Kentucky Events

Literature

Ric Wasley discusses and signs The Scrimshaw

DATE: July 25, 2 pm ET
LOCATION: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington

Susan Reigler and Pam Spaulding sign The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks

DATE: July 25, 6 pm ET
LOCATION: My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown

Reading: Sylvia Delee Davis and the authors of Appalachian Angels

DATE: July 25, 1 pm ET
LOCATION: Fudge Company, Harrodsburg

Drawing and Writing with John Begley and Richard Taylor

Workshop cost is $200.
DATES: July 25-26
LOCATION: Open Ground on the Chaplin River in Washington County
INFO: openground,info

Sarabande Reading Series: Ross Gay, Denise Duhamel, and Tom Hunley

DATE: July 27, 7:30 pm ET
LOCATION: 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville

Kentucky Storytelling Association’s 1st Annual Story Slam

DATE: July 27, 8-10 pm ET
LOCATION: Natasha’s Bistro, Lexington

Bill Kimbrell discusses and signs Code 936

DATE: July 31, 7 pm ET
LOCATION: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington

Susan Reigler and Pam Spaulding sign The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks

DATE: Aug. 2, 4 pm ET
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Mary Ann Taylor-Hall reads from At the Breakers

DATE: Aug. 6, 7 pm ET
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Susan Reigler discusses and signs The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks

DATE: Aug. 7, 5 pm ET
LOCATION: Blue Licks State Park, Mount Olivet

Joseph Steier and Diane Timmering discuss and sign My God! Our God?

DATE: Aug. 8, 4 pm ET
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Readings by Leatha Kendrick and Sheri Wright

DATE: Aug. 9
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Carolyn Wall reads and signs Sweeping Up Glass

DATE: Aug. 11, 7 pm ET
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Readings by Frank X Walker, Maurice Manning and Regina Buccola

DATE: Aug. 13
LOCATION: Carmichael’s, Louisville

Kentucky Women Writers Conference

Registration is $140 in advance, $160 after Aug. 1 ($25 student rate). In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the conference will feature special guest Sallie Bingham, author, feminist, and founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. The keynote address will be by presidential inauguration poet Elizabeth Alexander. Also featured will be Nikky Finney, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Holly Goddard Jones, Rachel McKibbens, Gina McCauley, Christine Schutt, Susan Vreeland, and agent Jenny Bent.
DATES: Sept. 10-12
LOCATION: Various venues, Lexington
INFO: (859) 257-2874

Kentucky State Poetry Society Workshop and Awards Weekend

DATES: Oct. 16-18
LOCATION: Pine Mountain State Park, Pineville