Press and Events
Readings:
(An interview with the author by Tom Hall of Public Radio, including a short reading can be heard here.)
January 17 th 2009, 510 Reading Series at Minas Gallery in Baltimore , 815 W. 36th Street, Hampden, Baltimore, at 5pm.
June 14thth 2009, Reading at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, in Columbia, Maryland, time, tbc.
June 17 th 2009, Reading at Enoch Pratt Free Library: Roland Park Branch, 5108 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, at 6.30pm.
Events:
February 11th - 14th, 2009
AWP Conference in Chicago
Book-signng and books available for sale at the Entasis Press exhibit in the Bookfair.
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
McCallum-Smith participates in the third annual Conversations and Connections Conference in Washington D.C. On-line registration now open.
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
McCallum-Smith participates in the CityLit Festival at Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, Baltimore, 10am - 5pm. McCallum-Smith on "First Books, New Authors" panel at 1.30pm.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009: "The Art of Reading - and Talking - about Books," a two-hour workshop about revitalizing the reading life will be held on Tuesday 28th of April at Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, as part of the Kaleidoscope program.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
McCallum-Smith interviews poet Michael Salcman at the
Brandeis University Closing Meeting event.
Woodholme Country Club, Baltimore: 11am
Press:
Slipping the Moorings was reviewed by James Srodes in the Washington Times. "Comparisons don't do Ms. McCallum-Smith justice, behind the dark atmostphere of her plots, laughter waits to break out..."
A review of Slipping the Moorings appears in the Spring 2009 issue of the literary journal jmww. "It's not conjecture to say that if McCallum-Smith wrote a story about ice-cubes melting, I would probably read it..." writes reviewer Jen Michalski.
On Books, Inq - The Epilogue blog, Frank Wilson, former book editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, commented on December 4th on the first, and then on December 24th on the second of the short stories in Slipping the Moorings.
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