Upcoming Events

Summary: Yona Harvey is a literary artist and university professor in creative writing who lives and works in Pittsburgh. She appears at Writers LIVE with her extraordinary debut poetry collection, Hemming the Water.

Summary: Jim O’Brien, Pittsburgh’s famous sports author, will discuss significant sports venues and events in the Oakland area, which was once the "playground" of Pittsburgh. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Rosaly DeMaios Roffman taught creative writing and founded a folklore/mythology center at Indian University of Pennsylvania.

Summary: Chip Walter, former CNN bureau chief, science writer, and Pittsburgh resident visits Writers LIVE with his new book, Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived.

Summary: Personal shopper and blogger Bernadette Ulsamer presents handy guidelines for dressing to flatter your individual shape and personal style.

Summary: Pittsburgh native and journalist Frank Garland tells the story of Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Rina Ferrarelli will read from The Bread We Ate, published by Guernica in 2012, a collection of tales of the tribe, four generations of Italian immigrants, herself included, “scattered/ across states and provinces, /three countries.”

Summary: Join veteran journalists Sharon Walsh and Bill Heltzel of PublicSource, an independent and nonprofit local investigative journalism website, as they describe techniques for collecting background information by delving in public records.

Summary: Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages tells the story of families here in Pittsburgh at the turn of the last century who used orphanages as a form of childcare during times of crisis. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Bill Steigerwald discusses his book Dogging Steinbeck, which reconsiders John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley as a fictionalized account of an American journey. Book signing to follow.