The Story Center Speaker Series features nationally known authors, many of whom have a local or regional connection, reading from and discussing their newly published books. The Story Center Speaker Series provides an opportunity for readers and writers alike to meet their long-time favorite authors or discover authors brand new to them, and to learn more about the authors’ work.
Programs are held in the Auditorium at Woodneath Library Center. All programs are free and followed by a book sale and signing.
Upcoming Authors
Michelle Collins Anderson
Michelle Collins Anderson
Thursday, May 28
7:00 p.m.
Join The Story Center for a visit from author Michelle Collins Anderson for a discussion of her latest book, The Moonshine Women. The novel follows three sisters who take over their father’s Ozark Mountains moonshine business in an evocative, Prohibition-era story.
This event is offered in partnership with Rainy Day Books and will be followed by a book sale and signing. Please note this program will take place in person at the Auditorium at Woodneath Library Center.
Selected Past Authors
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Story Center had a visit from New York Times bestselling poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Author of Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees, where she discussed the importance of shared cultures through food.
George Frazier
George Frazier
Athor George Frazier visited the Story Center for a discussion of his book, Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America, a personal exploration of the rivers that are as central to the prairies as bison and bluestem.
Patty Prewitt
Patty Prewitt
Local author Patty Prewitt joined the Story Center for a discussion of her debut memoir, Trying to Catch Lightning in a Jar: Letters from Prison, about the first eighteen years of her incarceration in various Missouri women's prisons.
Rachel McCarthy James
Rachel McCarthy James
Lawrence, Kansas-based author Rachel McCarthy James joined the Story Center for a discussion of her nonfiction book Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder, a brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history.
Amy Stuber
Amy Stuber
Lawrence, Kansas-based author Amy Stuber visited The Story Center for a discussion of her debut Sad Grownups, a short story collection about searching for joy in a dying world.
Tiffany Killoren
Tiffany Killoren
Author Tiffany Killoren (also writing as Lilian West) joined The Story Center for a discussion of her debut mystery, Pretty Dead Things. Set in a sleepy little town with its share of secrets, the novel follows a young woman who stumbles upon a decades-old mystery when she brings home a ring from an estate sale.