ALL EVENTS WILL BE HELD IN THE PARLOR (SECOND FLOOR) AT THE WOODLAND
11AM: IBI ZOBOI, in conversation with Leslie Ann-Murray
Award-winning middle grade and young adult author, Ibi Zoboi, will discuss her latest novel, Nigeria Jones with Leslie Ann-Murray, creator of Brown Girl Book Lover, a social media platform where she interviews diverse writers and reviews books.
12:00: JOYCE CAROL OATES, in conversation with Laurie Lico Albanese
Iconic author Joyce Carol Oates discusses her new short story collection, Zero Sum, with Laurie Albanese, author of Hester, Stolen Beauty, Blue Suburbia, and Lynlle by the Sea.
1:15: LAURA SPENCE-ASH, in conversation with Marcy Dermansky
Join Laura Spence-Ash, author of the best-selling Beyond That, The Sea, in convo with Marcy Dermansky.
2:15: KIM COLEMAN FOOTE, in conversation with Dionne Ford
In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, two women flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members―their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory―Coleman Hill is a penetrating multigenerational debut.
Debut author Kim Coleman Foote will discuss her book with Dionne Ford, author of the memoir Go Back and Get It and co-editor of the anthology Slavery’s Descendants.
3:15: MADE IN SOMA (or MAPSO if you wish)
Three local literary stars―Eliza Minot, Boo Trundle and Laura Sims―discuss their critically acclaimed 2023 novels with another Mapsowoodian lit celeb, Helen Wan.