I’ll be discussing Trust Me at a ceremony to celebrate the 2024 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, at the University of Hartford: https://www.hartford.edu/academics/schools-colleges/arts-sciences/academics/departments-and-centers/greenberg-center-for-judaic-studies/edward-Lewis-Wallant-award.aspx

If you’re in Hood River, come say hi! I’ll be discussion Trust Me with the amazing Laura Stanfill: https://www.columbiaarts.org/gorgebookfestival2025

Excited to read with Joe Wilkins, whose new novel The Entire Sky is a complex and gorgeous exploration of masculinity and family in the American West.

I’ll be reading at this amazing long-running reading event to raise funds to fight hunger in the mid-valley. Majestic Theater, downtown Corvallis. More info here: https://www.magicbarrel.org/

I’ll be reading at the Bush Barn Annex as part of the Salem Poetry Project and to raise funds for the reboot of the Salem Poetry Festival, returning next spring. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/share/tzHj92xD7y9FxKBX/.

I’ll be reading and in conversation with Laura Stanfill, publisher extraordinaire and author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary at the Sisters Movie House. More info here: https://www.sistersfob.org/author-readings.

This is a virtual event and a fundraiser for the Willamette Heritage Center. I’ll be giving a talk titled, “Mining the Gaps: How a Fiction Writer Re-Imagines History,” which will explore the motivations for and approaches to writing about historical subjects in fiction, the dual roles of research and the imagination, and questions of accuracy and authenticity. In particular, I will address the types of gaps in the historical record that provide rich points of entry for invention, with specific examples from stories set in Salem, the Willamette Valley, and elsewhere in Oregon. Register here: https://www.willametteheritage.org/zooming-back-to-history/.

I’ll be reading from While It Lasts at Seattle’s excellent Third Place Books, Ravenna location: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/scott-nadelson

I’ll be signing copies of While It Lasts at the University of Georgia Press booth at the AWP Bookfair. Get your copy hot off the press (5 days before the official pub date).

The great Annie Bloom’s Books will host me for a reading to launch ONE OF US on Tuesday, October 20. Register to join the livestream here: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/livestream-reading-scott-nadelson-one-us.