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News & Events

3 Jun

2024

Local Paperback Memoir Release

You Could Make This Place Beautiful will be out in paperback on June 4, but Columbus-area readers can buy the paperback and have it signed one day early on June...

11 May

2024

Longleaf Writers Conference

Maggie Smith will be the Visiting Writer at the 2024 Longleaf Writers Conference, May 11-18 in Seaside, Florida.

25 Apr

2024

Maggie Smith & Joy Harjo in Conversation

Keyholder is The Women’s Fund’s signature annual fundraiser. Keyholder brings together 1,000+ champions for gender equity each year to hear from guest speakers who are paving the way for change....

15 Apr

2024

National Poetry Series Fundraiser

Maggie Smith will join Imani Perry, Natasha Trethewey, Michael Cunningham, and Shangri-La Hou, one of five National Student Poets for 2023-2024, in St. Louis to celebrate the power of poetry. 

OAC Individual Excellence Award

The Ohio Arts Council has awarded Maggie Smith a $5000 Individual Excellence Award in Creative Nonfiction for 2024. Individual Excellence Award funding recommendations are made through an anonymous, open panel...

28 Feb

2024

The Best American Poetry 2024

Mary Jo Salter, guest editor, has chosen Maggie Smith’s poem “Hope Chest” from American Poetry Review for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2024. The Best American Poetry series has been...

25 Feb

2024

Storytime Picture Book Launch

Join us for this family friendly celebration of Maggie Smith’s picture book debut, My Thoughts Have Wings, a lyrical and reassuring picture book perfect for calming anxious minds at bedtime (or...

7 Feb

2024

AWP conference

Maggie Smith has two panels and one offsite event at the AWP Conference in Kansas City. See AWP website for full schedule and details.

18 Nov

2023

Miami Book Fair

Dani Shapiro’s ’Family Secrets’: Live with guest Maggie Smith

2 Nov

2023

Raymond J. Hanley Award

Maggie Smith has been selected as the 15th recipient of the Raymond J. Hanley Award. The annual award from the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (GCAC) Raymond J. Hanley Fund at...

1 Oct

2023

Brooklyn Book Festival

Maggie Smith in conversation with Lauren Christensen

19 Aug

2023

Mississippi Book Festival

Memoir panel with Harrison Scott Key, Hannah Pittard, and Helen Ellis, moderated by Beth Ann Fennelly

8 May

2023

In conversation with Laurie Kincer – Cleveland

Join the Cuyahoga County Public Library when author and poet Maggie Smith visits to discuss her latest memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

29 Apr

2023

In conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

This event will be hosted in person at Book Passage’s Corte Madera Store, and streamed online.

28 Apr

2023

In conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff

Vroman’s Pasadena welcomes Maggie Smith to celebrate the launch of her new memoir.

26 Apr

2023

Virtual Conversation with Elissa Altman

Barrett Bookstore and Main Street Books are partnering to bring award-winning poet Maggie Smith to you for a virtual conversation with James Beard Award-winning author Elissa Altman. Readers can watch the...

23 Apr

2023

In Conversation with Traci Brimhall

Maggie Smith will be In conversation with Traci Brimhall, 2023 to 2026 Poet Laureate for Kansas, about Maggie’s new book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir.  The conversation & presentation will last approximately...

22 Apr

2023

In conversation with Megan Stielstra

Women & Children First is excited to welcome Maggie Smith for a reading, conversation and book-signing in honor of her forthcoming memoir.

21 Apr

2023

In conversation with Erika Meitner

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful. In conversation with UW-Madison Professor Erika Meitner. Cosponsored by Woodland Pattern Book Center.

19 Apr

2023

At Home with Literati: Jennifer Michael Hecht & Maggie Smith

Literati Bookstore is pleased to welcome Jennifer Michael Hecht to our At Home with Literati Series in support of The Wonder Paradox. She will be joined in conversation by Maggie Smith.

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