Join us to celebrate Michigan writing and Michigan authors.
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Looking forward to visiting Grand Rapids Public Library to share work and words!
LOCATION: St. Cecilia Music Center, 24 Ransom Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI DATE: Saturday, July 12, 2025
7:00-9:30 PM Moderated Conversation, Book Signing
TOPIC: Writing about Michigan and the Midwest.
Looking forward to meeting students and visiting with faculty and students at BGSU
Elizabeth Kerlikowske will be talking to us about how to teach writing to kids!
Kalamazoo Writers Dis-Organization meeting
Where Southwest Michigan Writers come together – everyone welcome!
Tuesday March 4, 4-6pm
Kalamazoo Public Library Downtown – VanDeusen Room
Helping Kids Write
Elizabeth Kerlikowske is a poet, retired professor, and 30-year veteran of Poet In The Schools. She will discuss strategies for teaching creative writing in the classroom. There will be hand-outs, take-aways and free copies of Poems That Ate Our Ears. Grown-up kids will benefit as well!
And as always, we invite local writers to meet up, share news, stories, information and struggles. Let’s dream together—we need each other more than ever in 2025! Bring snacks for yourself or to share if you like. Contact us at KalamazooWriters@gmail.com
Event with Milkweed Editions, in conversation with Lisa Durose
December 3, 6pm, in the Open Book Literary Center,
1011 South Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
"November 23, 2024 1:00pm".
Cary Barbor, culture reporter and host of Gulf Coast Life Book Club
for public radio station WGCU on the West Coast of Florida
will moderate the panel, The Mystery & Magic of Women
with Bonnie Jo Campbell, Tessa Fontaine, Sally Wen Mao,
and Tea Obrecht at Miami Book Fair 2024.
Bonnie Jo will be in conversation with Cait West, author of the memoir Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy. We will be discussing The Waters.
November 14 at 6:00 pm at Books and Mortar Bookstore, 966 Cherry St SE, Grand Rapids.
Visiting Professor Lisa Durose’s literature class.
We’ll talk about Heidi Bell’s book, Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse and BJC’s book The Waters and also writing in general!
“Literature Lovers’ Night Out” event on Sunday, November 10th at 2:00p.m in Stillwater, MN
“Literature Lovers Night Out,” a monthly literary event founded by Pamela Klinger, Valley Bookseller. The event will be held at the Lowell Inn, 102 2nd Street N, Stillwater MN. Bonnie and three other authors will each speak for 15 minutes: Elyssa Friedland, Jackpot Summer, Ann Hood, The Stolen Child, and Emily Franklin, The Lioness of Boston. Tickets are $15.00.
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Paperback release event: BJC in conversation about The Waters with Dawn Burns, author of Evangelina Everyday.
Celebrate the release of Heidi Bell’s first collection of stories from Cornerstone Press. Information here.
For more information about this fabulous event, click here!
Looking forward to talking with Heidi Bell, my line editor on The Waters and the author of Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse, new from Cornerstone Press.
Looking forward to a conversation between Bonnie Jo Campbell and Christina Clancy, author of Shoulder Season and Second Home.
Nashville, TN. On Friday evening, October 25, Bonnie Jo will join “Authors in the Round” dinner held at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
10:30-11:30 AM Saturday, 26th Oct. 45- to 50-Minute Moderated Discussion with Rachel Khong, followed by 10- to 15-Minute Q&A.
Book sales by Parnassus Books.
A program of HUMANITIES TENNESSEE
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Saturday, October 19, Rochester Writers Conference, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Oakland University Campus, Rochester, Michigan, Bonnie Jo Campbell will be the keynote speaker for this event which celebrates the craft and business of writing. All events will be held at The Oakland Center, Oakland University, 2200 N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, MN. Attendees should park in the first parking lot (P1) then walk East to Oakland Center
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Surviving the Writing Life with Bonnie Jo Campbell
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m Creating Collections
We’re not going back — join us!
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Join us for an Author Talk Series, in September, October, and November 2024!
In collaboration with The Turner Free library, The Randolph Women’s Club is hosting a literary Authors Series on the empowerment of women. We wish to honor the legacy of Mary Wilkins Freeman and show her significance to women in our time by highlighting three amazing contemporary authors; Milady Auguste on September 6, Bonnie Jo Campbell on October 10, and Neema Avashia on November 2.
Ms. Wilkins Freeman lived in Randolph, and her mother was a member of the Randolph Women’s Club, then known as the Ladies Library Association (1855). Today, Freeman is a featured author of study in many college and university literature studies programs.
To learn more about The Randolph Women’s Club and the Jonathan Belcher House click here. or call 781-986-7810
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Book Club Reception with Bonnie Jo Campbell
Meeting Room, Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
October is National Book Group Month! Join Michigan bestselling author Bonnie Jo Campbell in a celebration of books and book groups with members of the library’s registered book clubs and the general public.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels The Waters, Once Upon a River, a National Bestseller, and Q Road. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP prize for short fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (Autumn 2015). Her story “The Smallest Man in the World” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and her story “The Inventor, 1972″ was awarded the 2009 Eudora Welty Prize from Southern Review. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
Registration is required.
The Annual Book Club Reception is generously sponsored by the Friends of the West Bloomfield Library.
Virtual Classroom Visit
If you’d like to Join Katey Schultz and I (and lots of other great authors) for the Writeability Book Club, check out information here:
Kalamazoo Public Library Van Duesen Room 3rd Floor. We look forward to sharing works in progress with our fellow writers! Come along and bring your work!
Come early if you want to chat with me (Bonnie), Elizabeth Kerlikowske or Sharon Bippus
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Name: Bonnie Jo Campbell - author reading & book signing
Date: September 26, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Website: http://www.boynelibrary.org
Author Reading & Book Signing
Thursday, September 26, 6:30pm
FREE EVENT
Boyne City Public Schools, Performing Arts Center, 1035 Boyne Ave., Boyne City, MI 49712
Join us for this special event featuring award-winning author Bonnie Jo Campbell reading from her new novel "The Waters". Copies of the book will be available for sale through McLean and Eakin at the event.
Free event, open to the public. Registration not required for general admission. Limited special seating available for Friends of the Boyne District Library members who RSVP ahead of time. If you are already a member, use the RSVP link to register for the event. If you are not a member of the Friends, you can join online and then register.
Looking forward to visiting beautiful Boyne, Michigan to meet some readers!
