MY FATHER’S LIST BOOK TOUR
Catch Laura on the road as she reads from My Father’s List at bookstores and events around America.
October 7–23
Greensboro, NC | One City, One Book Award Winner for 2025: Festival will be August through December; I will be there for a 16-day writer’s residency, participating in 20 or more author events, which will include interviews with NY Times best-selling authors as well as NBA player Chris Paul and Big Fish author Daniel Wallace; while there I will host a Modern Prairie Do the Thing Bucket List challenge, citywide, and will also curate a film festival and air a documentary based on My Father’s List)
august 27
Albuquerque, NM | SouthWest Writers (7:30 p.m. ET; workshop lesson with Writers Helping Writers: “My Father’s List: How I Finished My Late Dad’s List of Life Goals and Wrote a Successful Book About It”) | INFO
PAST EVENTS
June 1
Greenport, NY | Floyd Memorial Library (book presentation with author Jacob Cooper)
April 10
Catskills, NY | Writing Workshops (virtual guest speaker with memoirist Melissa Petro’s 12-week memoir class)
March 20
Millburn, NJ | Millburn High School (author talk with Millburn Writing Club)
october 24
Hamilton, NJ | Hamilton Farm Golf Club (author presentation for audience of 250, fundraiser for Friends of the Shelter) | INFO
September 25
New York, NY | American Society of Journalists and Authors (chosen for panel on “Building the Dreaded Book Platform”)
july 25
Asheville, NC | Malaprop’s Bookstore virtual talk for The Saddest Girl on the Beach (Heather Frese in conversation with Laura Carney)
June 17
Scarsdale, NY | Scarsdale Public Library (with author Karen DeBonis) | INFO
june 10
Falls Church, VA | Author talk with middle schoolers at Rachel Carson Middle School
may 21
Glen Ridge, NJ | Author talk with seniors at Glen Ridge High School
may 4
Montclair, NJ | Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival (local authors table)
maRch 28
Reston, VA | Why Not Today? Luncheon (interview with podcaster Leslie Kane)
march 26
Asheville, NC | Malaprop’s Bookstore off-site event at West Asheville Library (in conversation with Melanie Brooks)
March 9
Coopersburg, PA | Medina Books and Coffee (author talk and book signing)
January 20
Asheville, NC | Malaprop’s Bookstore (author signing with Melanie Brooks)
OCTOBER 27
Newark, DE | University of Delaware (talk with author and professor emeritus Ben Yagoda) | INFO
OCTOBER 14
Boston | Boston Book Festival Unbound ( “Shaping the Ache of Grief into the Beauty of Art” author panel with Alysia Abbott, Melanie Brooks, and Anne Pinkerton) | INFO
OCTOBER 11
Sedona, AZ | Sedona Public Library (in conversation with author Kiersten Parsons Hathcock) | INFO
OCTOBER 6
Santa Fe, NM | Garcia Street Books (talk with author Katie Arnold) | INFO
september 22
Los Angeles | Zibby’s Bookshop (author talk with Laura Cathcart Robbins)
September 19
New York, NY | Paragraph Union Square: Workspace for Writers (“Proposal to Print: Writers’ Publication Stories” with Laura Carney—virtual lesson for 50 students) | INFO
August 29
Seattle | University of Washington Bookstore (in conversation with Steve Fisher, host of the LifeSlices podcast) | INFO
AUGUST 25
Denver | Tattered Cover Book Store (Westminster) (in conversation with Tom Everson, executive director of Keep Kids Alive Drive 25) | INFO
AUGUST 20
Woodstock, NY | The Golden Notebook (in conversation with the bookstore’s Drew Broussard) | INFO
AUGUST 11
Chicago | The Book Cellar (in conversation with radio host, journalist, author and filmmaker Amy Güth) | INFO
JULY 29
Miami | Books and Books (in conversation with Caroline Gardner, host of the Why We Tri podcast ) | INFO
July 27
Atlanta | Bookish (in conversation with filmmaker Gerik Gooch)
JULY 26
Asheville, NC | Malaprop’s Bookstore off-site event at West Asheville Library (in conversation with author Ann Batchelder) | INFO
JULY 22
Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Bound Literary Festival (in conversation with author James Tate Hill) | INFO
JULY 12
St. Louis | Left Bank Books (in conversation with journalist and documentarian Jeff Truesdell) | INFO
JULY 6
Philadelphia | Booked (in conversation with artist Sarah Detweiler Farrugia)
JULY 1
Bayville, NJ | Miss Mindy’s Homemade Ice Cream (reading and 5K running event) | INFO
JUNE 24
Wilmington, DE | Barnes & Noble (reading)| INFO
June 18
Lancaster, PA | Pocket Books Shop (author talk with Jamie Beth Cohen)
JUNE 17
Baltimore | Atomic Books (with author and gallerist Nicole Shea) | INFO
JUNE 14
Montclair, NJ | Watchung Booksellers (in conversation with Jim Axelrod of CBS News) | INFO