Wendy S. Walters: Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal
Cost: Free. This event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Contact: VCFA
Yusef Komunyakaa: The Emperor of Water Clocks
Cost: Free. This event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Contact: VCFA
Gina Puorro: The Wild Will Call You Back
Gibson Fay-Leblanc: Deke Dangle Dive
Contact: The Hoot
Tiphanie Yanique: Monster in the Middle
The reading will take place in the Red Mill Building.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Tiphanie Yanique: Monster in the Middle
This event will be a craft talk.
Cost: Free. Seating is limited. You will need to email [email protected] to secure your spot and for more information.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Monica Ferrell: You Darling Thing
Stuart Nadler: The Inseparables
Cost: Free. This is a virtual event. Registration information was not available at the time of this entry. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
David Gates: A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Deirdre McNamer: Aviary
Cost: Free and open to the public. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Cara Blue Adams: You Never Get It Back
Contact: Antidote Books
Alice Mattison: Conscience
Derek Palacio: The Mortifications
Cost: Free. This is a virtual event. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Sigrid Nunez: What Are You Going Through
Carmen Giménez Smith: Be Recorder
Cost: Free. At the time of this entry, the registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Eula Biss: Having and Being Had
Mark Wunderlich: God of Nothingness
Cost: Free. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Carol Westberg: Ice Lands
Laura Foley: Why I Never Completed My Dissertation
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Clifford Thompson: What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues
Craig Morgan Teicher: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey
Cost: Free. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Reeve Lindbergh: Two Lives
Reeve Lindbergh presents the next steps in getting your memoir/history manuscript published.
This presentation is one of six online presentations via Zoom from published authors who will help you think about:
Who you are writing for
What resources you need to move your project along
What the publishing world looks like today
These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published.
Please register for only one session in this series, which includes:
January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on memoir/history manuscripts
February 9: Bill Schubart on fiction manuscripts
March 9: Doreen Lyon on cookbook/food manuscripts
April 13: David Martin on children’s picture book manuscripts
May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on mystery manuscripts
June 8: Rachel Hadas on poetry manuscripts
Registration: Register online.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
The Department of English and Creative Writing will host a Zoom event in honor of Professor Gary Lenhart, who died on March 31.
In his 27 years at Dartmouth, Prof. Lenhart taught a wide variety of English and Writing classes to both undergrad and MALS students. Enrollment in his Contemporary American Poetry grew annually, attracting not only English and Creative Writing majors, but also many seniors whose Dartmouth careers began with his two-term Writing 2 to 3 course. His own work (poems, literary essays, book reviews) was published regularly, and engaged him until the very last day of his life—even as he struggled with fatal side effects of cancer treatments.
Alumni are invited to participate by reading a poem by Professor Lenhart and/or offer their own reminiscences.
Registration: For more information about reading or attending, please contact Kate Gibbel in the English department at by January 1, 2022.
Contact: Dartmouth College
Douglas Bauer: What Happens Next?
Jill McCorkle: Hieroglyphics
Cost: Free. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Steven Naifeh: Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Brattleboro Literary Festival
Marie Mutsuki Mockett: American Harvest
Diane Seuss: Frank: Sonnets
Cost: Free. At the time of this entry, registration information was not available. Please visit the Bennington College website for more information.
Contact: Bennington College
Harley Rustad: Lost in the Valley of Death
Rustad will be in conversation with Katie Ives.
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Timothy Boudreau: Saturday Night
Timothy will be discussing the craft of writing short stories.
Masks are required. Attendees need to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the meeting.
Contact: Monadnock Writers’ Group
Rebecca Starks: Fetch, Muse
Genevieve Plunkett: Prepare Her
Cost: Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Carol Westberg: Ice Lands
Sue Burton: Box
Cost: $0 to $23.98 ($5 suggested donation; other options include a copy of Ice Lands)
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore
Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Presents “The Black Matter is Life: Emphatic Affirmations,” with guest poet Sonya Sanchez and student poet Kaylee Chen from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.
The Black Mattter is Life is a three-part program hosted by UNH professor Reginald Wilburn and Phillips Exeter Academy professor Courtney Marshall in conversation with featured guest poet. The three events explore the vast diversity within African American poetic tradition. Each discussion deconstructs four poems grouped by themes. Conversations center these poems within the context of the African American literary tradition, their cultural heritage, the traditions they encompassed, and the relevance this tradition has to us today. The series will also explore the question, “Why does African American Poetry matter?”
Conversations will be held in person at 3S Artspace and streamed virtually.
Cost: $10
Contact: Black Heritage Trail, NH
Jillian Cantor: Beautiful Little Fools
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Keila Vall de la Ville: The Animal Days
Vall de la Ville will be in conversation with Kianny Antigua.
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Phoenix Books Virtual Poetry Open Mic
Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature.
Hosted by Bianca Amira Zanella
Cost: Free. Registration required. Scroll down.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Chad Orzel: A Brief History of Timekeeping
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore
Jennifer Hillier: Little Secrets
Hillier will be joined in conversation by author S.A. Cosby. Presented with Macmillan Publishers.
Cost: Free. Registration required. Scroll down to register.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Isabel Allende: Violeta
Northshire Bookstore and Gibson Bookstore are pleased to join Books & Books and indie bookstore partners across America to present Isabel Allende in a virtual event celebrating her new novel, Violeta.
Cost: $29.96 to 35.96
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore or Gibson’s Bookstore
Emily Bernard: Black Is the Body
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Emily Bernard: Black Is the Body
This event will be a craft talk.
Cost: Free and open to the public. Limited seating is available. Please email [email protected] to secure your spot and for more information.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Katie Crouch: Embassy Wife
Matthew Olzmann: Constellation Route
Contact: Dartmouth College English Department
Chris Bohjalian: The Hour of the Witch
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Bill Schubart: The Correctional Facility
Bill Schubart presents the next steps in getting your fiction manuscript published.
This presentation is one of six online presentations via Zoom from published authors who will help you think about:
Who you are writing for
What resources you need to move your project along
What the publishing world looks like today
These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published.
Please register for only one session in this series, which includes:
January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on memoir/history manuscripts
February 9: Bill Schubart on fiction manuscripts
March 9: Doreen Lyon on cookbook/food manuscripts
April 13: David Martin on children’s picture book manuscripts
May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on mystery manuscripts
June 8: Rachel Hadas on poetry manuscripts
Registration: Register online.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Phuc Tran: Sigh, Gone
Contact: University of New Hampshire
In 1965 writer/activist James Baldwin and conservative arbiter William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to the UK’s Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.”
The groundbreaking Obie-winning NYC theater troupe, Elevator Repair Service, re-creates Baldwin and Buckley's profoundly relevant confrontation in Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge.
Cost: This event is free, but advance tickets required.
Contact: Catamount Arts
Erik Larson: The Splendid and the Vile
Cost: $13.75. For each 1 to 2 tickets sold, the purchase of a book voucher (The Splendid and the Vile, $20 paperback) is required. Vouchers can be redeemed on the event night for signed copies.
Per the request of the author, all staff and ticket buyers are required to be vaccinated and wear face coverings while in the building and not eating or drinking. Proof of negative COVID test will not be accepted for this show. This requirement will be in addition to the Music Hall’s usual COVID protocols.
Contact: The Music Hall
Gary Sampson and Inez McDermott: New Hampshire Now: A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State
Photographer Gary Samson and art historian Inez McDermott will discuss the publication their book, which “is the result of nearly 50 photographers covering the seven regions of the Granite State, making thousands of images that create a 21st-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New Hampshire. “
Masks are required. Attendees need to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the meeting.
Meetings are also available on Zoom. Please email a day or two before the meeting for the Zoom link.
Contact: Monadnock Writers’ Group
Amy Neswald: I Know You Love Me, Too
Contact: University of New Hampshire
Doreen Lyon
Doreen Lyon presents the next steps in getting your cookbook/food manuscript published.
This presentation is one of six online presentations via Zoom from published authors who will help you think about:
Who you are writing for
What resources you need to move your project along
What the publishing world looks like today
These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published.
Please register for only one session in this series, which includes:
January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on memoir/history manuscripts
February 9: Bill Schubart on fiction manuscripts
March 9: Doreen Lyon on cookbook/food manuscripts
April 13: David Martin on children’s picture book manuscripts
May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on mystery manuscripts
June 8: Rachel Hadas on poetry manuscripts
Registration: Register online.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Howard Mansfield: Chasing Eden
Hancock resident and nationally renowned writer Howard Mansfield will speak abut his new book, Chasing Eden.
Masks are required. Attendees need to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the meeting.
Meetings are also available on Zoom. Please email a day or two before the meeting for the Zoom link.
Contact: Monadnock Writers’ Group
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson: Girl as Birch
Rebecca will be reading from the new book and in conversation with the Executive Director of the museum, Karla Hostetler, about the making of art.
Contact: The Loom
Dan Ciasson: The Math Campers
Contact: University of New Hampshire
Becky Sakellariou: The Possibility of Red
Henry Walters: Field Guide A Tempo
New Hampshire poets Becky Sakelleriou and Henry Walters will read from recent works and answer questions about the process of writing poetry.
Masks are required. Attendees need to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the meeting.
Meetings are also available on Zoom. Please email a day or two before the meeting for the Zoom link.
Contact: Monadnock Writers’ Group
Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway
Cost: $15
Contact: The Music Hall
Archer Mayor: Marked Man
Margot Mayor
Archer and Margot Mayor present the next steps in getting your mystery manuscript published.
This presentation is one of six online presentations via Zoom from published authors who will help you think about:
Who you are writing for
What resources you need to move your project along
What the publishing world looks like today
These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published.
Please register for only one session in this series, which includes:
January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on memoir/history manuscripts
February 9: Bill Schubart on fiction manuscripts
March 9: Doreen Lyon on cookbook/food manuscripts
April 13: David Martin on children’s picture book manuscripts
May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on mystery manuscripts
June 8: Rachel Hadas on poetry manuscripts
Registration: Register online.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Rachel Hadas: Poems for Camilla
Rachel Hadas presents the next steps in getting your poetry manuscript published.
This presentation is one of six online presentations via Zoom from published authors who will help you think about:
Who you are writing for
What resources you need to move your project along
What the publishing world looks like today
These are not manuscript workshops: they are focused on your next steps to getting your work published.
Please register for only one session in this series, which includes:
January 12: Reeve Lindbergh on memoir/history manuscripts
February 9: Bill Schubart on fiction manuscripts
March 9: Doreen Lyon on cookbook/food manuscripts
April 13: David Martin on children’s picture book manuscripts
May 18: Archer/Margot Mayor on mystery manuscripts
June 8: Rachel Hadas on poetry manuscripts
Registration: Register online.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Liza Nash Taylor: In All Good Faith
Cost: Free. This event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Contact: VCFA
Fernando A. Flores: Valleyesque
Cost: Free. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Contact: VCFA
Beth Kanell: This Ardent Flame
Don Bredes: Polly and the One and Only World
Jay Craven will be reading the work of Howard Frank Mosher.
Cost: Free. This is a pre-recorded virtual event that will be available to stream through YouTube.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Ellen McCulloch-Lovell will be reading the poetry of Galway Kinnell.
Reeve Lindbergh: Two Lives
Rachel Hadas: Questions in the Vestibule
This is a pre-recorded virtual event.
Cost: Free and open to the public. Streaming available through YouTube.
Contact: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
In honor of Still North’s second birthday—and in celebration of holiday procrastinators everywhere—they’re bringing in some professional help to check some boxes off your list.
Local authors will be at the shop signing copies of their books and offering expert guidance for your last-minute shopping needs.
Guest bookseller schedule:
4:00 to 5:00 pm: Flynn Berry, Liniers
5:00 to 6:00 pm: Katie Crouch, KJ Dell'Antonia, Vievee Francis
6:00 to 7:00 pm: Lauren Groff, Alexander Chee
Still North will also be offering tiered discounts on all books and merchandise all day long—plus deals on mimosas and Prosecco to either help you celebrate or take the edge off your holiday stress, whichever you need more!
Contact: Still North Books & Bar
Members of the Monadnock Writers’ Group will read excerpts of their own work for up to ten minutes each. Every year, this is an inspirational opportunity to enjoy the creative talents of our members. The public is welcome to attend.
Masks are required. Attendees need to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to the meeting.
Contact: Monadnock Writers’ Group
Zack Kopp: Radios
Armando Batista: Cosmic Mesa
Rebecca Olander: Uncertain Acrobats
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Joy Baglio
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Phoenix Books Virtual Poetry Open Mic
Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature.
Hosted by Bianca Amira Zanella.
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Presents “The Black Matter is Life: The Race for STEM,” with guest poet Kyle Flemmings and student poet Hannah Rubin from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
The Black Mattter is Life is a three-part program hosted by UNH professor Reginald Wilburn and Phillips Exeter Academy professor Courtney Marshall in conversation with featured guest poet. The three events explore the vast diversity within African American poetic tradition. Each discussion deconstructs four poems grouped by themes. Conversations center these poems within the context of the African American literary tradition, their cultural heritage, the traditions they encompassed, and the relevance this tradition has to us today. The series will also explore the question, “Why does African American Poetry matter?”
Conversations will be held in person at 3S Artspace and streamed virtually.
Cost: $10
Contact: Black Heritage Trail, NH
Alexandria Peary: Battle of Silicon Valley at Dawn
Alexandria Peary serves as New Hampshire Poet Laureate and is the recipient of a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore
Amber Rose Crowtree: The Inviolable Hours
Join us for a special presentation by Amber Rose Crowtree, a poet whose poems are informed by her life growing up on the coast of Downeast Maine, among fishing families and others with lives connected to wilderness and nature, as well as the seasons she worked for the National Park Service. Crowtree’s poetry explores the relationship between body and natural landscape, experience and wilderness.
Registration: Contact Jimmy Pappas at if you have any questions or would like to attend.
Contact: Poetry Society of New Hampshire
Voices of Color Showcase hosted by Rajnii Eddins.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lit Club
Elisabeth Horan: The Mask
Registration: To register for this event and receive the Zoom link, please email .
Contact: Thetford Libraries
Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ozeki will be in conversation with local writer Stephanie Greene.
Cost: Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Contact: Brattleboro Literary Festival
Kaveh Akbar: Pilgrim Bell
Akbar will be in conversation with the poet Darius Atefat-Peckham.
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Vermont Studio Center
Tal Birdsey: Hearts of the Mountain
Cassie Fancher: Street of Widows
Cost: $0-44.84. Tickets available through Eventbrite.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Mike Dater: The Godawful Years: He Came, He Stole, He Wrecked: A Survey of the Bedlam
Proprietor Mike Dater will give a talk and sign copies of his newest book. Compiled in part from Mr. Dater’s cartoons in The New Hampshire Gazette, the book demonstrates the author’s unique talent for expressing horror through humor.
This is an in-person event, and masks are required.
Registration: To sign up for this in-person event, please call 603-431-2538 or email .
Contact: Portsmouth Athenaeum
Don Hooper: I Could Hardly Keep From Laughing
Bill Mares: I Could Hardly Keep From Laughing
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Luke Burton
Meg Reynolds hosts.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lit Club
Phoenix Books is thrilled to welcome back the Editorial team behind the creation and publication of Vermont Alamanc: Stories From & For The Land, Volume II for a discussion of their recently released second voulme of the invaluable resource.
Vermont Almanac
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Jodi Picoult: Wish You Were Here
Cost: $36. Tickets must be purchased in advance through Eventbrite. Each ticket comes with a signed copy of Jodi’s book.
Proof of vaccination is required to attend. Face masks must be worn over the nose and mouth during the event, and you must also bring a form of ID with you.
This event will take place in the Grand Ballroom at the Hanover Inn. This in-person event may take place virtually dependent upon changing health and safety needs.
Contact: The Norwich Bookstore
Dr. Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart
Cost: $32.10 to $38.10. Tickets available through Eventbrite. Your ticket includes admission to this exclusive event and a hardcover copy of Atlas of the Heart, as well as sales tax, shipping, and handling (if applicable).
If you have questions to pose Dr. Brown during the event, please email them to [email protected], and we will forward them to the publisher.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Sarah Strohmeyer: Do I Know You?
Strohmeyer will be in conversation with Sarah Stewart Taylor.
Cost: Free. Registration required. (Scroll down to register.)
Contact: Phoenix Books
David Sibley: The Sibley Guide to Birds
Cost: $5 to $43.45. Tickets available through Eventbrite.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Don Hooper: I Could Hardly Keep From Laughing
Bill Mares: I Could Hardly Keep From Laughing
This event is hosted by the Norwich Public Library and the Norwich Historical Society.
Cost: Free. Registration required.
Contact: Vermont Humanities Council
Maya Williams
Sarah Anderson: We Hold On To What We Can
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program
Jadah Bearden
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Lit Club
Jay Parini: Borges and Me
Cost: Free. Registration required to attend this Zoom event. Please visit the Phoenix Books website to register. Once reqistered, you will be emailed a Zoom link.
Contact: Phoenix Books
Join the Book Jam, the Norwich Public Library, and the Norwich Bookstore for the annual Pages in the Pub Fundraiser!
Tune in for curated, thoughtful, and often hilarious book recommendations from local luminaries, for everyone on your list! Knock out your holiday shopping in one fell swoop! Support the Norwich Public Library!
Cost: $20. Tickets can be purchased through the Norwich Public Library.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore