Riverstone Books is coming to Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Season Announced, City Books Writer's Residency, and more!
There's a lot happening in Literary Pittsburgh this week (and it's only Tuesday).
We’ve got a ton of news to share this week, so we’re going to keep this short: scroll down for some breaking news and lots of online events!
Your friends in books,
Rachel, Nick, and Katie
The Littsburgh Crew
P.S. Event organizers: If you see (on the event calendar) that we haven’t listed your upcoming event, email us with details - news@littsburgh.com!
“Today Riverstone Books and Classic Lines announce that Classic Lines is joining the Riverstone family. Barbara Jeremiah, owner of Riverstone Books, and Dan Iddings, owner of Classic Lines, have agreed to the purchase of Classic Lines by Riverstone.”
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings 2021/22 Season Announcement!
“All lectures will be virtual-only through December 2021. Should gathering in the Music Hall be permitted on or after January 2022, ticket holders will have the option to upgrade to in-person seating at that time, or continue to attend virtually by viewing lectures livestreamed from the Carnegie Music Hall.”
City Books Writer’s Residency: Now Accepting Applications! (Deadline: Apr. 30)
“The City Books Writer’s Residency offers flexible access to a comfortable, creative space within Pittsburgh’s oldest bookstore for adult writers to develop new writing or to advance existing work-in-progress.”
Start Reading Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads by Martin J. Smith…
“Transgender lives and voices come alive in this new book about the forgotten gender crossroads of Trinidad, Colorado…”
Twenty Won – An Anthology of 21 Female Entrepreneurs
“Twenty Won, an anthology of 21 female business owners and nonprofit leaders sharing stories of business resilience during the 2020 global crisis, will launch on April 21. The Pittsburgh region shines, as 19 of the women’s businesses are headquartered in the Pittsburgh area.”
Q&A: Catherine Gammon (author of China Blue and Sorrow)
“So I could say about the novel that everything is invented and at the same time true, which may be what it means to be fiction…”
12th Annual Children’s Book Festival of Johnstown Goes Virtual
“The 12th Annual Children’s Book Festival of Johnstown takes on a new look in 2021 with a powerhouse lineup of award-winning guest authors and illustrators from the past!”
Featured Event, Sponsored by The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books:
April 13, 2021: All Pittsburghers are Poets: Youth to the Front @ Online More information
April 13, 2021: Launch Event for Hilary Hauck- From Ashes to Song! @ Online More information
April 13, 2021: Steel City Slam Open Mic & Hang via Zoom @ Online More information
April 14, 2021: Black Is...Black Ain't | Black Study 2.0: "Of Sounds and Re-sounds" ft. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Natalie Diaz, & lê thị diễm thúy (moderated by Diana Khoi Nguyen) @ Online More information
April 14, 2021: Martha Hall Kelly Returns to Riverstone (virtually)! @ Online More information
April 15, 2021: Parsec Short Story Contest - Deadline: April 15, 2021! @ Online More information
April 15, 2021: Lady Joker, Volume 1: Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida @ Online More information
April 16, 2021: A Celebration for Spring Releases from Autumn House Press! w/ Sweeney, Foy, Walsh, Wilson @ Online More information
April 17, 2021: Parsec Monthly Meeting @ Online More information
April 17, 2021: Laser Cat/Vaser Cat Reading: Niki Herd, Stacey Waite, & Lynn Emanuel @ Online More information
April 18, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
April 19, 2021: "Actors Talk August" presented by August Wilson House @ Online More information
April 20, 2021: All Pittsburghers are Poets: Youth to the Front @ Online More information
April 21, 2021: Writer Wednesdays: "Perseverance, One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey" by Lee Goldman Kikel @ Online More information
April 21, 2021: Black Is...Black Ain't | Black Study 2.0: An Evening Salon with Terrance Hayes—a Black Is...Black Ain't Finale @ Online More information
April 22, 2021: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures: Alaina E. Roberts @ Online More information
April 22, 2021: Virtual Author Visit with Cameron Barnett @ Online More information
April 22, 2021: Jeffrey Siger Book Launch (Presented by Mystery Lovers in partnership with The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books)! @ Online More information
April 23, 2021: Book Launch! "An Alternative History of Pittsburgh" by Ed Simon (w/ Sharon Dilworth) @ Online More information
April 24, 2021: Poetry Reading: Barbara Ras, Denise Duhamel, and Barbara Hamby @ Online More information
April 24, 2021: 4-Week (Online) Writing Workshop: About Poetry: A Crash Course w/ Jessica Fischoff @ Online More information
April 25, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
April 26, 2021: Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin @ Online More information
April 26, 2021: Riverstone Books' Monthly (Zoom) Bookclub: Sunflower Sisters @ Online More information
April 27, 2021: All Pittsburghers are Poets: Youth to the Front @ Online More information
April 27, 2021: Latinx & Proud! Reading Series ft. Eduardo C. Corral, Yesika Salgado, Edyka Chilomé, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal @ Online More information
April 27, 2021: Steel City Slam Open Mic & Hang via Zoom @ Online More information
April 28, 2021: Wednesday Webinars with Creative Nonfiction - The Self-Interview: Approaching Memoir Like a Journalist @ Online More information
April 28, 2021: Well-Read Black Girl Book Club @ Online More information
April 28, 2021: Reading & Conversation: Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief & Light by Maryanne O'Hara (w/ Julie Klam) @ Online More information
April 29, 2021: Poetry Workshop: Writing About the Black Experience @ Online More information
April 29, 2021: SCBWI PA West: All STEAMed UP! (With Jennifer Swanson and Shelby Lees) @ Online More information
April 29, 2021: Poetry Book Launch! "The Naomi Letters" by Rachel Mennies (w/ Chakraborty, Andrews, and Mohn-Slate) @ Online More information
April 30, 2021: Virtual Choreopoem Table Reading: "How To Exterminate the Black Woman" by Monica Prince @ Online More information
May 1, 2021: (Virtual) Authorpreneur Conference: Two days of education, art, and community @ Online More information
May 2, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
May 4, 2021: All Pittsburghers are Poets: Youth to the Front SHOWCASE @ Online More information
May 4, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 1: Ahmed, Carter-Jones, Oaks, Roffman, Weigl @ Online More information
May 5, 2021: Book Talk: "From a Taller Tower" by Seamus McGraw (w/ Beth Kissileff) @ Online More information
May 6, 2021: Poetry Reading: "Peach State" by Adrienne Su w/ Kazim Ali and Erika Meitner @ Online More information
May 6, 2021: Pittsburgh native Jeffrey Siger discusses A Deadly Twist @ Online More information
May 7, 2021: For the Whole Family: "Fred Gets Dressed" by Peter Brown More information
May 9, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
May 10, 2021: Author Walter Meyer: Experiencing Life as an Adventure @ Online More information
May 11, 2021: Death by Equine Launch with Annette Dashofy, in conversation with Donnell Ann Bell! @ Online More information
May 12, 2021: Penguin Bookshop Writers Series: Katherine St. John @ Online More information
May 13, 2021: Reading & Conversation: Karin Cecile Davidson ("Sybelia Drive") & William Lychack ("Cargill Falls") @ Online More information
May 14, 2021: 34th Annual Pennwriters Conference (Online)! @ Online More information
May 16, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
May 18, 2021: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures: Brian Broome @ Online More information
May 18, 2021: Penguin Bookshop Writers Series: A Conversation with Rafe Posey & Liberty Hardy @ Online More information
May 19, 2021: Writer Wednesdays: "Sand and Steel" by Dorit Sasson @ Online More information
May 19, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 2: Friend, Kane, Kerr, Rudolph, Suarez @ Online More information
May 20, 2021: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures: S. Brook Corfman @ Online More information
May 20, 2021: Penguin Evening Readers: BLOOD AND TREASURE @ Online More information
May 21, 2021: The Next Shift: Fall of Industry & Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America - BOOK TALK @ Online More information
May 23, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
May 24, 2021: Riverstone Books' Monthly Book Club - ZOOM ONLY @ Online More information
May 26, 2021: Well-Read Black Girl Book Club @ Online More information
May 27, 2021: For the Whole Family: "Mary Canary and the Worried Feeling" w/ Rachel Vinciguerra, Haley Fig Barber @ Online More information
May 30, 2021: The Poetry Atelier on ZOOM @ Online More information
June 1, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 3: Barnes, Barnett, Caballero, Rice, Solarczyk @ Online More information
June 2, 2021: Book Launch! "The Lucky List" by Rachael Lippincott (w/ Morgan Matson, "Take Me Home Tonight") @ Online More information
June 3, 2021: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures: Andy Norman @ Online More information
June 15, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 4: Padua, Simms, Squillante, Ussia, Walicki @ Online More information
June 16, 2021: WVU Press Party! Geoffrey Hilsabeck, Renée K. Nicholson, Shaun Slifer, Deesha Philyaw @ Online More information
June 24, 2021: Penguin Evening Readers: THE STARS WE SHARE @ Online More information
June 29, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 5: Buccilli, Corso, Irwin, Mennies, Shaw @ Online More information
June 30, 2021: Well-Read Black Girl Book Club @ Online More information
July 13, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 6: Allen, Dorsey, Kasdorf, Lin, Wesley @ Online More information
July 27, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 7: Grochalski, Harvey, Mohn-Slate, Taylor, Jr., Wilson @ Online More information
July 28, 2021: Well-Read Black Girl Book Club @ Online More information
August 10, 2021: Hemingway's 2021 Summer Poetry Series, Week 8: Corpuz, Gegick, Prince, Shapiro, Wray @ Online More information