2025 Events Schedule

February 10, 2025: TJ Klune, author of The Bones Beneath My Skin in conversation with Katharine Beutner at UWM Student Union, Wisconsin Room, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., hosted by Boswell Books—6:30 PM. Get tickets here!
February 13, 2025: Getting Started with Historical Fiction online class with Literary Cleveland—5:30-7:30 PM CT (6:30-8:30 ET). Register here!

2024 Events Schedule

April 11, 2024: Reading and conversation with Andrea Lawlor at Mount Holyoke College, Gamble Auditorium—7 PM
May 16, 2024: Event for Mount Holyoke Class of 1974 alumnae
May 18, 2024: Wisconsin Writers Awards Reading and Celebration, Arts + Literature Laboratory (111 S. Livingston Street #100) Madison, WI—6 PM
June 12, 2024: Reading and conversation at Mystery to Me Books in Madison, WI—6 PM. Get tickets here or livestream the event here!
July 1, 2024: Moderating Soho Crime’s Queer International Crime Fiction event in The Lineup free online event series, featuring Sam Bett and Kwei Quartey—7 PM ET/4 PM PT
July 24, 2024: In conversation with Kate Harding at The Book Cellar in Chicago, IL—7 PM. More info here.
September 20, 2024: Panelist on “The Things You Learn: Research for Historical Fiction” at the Literary Cleveland Inkubator Festival, Cleveland Public Library, OH—1:30-3:00 PM
September 22, 2024: Reading, signing, and panel at the Awkward Nerd Book Fair in Milwaukee, WI—reading at 11:15 AM, signing at 12 PM, and panel at 3:45 PM
October 10, 2024: In conversation with Nghi Vo at Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI—6:30 PM

2023 Events

Weekends of May 20 and May 27, 2023: Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA—Mount Holyoke’s alum weekends! Signings at Odyssey on: Friday May 19 5-7 PM and Saturday May 20 3-5 PM; Friday May 26 4-7 PM and Saturday May 27 10-12 AM and 2-4 PM
June 4, 2023: Cleveland Launch Party, BottleHouse, Cleveland Heights, OH—7-9 PM
June 6, 2023: Launch day at Reads & Co. Bookstore, Phoenixville, PA—7 PM
June 8, 2023: In conversation with Juliet Grames, Savoy Bookshop, Westerly, RI—6 PM
June 9, 2023: In conversation with Katie Williams, Brown Bookstore, Providence, RI—5 PM
June 11, 2023: In conversation with emily danforth, Charter Books, Newport, RI—5 PM
June 12, 2023: Titcomb’s Bookshop, East Sandwich, MA—6:30 PM
June 13, 2023: In conversation with Alden Jones, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA—7 PM
June 22, 2023: In conversation with Sarah Shotland, Riverstone Bookstore, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA—7 PM
July 6, 2023: “Getting Started with Historical Fiction” online class for LitCLE, 7-9 PM EDT
July 12, 2023: Reading at Loganberry Books, Larchmere, OH—7 PM EDT
July 30, 2023: Opening event of The Soho Crime Lineup, a new digital event series by Soho Press & Mystery to Me Bookstore: “Historical Mysteries From Around the Globe” will feature Katharine, Naomi Hirahara, Sujata Massey, and Nilima Rao—7 PM CDT
September 3, 2023: “Following the Research (or your own experience): All the Facts Fiction Needs” panel at Bouchercon, San Diego, CA—11:30-12:20 PM WDT
September 8, 2023: Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI—6:30 PM CDT
September 15, 2023: Online conversation with Eilish Quin (author of the forthcoming Medea) about Alcestis hosted by Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI—6 PM CDT/7 PM EDT

See details below in posts for each event.

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The Lineup: Queer International Crime Fiction

Katharine Beutner will moderate the next Soho Crime: The Lineup event on Queer International Crime Fiction, featuring Sam Bett & Kwei Quartey, on July 1, 2024.

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Mystery to Me Books, June 12

Katharine Beutner will be in conversation with bookseller Jayne Rowsam at Mystery to Me Books on June 12.

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KILLINGLY wins Edna Ferber Fiction Book Prize

Katharine Beutner’s novel Killingly has won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Prize from the Wisconsin Writers Awards.

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Reading at Mount Holyoke College

Katharine Beutner will visit Mount Holyoke College to give a reading and teach a student workshop on April 11, 2024.

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ALCESTIS digital re-launch event with Eilish Quin

Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will host a digital launch event for the re-release of ALCESTIS, Katharine’s first novel, in conversation with Eilish Quin.

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Bouchercon 2023!

Katharine will participate in a panel at Bouchercon 2023 on “Following the Research (or your own experience): All the Facts Fiction Needs.”

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Soho Crime Lineup digital launch: “Historical Mysteries from Around the Globe,” July 30

Soho Crime’s The Lineup digital event series launch, “Historical Mysteries From Around the Globe,” will feature Katharine Beutner, Naomi Hirahara, Sujata Massey, and Nilima Rao.

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Boswell Book Co., September 8

Boswell Book Company hosts an evening with Katharine Beutner, the newest member of the UWM Creative Writing faculty and the Edmund White Award-winning author of Alcestis, who joins us with her latest book, Killingly, a haunting novel of intrigue, longing, and terror that’s based on the real-life unsolved murder of a student at an east coast women’s college in 1897.

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Loganberry Books, July 12

Katharine Beutner—Cleveland Heights resident, College of Wooster professor & Edmund White Award–winning author—will read and sign this portrait of academia, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century.

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Mount Holyoke alum signings were a delight!

A quick recap of special preview Killingly signings at Odyssey Bookshops in South Hadley

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Porter Square Books, June 13: In conversation with Alden Jones

Katharine will be in conversation with writer Alden Jones at Porter Square Books in Cambridge.

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Charter Books, June 11: In conversation with emily danforth

Katharine will join bestselling author emily danforth in conversation.

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Brown Bookstore, June 9: In conversation with Katie Williams

Katharine will join author Katie Williams in conversation about Killingly and Katie’s new novel My Murder.

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Riverstone Books, June 22: In conversation with Sarah Shotland

Katharine will visit Riverstone Books at their Squirrel Hill location for an evening of conversation about Killingly.

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Launch Day: Reads & Company

Katharine will join Reads & Company in Phoenixville, PA, to celebrate the release of Killingly as the final event of their four year anniversary celebration.