Lit/Books

National Book Award winner  to address Transylvania convocation on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. In the mean time: check-out our 2011 interview with Nikky Finney by Bianca Spriggs!

Kentucky Women Writers Conference September 20 through September 23, 2012 The 34th Kentucky Women Writers Conference Daytime sessions, Carnegie Center. Evening events at various locations. Featured Presenters Kim Addonizio * Tara Betts * Sallie Bingham Karen Joy Fowler * dream hampton Rebecca Gayle Howell * Debra Gwartney * Julia Johnson Kelly Link * Ruth Reichl […]

Holler 52 Al's Bar corner of Sixth and Limestone

P. Faye Collins signs A Wine Lover's Odyssey Across Kentucky. In 1990, Kentucky had no commercial wineries. Today, there are around sixty wineries in the state with more on the horizon. 6 pm: sample local wines and cheeses with the author. Tickets will be $8 at the door of the Bronte Bistro. Signing event will […]

Country music's Kenny Rogers signs his memoir Luck or Something Like It. 3 pm Joseph Beth Booksellers (ticketed event)

The celebration begins on October 12 at 7:00 PM with the InKY reading series at The Bard’s Town Restaurant at1801 Bardstown Rd, Louisville, KY, featuring poet Maurice Manning and fiction writer Crystal Wilkinson. Highlights on Saturday, the 13th include the Writer’s Block Conversation featuring Jim Higdon, author of The Cornbread Mafia and Keynote Reader Anis […]

Saturday, October 13th, 2012 Fenton Johnson will be conducting a seminar entitled "Read Like A Writer" at Lexington, Kentucky's Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning at 10 am. Click here to read 'The Triumphant Return of Fenton Johnson' from the Ace Archives.    

Eugene Johnson and Jason Sizemore discuss and sign Appalachian Undead: An Anthology of Zombie Horrors Friday, October 26 at 7:00 pm Joseph-Beth Booksellers 161 Lexington Green Circle Lexington, KY 40503 aceweekly.com Lexington, Kentucky October events calendar

Saturday, October 27th, 2012 Lexington, Kentucky's Wild Fig Books will host writers George Ella Lyon and Pauletta Hansel, for a reading and book-signing, at 4 p.m. The writers have been long-time friends and will read from their most recent books and sign their books. Click here to read Ace's archive article 'Kentucky author George Ella Lyon […]

David Toczko discussing and signing The Ambassador of Bourbon: Maker's Mark and the Rebirth of America's Native Spirit Sunday, October 28 at 2:00 pm Featuring photography of the famous distillery at the Star Hill Farm in Loretto, Kentucky from from photographer David Toczko.

Monday, November 5th, 2012 Michael Cairo will be discussing and signing his book The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East at Lexington, Kentucky's Joseph Beth Booksellers at 7 pm.

Creative Intelligence Lecture Series: David Gillham, author of "City of Women" 4:30 p.m. Location: Cowgill Center, room 102 David Gillham will discuss his book "City of Women"

November 10th, 2012 the Kentucky Book Fair will be held at Frankfort, Kentucky’s Convention Center from 9 am to 4.30 pm.

Saturday, November 17th, 2012 Al Smith and Milton Toby will be signing their latest books at Lexington, Kentucky's Morris Books at 2 pm. Al Smith's latest memoir, "Kentucky Cured," covers his journalism career and life in Kentucky. Milton Toby's book "Noor: A Champion Thoroughbred's Unlikely Journey from California to Kentucky," is the story of the […]

Feminist/philosopher/educator Bell Hooks will sign her latest collection of poetry Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place November 19 5:30 pm Wild Fig Books Meadowthorpe

Friday November 23, 2012, 7 pm Oliver North discussing and signing Heroes Proved Novel. This is a ticketed event. Line tickets are free and available with the purchase of Heroes Proved, available November 20th, at Joseph-Beth Booksellers. Vouchers for the book will be available Tuesday, October 23rd and will come with a line ticket. aceweekly.com […]

Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Abigail Keam will be signing her book Death by Bourbon at Lexington, Kentucky's Joseph Beth Booksellers at 2 pm.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 the Holler Poet Series will be hosted at Lexington, Kentucky's Al's Bar at 8 pm. Holler 54 features the debut of Filmmaker and creative writing professor Tom Marksbury, the return of Jason Howard celebrating the recent release of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music.

Saturday, December 1st, 2012 Rona Roberts and Randal Rock will be signing books at Lexington, Kentucky's Good Foods Co-op at 11 am. Join Rona Roberts and Randal Rock for a book signing and sorghum tasting. Roberts, of Savoring Kentucky, will be signing copies of her book Sweet, Sweet Sorghum and sampling delicious sorghum with Rock […]

Saturday, December 1st, 2012 Louisville's Sean Patrick Hill signs "Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge: Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast" at Lexington, Kentucky's Morris Books at 2 pm.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 Lexington humorist Whitney Collins signs her first book, "The Hamster Won't Die: A Treasury of Feral Humor" at Lexington, Kentucky's Morris Books at 2 pm.  

Saturday, December 8th, 2012 Lexington, Kentucky's Morris Book shop presents a showcase of authors from Kentucky's own Wind Publications from 3 pm to 5 pm. Steven Cope will sign a new collection of children's poems—CROW 2: More Adventures from the Cornfield; Georgia Green Stamper will sign Butter in the Morning, her second collection of essays; […]

Sunday, December 9th, 2012 Peter Williams will be signing his book "Peter Williams Retrospective" at Lexington, Kentucky's Morris Book Shop from 2 to 4 pm.  

Sunday, December 9th, 2012 Poets Teneice Delgado and Leigh Anne Hornfeldt will be holding a reading and an open mic at Lexington, Kentucky's Wild Fig Books. The open mic begins at 6 pm, before the reading.

From Saturday, December 15th through Monday, December 31st, 2012 The Lexington Central Public Library with be offering a chance for you to "Read Off Your Fines". “Read Off Your Fines” allows any customer to read off overdue fines at the rate of $8 per hour. Customers must first check in at a reference or children’s […]

Sunday, January 6 KEVIN WILSON reading at 7:30 p.m. (free and open to the public) The Magnolia Room, Main Floor downtown Lexington Hilton 369 West Vine Street, Lexington part of the Bluegrass Writers Studio 2013 Winter Residency from January 2nd to January 12th, 2013 co-sponsored by Lexington's Carnegie Center

Monday, January 7 ANNE PANNING reading at 7:30 p.m. (free and open to the public) Triple Crown Room, Atrium Level downtown Lexington Hilton 369 West Vine Street, Lexington part of the Bluegrass Writers Studio 2013 Winter Residency from January 2nd to January 12th, 2013 co-sponsored by Lexington's Carnegie Center