Edmonds Bookshop Events

Third Thursday Art Walk.
Participating merchants spotlight artists and their works in an ongoing event presented by the Downtown Edmonds Merchants and the Greater Edmonds Chamber of Commerce.
More information.

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 5- 8 pm. Our guest will be one of our favorites, Craig Johnson, with his beautiful photos and paintings of local birds, and of course his really lovely book: Our Puget Sound Birds and Habitat, which he will sign for all of us. This will tie in nicely with the annual Puget Sound Bird Fest, which is September 12 - 14th this year.

Edmonds Reads 2008. September 17, 27, and October 3.
Our featured book this year is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. One of our very favorite, very local authors, and one of our favorite of his many good books. We are thrilled to be co-sponsoring this year's Edmonds Reads, and hope you can join us for at least one of these events.

Meet the Author:
Friday, October 3, 7:00pm at The Edmonds Library. Mr. Doig will join us for an evening of talk about books! Refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase and signing. And - very exciting - his brand new book, The Eleventh Man, will be available for purchase (and for him to sign!) at this event.

For more information stop by the Library or the Bookshop, and visit Mr. Doig's web site.

May 12 - 18, 2008. Was National Children's Book Week. Thank you for your help in collecting books to donate to PageAhead. PageAhead will distribute the books to children from low-income families throughout the state. Additionally, we will donate all of the proceeds from our sidewalk sale Memorial Day Weekend directly to PageAhead. Visit the PageAhead web site to learn all about this local non-profit organization.

Bonny Becker, author of the newly released A Visitor for Bear, also helped us celebrate National Children's Book Week by reading her lovely new book (more than once!) on Saturday, May 17, 2008. She was kind enough to sign extra copies of her very sweet book, yours to purchase while they last.

To celebrate National Poetry month, we had a Poetry Reading, Thursday, April 17th, featuring Joan Swift, Richard Wakefield and Victoria Ford.

Joan Swift has published five collections of poetry: The Tiger Iris (1999); Intricate Moves, Poems About Rape (1997); The Dark Path of Our Names (1985); Parts of Speech (1978); and This Element (1965). The Tiger Iris and The Dark Path of Our Names received Washington State Governor's Awards. Her poems have been published in many fine journals, such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, Northwest Review, and Yale Review. She was a featured performer for Jack Straw in 2004 and at the Burning Word Poetry Festival in 2007.

For nearly twenty-five years RICHARD WAKEFIELD has taught American literature at the University of Washington and Tacoma Community College. His articles, reviews, poems, and essays have appeared in The Seattle Times, American Literature, The Sewanee Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Seattle Review, and many other publications. His poetry collection East of Early Winters received the 2006 Richard Wilbur Award and is published by the University of Evansville Press. Several of his sonnets are featured in the anthology Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range (Rose Alley Press, 2007).

VICTORIA FORD graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., 1975) and Indiana University (M.A., 1978). Chapbooks include Following the Swan (Fireweed Press, Madison, WI: 1988) and Rain Psalm (Rose Alley Press, Seattle, WA: 1996). Recent publication credits include the Web site of Poets Against the War, Petroglyph, and Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range. A former part-time English instructor at Seattle Central Community College and Antioch University Seattle, she is currently an instructional designer for an educational software company.

For more information please see the Rose Alley Press web site.

Monday, February 18, 2008 was our Fifth Annual Read in the Window!
People signed up for 30 minute blocks of time to exhibit reading skills right in the window, and to support the Edmonds Elementary Read-A-Thon. Monday was President's Day and a school vacation day so kids were able participate as well, to work toward their personal reading goals.

Friday, July 20, 2007. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" party. Fun was had by all! By now the books have probably all been read at least once! Thank you to all who joined us -- we had as much fun as everybody else!

And the most important part -- we do still have copies of the book left! Just in case you've been out of town or something... and we won't tell you the ending if you don't want us to!