Hear Maureen Brady read at the Irish American Writers & Artists Salon at The Ellington in New York City. Enjoy an evening of readings and music with an Irish bent, including Tessa’s Landing.

As part of the Springfield Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), Nadine Budbill will discuss her father’s legacy and a collection of his work, Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People.

This event has a registration fee. Register and learn more here.

Celebrate in Ann Arbor with Ellen Halter the publication of All That I’m Asking, a novel about coming of age in the 1960s, feminism, and surviving trauma. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a well-researched, politically urgent story.” The author will read and answer questions at the library branch in Pittsfield.

Maureen Brady, author of Tessa's Landing: A Novel, will be reading with two other authors at the Woodstock Public Library. The Irish American Writers & Artists authors will be featured as part of the Pages at Dixon Reading Series sponsored by the Golden Notebook bookstore.

Ginny Sassaman, author of Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World, will be the featured speaker at the Hunger Mountain Co-op members’ annual meeting. She serves on the advisory board of the nonprofit Gross National Happiness USA. The event begins at 5 with presentations beginning at 6 pm.

Registration is required. Learn more here on the website hungermountain.coop.

Join us for an evening of poems of protest and witness from an anthology of local voices. The Country in the Mirror: Poems of Protest & Witness is an urgent collection of poems written in response to these troubling times. Poets reading include Sharon Darrow, Beth Kannel, Samantha Kolber, and Effie Zimet.

Following the reading, there will be opportunity for Q&A as well as discussion. Green Mountain Books and Prints will have copies to buy at the event.

Author Donna Hills Patrick will celebrate her debut book, The Town I Crow About: East Millstone Stories from the Heart of Raymond Hills. Recollections from her late father illuminate not only the town’s historic places and its people but the humor and grace of a generation.

The event is hosted by the East Millstone Historical Society at the Millstone Valley Firehouse in Somerset, New Jersey. Following a reading and presentation, the author will be available to sign copies.

The Poetry Society of Vermont and the Jaquith Public Library presents Sunday Afternoon Poetry at the Jaquith. Featured readers in September are Publisher and poet Samantha Kolber, author of Birth of a Daughter; Elizabeth McCarthy, David Hartnett, and Jannetta Lamourt.

Learn more at www.jaquithpubliclibrary.org.

Maureen Brady, author of Tessa’s Landing: A Novel, will be reading at the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Center in New York City. Following the reading, the author will be signing books.

The Athenaeum Art Gallery hosts a free music series showcasing impressive and diverse NEK talent. The Fall 2026 Music in the Gallery Series begins with Toussaint St. Negritude, clarinetist and poet and author of Mountain Spells.

Learn more at https://www.stjathenaeum.org

The League of Vermont Writers is hosting a full day on “A New World of Marketing for Writers” in Middlebury. After lunch, Rootstock Publisher Samantha Kolber will discuss book marketing with other panelists Pat Goudey O’Brien of The Tamarac Press and Barbara Ebling of The Brandon Book Store.

This is a ticketed event. To register and for more information, please visit their website.

Say hello to author Maureen Brady at the Kingston, NY Barnes & Noble. She will be signing copies of her historical novel about Irish immigration, Tessa’s Landing.

Join author Maureen Brady for the celebration of her novel, Tessa’s Landing, at the Woodstock Library. The story chronicles a young woman’s trials and triumphs in the 1840s during the Great Hunger in Ireland.

The event is sponsored by the Woodstock Library Forum.

Erika Nichols-Frazer will celebrate the release of her latest work, No One Will Ever Hear You at Bridgeside Books. In dazzling prose, the short story collection explores the plights of women who discover their own strength and control.

Tickets for the launch celebration are $18.99, which includes one book and a free companion ticket, if needed. The author will be available to sign copies. To RSVP, visit www.bridgesidebooks.com.

Celebrate the release of Remember the Sweetness: Poems by Polly Giantonio at The Norwich Bookstore. The author will read from her debut, a retrospective collection about the beauty of the invisible and the language of the heart. Copies will be on sale and the author will sign books. Polly will be joined by Ina Anderson who will be reading from her collection Sky Furniture. Learn more at www.norwichbookstore.com/events/5235320260819.

Join author and cellist Melissa Perley at story time at the new Wild Meadows Books & Cafe. The event will include a reading from The Violin Family Plays New Music, a performance, and a chance to try string instruments in the instrument petting zoo.

Children’s Book author and cellist Melissa Perley will make music and read from The Violin Family books in Northfield, in a presentation sponsored by the Children’s Literary Foundation. The morning includes an opportunity for the young and young at heart to try string instruments from Perley's String Instrument Petting Zoo.

Poet Joan M. White, author of a commoner’s prayer, will be reading at the gazebo in the Town Park in Whitman, Massachusetts. The event is hosted by the Whitman Cultural Council.

Join a poetry reading in Elmore State Park with Mary Elder Jacobsen, author of Stonechat. Vermont Humanities will cover the entry fee for the park, so feel free to explore the wilderness after the event.

This event is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's Words in the Woods series. Register to attend and learn more on their website.

Join author Kathryn Kramer in the celebration of her latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Republic of West Delphi, at the Blake Memorial Library in East Corinth.

Called “a mischievous love song to a Vermont village,” Rise and Fall is threaded through with the question of why, in order to feel that we belong to a community, we must define someone else as not belonging. Though the place is particular, its underlying subject is nationalism: how it springs up like mushrooms whenever the conditions are right.

Following the reading, copies will be available for purchase and signing.

Cellist and author Melissa Perley is participating in the Summer Reading series at the Barre Library. She’ll be reading from her Violin Family books that celebrate music, family, and rural life. 

Join author Jo Pittman for a special story and launch party for Sandy Writes Her Story. This picture book is a tender celebration of emotional expression and the importance of being seen when navigating chronic illness, big feelings, and the early stages of self-understanding.

Learn more about the event here.

Contributors of The Country in the Mirror: Poems of Protest & Witness will read at the Haskell Free Library, the international library that straddles the border in Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada. Contributing poets from Vermont and Canada will be present to read poems in English and French. Following the launch, there will be an open mic session where attendees can share their own protest poems.

Among the scheduled readers are Jean-Blaise Bourque, Samantha Kolber, Joanne Giannino, and Editor Sharon Darrow. For more information, visit www.haskelloperahouse.org.

Don’t miss Melissa Perley and The Violin Family books, a musical performance, and a chance to meet a string instrument petting zoo at the Johnson Library. She appears as a representative of the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLIF).

Nadine Budbill and others will be reading poems and presenting scenes from her father’s work, Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and its People in Hardwick. The presentation is part of the Back Roads Reading Series.

Learn more here.

Maureen Brady, author of Tessa’s Landing, will be a featured reader at the Irish American Writers & Artists NYC Salon at The Ellington. Tessa’s Landing, an historical novel, conveys the sorrow and triumph of the Irish immigrant experience, and how one girl’s self-determination leads to survival in a new world.

The event is hosted by Mark William Butler and John Kearns.

Literary Modiin Author Series, which brings together readers and writers of Jewish literary fiction, will feature Meg Richman in a virtual meeting in July. Richman will talk about Freya the Deer, her novel that BookLife calls a “deeply moving and intellectually challenging novel.”

Learn more here to register and receive the link.

Jill Coupe, author of Gemma Somerset, will be signing copies at Bear Pond Books in Stowe. The work has been praised as a “A heartfelt novel of love and loss.”

Meet Polly Ingraham, author of Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage, in conversation about faith and marriage at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Littleton, NH. The award-winning book was described by Kirkus Reviews as “Poignantly written” and “a beautiful testament to the power of companionship.”

The Mountain Troubadour 2026, the 72nd edition of the Poetry Society of Vermont’s annual collection, will be celebrated with readings and copies for sale at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Works by more than fifty contributors from around the state are featured this year. Join members, friends, and poetry lovers for this publication party.