Virginia Festival of the Book
Irresistable Oddballs: New Voices in Fiction
With Julia Claiborne Johnson (Be Frank With Me) and Rebecca Kauffman (Another Place You’ve Never Been)
Barnes & Noble
1035 Emmet Street North, Barracks Road Shopping Center, Charlottesville, VA 22903
EWU Visiting Writer Series
Auntie’s Bookstore
402 W Main Ave
Spokane, WA 99201 United
https://getlitfestival.org/event/ewu-visiting-writer-series-presents-liz-kay/
Randolph College Visiting Writer Series
Visiting Writers Series: Liz Kay & Teri Youmans Grimm
Alice Ashley Jack Room, Smith Memorial Building
USD Visiting Writers Reading Series
Join the USD Visiting Writers Reading Series for an afternoon with novelist and poet Liz Kay, Friday, February 24, at the University of South Dakota. There will be a craft talk at 2:00 p.m. in Muenster University Center, Ballroom A, and a reading and book signing at 4:00 p.m. in Old Main Farber Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
USD Vermillion
East City Bookshop
With Amy Hassinger and Seema Reza
645 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 100
Washington DC 20003
MCC Writing Center Reading Series
Metropolitan Community College - South Omaha Campus
2909 Edward Babe Gomez Ave, Omaha, Nebraska 68107
Celebration of Local Authors: Seward, NE
Seward Memorial Library
233 S 5th St.
Hosted by Seward's Indie Bookstore, Chapter Books & Gifts, the afternoon will be a celebration of Nebraska authors and feature a panel moderated by Alex Kava, an author reception, and signings.
INTRODUCING Reading Series
Curated by Emily Borgmann, the INTRODUCING Series features established area writers alongside emerging voices from the Youth Emergency Services (YES) community writing program. Tonight's other featured writer will be Lisa Knopp, author of, most recently, Bread: A Memoir of Hunger.
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center on UNO's campus. Reading is free & open to the public. Parking free and reserved starting at 6:30.
MONSTERS Reading/Signing: Lincoln
Barnes & Noble
SouthPointe Pavilions, 2910 Pine Lake Rd, Lincoln, NE
Booked on 25th Grand Opening, Ogden, UT
147 25th Street, Ogden, Utah 84401
I was just in Utah, but I'm going back to celebrate the grand opening of Ogden's new store BOOKED ON 25TH. I'm so excited to celebrate with owner Marcy Rizzi and the Ogden literary community. There will be a full day of readings and revelry, but I'm on at 5. If you've already picked up your copy of MONSTERS, come out anyway and let Marcy sell you something else. She's going to be a hell of a bookseller and BOOKED ON 25TH is exactly the store that Ogden needs.
MONSTERS Reading/Signing: Arlington, VA
2200 N Westmoreland St. Suite 101 Arlington, VA
Red Hen Press at the Annenberg Beach House
Annenberg Community Beach House
415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA
With Kim Dower, Seema Reza, William Trowbridge, and Tess Taylor.
Presented by Red Hen Press. Free and Open to the public.
AIR 11 Presents Inspire
Air 11 Gallery/Bookstore 359 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA
Air 11 presents its first reading, Inspire, as they welcome Liz Kay to the space with a reading alongside LA writers, Jen Hofer, Ashaki Jackson, and Zoe Ruiz.
Come hear Liz Kay will read from her debut novel, Monster: a love story. Catherine Texier, author of Victorine, says this about Monster: “Monsters is smart, witty, hilarious, raunchy, irresistible, and full of crackling dialogue. At its heart, though, the story of an improbable love affair between a Nebraska poet and the hot movie star who optioned her book is a classic, heart-warming, romantic fantasy.” What a perfect read for Los Angeles and Angelenos!
Hosted by F. Douglas Brown
UNMFA Presents Liz Kay, debut author of MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY
1012 S 10th St
The official Omaha launch party for UNMFA alum Liz Kay's debut novel, MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY.
Featuring short readings and conversation with novelists Karen Shoemaker and Timothy Schaffert on writing about Nebraska.
Catered by Julio's
MONSTERS Reading/Signing
The King’s English Bookshop
1511 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, Utah
MONSTERS Reading/Signing & Reception
2580 Jefferson Avenue, Ogden UT
Publication date celebration reading. Wine & cheese reception.
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Small Press, Big Love: Publishing Poetry Collections with Independent Presses
As the publishing landscape transforms, and the writing population expands, the role of small presses is becoming increasingly more significant. Join us as we talk with the founding editors of three independent presses about the kind of work they’re looking for; the relationships they cultivate with their authors during the revision and publication process; their innovative strategies for getting poetry out in the world; and the ways they’re actively working to increase diversity. Panelists include Carissa Halston and Randolph Pfaff of Aforementioned, Liz Kay and Jen Lambert of Spark Wheel Press, and Enzo Silon Surin of Central Square Press.
Sex, Power, Perspective
Pageturners Lounge 5004 Dodge St, Omaha
Catherine Texier is the author of six novels and the internationally best-selling memoir BREAKUP. Her latest novel, RUSSIAN LESSONS explores the tumultuous and obsessive affair between a recently divorced mother and a Russian immigrant who both compels and repels her.
Jen Lambert's work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including most recently Pank, The Los Angeles Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Raleigh Review. A fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, her current project follows a singular brothel worker as she resists the demanding, defining voices of her family and the men who visit her.
Liz Kay's poetry revisits the story of Hansel & Gretel from the perspective of the witch in an examination of violence, marginalization, and the pursuit of power. Liz is also the author of the forthcoming MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY, about a widowed feminist poet and a toxic affair with the A-list actor who options her novel-in-verse.
Body of Words: Nebraska Writers on the Body
Universal College of Healing Arts, 8702 North 30th Street, Omaha
Featuring Marilyn Coffey, Liz Kay, Heidi Hermanson, Amy Plettner, and Laura Madeline Wiseman
AWP Conference and Bookfair
burntdistrict / Spark Wheel Press will be at booth 1126
Los Angeles Convention Center
I'll post more information about our offsite event soon.
Northern Utah Writers Workshop For Young Adults presented by the Aquinas Institute
Black Box Theater at St. Joseph's High School
Ogden, UT