SEPTEMBER 2

Decatur Book Fest
"Longings, Passions and Heartaches," a panel with Leesa Cross-Smith and Jamie Quatro, (12-12:45, History DeKalb County Courthouse)

SEPTEMBER 18

Main Street Books | Davidson, NC
Author Luncheon
Davidson Icehouse, 12 pm

SEPTEMBER 20

Park Road Books | Charlotte, NC
Reading and Signing, 7PM

SEPTEMBER 25

Quail Ridge Books | Raleigh, NC
in conversation with Elaine Neill Orr, 7PM

SEPTEMBER 26

Flyleaf Books | Chapel Hill, NC, 7PM

SEPTEMBER 29

Scuppernong Books | Greensboro, NC
in conversation with Jonathan Ward, 7PM

OCTOBER 4

Malaprop's Bookstore | Asheville, NC, 6PM

OCTOBER 12

Southern Festival of the Book | Nashville, TN
NPL Auditorium Instructions for Not Giving Up: Novels of Survival
with Silas House and Hannah Pittard
2:00-3:00 pm

OCTOBER 15

9TH ANNUAL BIBLIOFEAST BOOK & AUTHOR DINNER
6:00-9:00 PM
Maggiano’s Little Italy, SouthPark Mall, Charlotte, NC

Purchase tickets here.

OCTOBER 24

Hub City Press Book n' Brew Celebration
RJ Rockers Brewery, Spartanburg, SC

Purchase tickets here.

OCTOBER 25

M Judson Bookstore | Greenville, SC

NOVEMBER 7

Reading and conversation with Kevin McIlvoy | Charlotte Center for Literary Arts, 7-8:30

Beyond Our Beginnings: A Conversation on Place, Writing, and Community, With Bryn Chancellor, Patrice Gopo and Eric Smith.
10 am – 12 noon, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, main branch

NOVEMBER 17

Embodied Writing: Breaking New Ground through Movement
with Felkenkrais practitioner Brenda Sorkin,
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts   

DECEMBER 5

DECEMBER 12

Reading Between the Wines book club, 6:30, Charlotte

JANUARY 21

Foxcroft Book Club

11:30 a.m. Charlotte, NC

JANUARY 29

Avondale Book Club, 7:30 pm.

Avondale Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC

FEBRUARY 14

In conversation at “Write Like You Mean It” gathering, 10:30 a.m.

Main Branch, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library

FEBRUARY 20

Novel Women Book Club, 10:30 a.m.

Charlotte, NCFEB 23

Conversation with Elaine Neill Orr at the North Carolina Book Festival

12:00 pm, CAM Raleigh, 409 W. Martin Street

MARCH 22 

"Intertwined Lives," with Randall Klein and Inman Majors at the Virginia Festival of the Book

2:00 pm, Barnes & Noble, Barracks Road Shopping Center, Charlottesville, VA

AWP Writers Conference, Portland, OR
Reimagining Tragedy: What Happened Here?
With Nan Cuba, Adrianne Harun, Claudia Salazar and Sunil Yapa

MARCH 30

Annapolis Book Festival

APRIL 6

Fountain Books, Richmond, VA, 6:30 p.m.

APRIL 9 

Reading and Conversation,
Cannon Memorial Library, 6 p.m.,
Concord, NC

APRIL 16 

Why There Are Words reading, 7 - 9 p.m.
Asheville, NC

APRIL 18

APRIL 23

Windsor Run Speaker Series
3:00 pm, 2010 McKee Rd, Matthews, NC

Read Like a Writer: The Craft of Close Attention
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Charlotte Center for Literary Arts 

APRIL 25

Lunch with an Author and workshop: "The Art of Dialogue"
N.C. Writers’ Network Spring Conference

APRIL 27

MAY 10

Conversation with Emily Pease, 7 pm
Park Road Books, Charlotte

Book Talk, 6:30 pm League of Women Voters Education Center,
1817 Central Avenue, Charlotte

MAY 21

JUNE 1

St. Mary’s College Bookstore, 2 p.m.
Notre Dame, IN

JUNE 25

Conversation with Jessica Handler,
7 pm Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

JULY 26

Bookies Book Club
10:30 a.m., Charlotte, NC

AUGUST 17

In conversation with Jonathan Ward,
11AM Matthews Public Library, Matthews, NC

SEPT 18 

Why There Are Words reading
7 p.m. Malvern Books, Austin, TX

SEPT 19

Conversation with Nan Cuba,
5 p.m. Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, TX

Park Road Books, Friends of Queens Library Author Series
7 p.m., Charlotte, NC