Tim Horvath reads from Understories at the Portsmouth Public Library

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Maud Casey (The Man Who Walked Away) for a special double author event at BookCourt.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Linda Bamber (Taking What I Like) for a special double author event at Newtonville Books.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Maud Casey (The Man Who Walked Away) for a special double author event at Politics & Prose Bookstore.

Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman and Associate Editor Leslie Hodgkins invite you to visit Bellevue Literary Press at the AWP Bookfair (table K30). On Saturday, March 1, the exhibit hall will be open to the public, and throughout the conference Bellevue Literary Press will be featuring great deals on many of our books, including signed copies of Mary Cappello’s Awkward; Tim Horvath’s Understories; and Gregory Spatz’s Inukshuk.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, will give a reading from her new novel and talk a bit about the Anglo-American community of nineteenth century Florence, particularly the colorful, controversial presence of British writer Violet Paget/Vernon Lee.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Aurelie Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories) for a special double author event at Antigone Books.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Aurelie Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories) for a special double author event at Changing Hands Bookstore.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Jennifer Percy (Demon Camp) and Masha Hamilton (What Changes Everything) for a special discussion about their work as writers and journalists.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Neelanjana Banerjee, Richard Kadrey, Scott Poole, and Carolyn Turgeon for the Writers With Drinks reading series, hosted by Charlie Anders.

Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino and The Odditorium, joins Tom Barbash, Lynn Freed, Molly Giles, Glen David Gold, and David Handler (Lemony Snicket) for the Why There Are Words Reading Series Anniversary Celebration.

Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon, delivers a Masters Literature Lecture on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.

The University City Science Center “Lunch for Hungry Minds” seminar series presents Jonathan D. Moreno (introduced by Dr. Nicholas Kefalides), in conversation about Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century.

In celebration of National Reading Group Month, The Strand and the Women’s National Book Association present a discussion about the world of literature and the challenges of contemporary fiction with authors Michèle Forbes (Ghost Moth), Roxana Robinson (Sparta), Caroline Leavitt (Is This Tomorrow), John Searles (Help for the Haunted), Bernice L. McFadden (Nowhere Is a Place), and Elizabeth Nunez (Boundaries).

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

BookCourt welcomes author Michèle Forbes whose reading from Ghost Moth will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Michèle Forbes, author of Ghost Moth, joins Amy Brill (The Movement of Stars), Dennis McFarland (Nostalgia), Julie Wu (The Third Son), and moderator Michelle Hoover (The Quickening) for a Boston Book Festival panel discussion on “Historical Fiction: Imagining the Past.”

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Melissa Pritchard, author of The Odditorium and Palmerino, joins Jane Smiley, Vikram Chandra, Kate Miliken, Matt Hart, Rae Gouirand, Russell Dillon, and Sally Ball for a Litquake/ Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series special event.

The Orem Library and the Utah Humanities Book Festival welcome Paul Harding, who will discuss Tinkers during the special highlight event for the Orem Big Read. The Big Read includes many events, scheduled from October 1 through November 14, that are thematically related to Tinkers and free copies of the novel will be available at each program while supplies last.

The Santa Monica Review celebrates its Fall issue with a special event featuring authors Michelle Latiolais (Widow; A Proper Knowledge), Ron Carlson (Return to Oakpine), Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz and Santa Monica Review founder and novelist Jim Krusoe. The Nation magazine contributor and community radio programmer Jon Wiener will host the event.

Eduardo Halfon, author of The Polish Boxer, joins Jamaica Kincaid (See Now Then) and Chinelo Okparanta (Happiness, Like Water) for a discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Eric Banks, about narrative and the art of storytelling.

Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon, joins Christopher Beha (What Happened to Sophie Wilder) and Robert Antoni (As Flies to Whatless Boys) for a discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Bellevue Literary Press Publisher and Editorial Director Erika Goldman, about how their characters look to the past to find peace in the present.

Michèle Forbes, author of Ghost Moth, joins A.X. Ahmad (The Caretaker), Caleb Crain (Necessary Errors), Ursula DeYoung (Shorecliff), and Ayana Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie) for a Brooklyn Book Festival special event featuring readings from five of the year’s most impressive debut novelists.

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

Please join Bellevue Literary Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Visit us in booth 40, which we’ll be sharing with our sister organization The Bellevue Literary Review, to meet authors Michèle Forbes, Eduardo Halfon, and Paul Harding, and find great deals on our books.

Late Night Library, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Book Festival, presents its second annual Battle of the Books, where sixteen debut books vie for literary supremacy and the coveted Late Night Library Championship Belt. Featured contestants include Ghost Moth by Michèle Forbes (as read by Irish actor Owen Roe) and Understories by Tim Horvath (as read by writer Rebecca Schiff).

With gratitude to Culture Ireland for help making Michèle Forbes’ visit possible

The Brooklyn Futurist Meetup presents Jonathan D. Moreno, author of Mind Wars and The Body Politic, in conversation about the “Future of Brain Science and the Military.” This special event is co-sponsored by Serious Wonder, a progressive futurist technology and consciousness website with a mission to bring readers the best in futuristic ideas, technology, robotics, science, consciousness, philosophy, psychology, space travel, and modern design.