Upcoming Events
2026
OCTOBER
Saturday, October 10 from 10:30 am to 2:00 pm
Presenting Leaf Town Forever with Beth Rooney in Book It!: Local Authors Book Fair at the Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL
NOVEMBER
Saturday, November 14 at 6:00 pm
Reading in An Inconvenient Hour
Monarch Cafe
7010 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL
Thursday, November 12 from 10:30 to 11:30 am
Presenting Man Overboard! in the Women’s Exchange Book Club
Winnetka Community House
620 N. Lincoln Ave.
Winnetka, IL
Sunday, November 22 at 7:00 pm
Reading in the Sunday Salon Series
Roscoe Books
2142 W. Roscoe Ave.
Chicago, IL
DECEMBER
Monday, December 14 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Presenting Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk in the historical fiction book club
by Zoom
Prospect Heights Public Library
Prospect Heights, IL
2027
MARCH
Wednesday, March 17 through Saturday, March 20, 2027
The AWP Conference
Chicago, IL
APRIL
Thursday, April 1 from 9:30 am to 12 noon
Teaching a workshop called Delicious Delays: How to Build Tension, Compression, and Suspense
Off Campus Writers Workshop
620 Lincoln Ave.
Winnetka, IL
Thursday, April 15 at 7:00 pm
Discussing Man Overboard! with Arlene Lynes from Read Between the Lynes and Susan Meissner
McHenry County Libraries National Library Week
McHenry County College Luecht Auditorium
8900 Northwest Hwy
Crystal Lake, IL