UPCOMING Events
Thursday, October 26, 7pm EST
In-Person Event: Trias Reading Series, Hobert and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Thursday, November 9, 6pm CST
In-Person Event: Book Talk, presented by the Next Generation Society of the ACLU, Haymarket House, Chicago, IL
2024
Thursday, March 7, 4:30pm CST
In-Person Event: Robert J. and Katherin Carr Visiting Author Series, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Past Events
2023
Friday, February 24, 7pm CST
In-Person Event: In conversation with Szilvia Molnar, Book People, Austin, TX
Saturday, February 25, 6pm CST
In conversation with Rachel Stuckey Slaton
In-Person Event: Two Friends Books, Bentonville, AR
Monday, February 27, 7pm CST
In conversation with Kelly Brown
In-Person Event: Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK
McKeon Center for Creativity (910 S. Boston Avenue)
Thursday, March 9, 7pm PST
In-Person Event: In conversation with Angela Garbes, Third Place Books, Seward Park, WA
Friday, March 10, 10:35am PST
In-Person Event: Writing Motherhood in Post-Roe America, with Claire Dederer, Sonora Jha, Angela Garbes, sponsored by Hugo House, AWP Conference, Seattle, WA
Sunday, March 11, 1:45pm PST
In-Person Event: The Future Is Now—Near Future Speculative Fiction, with Brenda Peynado, Jamie Ford, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Erin Swan,
AWP Conference, Seattle, WA
Monday, March 13, 7pm PST
In-Person Event: In conversation with Sarah Marshall, Powell's Books, Portland, OR
Wednesday, March 15, 7:30pm EST
Virtual Event: In conversation with Lyn Liao Butler, The Friends of the North Castle Public Library Speaker Series
Tuesday, March 21, 7pm CST (rescheduled from Feb. 7)
In-Person Event: In conversation with Erika Sánchez, Semicolon Bookstore, Chicago, IL
Friday, March 24, 7:30pm EST (rescheduled from Feb. 10)
In-Person Event: In conversation with Michelle Min Sterling, All She Wrote Books, Somerville, MA
Sunday, April 23, 3pm PST
In-person panel (requires ticket): Fiction: The Mother-Daughter Dance, Panel 2114, in conversation with Ramona Ausubel, Mary Otis, Miwa Messer, LA Times Festival of Books, Taper Hall 201
Friday, April 28, 7pm EST (rescheduled from Feb. 8)
In-Person Event: In conversation with Jia Tolentino, P&T Knitwear, NYC
Saturday, May 13, Noon CST
In-Person Event: In conversation with Deborah Shapiro, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL
co-sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation
Saturday, August 5 and Sunday, August 6
In-person events: Martha's Vineyard Book Festival
Wednesday, September 27, 4:30pm EST
In-Person Event: Art as Advocacy: Family Policing & The Dystopia of Today, a conversation with Dr. Dorothy Roberts, moderated by Riya Saha Shah, hosted by the Juvenile Law Center, University of the Arts, Harriett's Bookshop, Ida's Bookshop, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Wednesday, January 5, 5pm PST
Jessamine Chan in conversation with Rachel Yoder, Powell’s
Virtual event: Zoom Webinar Register
Friday, January 7, 12:30pm CST
Virtual Event: Taylor Harris in Conversation with Jessamine Chan, Women & Children First
Register
Tuesday, January 11, 1:00pm PST
In conversation with Chloe Cooper Jones, Book Passage
Live Online
Wednesday, January 12, 7pm CST
Virtual Book Launch: in conversation with Qian Julie Wang, Women & Children First
Register
Thursday, Jan 20, 7pm PST
Virtual Event: In Conversation with Alissa Nutting, Skylight Books
Register
Thursday, January 27, 7:30 PM EST
In-Person Event: In Conversation with Liz Moore, Free Library of Philadelphia
(Free) Tickets
Friday, January 28, 7PM EST Tickets
In-Person Event: In Conversation with Kate Baer, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA
Monday, January 31
Jessamine Chan joins Book Club Favorites on Facebook Live to discuss the novel
RSVP
Thursday, February 3, 7pm EST
Virtual Event: In Conversation with Julia Phillips, The Center for Fiction
Friday, February 4, 2022, 7pm EST
Virtual Event: In Conversation: Jessamine Chan, Jean Chen Ho, Weike Wang, Asian American Writers' Workshop
Tue, February 8, 2022, 7pm CST
Virtual Event: In Conversation with Megan Giddings, Politics & Prose
Wednesday, February 9, 7pm PST
Virtual event: INCITE: Hot Bestsellers with Nita Prose and Jessamine Chan, moderated by Ashley Audrain, Vancouver Writers Festival
Thursday, February 10, 7pm EST
Virtual event: 85 Queen: An Evening with Jessamine Chan, in conversation with Hannah Sung, Kitchener Public Library
Thursday, March 10, 2pm CST
Virtual Event: Jo Harkin in conversation with Jessamine Chan, Book Soup
Wednesday, March 16th, 6:30pm MST
In-Person Panel: Debuts to Devour: Jessamine Chan, Ariel Dixon Delgado, & Kai Harris, Tattered Cover, Denver: Colfax location
Sunday, March 20, 2-4pm CST
In-person benefit reading: The Freya Project: A Time You Felt Joy, Hopleaf, Chicago, IL
Friday, March 25, 12pm EST
VIRTUAL EVENT: In Conversation with Aparita Bhandari, Toronto Public Library
Sunday, April 10, 4pm PST
Virtual Event: Chloe Cooper Jones in conversation with Jessamine Chan, Book Passage
Saturday, April 23, 11am PST
In-person panel (requires ticket): Fiction: Struggles and Strength - Panel 1081, in conversation with Jackie Polzin, Miwa Messer, Jennifer Haigh, Yoon Choi, LA Times Festival of Books, Selley G Mudd 124
Saturday, April 30, 5:30 PM CST
In-person benefit: Ragdale Novel Affair, Shoreacres, Lake Forest, IL
Wednesday, May 25, 7pm CST
Virtual Event: Illinois Libraries Present: An Evening with Jessamine Chan & Emily Maloney
Friday, May 27, 12pm CST
In-person and Virtual: Authors on Tap: Emma Straub, in conversation with Jessamine Chan, Exile in Bookville, Chicago, IL
Tuesday, August 16, 7pm CST
In-Person Event: Megan Giddings in conversation with Jessamine Chan, Women & Children First
Saturday, September 10
In-Person Event: Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, IL (details to be announced)
Sunday, September 11, 1pm EST
Virtual Event: So you want to be a mother?: Alexis Schaitkin and Jessamine Chan, moderated by Ashley Audrain, Salem Literary Festival
Sunday, September 25
Virtual Festival Day: Police State: Jessamine Chan, Lidia Yuknavitch, Mat Johnson, moderated by Hirsh Sawhney, Brooklyn Book Festival
Saturday, October 1, 11am EST
In-Person Event: In a Perfect World: Good Moms and Bad Days: in conversation with Y.S. Lee, Kingston WritersFest, Bellevue Room
Sunday, October 2, 1:30pm EST
In-Person Event: Female Freedom: Martha Bátiz & Jessamine Chan, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Thursday, October 13, 7pm
In-Person Event: Parenthood, Perfectionism, and Privilege: Being a Mother in the 21st Century: Bonnie Garmus and Jessamine Chan, moderated by Candice Braithwaite, AllBright Club, London
Friday, October 14, 2pm
In-Person Event: The Parent Novel as Political Novel: Celeste Ng, Peter Ho Davies, Jessamine Chan, moderated by Clare Clark, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Town Hall, Pillar Room
Sunday, October 16, 1:30pm
In-Person Event: Grave New World: Dystopias Around the Globe: Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Abdourahman Waberi, Jessamine Chan, moderated by Ann Morgan, Cheltenham Literature Festival, TownHall Baillie Gifford Stage
Saturday, October 22, 2:45pm
In-Person Event: Semicolon LitFest, in conversation with DJ Johnson
Chicago IL
Sunday, November 20, 7pm CST
In-Person Event: Sunday Salon, hosted at The Reveler, Chicago, IL
