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News & Events

19 Nov

2023

Miami Book Fair

1 Oct

2023

Brooklyn Book Festival

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 virtual event or attend an in-person watch party.

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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 one hour. A booksigning will follow the program.

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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.

17 Apr

2023

In conversation with Saeed Jones

Gramercy Books hosts noted poet and essayist Maggie Smith for the launch of her memoir, in conversation with Saeed Jones.

15 Apr

2023

In conversation with Jeannine Ouellette

Join us in welcoming poet, Maggie Smith for the launch of her new memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Maggie will read from her new book and be in conversation with Jeannine Ouellette, followed by a signing.

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14 Apr

2023

In conversation with Irina Reyn

White Whale welcomes Maggie Smith back to Pittsburgh, live and in person, for her memoir YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL!

13 Apr

2023

In conversation with Kate Baer

In store event hosted by Politics & Prose in Washington, DC

12 Apr

2023

In conversation with Mary Laura Philpott

Parnassus Books is pleased to present Maggie Smith, in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, to discuss Maggie’s new book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. This is a ticketed event. Each ticket is $31.00, and comes with one general admission seat and a signed copy of You Could Make This Place Beautiful. A ticket is required for […]

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11 Apr

2023

In conversation with Leslie Jamison

In person and streaming to YouTube, the event is hosted by Books Are Magic in Brooklyn.

22 Mar

2023

Bryn Mawr Reading Series

Since 1985, Bryn Mawr College has hosted major American and international authors whose works have earned Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and many other distinctions.

1 Jun

2022

Signed and Personalized Books Now Available

Maggie’s local independent bookstore, Gramercy Books, is now the exclusive online source for signed, personalized copies of Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and Good Bones. Now you can order books for yourself or copies to give as gifts, and she will personalize them for you–and as an added bonus, you’ll be supporting an indie bookstore. Click the link below for more […]

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26 Mar

2022

2022 AWP Conference

Our wounds are the openings to our deepest selves. The craving for connection in these soft and tender places and the instinct to seek out witnesses to our scars are universal. But how can we ensure we are writing toward healing, rather than retraumatization? And how do we write ethically about those who have hurt […]

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