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WLP Pub Series: How to Get a (Cool) Job: Recent Alumni on Finding Success

Story Club Boston

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Ayesha Harruna Attah in conversation with Zoë Gadegbeku at the BPL

Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Writing Night

Libby Franck Featured at Story Space Tue 02/26/2019

Mandeliene Smith presents RUTTING SEASON at Porter Square Books

Craig Morgan Teicher & Natalie Shapero at Belmont Books

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Jane Brox and DeWitt Henry Reading and Discussion

A Poetry Reading with Martha Collins + Crystal Williams

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Tui Sutherland Launch at Belmont Books

Taft Public Library Presents The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

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Emma Wunsch and Gail Donovan at Belmont Books

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Reading with Lauren Wilkinson at the BPL

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Boston Immigrant Writer’s Salon

Matthew Dicks Featured at Story Space Tue 03/05/2019

Christopher Castellani in conversation with Marianne Leone

Carmen Maria Machado

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Prize-Winning Poet Mark Halliday: Robert Lowell Memorial Reading Series

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Rebel Girls and Nasty Women: American women writers and literary activism

Whitney Scharer in conversation with Jessica Shattuck

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Author Talk and Book Signing with Dina Vargo

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Reading with Patrick Reddan Keefe at the BPL

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WLP Reading Series: Evie Shockley Q&A

WLP Reading Series: Evie Shockley Reading

Sara deBeer Featured at Story Space Tue 03/12/2019

Benjamin Dreyer at Belmont Books

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Newtonville Books Presents The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

Kimberly Kruge and Nathan McClain at Belmont Books

Blackout Political Poetry Night with Mass Poetry!

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WLP Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: Poetry Celebration

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The Clearing

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Harlan Coben new book event with Hank Phillippi Ryan

Writing the Heroine’s Journey: In Memoir, Poetry, Prose & Drama

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Evie Shockley Reading and Q&A

Kathryn Lasky in conversation with Karen Kosko

Joe Keane Featured at Story Space Tue 03/19/2019

March U35 Reading w/Mass Poetry

Asja Bakić’s MARS Reading

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Emerson College Reading Series: Kim McLarin and Edwin Hill

WLP Faculty/Alumni Series: Kim McLarin & Edwin Hill

Christopher Castellani in conversation with Marianne Leone

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Reading with Michael Longley at the BPL

WLP Scholar Series: Dorothy Kim

Holi Celebration at Belmont Books

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Kid’s Book Club at Belmont Books: New Kid

Boxford Town Library Presents Crystal King

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Gary Grossman Reading, Q&A and Signing

Reading with Frye Gaillard at the BPL

Mass Poetry’s Evening of Inspired Leaders

Book Club at Belmont Books: Killers of the Flower Moon

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Kiese Laymon Reading and Q&A

Waltham Public Library Presents The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

Cindy Rivka Marshall Featured at Story Space Tue 03/26/2019

Kim Savage at Belmont Books

Kim Savage in conversation with Vanessa Linsey

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Susan Conley in conversation with Maryanne O’Hara

Susan Conley in conversation with Maryanne O’Hara

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Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance: Nancy Drew and the Power of the Teenage Girl w/author Lynne Byall Benson

Mathangi Subramanian at Belmont Books

Mathangi Subramanian at Belmont Books

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Lesléa Newman at Belmont Books

Author Event with Rosalyn Elder: African American Heritage in MA

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