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

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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

BJC's Literary Events August 2010 & Beyond

August 3,10,17, 24, 31 7:00 pm Poetry Class with Diane Seuss.

September 12, Kerrytown Book Festival in Ann Arbor, MI at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. BJC's panel, Michigan Lit, will take place in the Kerrytown Concert House at Noon. Moderator Eric Olsen leads a discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael Zadoorian, Kristina Riggle & Wendy Webb.

September 27 - Oct 4 Residency, Old Dominion University and reading on Oct. 4

October 4, 2:00 Village Bookstore(Norfolk) Reading at Literary Festival, 33rd annual, Old Dominion University, Virginia writing conference.

October 19 lunchtime Presentation at the Kalamazoo Radisson for Michigan Community Action Agency Association, to discuss how poor folks cobble together lives and livelihoods in Michigan... in my fiction. 12:30 pm. (Prairies Ballroom on the hotel's "Plaza" level.

October 27, 7:00 Women & Children First, Chicago, reading with Diane Seuss, award winning poet and local goddess of fertility and song.

November 3-7, 2010 Sanibel Island Writers Conference

November 10 - 3-4 visit Katherine Joslin's class, 4025 Brown, WMU

November 19 - Skype with Dawn Newton's class, 3:00 - 3:45.

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.

February 9 2011 University of Michigan -- Detroit campus

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

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

March 2, University of Vermont reading and class visit.

Rally of Writers, April 2, http://www.arallyofwriters.com/

April 16, Midwest Literary Walk, Chelsea, Michigan, at about noon.

April 27-28, Traverse City Michigan Writers Event.

June 16-26 - Pacific University Summer Residency

March 8, 2012 - Oakland University



(Thank you Kathy Hansen for sending this photo of the Ludington Book Group who read American Salvage, and who also found me in the latest Trains Magazine.)

BJC's Literary Events June 2010 & Beyond

June 1, 2010 - 12:45 - 2:30 Visit Andy Mozina's class at Kalamazoo College

June 4th, Art Hop, at 103A Park Trades Building: 326 W. Kalamazoo, Meet “Artists who work in Black and White” BJC will be there 5:30-6:30.

June 16-27, 2010 --- Pacific University MFA summer residency, Forest Grove, OR,

July 13, Grand Rapids Public Library Book Talk, 7 pm Grand Rapids Public Library
111 Library St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, 616-988-5402

August 3,10,17, 24, 31 7:00 pm Poetry Class.

September 12, Kerrytown Book Festival in Ann Arbor, MI at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. BJC's panel, Michigan Lit, will take place in the Kerrytown Concert House at Noon. Moderator Eric Olsen leads a discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael Zadoorian, Kristina Riggle & Wendy Webb.

September 27 - Oct 4 Residency, Old Dominion University

October 5 Reading at Literary Festival, 33rd annual, Old Dominion University, Virginia writing conference.

October 19 lunchtime Presentation at the Kalamazoo Raddison for Michigan Community Action Agency Association, to discuss how poor folks cobble together lives and livelihoods in Michigan... in my fiction. 12:30 pm.

Sanibel Island Writers Conference - November 2010

January, 2011 - Pacific University Residency

February 2-5 2011 AWP Washington D.C.


Photo is from my reading at Comstock Township Library (My mom and brother George are there, as well as many other hometown lovelies. Somehow our librarian Meg Sloan-King slipped out. Very clever, Meg.)

BJC's Literary Events May 2010 & Beyond

May 7 Dennis LeHane reading in Dowagiac (BJC guest)

May 11 --- Comstock Library reading 7:00 (as part of Michigan Notable Books program)

May 15 -- Ann Arbor Book Festival 3:30-4:30 Publishing Session at the end of the Writer's Conference in Hatcher Graduate Library Room 100 with BJC and other Michigan authors, 5:00 Author's Forum in the same room featuring BJC and Lolita Hernandez, author of Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant.

May 18 -- Barbeque at Mozina's house in conjunction with June 1 visit

May 25 (Tuesday) - Otsego Library reading 7:00 pm (as part of Michigan Notable Books program.)

May 26 (Wednesday) 9:00 - 9:30 interview with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett for "Writers on Writing," broadcasting on KUCI, 88.9FM, from the University of California, Irvine. The show streams live on the web at www.kuci.org and is available via podcast.

May 26 (Wednesday) - Three Rivers Library reading 7:00 (as part of Michigan Notable Books program.)

June 1, 2010 - 12:45 - 2:30 Visit Andy Mozina's class at Kalamazoo College

June 4th, Art Hop, at 103A Park Trades Building: 326 W. Kalamazoo, Meet “Artists who work in Black and White” BJC will be there 5:30-6:30.

June 17-27, 2010 --- Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, ten-day residency

July 13, Grand Rapids Public Library Book Talk, 7 pm Grand Rapids Public Library
111 Library St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, 616-988-5402

August 3,10,17, 24, 31 7:00 pm Poetry Class.

September 12, Kerrytown Book Festival in Ann Arbor, MI at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. BJC's panel, Michigan Lit, will take place in the Kerrytown Concert House at Noon. Moderator Eric Olsen leads a discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael Zadoorian, Kristina Riggle & Wendy Webb.

September 27 - Oct 4 Residency, Old Dominion University

October 5 Reading at Literary Festival, 33rd annual, Old Dominion University, Virginia writing conference.

Sanibel Island Writers Conference - November 2010

February 2-5 2011 AWP Washington D.C.

April 11-17 2011-- Spokane Washington "Get Lit" Conference

(Photo of writers at first Fetzer Institute Writers Retreat, front left to right: Susan Ramsey, Dale Kushner, Lauren Artress, Naseem Rakha, Michael Jones, Jennifer Louden, Paulus Berensohn, and back right to left: Jack Ridl, Alison Luterman, Shirley Showalter, Mark Nepo, Kurtis Lamkin, BJC, Conrad Hilberry, Not pictured, Diane Seuss.)