BJC's upcoming scheduled events Oct 2011 - 2012

October 6-8 - Montana Book Festival, Missoula MT Friday October 7 2:30 Panel, 5:00 Montana Public Radio interview, 8pm BJC is Gala Reader at Historic Wilma Theatre, along with Montana Poet Laureate Sheryl Noethe.

October 14-16 Southern Book Festival, Nashville 12:00 noon panel and reading October 15 (Arranged through W.W. Norton)

Oct 19-23 Wisconsin Festival of the Book. Oct. 20 Friday evening event (Arranged through W.W. Norton)

Oct. 31 - Nov 4, 2011 - University of Alabama visiting writer gig. (Arranged through Blue Flower Arts).

November 6 -- 10 am Church service with Susan Ramsey at Vinyard Church in Kalamazoo, 1030 Portage St, at Lake & Portage. All welcome. We'll talk about writing with young handsome Pastor Tim McNinch. (daycare and Sunday school available)

info@vineyardkzoo.org

November 10 -- Comstock Story Project, 7pm Comstock Township Library. All welcome to come and share stories about Comstock, past and present. Cider, cheese and crackers and cookies!

November 13 -- Saturday, Grand Rapids Art Museum, panel about Michigan fiction round table with Caitlin Horrocks, 2:45-4:00. GRAM is at 101 Monroe Center in Grand Rapids.

November 26 -- Saturday 1-4 Signing for Paw Paw Library Fundraiser at Barnes & Noble in Portage, Michigan.

December 17 4-5 Kazoo Books, Parkview Store, holiday book signing with Joseph Heywood. Let's call it cocktail hour! Stop by and there will be writers all day.

December 28 - Michigan Literary Network (live on blogtalkradio.com) Wednesday, December 28 at 5:30 p.m. Listen in!

January 26 - MSU conference in Lansing,where I'll talk about meth use in Michigan in more stories.

Feb 9 - Vanderbilt University (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts.)

Feb 15 - 17 Notre Dame writing conference, appearing along with Jaimy Gordon. (event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

Feb 26 - Artifactory celebration of Kalamazoo poems at Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo.

Feb 29 - March 3 AWP in Chicago

Thursday, March 1, from 4:30 PM to 5:45 PM, in the Lake Ontario, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor.

Friday, March 2 -

11:00 - 12:00 I'll be hanging out at Wayne State University table; stop by and say hi

1:30 - 2:45 pm National Book Critics Circle reading (along with Jane Smiley and others!) This will be in the conference hotel ballroom.

Book signing Friday 3:30 - 4:00 at Blue Flower Arts booth #400

6pm dinner with NBCC folks

10pm AWP reception

March 8, 2012 - Oakland University Reading (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

March 18 - 22, 2012 - Story Week in Chicago

March 23 - Alumni events at Western Michigan University, alumni honors event
(BJC is the English Department's distinguished alum.), followed by reading at The Little Theatre at 8pm.

March 31 - Kalamazoo Public Library discussion about the book, Into the Beautiful North, led by BJC and Susan Ramsey. 6:30pm at Eastwood branch of KPL.

April 4 (or 18) Cromaine Library?

April 12 - 13 - University of Illinois at Springfield (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

April 21 or 28 (Saturday) Michigan Notable Books celebration in Lansing.

Mother's Day, May 13 --- Chicago Literacy promotion event by Literature for All of Us.

May 15 - 5:00 Andy Mozina's Literary barbeque

May 29 - Andy's class discusses OUAR.

June 14 - 24 - Pacific Residency, Forest Grove IL

September 6 - 7, 2012 - Kalamazoo College event.

October 17 - 18, 2012 Wabash College, Indiana. (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

Photo features BJC with writers Ellen Michaelson and Susan Ramsey

BJC's Upcoming Scheduled Events

August 20 - 2:00 pm Reading at Bookbug Bookstore in Kalamazoo.

August 21 Bon & Chris Anniversary #24

August 22 - Grand Rapids Public Library Reading

August 23 - 2:00 PM EST interview KAXE-FM "Real Good Words" Grand Rapids, MN
with Heidi Holtan

August 25 (Thursday) - 1:00pm interview with Deanne Puca, University Relations, Western Michigan University for WMU Web article.

August 28 - 2:30 Fundraiser for New Issues Press at Bell's Brewery, where I would be drinking anyway. (I'll read for a few minutes, along with Jaimy Gordon and some New Issues authors.)

September 11, Saturday - Kerrytown Book fest, Ann Arbor MI, in the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market (4th Ave & Catherine). The panel is "A Michigan Sense of Place." 2pm in the Main Tent, moderator Dan Johnson. Signing afterward.

September 14 - 6:30 - 8:00 pm - Portage District Library talk and reading, Portage, MI (also it's BJC's birthday!)More info at: http://www.pdl.lib.mi.us/.

September 15 - The Loft, Minneapolis, 7pm For more information https://www.loft.org/loft-events (arranged by W.W. Norton)

September 19 - St. Louis, MO! River Styx reading series at Duff's 7:30pm. For more information about Duff's reading series, http://www.riverstyx.org/events/index.php

September 22 - (Thursday) 4:00 Everybody Reads bookstore visit in downtown Lansing. We'll chat and have a snack. For information about this bookstore, http://becauseeverybodyreads.com/

September 22 - (Thursday) 7pm READING at Schuler Books, Lansing (2820 Towne Center Blvd) Phone: 517 316 7495
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162396880500236

September 26 - (Monday) 7pm talk, reading, and book group event at Forever Books St. Joseph, Michigan. For more information
http://www.foreverbooks.net/

October 6-8 - Montana Book Festival, Missoula MT Friday October 7 2:30 Panel, 5:00 Montana Public Radio interview, 8pm BJC is Gala Reader at Historic Wilma Theatre, along with Montana Poet Laureate Sheryl Noethe.

October 14-16 Southern Book Festival, Nashville 12:00 noon panel and reading October 15 (Arranged through W.W. Norton)

Oct 19-23 Wisconsin Festival of the Book. Oct. 20 Friday evening event (Arranged through W.W. Norton)

Oct. 31 - Nov 4, 2011 - University of Alabama visiting writer gig. (Arranged through Blue Flower Arts).

November 6 -- Church service with Susan Ramsey at Vinyard Church in Kalamazoo in the AM.

November 10 -- Comstock Story Project, 7pm Comstock Township Library

November 13 -- Grand Rapids Museum, panel about Michigan fiction with Caitlin Horrocks, 2:45.

November 26 -- Saturday 1-4 Signing for Paw Paw Library Fundraiser at Barnes & Noble in Portage, Michigan.

December 15 - Reading poetry at Fire. 7:45 open mic followed by BJC at 8:30.

Feb 9 - Vanderbilt University (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts.)

Feb 29 - March 3 AWP in Chicago, 1:30 March 2 Friday National Book Critics Circle reading (along with Jane Smiley and others!) This will be in the conference hotel, probably in the ballroom.

March 8, 2012 - Oakland University Reading (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

March 18 - 22, 2012 - Story Week in Chicago (also there will be some events during the semester at Columbia College - dates to be announced.)

March 23 - Alumni event WMU

BJC's Scheduled events

May 19 - Andy Mozina's Barbeque 5 pm. Members of his Kalamazoo College advanced fiction and intermediate fiction will be in attendance as well as Lisa Lenzo.

May 31 - Visit Andy Mozina's advanced fiction class. 12:40 - 2:30

June 4 - Printer's Row Book Fair, Chicago, 2:30 pm, center stage. Title of panel is "desperate characters in the short story." Will be on panel with Christine Sneed and Gina Frangello.

June 16 - Thursday, reading at Powells Hawthorne Branch, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, 7:30pm

June 16-26 - Pacific University Low Residency MFA Program Summer Residency, Forest Grove. BJC Reading: Sunday, June 19 7:30pm.

June 29 - (Weds) Phone interview with Susan Whitall from The Detroit News 2:30pm EST

June 30 - (Thursday) 9pm Rumpus Interview with Stephen Elliott

July 5 - Once Upon a River is released into the world by W.W. Norton.

July 6 - 4:30 - 6:00 Michigan News Agency, Kalamazoo, Meet & Greet and Snack before evening (7:00) reading.

July 6 - 7:00 pm Reading at Kalamazoo Public Library, Rose Street, Kalamazoo.

July 10 - (Sunday) 7:30 - 8:00 (Chicago time 8:30-9 Eastern Standard Time) live interview with Rick Kogan talk radio show "The Sunday Papers" on Chicago's WGN-AM.

July 10 - (Sunday) 2-6 pm, Bell's Brewery Book Release & Book Fun Party (kid-friendly environment). Also fun at Old Dog Tavern across the street (no kids).

July 11 - (Monday) 2:30 pm interview with Bill Castanier

July 11 - (Monday) 7:00 pm Public Access Cable interview with Gloria Tiller from Kazoo Books.

July 12 - (Tuesday) 2:30 interview with Marty Primeau at Grand Rapids Magazine

July 12 - 4:00 catch-up book signing at Michigan News Agency

July 12 - 6:00 interview with Lee Harrington of Bark Magazine

July 13 - 4:30 pm interview with Jim Higgins at Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

July 13 - 7:00 Wednesday, Next Chapter Books, Milwaukee WI

July 14 - Women & Children First, Chicago book release and reading, 7:00.

July 16 - 17 Iowa Festival of the Book, Saturday reading and Sunday morning panel

July 19 - Michigan Radio Interview with Brian Short 4pm at Argus Building.

July 19 - (Tuesday) 7:00 pm Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, MI, reading.

July 21 - (Thurs) - Great Lakes Books Reading 2-4pm, Big Rapids, MI

July 21 - 7pm reading at Schuler Books & Music , 2660 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI

July 23 - (Saturday) 2-4pm, Literary Life Bookstore, Grand Rapids, MI, meet and greet, book signing.

July 27 - 4:40 radio interview with Bill Castanier

July 28 - 7:30 pm (Thursday) Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80206, Reading &/or Discussion, Q&A and signing

July 29 - 4-6 Bookworm meet and greet, Edwards, CO.

August 1 - (Monday) 9:10 Interview (from home) with Ron Jolly.

August 1 - 2:30 interview with Alicia Conroy for Rain Taxi

August 2 - (Tuesday) Interview (from home) with Doug Stanton on Northern Michigan's TV 7&4 "Writer's Minute" 6:25am

Aug 4 - Ludington Writers, Meet with them 5:00 and then 7:00 reading. Contact: George Dila.

August 5 - 11 am Radio Interview with Aaron Stander, Interlochen Public Radio station, Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Aug 5 - (Friday) Cottage Books, Glen Arbor, MI 1-3 pm (signing)

Aug 5 - 5:00 pm Drive-by signing. Dog Ears Books, 106 Waukazoo Street
P.O. Box 272, Northport, MI 49670

Aug 5 - Brilliant Books, 305 St. Joseph Street, Suttons Bay, 7 pm reading

Aug 6 - Traverse City, Horizon Books (signing),243 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI

August 9 - 5pm wait for a phone interview with Aimee Levitt from the River Front Times

Aug 10 - (Wednesday) Mackinac Island Library reading, 903 Huron Street, Mackinac Island, MI (906) 847-3421 ‎followed by Island Bookstore signing 4-6

Aug 11 - 2:00 Saturn Books, Gaylord, MI, Drive-by book signing.

August 11 - Thursday evening McLean & Eakins Book Shop, Petoskey, MI

August 12 - Friday at Between the Covers, Harbor Springs MI 11:30 - 1:00

August 13 Kellee Campbell's wedding

August 15 - (Monday)6:00 PM EST interview, THE CULTURE BUZZ, Clive, IA
Contact: John Busbee. This interview will start at 6pm EST / 5pm CST.

August 16 - 2:15 PM to 2:55 PM CST Live, no callers , HAPPENINGS Q&A RADIO.

August 20 - 2:00 pm Reading at Bookbug Bookstore in Kalamazoo.

August 21 Bon & Chris Anniversary #24

August 22 - Grand Rapids Public Library Reading

August 23 - 2:00 PM EST interview KAXE-FM "Real Good Words" Grand Rapids, MN
with Heidi Holtan

August 28 - 2:30 Fundraiser for New Issues Press at Bell's Brewery, where I would be drinking anyway. (I'll read for a few minutes, along with Jaimy Gordon and some New Issues authors.)

September 11, Saturday - Kerrytown Book fest, Ann Arbor MI, in the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market (4th Ave & Catherine). The panel is "A Michigan Sense of Place." 2pm in the Main Tent, moderator Dan Johnson. Signing afterward.

September 14 - Portage District Library talk and reading, (BJC's birthday).

September 15 - The Loft, Minneapolis/St. Paul (arranged by W.W. Norton)

September 19 - River Styx reading series at Duff's

September 22 - (Thursday) 4:00 Everybody Reads bookstore visit in downtown Lansing.

September 22 - (Thursday) Schulers Lansing reading

September 26 - (Monday) Forever Books Book Group event, St. Joseph, Michigan

October 6-8 - Montana Book Festival, Missoula MT

October 14-16 Southern Book Festival, Nashville

Oct 19-23 Wisconsin Festival of the Book. Oct. 20 Friday evening event

Oct. 31 - Nov 4, 2011 - University of Alabama visiting writer gig. (Arranged through Blue Flower Arts).

November 10 -- Comstock Story Project.

Feb 9 - Vanderbilt University (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts.)

Feb 29 - March 3 AWP in Chicago.

March 8, 2012 - Oakland University Reading (Event arranged by Blue Flower Arts)

March 18 - 22, 2012 - Story Week in Chicago

March 23 - Alumni event WMU

BJC's literary events 2011

January 5-16, 2011 - Pacific University Residency

January 20-21 (Thurs-Friday)- Winter Institute (American Booksellers Association) in Washington D.C. http://www.bookweb.org/events/institute/wi6schedule.html

February 2-5 2011 AWP Washington D.C. (I'm not going, but here's the date)

February 9, 2011 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: http://www.ii.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventDetail.asp?ID=1268&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+U-mMfaEvents+%28U-M+MFA+Program+in+Creative+Writing+Events%29

February 12, 2011 Allegan, Michigan Reading, Griswold Auditorium 7 pm.

February 17, 2011 Central Michigan Univ. reading and class visit

February 27 (Sunday) 1:30 Artifactory reading at Kalamazoo Valley Museum. All welcome! (Elizabeth Kerlikowske promises a booklet of Kalamazoo poems. What fun!
For the seventh year, the Friends of Poetry join with the Museum in a program featuring poems and history. At this "Poetry Artifactory" event, the poets write poems that relate to some aspect or topic in local history and Curator Tom Dietz offers a discussion of the historical content. Free and open to the public, this event starts at 1:30 pm. For more information, visit http://kvm.kvcc.edu/.

March 2-3, University of Vermont reading and class visit.

March 15 Tuesday, Kellogg Community College class visit via Elizabeth Kerlikowske, who picks me up 4:00 - 4:15.

March 29 (Tuesday) 7:45 pm radio interview in Lansing at student station IMPACT 89 FM. Host of show, Emily Fox

April 2, (Saturday) Rally of Writers, Lansing, MI, http://www.arallyofwriters.com/
It's a great deal, $70 for a full day of writing instruction and inspiration. The event is at LCC's West Campus Conference Center, off I-496 at Exit 1 - Creyts Rd, South, and left (east) on Mt. Hope Rd. Follow the signs for LCC.

April 2 Saturday, Everybody Reads: Books & Stuff, Lansing MI, 4:30 - 6:30, Lansing MI http://becauseeverybodyreads.com/

April 7-9 Poets & Writer's interview/visit with KN.

April 16, Midwest Literary Walk, Chelsea, Michigan, 3 pm at Just Imagine Bookstore.
http://www.heritage.com/articles/2011/04/04/life/doc4d99d1591a292931356536.txt?viewmode=fullstory

April 19-22, Visit Cranbrook-Kingswood Academy to fraternize with super-smart students, reading and class visits.

April 20 - Reading at Cranbrook-Kingswood Academy Wed. 7 pm in Kingswood Auditorium. Free admission!
http://schools.cranbrook.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=576332&rc=0

April 25 - Monday, 11:30 am, Jeanne Leiby's mentor phone call.

April 27-28, (Weds & Thursday) Traverse City Michigan Writers Event
Reading, visit at Interlochen 10 a.m. April 27
National Writers Series events April 28

April 29-May 1 (Friday - Sunday) Douglas Cottage meeting with Carla & Heidi

May 3 - P&W photo shoot in Kalamazoo

May 6 - K Gazette interview (Joyce Pines) in Merrill Park 4:00.

May 17 - Andy Mozina's Barbeque 6 pm

May 31 - Visit Andy Mozina's class. 12:40 - 2:30

June 4-5 Printer's Row Book Fair, Chicago.

June 16 - Thursday, reading at Powells Hawthorne Branch, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, 7:30pm

June 16-26 - Pacific University Summer Residency, Forest Grove.

June 30 - (Thursday) 9pm Rumpus Interview

July 5 - Once Upon a River is released into the world by W.W. Norton.

July 6 - 7:00 pm Reading at Kalamazoo Public Library, Rose Street, Kalamazoo.

July 10 - (Sunday) 7:30 - 8:00 (Chicago time 8:30-9 Eastern Standard Time) interview with Rick Kogan talk radio show "The Sunday Papers" on Chicago's WGN-AM.

July 10 - (Sunday) 2-6 pm, Bell's Brewery Book Release & Book Fun Party (kid-friendly environment). Also fun at Old Dog Tavern across the street (no kids).

July 11 - (Monday) Public Access Cable interview.

July 13 - 7:00 Wednesday, Next Chapter Books, Milwaukee WI

July 14 - Women & Children First, Chicago reading.

July 16 - 17 Iowa Festival of the Book

July 19 - (Tuesday) 7:00 pm Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor.

July 21 - Schuler Books & Music, 2660 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI

July 23 - (Saturday) 2-4pm, Literary Life Bookstore, Grand Rapids, MI, meet and greet, book signing.

July 28 - 7:30 pm (Thursday) Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80206, Reading &/or Discussion, Q&A and signing

July 29 - 4-6 meeting, greeting, and signing at The Bookworm of Edwards, 295 Main St., C101, Edwards, CO 81632

August 4 (Thurs) - Great Lakes Books

Aug 4 - Ludington Writers 7pm reading

Aug 5 - (Friday) Cottage Books, Glen Arbor, 1-3 pm (signing)

Aug 5 - Brilliant Books, 305 St. Joseph Street, Suttons Bay, 7 pm reading

Aug 6 - Traverse City, Horizon Books (signing),243 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI

Aug 7 -

Aug 8 -

Aug 9 -

Aug 10 - Mackinac Island Library reading, 903 Huron Street, Mackinac Island, MI 49757 (906) 847-3421 ‎followed by Island Bookstore signing 4-6

Aug 11 - 2:00 Saturn Books, Gaylord, MI, Drive-by book signing.

August 11 - Thursday evening McLean & Eakins Book Shop, Petoskey, MI

August 12 - Friday at Between the Covers, Harbor Springs MI 11:30 - 1:00

August 13 Kellee's wedding

August 20 - 2:00 pm Reading at Bookbug Bookstore in Kalamazoo.

August 21 Bon & Chris Anniversary #24

August 22 - Grand Rapids Public Library Reading

September 11, Saturday - Kerrytown Book fest, Ann Arbor MI, in the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market (4th Ave & Catherine). The panel is "A Michigan Sense of Place." 2pm in the Main Tent. Signing afterward.

September 14 - Portage District Library talk and reading, (BJC's birthday).

September 15-18 Brooklyn Book Festival (possible gig)

September 19 - River Styx reading series at Duff's

September 22 - (Thursday) Schulers Lansing reading

September 26 - (Monday) Forever Books Book Group event, St. Joseph, Michigan

October 6-8 - Montana Book Festival, Missoula MT

Oct 19-23 Wisconsin Festival of the Book. Oct. 20 Friday evening event.

Feb 29 - March 3 AWP in Chicago.

March 8, 2012 - Oakland University Reading