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From the Memphis Public Library: Calling all bookworms, literary enthusiasts, and fun lovers! Mark your calendars for 2024 Bookstock the Memphis Area Authors’ Festival, celebrating 10 years of local talent. Join us…
Read More Memphis Author Festival: BookStock 2024
The author will be on hand to discuss her new book and introduce some of the contributors next Tuesday, June 20, at Novel Memphis When…
Read More Talking Death, Life, and Angels with author Susan Cushman
The Memphis Area Authors’ Festival, celebrating over 10 Years of Local Authors, begins Saturday at 11AM in the main lobby of the Benjamin L. Hooks…
Read More Saturday at the Central Library, the Bookstock Author’s Festival is here!
Join Burke’s Books Saturday, April 29th for the 10th anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day. Burke’s will have exclusive Independent Bookstore Day items for sale, door…
Read More Celebrate with Burke’s: Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 29th
This poem originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. Kelsey Lane Paterson is passionate about creativity, taking care of our…
Read More Wolf River: A Poem
Poet, novelist and Burke’s Book Store owner, Corey Mesler, will be at Burke’s Book Store on Thursday, September 29th, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM to…
Read More Book-Signing & Reading at Burke’s: Corey Mesler and his new novel Cock-a-Hoop
From the National Civil Rights Museum: For the fifth year, the museum is proud to partner with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges-Hall to present the…
Read More I AM RUBY BRIDGES: Reading Festival This Saturday at the Civil Rights Museum
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Lamps do not have names – at least, most do not.…
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Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…
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The most useful interpretations of the past make history relevant and accessible to wide audiences. When authors use well-researched facts about Memphis’s complex history as…
Read More Memphis Historical Fiction with a Historian’s Stamp of Approval