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.

Here is info on the event!

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.

Information about the event here.

Celebrate the release of Heidi Bell’s first collection of stories from Cornerstone Press. Information here.

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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.

Information here.

Looking forward to a conversation between Bonnie Jo Campbell and Christina Clancy, author of Shoulder Season and Second Home.

More information here:

We’ll let you know when it becomes available online!

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

For the full schedule of events, click here.

Private Virtual Event

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!

Here’s the FB invitation:

Come early if you want to chat with me (Bonnie), Elizabeth Kerlikowske or Sharon Bippus

More Info here

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!

Class visit and reading

Plymouth Court Stage (On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)

2 p.m. Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters: A Novel in conversation with Rachel Swearingen.

Janet Heller of the Ladies Library Association of Kalamazoo will interview me during the regular Afternoon Tea of the group. For more information about The Ladies Library Association, check out their website