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
Story Center Speaker Series: Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter
Story Center Speaker Series: Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter
Saturday, September 26 | 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Green Hills Library Center
Join The Story Center for a visit from author and illustrator duo Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter. Their latest middle grade graphic novel, The Pancake Trap, follows sisters Maple and Margaret as they learn that differences can be strengths and that love is thicker than batter. Hear from Stephanie and Allyson about the adventures of their book, and then make a pancake to take home.
This event is presented in partnership with the MCPL Culinary Kitchens and Rainy Day Books and will be followed by a book sale and signing. Please note this program will take place in person at the Green Hills Library Center.
Selected Past Authors
Michelle Collins Anderson
Michelle Collins Anderson
Author Michelle Collins Anderson visited The Story Center for a discussion of her 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.
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.