The first-ever Adoptee Literary Festival is free and online. Register at adopteelitfest.com.

11:00 Creative Nonfiction/Jounalism

12:45-1:45 Middle Grade/Young Adult

2:30-3:30 Poetry

4:15-5:15 Fiction:: Lauren Sharkey, Lisa Bird-Wilson, and Matthew Salesses, moderated by me.

6:00-7:00 Memoir

8:00-9:00 Keynote Speaker: Nicole Chung w/ Matthew Salesses

Solveig Eggerz (Sigga of Reykjavik), Melanie Hatter (Malawi’s Sisters), Leslie Rollins (Good-Time Girl) and I discuss writing strong female protagonists with moderator Bethanne Patrick. See here for more details.

Livestreamed across continents, Eugenia Kim and Alice Stephens discuss their Korean roots and the ways in which identity and personal experience have shaped their latest novels, Kim’s The Kinship of Secrets and Stephens’ debut novel Famous Adopted People. This event is in partnership with Mason Korea’s Sondong campus and will be livestreamed. More details here.

Thrilled to be reading at this new pop-up bookstore in downtown Silver Spring. Please support Loyalty so that it will stay permanently in the neighborhood.

Join me for a reading with Eugenia Kim and Julayne Lee at AAWW (112 W 27th Street, Suite 600, New York). Click here for more details.

Join me and many other illustrious authors at the National Press Club’s 41st Annual Book Fair and Author’s night. Browse this year’s hottest books, chat with the authors, and get your holiday shopping done. Tickets are $5 for NPC and Politics & Prose members, $10 for the public. Tickets may be bought online or at the door.

The Book Launch for Famous Adopted People will be held at Politics & Prose Bookstore (5015 Connecticut Ave NW) on Sunday, October 28, 2018, from 5-6pm.  Hope you can make it!