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Previous Events

OCT. 21, 2025 | BATON ROUGE, LA
18th Annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Public Ceremony
The  Manship Theater in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette Street, Downtown Baton Rouge

OCT. 21, 2025 | BATON ROUGE, LA
Paws to Read: Author Talk and Q&A with Essie Chambers
Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC), 201 Community College Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806

SEPT. 19-21, 2025 | PROVINCETOWN, MA
9th Annual Provincetown Book Festival
Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial Street

JULY 29, 2025 | VINEYARD HAVEN, MA
An Evening with Essie Chambers
Vineyard Haven Public Library at the Katharine Cornell Theater, Buffalo, NY 14228

JUNE 26, 2025 | BERLIN, GERMANY
One More Chapter Book Signing with Essie Chambers
Interkontinental, Sonntagstr. 26, 10245 Berlin

JUNE 16, 2025 | GREENFIELD, MA
The LAVA Center Book Club: Author Reading and Q&A
324 Main St, Greenfield, MA 01301

JUNE 9, 2025 | BROOKLYN, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series
766 Franklin Avenue, 618 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238

MAY 17, 2025 | GAITHERSBURG, MD
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Bohrer Park, 506 S Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

MAY 8, 2025 | BROOKLYN, NY
Paperback Launch & Reading with Essie Chambers, Melissa Mogollon, Dawnie Walton and Cleyvis Natera
Powerhouse Arena (Dumbo), 28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

APRIL 25-27, 2025 |  NEWBURYPORT, MA
Newburyport Literary Festival
Coming of Age in New England: A Debut Fiction Panel with Authors Maggie Thrash and Essie Chambers with Moderator Liberty Hardy
Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA 01950

MARCH 22, 2025 | PASADENA, CA
Pasadena Festival of Women Authors
Pasadena Hilton, 168 S Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101

MAR. 6, 2025 | WASHINGTON, DC
Bloombars & Mahogany Books Present:
Book Talk | Reading | Signing with Essie Chambers
3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20010

MAR. 5, 2025 | NEW YORK, NY
Today Show: Celebrating Read with Jenna’s 6th Anniversary (Essie Chambers in Studio)
30 Rockefeller Plaza

FEB. 4, 2025 | NEW YORK, NY
Rachel Lyon presents Fruit of the Dead: A Paperback Launch and Reading
(In Conversation with Essie Chambers, Crystal Hana Kim, Nayantara Roy, and Lena Valencia)
P&T Knitwear, Pasadena Hilton, 168 S Los Robles Ave.

JAN. 25-26, 2025 | WINSTON SALEM, NC
13th Annual Movable Feast
Reynolds Place Theatre (inside Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts)
251 North Spruce Street

JAN. 16, 2025 | MOBILE, AL
An Evening with Essie Chambers & the Friends of the Mobile Public Library
Ben May Main Library, 701 Government St.

2024

DEC. 3, 2024 | NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI
Read with Robin: The Cardigan Connection
Gooseneck Vineyards, 1340 Tower Hill Rd.

NOV. 21, 2024 | NEW YORK, NY
Pete’s Reading Series
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St.

NOV. 20, 2024 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Boston.com Book Club Discussion: “Swift River” with Essie Chambers

NOV. 7, 2024 | CHARLOTTE, NC
Verse & Vino
Presented by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation
Charlotte Convention Center, 
501 S College St., Charlotte, NC 28202

OCT. 26, 2024 | NEW YORK, NY
Well Read Black Girl Festival
Broadening the Bookshelf: Celebrating 100 Years of Storytelling at S&S
Panel Presented by Simon & Schuster
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Queens NY, 11106

OCT. 18-19, 2024  |  MORRISTOWN, NJ
Morristown Festival of Books
Various Morristown, NJ locations

SEPT. 28, 2024 | WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors
Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, 251 N. Spruce Street

SEPT. 21, 2024 | BECKET, MA
The Dream Away Reading Series with Essie Chambers, Ellen Meeropol, & Nerissa Neilds
1342 County Rd.

AUGUST 24, 2024 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Diverse Spines IG LIVE Book Chat with Essie Chambers

AUGUST 10, 2024 | MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA
Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival
Island Inn Conference Center (31 Island Inn)

AUGUST 1, 2024 | ATLANTA, GA
The National Book Club Conference
(Westin Buckhead Atlanta, 3391 Peachtree Rd NE)

JULY 15 – 29, 2024 | VIRTUAL EVENT
FANE presents A Night In with Essie Chambers
Hosted by Curtis Sittenfeld

JUNE 29, 2024 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Book Passage Corte Madera (51 Tamal Vista Blvd.)
In conversation with Anita Gail Jones

JUNE 28, 2024 | LOS ANGELES, CA
Book Soup (8818 Sunset Blvd.)
In conversation with Monica West

JUNE 24, 2024 | MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Magers & Quinn Booksellers (3038 Hennepin Ave)
In conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld

JUNE 20, 2024 | NEW YORK, NY
Today Show: Read with Jenna (Essie Chambers in Studio)
30 Rockefeller Plaza

JUNE 14, 2024 | CAMBRIDGE, MA
Harvard Books (1256 Massachusetts Ave.)
In conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

JUNE 13, 2024 | SOUTH HADLEY, MA
Odyssey Bookshop (9 College St.)

JUNE 12, 2024 | GREENFIELD, MA
Greenfield Public Library (412 Main Street)
(Co-hosted by Imaginary Bookshop)

JUNE 11, 2024 | WARWICK, RI
10th Annual Summer With Robin
Warwick Country Club (394 Narragansett Bay Ave.)

JUNE 10, 2024 | WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mahogany Books x Bloombars (1231 Good Hope Road Southeast)
In conversation with Jamise Harper

JUNE 6, 2024 | BROOKLYN, NY
Books Are Magic (122 Montague Street)
In conversation with Dawnie Walton

JUNE 4, 2024 | NEW YORK, NY
Barnes & Noble (Upper East Side, 1550 3rd Avenue)
In conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn