Mothers, Tell Your Daughters Autumn 2015 Book Tour

 

October 3	noon	Bookbug Reading	Kalamazoo, MI
	2-5:00 PM	Book Release Party @ Old Dog, Kalamamazoo MI	Kalamazoo, MI
Sunday, October 4	1:00 PM	Iowa Writers Festival prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City IA	Iowa City, IA
Monday, October 5		Reading Columbia College, Chicago	Chicago, IL
Thursday, October 8	7:30-9 PM	Fiction Reading Rosemont Colleg, Philadelphia PA	Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, October 11		ABA Heartland Conference The Westin – Yorktown Cntr, Lombard IL.	Lombard, IL
Tuesday, October 13	7:00 PM	Writers Series City Opera House, Traverse City MI	Traverse City, MI
Wednesday, October 14	Noon	Dog Ear Books, Northport MI	Northport, MI
	5:00 PM	Great Lakes Book & Supply, Bit Rapids, MI	Big Rapids, MI
Thursday, October 15	7:00 PM	Kalamazoo Public Library	Kalamazoo, MI
Saturday, October 17	12:45 PM	KeyNote Talk Rochester Writers Conference, Rochester MI	Rochester, MI
	4:00 PM	Pages Bookshop, Detroit MI	Detroit, MI
Monday, October 19	Noon	Metro Detroit Book & Author Society (at Burton Manor)	Livonia, MI
Tuesday, October 20	7:00 PM	Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor MI	Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday, October 21	7:00 PM	Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis MN	Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, October 22	7:00 PM	Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee WI	Milwaukee, WI
Friday, October 23	7:30 PM	Women and Children First Bookstore Reading & Signing, Chicago IL	Chicago, IL
Sunday, October 25	2:00 PM	Short Stories Live Series Town Hall Seattle	Seattle, WA
Monday, October 26	7:30 PM	Powell’s Bookstore Hawthorne Store	Portland, OR
Tuesday, October 27	7:00 PM	Tattered Cover Bookstore Reading & Signing, Portland OR	Littleton, CO
Wednesday, October 28	7:00 PM	King’s English, Salt Lake City	Salt Lake City, UT
Thursday, October 29	5:30 PM	Square Books, Oxford MS Reading & Signing	Oxford, MS
Monday, November 2	7:00 PM	The Bookstall at Chestnut Court, Winnnetka IL	Winnetka, IL
Tuesday, November 3	6:30 PM	57TH Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago IL	Chicago, IL
Wednesday, November 4	7:00 PM	Portage District Library, Portage MI Reading with Diane Seuss	Portage, MI
Thursday, November 5	7:00 PM	Schuler’s, Lansing Town Center	Lansing, MI
Friday, November 6	6:00 PM	A Room of One’s Own, Madison WI	Madison, WI
Saturday, November 7	2:00 PM	Arcadia Books, Spring Green WI	Spring Green, WI
Sunday, November 8	3:00 PM	Oak Park Library, Oak Park IL	Oak Park, IL
Wednesday, November 11	7:00 PM	Commonwealth of Great Lakes Books, Grand Rapids MI	Grand Rapids, MI
Thursday, November 12	7:00 PM	Schuler’s (2660 28th Street SE), Grand Rapids, MI	Grand Rapids, MI
Saturday, November 14 MOnday Nov 16	2:00 PM	Black River Books, South Haven MI	South Haven, MI
Thursday, November 19	7:00 PM	The Center for Fiction, NYC	New York, NY
Friday, November 27	2:00 PM	Everybody Reads, Lansing	Lansing, MI
Saturday, December 5	1:00 PM -3:00 PM	Comstock Township Library, Comstock MI	Comstock, MI
Saturday, December 19	2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Lowry’s Books, Three Rivers reading and Signing	Three Rivers, MI
Saturday, March 26	6:00 PM	Politics & Prose Reading and Signing, Washington DC	Washington, DC

January 28 (Thurs), Western Michigan University Gwen Frostic Reading (with Daneen Wardrop)

1.  Bonnie Jo Campbell & Daneen Wardrop Reading

Date/Time:  Thursday, January 28th @ 8:00 p.m.

Location:  Bernhard 157-159

February 17-18 (Weds-Thurs) Chatham University, Philadelphia
March 19???? Detroit  Motown women author lunch.
Friday March 25 Library of Congress event to discuss Flannery O'Connor

  June 2-6 Bear River Confeerence, Walloon Lake, Michigan

June 12 Kalamazoo College Commencement--I'll say a few words. 

2015 Readings & Events

June 29, 2015 7pm Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor to celebrate the anthology: Here: Women Writing the Upper Peninsula . BJC is reading with Caitlin Horrocks (The Best American Short Stories 2011), Alison Swan (2007 Michigan Notable Book), and Gloria Whelan (2000 National Book Award)

July 16, 2015 7pm Women & Children First, Chicago, a reading celebrating the anthology, Here: Women Writing the Upper Peninsula BJC reading with Roxane Gay and April Lindala

July 17, 2015 7pm Bookbug, Kalamazoo. A night of U.P./northern Michigan writings celebrating Here: Women Writing the Upper Peninsula reading with.Kate Bassett, Alison DeCamp, and Charmi Keranen .

August 15,  7pm Beaver Island Library reading celebrating the anthology Here: Women Writing the Upper Peninsula.

September 13, 2015 (Sunday) Kerrytown Bookfest. 9:30 AM Conversation and breakfast event with Bonnie Jo Campbell & Thomas Lynch, 9:30, at Zingerman’s Events on Fourth. This ticketed event will feature a silent auction, delicious Zingerman’s breakfast, and a conversation between Ms. Campbell & Mr. Lynch. Please stay tuned for ticket information.
http://www.kerrytownbookfest.org/activities/event-schedule/

September 23, 9:30am interview with Martha Frankel of Woodstock Writers Radio. 

October 3, 2015
Publication Party /Release of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, W.W. Norton & Co
11:30am-1:30pm (reading at noon)
Party 2-5pm  Old Dog Tavern, Kalamazoo (all welcome)
October 4 afternoon reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City as part of Iowa City Book Festival.
October 5-6 Columbia College, Chicago

October 8-10 Philadelphia events: teach a workshop, present the prize at McGlinn awards dinner, be the keynote speaker at our annual writer's conference Push to Publish (October 8-10, 2015). Philadelphia Stories, Reading at Rosemont College. 

Oct 10-11 ABA Heartland conference in Lombard IL
October 13 Traverse City, National Writers Series Event, 7pm

- 2:30 PM:  Front Street Writers Studio Visit:  25 - 30 accelerated Creative Writing students 

- 5 PM: Pre event reception with donors

        - 7 PM: National Writers Series event: "A conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell" which means Bonnie will be the featured guest and will appear on stage with a distinguished guest host (which is our regular event format).  Bonnie will be the featured guest and the wonderful Thomas Lynch (who is also a previous NWS guest) has agreed to be the guest host for the evening.  The format is generally a 45 minute conversation between guest and guest host, followed by a short reading (3 - 5 minutes) and an audience q&a. That will be followed by a book signing in the lobby.

October 14 Dawg Ears Books, Northport MI 12-2pm reading and visit
October 14 Great Lakes Books, Big Rapids, MI 5pm

October 15 Kalamazoo Public Library  Book release event 7pm

October 17 Rochester Writers Conference, Oakland Center, Campus of Oakland University, Rochester, MI,    12:45 PM       Keynote Talk

 PROGRAM: As part of the Fall Rochester Writers’ Conference, Ms. Campbell agrees to a 60-minute Keynote Talk on Mothers Tell Your Daughters followed by Book Signing. This year's theme will be The Story Within.

October 19 (Monday)Detroit Authors' Luncheon
October 20 (Tuesday) Literati Bookstore Ann Arbor event, 7pm.
October 21 The Loft, Minneapolis: afternoon author conversation, 7pm reading.
October 22 7pm Boswell Books, Milwaukee
October 23 (Friday) - Chicago release of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters at Women & Children First, 7:30pm

October 25, Seattle Town Hall event
Oct 26 7pm Portland, OR Hawthorne Powells event

October  27 - Denver Area - 7pm at Tattered Cover, Aspen Grove Location, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, CO

October 28 7pm King's English, Salt Lake City,
October 29 Square Books in Oxford MS

Nov 2 - Winnetka Book Stall
November 3 - Hyde Park Chicago event, 6:30 at 57th Street Books, conversation with Randall Albers.

November 4 - Portage District Library event, with Diane Seuss 7pm
November 5 - Schulers Books & Music Lansing, 7pm
Nov 6 - A Room of One's Own, Madison, WI 6pm
Nov 7 (Saturday) Arcadia Books in Spring Green, Wisconsin 2-4pm
Nov 8 (Sunday 2-4pm) Oak Park Library/sales by Book Table of Oak Park.
Nov 9 7:45 pm - talk to Matt Bell's fiction class 
November 11 Great Lakes Commonwealth of Books event, Grand Rapids with Diane Seuss
November 12 - Schulers in Grand Rapids.
November 14 - 2-4 pm Black River Books, South Haven, Michigan for the WOW (Women Only Weekend) celebration (yes, darling Christopher will be coming along).
November 16 - Buckley Book Fair
November 17 - Writers Studio, NYC
November 19 - the Center for Fiction, 7pm reading and conversation with Carolyn Chute or Jaimy Gordon

November 27 - Everybody Reads, Lansing MI 2-4pm conversation with Randall Glumm, Q&A

Dec 3 - Chicago event with Don DeGrazia
Dec 5 - Comstock Township Library event 1-3 pm
Dec 12  2-4 Nicola's Books
8-midnight Good Tyme Writers Buffet, Hamtramack MI

March 1 - Ladies Library Association meeting in Schoolcraft, Michigan
March 3-4, Poughkeepsie event, Dutchess Community College visit.

March 8-10 AWP in Los Angeles


 March 25, 2016 Flannery O'Connor Birthday Event, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

June 2  June 2 to June 6, 2016 Bear River Writers Conference, Camp Michigania on Walloon Lake, Michigan


Photo above is Steve Barrett and a bottle of homemade elderberry wine; middle, I'm riding my Dahon folding bike on the Kalamazoo River Trail. Photo below are some of the women I teach with at Pacific University in Oregon.

BJC's 2015 Official Literary Events

(February 19 - 25, 2015 Vermont Studio Center.)

March 3-4 Purdue Uiversity, Indiana

March 13 (Friday), 2015, LAUGHFEST event from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters (758 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503) “No Laughing Matter, but No Matter if You Laugh: Smuggling Humor into the Poetry Reading,”  See more at: http://readwritelive.org/events/glcl-event-laughfest-no-laughing-matter-but-no-matter-if-you-laugh#sthash.XuM9IXle.dpuf

March 25-28 U of ND 

April 8-11 2015 AWP in Minneapolis

April 25, 2015  826 Michigan event in Ann Arbor.

June 18-28, 2015 Pacific residency. 

September 13, 2015 Kerrytown Bookfest brweakfast even with Thomas Lynch

October 3, 2015 Publication Party /Release of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, W.W. Norton & Co.

October 8-10 Philadelphia fun. 

October 15 Kalamazoo Public Library  Book release event.

October 20 (Tuesday) Literati Bookstore Ann Arbor event.

October 23 (Friday) - Chicago release of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters at Women & Children First, Chicago IL
 

March 25, 2016 Flannery O'Connor Birthday Event, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

(top photo was taken with Steve Amick , and the lower photo was taken with my butchers at Quality Meats in Kalamazoo; I'm holding suet for the woodpeckers.)

No Laughing Matter, but No Matter if You Laugh: Smuggling Humor into the Poetry Reading

We are delighted to participate in Gilda’s LaughFest, with an event on Friday, March 13, 2015, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. right here at Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters (758 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503)
- See more at: http://readwritelive.org/events/glcl-event-laughfest-no-laughing-matter-but-no-matter-if-you-laugh#sthash.XuM9IXle.dpuf