNESSEE
More info here!
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