Portland: October 4 through 8
Tuesday, October 4
7:00 - 8:15 PM A celebration of Native Writers
Location: Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus
Featuring: Morgan Talty, Terese Marie Mailhot, and Joan Naviyuk Kane
Wednesday, October 5
5:00 - 7:00 PM Page + sound: An Electric Happy Hour Event with Music and REadings
Location: The Public Works, Portland
Featuring: Phuc Tran, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Signature Soul
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Trans voices, trans futures: A Virtual Event
Featuring: Charlie Jane Anders, Leigh Ellis, Isaac Fitzsimons, Rylan Hynes, and Maya Williams
Thursday, October 6
7:00 - 8:30 PM A Conversation with Brandon Taylor and lily King
Location: Hannaford Hall, in the Abromson Community Education Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus
Friday, October 7
7:00 - 8:15 PM A Conversation with Rebecca Traister and Kerri Arsenault
Location: Mechanics Hall, Portland
Saturday, October 8
All of Saturday’s events will take place in Monument Square, 456 Congress Street in Portland.
10:00 - 11:00 AM Bilingual, Multicultural Story Hour
Featuring: Pious Ali, Shay Stewart-Bouley, and actors from The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM illustrator Draw Off
Featuring: Chris Van Dusen, Scott Nash, and more…
12:00 - 12:15 PM Safia elhillo Poetry Reading
12:20 - 1:20 PM Crossing Borders: Writing about Home from Away
Featuring: Safia Elhillo, Abdi Nor Iftin, Zahir Janmohamed, and Robert Perišić
1:25 - 2:25 PM Parenthood: It Changes Everything
Featuring: Kristen Arnett, Joshua Bennett, Chelsea Conaboy, and Lynn Steger Strong
2:30 - 2:45 PM Joshua Bennett Poetry Reading
2:50 - 3:50 PM Writing the natural World
Featuring: Samaa Abdurraqib, Jason Anthony, Gregory Brown, Jennifer Lunden, and Kathryn Miles
3:55 - 4:55 PM Rich Kid, Poor Kid: Exploring Socioeconomic Diversity in Young People’s Literature
Featuring: Rob Costello, Gillian French, Jennifer Richards Jacobson, George Jreije, Jo Knowles, and Maria Padian
5:00 - 6:00 PM Exciting debuts: New Authors to watch
Featuring: Richard Russo and debut authors Gillian Burnes, Marpheen Chain, and W.S. Winslow.
6:30 - 9:30 PM portland Lit crawl
A variety of fun and unique literary events happening at various locations and times around downtown.