

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Community Conversation: Authors of North Adams
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us at Steeple City Social for our first Community Conversations event of 2026, featuring four amazing North Adams authors.

We will host Meg Elison, Molly Rideout, Eden Robins, and Colleen AF Venable for a conversation about what it’s like to live and work as authors in the Northern Berkshires while finding community within the region. Each author will delve into their unique works and the inspirations that drove them to their professions. 

Audience engagement and questions are encouraged!

Agenda:

6:30pm: Mix &amp; mingle with the presenters
7:00pm: Authors of North Adams panel
7:30pm: Informal Q&amp;A with the presenters
8:00pm - 10:00pm: Stick around after the event until Steeple City Social closes!

Alcoholic &amp; NA beverages, snacks, and pastries will be available for purchase at the Steeple City Social bar. 

About the Authors:

Meg
Meg Elison is an author and essayist. She writes science fiction and horror, as well as feminist essays and cultural criticism. She has been published in McSweeney’s, Slate, Fangoria, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and many other places. Her debut novel, "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her novelette, "The Pill" won the 2021 Locus Award. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards finalist. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. Her YA debut, “Find Layla” was published in fall 2020 by Skyscape. It was named one of Vanity Fair's Best 15 Books of 2020. Her parasocial thriller, "Number One Fan" was published in August 2022 by Mira Books. Her forthcoming satire "Foundling Fathers" will be published by Tachyon in 2026. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in the Berkshires. 

Molly
A Native Midwesterner, Molly Rideout is a writer, bookmaker, and public artist. In 2024 she collaborated with Bear &amp; Bee Books to publish The North Adams Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the famous author’s journals from his six-weeks in town. In recent years, she’s published essays in The Missouri Review, Boulevard, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, and the Mississippi Review. Her writing-based public art installations have been featured by Poets &amp; Writers, the Boston Globe, and Iowa Public Radio. She currently lives in North Adams, MA, where, from 9-5, she’s the assistant director of the New England nonprofit, Assets for Artists. Her current favorite book is the 1938 North Adams City Directory.

Eden
Eden Robins is the author of the novel Remember You Will Die, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards. Her debut novel When Franny Stands Up was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader. She was an Illinois Arts Council Fellow in Literature in 2023, and also writes short stories, personal essays, and cultural criticism at places like Slate, Catapult, USA Today, LA Review of Books, and others. Previously, she sold sex toys, and wrote jokes for Big Pharma and an AI mental health app. She has been to the bottom of the ocean and will never go to space.

Colleen
Colleen AF Venable is the author of the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel co-created with Ellen T. Crenshaw. Her other books include the best-selling Katie the Catsitter series (illustrated by Stephanie Yue), the Junie B. Jones graphic novel adaptations (with Honie Beam), and over 20 other books ranging from board books, to picture books, to middle-grade, to teen, to adult non-fiction (See: The Swayze Year, co-written by everyone’s favorite Steeple City baker, Meghan Daly!) She’s received multiple Eisner nominations, two dozen award nominations, and been included on many “Best Book”. Previously Colleen worked in the publishing industry and was the sole designer for hundreds of First Second graphic novels, worked as a Creative Director for Workman Books and Macmillan, and also as the Publishing Director for Epic! Kids. Colleen is one of the National Leaders for Authors Against Book Bans and is super passionate about defending the freedom to read. Fifteen years after her first published book, she finally writes full time.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/north-adams/community-conversation-authors-of-north-adams/200029441155849
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, kids, health-wellness, mental-health
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 21

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: North Adams
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01247
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- **full address**: 5 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01247

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- **organizer**: Steeple City Social (https://allevents.in/org/steeple-city-social/25885556)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 5 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01247
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Steeple City Social
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, kids, health-wellness, mental-health
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Community Conversation: Authors of North Adams ?
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