

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Colleen Alles Literature in Person Reading & Book Signing
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM (contact elwl@ferris.edu for link)

Colleen Alles is a lifelong Michigander and award-winning writer. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she’s also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine and an MFA candidate at Spalding University. Her debut short fiction collection, Close to a Flame, was a 2025 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist; it was also named one of Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books (2025). Etchings Press (University of Indianapolis) awarded her debut novella as its winner (2025). You can find more at www.colleenalles.com.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/big-rapids/colleen-alles-literature-in-person-reading-and-book-signing/200029725723512
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029725723512?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=big+rapids-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Big Rapids
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Department of English, Literature, and World Languages 820 Campus Drive, ASC 3080, Big Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49307
- **lat**: 43.68842
- **long**: -85.47908
- **full address**: Department of English, Literature, and World Languages 820 Campus Drive, ASC 3080, Big Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49307

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ferris Department of English, Literature, and World Languages (https://allevents.in/org/ferris-department-of-english-literature-and-world-languages/13439990)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Department of English, Literature, and World Languages 820 Campus Drive, ASC 3080, Big Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49307
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ferris Department of English, Literature, and World Languages
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Colleen Alles Literature in Person Reading & Book Signing ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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