Events

Upcoming public events

All programs are currently being offered online. Unless noted, attendance is administered by host sites.

Curtis Memorial Library
Reading: Things Fall Apart; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You; Just Mercy; and The Fire This Time
Thursdays | 7 pm | 5/20
Cushing Public Library
Reading: Re-imagining the American Family
Thursdays | 6:30 pm | 5/13
Windham Public Library
Reading: Crossing Over: Contemporary American Indian Writers
Wednesdays | 6 pm | 5/26, 6/23
Lincoln Memorial Public Library
Reading: Women’s Suffrage in the US: A 20/20 Perspective
Wednesdays | 6:30 pm | 5/19
UMaine Augusta Library
Reading: Refreshing the Whodunit
Thursdays | 3 pm | 6/3

The Telling Room
Poets: Amanda Dettmann & Rachel Iradukunda
Friday | May 21 | 7:00pm | This event will be streaming on Instagram Live

Summer Program Kick-off on Maine Calling
Friday | June 4, 2021 | 11:00 am – 12 noon
Author talk with Kerri Arsenault (Mill Town)
Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:00pm | Registration info TBD
Author Talk with Matt Cost (Mainely Power)
Thursday | August 19, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:00pm | Registration info TBD

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thursday-Saturday | May 6-8, 2021
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The Sebec Reading Room
Speaker: Libby Bischof | Visualizing 200 Years of Maine History
Thursday | May 13, 2021 | 7:00 pm
Rockland Public Library
Speaker: Arisa White | Who’s Your Daddy: Writing Collectively Through Personal Absence
Thursday | May 20, 2021 | 6:30 pm
Monhegan Memorial Library
Speaker: Marpheen Chann | Welcome Home: My Journey Through Foster Care, Coming Out, and Reuniting With Family
Thursday | June 23, 2021 | 7:00 pm

Stonington Public Library
Speaker: Kate McBrien | Malaga Island
Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 6:00 pm
West Paris Public Library
Speaker: Samara Cole Doyon | Embracing Our Magnificence as an Act of Resistance
Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 4:00 pm