UPCOMING EVENTS
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PREVIOUS EVENTS
April 2, 2023 - City of Asylum Bookstore
Free Association Reading Series
Pittsburgh, PA
3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
May 12 - 13, 2023 - Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
Riverstone Author Panel
Pittsburgh, PA
May 16, 2023 - Penguin Bookshop
Book Launch, In conversation with Meredith Mileti
Sewickley, PA
7:00pm EST
May 17, 2023 - The Little Green Bookstore
Reading, In Conversation with Kellie Seiler
Zelienople, PA
May 17, 2023 - Brown Bag Lit
Reading and Q&A
Online
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
June 2, 2023 - NYC F-Bomb
Double Book Launch:
Jolene McIlwain's Sidle Creek and Kathryn Silver-Halo's Wolfsong
Curated by Paul Beckman
Online (Zoom)
Email paul@paulbeckman.com for Zoom link
6:00pm ET
June 6, 2023 - Kittanning Public Library
Jolene McIlwain in Conversation with Erin Burkett
Kittanning, PA
5:30pm ET
June 9, 2023 - Three Rural Writers
In Conversation:
Audra Kerr Brown, Jolene McIlwain, and Linda Niehoff
Online (Zoom)
Click here to request Zoom link!
8:00pm ET
June 12, 2023 - Kittanning News
Book Signing
Kittanning, PA
11:00am - 2:00pm ET
June 15, 2023 - Main Street Books
Reading and Q&A
Frostburg, MD
7:30pm - 8:30pm ET
June 25, 2023 - Bold Stories and Unexpected Connections
Authors in Conversation with Julie Zuckerman
Author of 'The Book Of Jeremiah'
and Shena McAuliffe
Author of 'We Are a Teeming Wilderness'
Online (Zoom)
1:00pm ET
July 6, 2023 - Queens Public Library (Online)
Literary Thursdays: Jolene McIlwain, Author Of "Sidle Creek"
Online
6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
July 14, 2023 - Prairie Lights Bookstore
Reading and Q&A
Iowa City, IA
7:00pm CT
July 20, 2023 - Flyleaf Books
Multi-Author reading with April Bradley, Beth Gilstrap, Nazanin Knudsen & Heather Bell Adams
Chapel Hill, NC
5:30pm EST
July 25, 2023 - Little Green Bookstore
Two Local Authors (Jolene McIlwain & Christian A. Shane)
In conversation on writing about nature, healing, grief, and resilience.
Zelienople, PA
For more info: littlegreenbookstore@gmail.com
6:00pm EST
September 19, 2023 - Ford City Public Library
Jolene McIlwain in Conversation with Erin Burkett
Ford City, PA
6:00pm ET
September 21, 2023 - WANA LIVE! Reading Series
Reading Series hosted by Damien Dressick and Michael Dittman featuring Jolene McIlwain
Online - Click here to view reading!
October 10, 2023 - Page and Palette Bookstore
Reading and Q&A with Dave Barnette
Fairhope, AL
Time TBA
October 19, 2023 - Robert Morris University
Meagan Lucas Book Launch Reading with Jody DiPerna
Moon, PA
Time TBA
October 20, 2023 - The Allenwood at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Luncheon and Talk Celebrating National Writing Day
Indiana, PA
11:30am - 1:00pm ET
October 22, 2023 - Southern Festival of Books
Fiction Panel with Mimi Herman; Moderated by Bradley Sides
Nashville, TN
2:00pm CDT
November 8, 2023 - Duquesne University Coffee House Reading Series
Reading
Pittsburgh, PA
7:00pm ET
November 11, 2023 - Ten Local Artists Celebrated in Dance
Armstrong Jr/Sr High School
Kittanning, PA
7:00pm ET
February 11, 2024 - Brown Bag Lit
Crafting Close to the Bone: Composing Through Food Memory and Experience
Online
3:00pm EST
March 15-16, 2024 - Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia
Sidle Creek Shortlisted for Book of the Year
Saint Francis University
Loretto, PA
March 25, 2024 - Fox43 Bookclub Discussion
Online
10:00am EST
April 3, 2024 - Evans City Public Library
Book Discussion
Evans City, PA
6:00pm EST
April 6, 2024 - Barnes & Nobel [Altoona]
Book Signing
Altoona, PA
1:00pm EST
April 11, 2024 - Butler County Community College
Northern Appalachia Reading Series w/ Poet Angel Rosen
Butler, PA
6:00pm EST
April 12, 2024 - Apollo-Ridge High School
Career Fair Visit
Spring Church, PA
8:30 - 11:00am EST
June 5, 2024 - Cranberry Public Library
Book Discussion with Jolene McIlwain
Cranberry, PA
6:30pm - 7:30pm EST
July 23, 2024 - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh [East Liberty]
Join us for a lively book discussion of Sidle Creek by Jolene McIlwain
Pittsburgh, PA
6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
August 21 & 28, 2024 - Maine Writers & Publisher's Alliance
2-Week Online Workshop with Jolene McIlwain
Online
6:00pm - 9:00pm EST
May 13, 2025 - Cooper-Siegel Community Library
Book Discussion and Signing
Fox Chapel, PA
6:30pm EST