Please join us for an evening with Julie C. Dao to celebrate the release of her new middle grade book,Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena, a rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries....

Please join us for an evening with Margot Harrison to celebrate the release of her new book, We Made it All Up, a contemporary, high-stakes thriller about how reality becomes more twisted than the fantasy novel two friends are writing when the real-life subject of their fiction turns up dead and they’re the suspects. Margot will be in conversation with Eva Sollberger, the host of the award-winning "Stuck in Vermont" series.
Celeste is the talk of the town when she moves to Montana from Montreal, but the only friend she makes is Vivvy, the heir to the town’s founder and a social pariah. Inspired by a passion-fueled school incident, they begin writing a love-story fanfic between the popular...

Please join us for an evening with Andrew Liptak to celebrate the release of his new book, Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life.  Andrew will be in conversation with Vermont author, Katherine Arden.   

ABOUT THE BOOK:
In recent years, cosplay—the practice of dressing up in costume as a character—has exploded, becoming a mainstream cultural phenomenon. But what are the circumstances that made its rise possible?

Andrew Liptak—a member of...

Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature. 

ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:  Bianca Amira Zanella is a cis queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on traditionally Abenaki land. She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. Their poem films, sculptural poems, and poem paintings have also been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, Stone Valley Arts, SPACE: a Pop Up Art Gallery, and Surdam Gallery.

They received the...