Authors on the Road

Find out if our authors are going to be reading somewhere near you! This page is updated regularly with our roster of authors’ event schedules.

Rae Alexandra (left), author of Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, illustrated by Adrienne Simms (right)

Mon, May 4, 6:30pm: Rae at the Glen Ellen Forum, at the Jack London Saloon’s Back Dining Room, Glen Ellen CA

Sat, May 9: Rae at KQED Day, SF

Sat, May 30: Rae at Cameron House’s “Day of Service,” 920 Sacramento St., SF

Sun, May 31, 12:15pm: Rae with Jewelle Gomez & Kate Schatz at the Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley. Hotel Shattuck, Crystal Ballroom. More info here

Weds, Nov 4: Rae at the Arts & Culture Speaker Series, held at the Berkeley City Club

 

 

Eleni Sikelianos, author of Memory Rehearsal 

Sun, May 3, 6pm: Riff Raff Bookstore, Providence, RI, East Coast book launch. In conversation with Mary-Kim Arnold. Visit their website here.

Mon May 11, 7pm: Celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s Centennial, The Chapel, SF. Tickets on sale here. With The Kronos Quartet, Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, Andy Cabic of Vetiver, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Oliver Ray & No Land, Kim Stanley Robinson, Peter Coyote, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Dominique DiPrima, Brontez Purnell, & Eleni Sikelianos.

Thurs, May 14, 7pm: City Lights, SF! In conversation with Matthew Zapruder. If you can’t attend in person, register for the livestream here.

Fri, May 15, 7pm: Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley. In conversation with Tess Taylor. Free to attend. RSVP’s appreciated here.

Sat, May 16, 3pm: Pt Reyes Booksellers with Cole Swensen, Pt Reyes, CA. Event will be held at the Point Reyes Presbyterian Church. Free to attend. No registration required. More info here.

Thurs, May 21, 5pm to 6:30pm: Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Weds, June 3: Ginsberg Centennial, Poetry Project, NYC

June 2-5: Naropa Summer Writing Program, Boulder CO

Sat, July 25: Salon Salvage, Troy, NY

September date tk: 192 Books, New York, NY

Sat, Oct 17: Boston Book Festival, details tk

Sat, Nov 14: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Sun, Nov 15: Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, CA

Tues, Nov 17 & Weds Nov, 18: UCSD, San Diego, CA

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