How To Get Published: An Evening with the Author Caleb Gayle

Have a brilliant idea for a book? Or maybe you’ve already finished your manuscript but feel stuck on the path to publication? This keynote is for you.

Join us for an inspiring evening with award-winning author Caleb Gayle, as he walks us through the journey of pitching your work, navigating the publishing world, and ultimately bringing your story to life. Drawing from his own experience publishing , among other titles, Caleb will share practical insights, hard-earned lessons, and the realities of turning an idea into a book on the shelves.

Don’t miss this chance to learn directly from an award-winning author and gain the tools, clarity, and confidence you need to take the next step in your own publishing journey. Best of all, take home a signed copy of Black Moses as a reminder of how you too can bring a story to life.

EVENT DETAILS:

• 6:30 PM: Doors Open – Settle in, grab a drink from our cafe and wine bar, and get ready for a great discussion!
• 7:00 PM: Keynote Begins – Caleb Gayle will explain the process of pitching to publishing. 

9:00 PM: Event Wraps Up – Thanks for joining us!

• 7:30 PM: Q&A Session – Your chance to ask the author anything about this process
• 8:00 PM: Signatures, Snapping Pics, and Salutations – Meet the author, get your book signed, and snap a photo.
• 8:30 PM: Last call - Grab your final pour from the wine bar.

Tickets are limited, so don’t wait! If the event sells out, you can add yourself to our waitlist. If any spots become available, you'll have 24 hours to register before we offer them to the next person. All ticket sales are final purchase. Refunds are not offered.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist and the author of We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. A professor at Northeastern University, he is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and his fiction and nonfiction work also has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Guernica, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, among many others. He is a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. Caleb lives near Boston.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.

In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the audacious idea to create a state within the Union governed by and for Black people — and the racism, politics, and greed that thwarted him.

As the sweeping changes and brief glimpses of hope brought by the Civil War and Reconstruction began to wither, anger at the opportunities available to newly freed Black people were on the rise. As a result, both Blacks and whites searched for new places to settle. That was when Edward McCabe, a Black businessman and a rising political star in the American West, set in motion his plans to found a state within the Union for Black people to live in and govern. His chosen site: Oklahoma, a place that the U.S. government had deeded to Indigenous people in the 1830s when it forced thousands of them to leave their homes under Indian Removal, which became known as the Trail of Tears.

McCabe lobbied politicians in Washington, D.C., Kansas, and elsewhere as he exhorted Black people to move to Oklahoma to achieve their dreams of self-determination and land ownership. His rising profile as a leader and spokesman for Black people as well as his willingness to confront white politicians led him to become known as Black Moses. And like his biblical counterpart, McCabe nearly made it to the promised land but was ultimately foiled by politics, business interests, and the growing ambitions of white settlers who also wanted the land.

In Black Moses, Gayle brings to vivid life the world of Edward McCabe: the Black people who believed in his dream of a Black state, the white politicians who didn't, and the larger challenges of confronting the racism and exclusion that bedeviled Black people's attempts to carve a place in America for themselves. Gayle draws from extraordinary research and reporting to reveal an America that almost was.

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