Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
The Crooked Shelf Books & Brews, Statesville, NC. Well Read Women book club/author event. 10:30am ET. Details here.
NOVEMBER 19, 2026
Mooresville Public Library 2026 Fall Speaker Series. November guest speaker. 6:30pm ET, Charles Mack Citizen Center, Merchant Room, Mooresville, NC. Details and directions here.
SELECTED PAST EVENTS & LINKS
Possumtown Book Fest, hosted by Friendly City Books. Columbus, Mississippi.
Hickory Friends of the Library 2026 Author Talk & Annual Meeting. Patrick Beaver Memorial Library, Hickory, NC.
2026 Gaston County Friends of the Library Gala. Gastonia, NC. Guest Speakers: Authors Joy Callaway (Sing Me Home to Carolina), Meagan Church (The Mad Wife), and Kelly Mustian (The River Knows Your Name).
2025 Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA.
The Back Room. Lou Berney, Kristin L. Berry, Kelly Mustian & Chevy Stevens. Hosted by Karen Dionne and Hank Phillippi Ryan. Watch here.
2025 Southern Festival of Books (presented by Vanderbilt University), Nashville, TN.
On the Same Page Book Festival, West Jefferson, NC.
Backroads Noir Gathering: For Mystery & Southern Gothic Readers. Hosted by the Greensboro Public Library. Revolution Mill, Greensboro, NC.
Litchfield Books, Pawley’s Island, SC.
Authors on the Air Global Radio Network’s Now, Appalachia podcast featuring authors with ties to Appalachia. Host: Eliot Parker. Listen to the episode here.
Charles R. Jonas Library, Lincolnton, NC. “A Conversation with Kelly Mustian.”
Reads by the River bookstore/Waterford Public Library (Waterford, Wisconsin) Independent Bookstore Day event. Panelists: Tod Lending, Kelly Mustian, Embassie Susberry.
Jacksonville Public Library, Lit Chat with Kelly Mustian. Interviewer: Jane Wood. Neptune Beach, FL.
The Back Room with authors Elise Hooper, Alka Joshi, Kelly Mustian, and Nita Prose. Hosts: Karen Dionne and Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Main Street Books (Davidson, NC). In conversation with Adah Fitzgerald.
Launch event for The River Knows Your Name. Hosted by The Country Bookshop at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Southern Pines, NC.
North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference faculty. Course Topic: Writing Atmospheric Fiction. Charlotte, NC.
Lee Smith Speakers Series, Buchanan County Public Library, Grundy, VA.
Roundtable panel with David Wright Faladé (Black Cloud Rising), Kelly Mustian (The Girls in the Stilt House), and Ashleigh Bell Pedersen (The Crocodile Bride). Hosted by the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Watch here.
Hoopla Winter 2022 Spotlight author event featuring Spotlight selection The Girls in the Stilt House. In conversation with author Karen Dionne (The Marsh King’s Daughter, The Wicked Sister). Watch here.
Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island Author Series. Watch here.
Main Street Books (Davidson, NC). In conversation with Ash Davidson about her novel, Damnation Spring. Watch here.
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