2025
In Conversation with Scott Gould, McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, NC – Sunday, October 5, 2025. I’ll be in conversation with my writing buddy and fellow Warren Wilson College MFA alumni, Scott Gould, talking about his new Southern novel, Peace Like A River, about a modern family that can only come together after a family death. “Fathers and sons mend wounds, seek common ground” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2026
McIntyres Books Morning Book Club, Pittsboro, NC – January 21 at 10:15
The Wednesday Club, Danville, VA – February 4, 2026
High Point Literary League, High Point, NC – March 10-11, 2026
Past Events
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LITERARY FESTIVAL – September 7 – 9
Speaker, Workshop Leader – Burnsville, NC
ON THE SAME PAGE LITERARY FESTIVAL – September 14 – 15
Panel on Place, Fiction Workshop, and Reading – West Jefferson, NC
OLDE BEAU BOOK CLUB – September 21 – 22
Luncheon and Book Talk, Roaring Gap, NC
CASE WESTERN RESERVE – September 26
Rose Wolghemuth Weisman Women’s Voices Lecture with Jocelyn Johnston, Baker-Nord Humanities Center, Cleveland, Ohio
CASE WESTERN RESERVE – September 27
Writing Workshop and Luncheon, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 10:30 am
Corbinton Book Club, Thursday October 5
Hillsborough, NC
James Boyd Book Club, October 17, @2 pm
Weymouth Center for the Arts, Southern Pines, NC
Southern Festival of Books, in conversation with Jennie Fields, October 21, 6 pm
at Tennessee State Library 2, Nashville, TN
FireClay Cellars Reading and Wine in Chatham County NC. With National Hollerin Champion Tony Peacock. October 26, 6 pm. Siler City, NC
MCINTYRES BOOKS, a Conversation with Susan Zurenda about her new novel The Rose Motel
October 28, 2 pm
PRIVATE BOOK PARTY with MARJORIE HUDSON, October 29, Charlottesville, VA
UPCOUNTRY LITERARY FESTIVAL – WITH VAL NIEMAN, Saturday November 4, 11 am
Union, SC
MEREDITH COLLEGE AUTHOR TALK AND CLASSROOM VISIT, Tuesday November 7
Raleigh, NC
CHARLOTTE LIT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION WITH KATHRYN SCHWILLE – RESEARCHING HISTORY FOR FICTION, Wednesday November 8, 6 pm, Charlotte, NC
BURLINGTON WRITERS CLUB FICTION WORKSHOP – WITH MARJORIE HUDSON “The Extraordinary Power of Reversal” Saturday November 11, 10 am, Mebane Arts Center Civic Room, Mebane, NC.
STORIES AND BLUEGRASS – A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF INDIGO FIELD – BURLINGTON WRITERS CLUB FUNDRAISER – CALL FOR TICKETS, Sunday November 12, 5 – 7 pm, HAW RIVER BALLROOM, CUP 22, SAXAPAHAW, NC.