Meet the Authors

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Authors please send your  events, readings, and gigs information to Jackie Steelman at  XclusivlyU@aol.com

 
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CELEBRATION OF AUTHORS FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS
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Join an intimate group of exceptional writers on a life-changing residency in Greece. At Rosemary’s House, you” refine your work, hone your craft, and develop your voice in the company of 9 select writers and a distinguished mentor. Engaging with new genres and perspectives, you will be challenged to push the boundaries of your storytelling. Whether you are working on a novel, memoir, play, musical, collection of poems, screenplay, pilot, or other genre-bending pursuit, this is an opportunity to propel your progress alongside a group of exceptional peers. To check out this year’s lineup of retreats and mentors, head
 
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julia nunnally duncan event:
 

Saturday, March 23, noon-1 p.m. Mountain Gateway Museum, Old Fort, NC. Free to the public. Julia will be signing copies of her newest books, All We Have Loved (FLP) and When Time Was Suspended (Redhawk Publications).

https://www.mgmnc.org/news/events/meet-author-julia-nunnally-duncan

https://mcdowellnews.com/news/local/local-author-to-hold-book-signing-events-for-her-latest-work/article_f7df7376-dccb-11ee-ab5c-97d909c542f1.html

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Elizabeth Schmermund event:

I will be having a reading at Hofstra University for my chapbook Alexander the Great on March 27. Here’s the link for the announcement: https://www.hofstra.edu/gwgr/

Spring 2024
20th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series

The following events take place at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, first floor, Axinn Library, South Campus.

Free and open to the public. Call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 for more information.

 

We are pleased to welcome the community, including family members, local schoolchildren, alumni and friends, to athletic and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. Please register in advance at events.hofstra.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 4:30 P.M.

Elizabeth Schmermund

Schmermund is a poet, essayist, and professor. Her work has appeared in The IndependentMantis, and Gyroscope Review, among other venues. Her first poetry chapbook, Alexander the Great, is published by Finishing Line Press. She lives in New York with her family and is currently an assistant professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury.

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Susan Hunter’s events/readings:
 
Susan Hunter will host a launch party for her chapbook, “Unfinished Spaces” on Saturday, February 24 at 4 p.m. at the Stonebridge Club in Plymouth, MA. She’ll read a selection of her poems, and copies the book will be available for purchase.
Unfinished Spoaces includes poems about the rooms and houses left behind during a lifetime. Deep into a new phase of life,the poems reflect a unique space between a generation now gone and children growing up in a timeless universe.
Plymouth resident Julie Grooms created the book’s cover art. 
Light refreshments provided.
 
Susan will be one of two featured poets at a poetry reading sponsored by “Poetry the Art of Words,” based in Plymouth, MA. The event will take place on Sunday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, North Street, Plymouth. 
During an intermission, books will be available to purchase.
 
Susan will read selections from her poetry book at a “Local Poets Night” on Tuesday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Titcomb’s Bookshop, 432 Route 6A, East Sandwich, MA. Below is a link to the event and registration information.  https://www.titcombsbookshop.com/event/local-poetry-night-elaine-cohen-susan-hunter-catherine-marenghi-brett-warren 
 
Susan Hunter, author of “Unfinished Spaces,” will read selections from her book on Tuesday, April 16 at 6 p.m. at Book Love, 7 Village Green South, Pinehills, Plymouth, MA..
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Tricia Knoll Poetry Reading including Unknown Daughter:
I will be reading on April 3, 2024 as part of Poetry Month: 
 
Voices of Women Poets
April 3, 7pm at the Kellogg – Hubbard Library, 135 Main Streetin Montpelier, Vermont.
 
Cindy Ellen Hill is a writer, musician and obsessed gardener in Middlebury, Vermont. She has written extensively for Vermont Woman, Vermont Outdoors, VTDigger, and magazines, winning NENPA awards. She is the author of two sonnet chapbooks, Wild Earth (Antrim Press 2021) andElegy for the Trees(Kelsay Books 2022), and has had poems published in Vermont Magazine, Vermont Life, Measure, The Lyric, and on National Public Radio.
 
Tricia Knoll is the author of nine books of poetry.How I Learned To Be Whitereceived the 2018 Human Relations Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. She is a Contributing Editor to Verse Virtual. Her new chapbookThe Unknown Daughterreleases from Finishing Line Press on March 1st.Wild Apples, poems about downsizing and moving 3,003 miles from Oregon to Vermont comes out from Fernwood Press in February 2024.
 
Samantha Kolber is a poet, publisher, and mother in Montpelier, Vermont. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books 2020) and has had poems published in Rattle, Hunger Mountain, and other journals and anthologies. She is the owner and publisher of Rootstock Publishing, a small, curated hybrid & traditional press publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction books by authors from Vermont and beyond.
 
 
Tricia Knoll
 
The Unknown Daughter (a chapbook – part autobiographical, part fantasy fiction and part feminist history) is on a sale now from Finishing Line Press   for March delivery! Description and details also at my website.
 
And a sneak preview for the cover of my other new book, Wild Apples from Fernwood Press to be released in February, 2024. . 
Website: triciaknoll.com
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windflower events:
I have an interview coming up on Wednesday, January 31 on our local radio station. (Info below)  I will also be doing a reading at our local bookstore on Saturday, March 30thand will send promotional material once it is sent out by the bookstore.  Thank you.

Gallery Bookshop’s Poetry Showcase

Saturday March 30th 6pm

at Gallery Bookshop

THREE AMAZING POETS. ONE GREAT EVENING.

featuring:

Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios | Concerto for an Empty Frame: Music for Survival

Mike J. Edwards | Phaedra and To Drink From a Marble Fountain

windflower | Age Brings Them Back to Me

Each of our poets will give a 10-minute presentation,

followed by Q&A for the whole panel.

See you there!

Event date: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm
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DM Frech events:
 
Quiet Tree & Words From Walls  sites:
 
Below are 3 Author Days where I will sell my 2 FLP poetry chapbooks: Quiet Tree & Words From Walls. 
 
  • Sat Jan 20, 2024, 12pm – 4pm

Book Exchange

2720 N Mall Dr. #200, Lynnhaven, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
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  • Sat Feb 3, 2024, 12pm – 4pm

Book Exchange

116 E. Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, VA 23505
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  •  Sat April 11, 2024, from 12pm – 4pm
Turn The Page Bookstore
 
5707 Richmond Road, Suite 40
Williamsburg, VA 23188
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John J. Trause events:

 

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William H. McCann, Jr. readings schedule:
 
God Hires Gardeners is to be published by Finishing Line Press on/about October 20, 2023.
 
  • I will be on 101.1 FM WSGS, Hazard, KY Wednesday, 2/7/2024 from 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm to promote my Saturday Feb 17 book signing at Read Spotted Newt Bookstore, 221 Memorial Drive, Hazard, KY 41701
     
    On Friday Feb 16 from 6:00 – 7:15 I will be doing a book fair  and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners as part of the Spirits of Pikeville Past at the Appalachian Center for the Arts, 218 Second Street, Pikeville, KY 41501
     
    On Saturday Feb 17 from 12:15 to 1:45 PM I will be doing a book fair  and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners  in Hazard at the Read Spotted Newt Bookstore, 221 Memorial Drive, Hazard, KY 41701
     
    On Saturday Feb 17th from 6:00 to 7:15 will be doing a book fair and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners as part of the Spirits of Pikeville Past at the Appalachian Center for the Arts in Pikeville, KY 218 Second Street, Pikeville, KY 41501
     
    The world premiere of my commissioned play Fiddlesticks and Dynamite will be produced at the Appalachian Center for the Arts on Friday Feb 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm. Admission to that play–and the others to be produced on that same bill– is FREE. For more information about tickets visit https://theapparts.org/events to get free tickets. The following afternoon a public reading of a new play by me, Wait! This Can’t Last will be given from 4:00- 5:30 pm. No tickets or reservations required. That evening three more new plays in the Spirits of Pikeville Past will be performed–but NOT Fiddlesticks and Dynamite. The last event I will be involved in will be the Book Fair from 6:30 to 7:15 pm at which time I will be selling and autographing copies of God Hires Gardeners.
 
  • February 17, 2024 at Read Spotted Newt Bookstore in Hazard Kentucky from 12:15 to 1:45 pm.
  • I will be reading at Cafe Luigart on Sunday April 21, 2024
  • I will be signing copies of God Hires Gardeners at Transylvania University on Saturday April 27 from 1:30 to 2:30 at Transylvania.

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