Events

Nov 7 Women and Words 2025 November 7, 2025 Penguin Random House Headquarters, New York, USA | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST A PUBLISHING INCUBATOR BY STOREHOUSE VOICES AND PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE More information >> June 28 Roothbert Fellows Retreat at Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation June 28-30, 2024 Wallingford, Pennsylvania, USA | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST HOPE THROUGH ENCOUNTER: STRENGTHENED CONNECTIONS DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES WITH STEPHEN HANMER D'ELÍA Nov 5 Children's Storytime at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church November 5, 2023 | 10:00am-11:00pm Decatur, Georgia, USA | Online Event - Time Zone: EST READING AND BOOK TALK: FIRST CLASS: HOW ELIZABETH LANGE BUILT A SCHOOL Oct 29 Plants Alive! Makers Market & Plant Swap October 29, 2023 | 10:00am-3:00pm Silver Spring, MD, USA | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST BOOK SIGNING: THE WONDER OF THE WORLD LEAF More information >> Sept 13 St. Charles RC Church RCIA Meeting September 13, 2023 | 5:30pm-7:30pm Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST PERSONAL TESTIMONY AND BOOK TALK: FIRST CLASS: HOW ELIZABETH LANGE BUILT A SCHOOL July 1 Hosanna is the Word at Hosanna Toco Resort July 1-24, 2023 Toco, Trinidad and Tobago | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST SELF-GUIDED WRITING RETREAT April 20 Launch of AfriPoeTree SIV (Selective Interactive Video) Platform April 20 & 21, 2022 | 2:30pm London, UK | Online Event - Time Zone: EST POETRY READING More information >> April 2 A Morning at the Cyril Ross Children's Home April 2, 2022 | 10:00am Trinidad and Tobago | In-Person Event - Time Zone: EST AUTHOR VISIT AND READING: THE WONDER OF THE WORLD LEAF Oct 6 National Library of Trinidad and Tobago October 6-21, 2021 | Ongoing Trinidad and Tobago | Online Event - Time Zone: EST CHILDREN'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH SERIES More information >> June 5 Caribbean Literary Conference (CARICON) June 5, 2021 | TBA Los Angeles, CA, USA | Online Event - Time Zone: EST READING: THE WONDER OF THE WORLD LEAF More information >> April 30 US Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair April 30, 2021 | 1:00pm St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands | Online Event - Time Zone: EST WORKSHOP: WRITING AND PUBLISHING FOR YOUNG READERS More information >> April 24 NGC Children's Bocas Lit Fest April 24, 2021 | 10:00am Trinidad and Tobago | Online Event - Time Zone: EST READING: THE WONDER OF THE WORLD LEAF More information >>

Some of Summer's visits are now online. If you’re interested in working with Summer for an event—be it a school visit, library event, or bookstore signing—fill out the request form found here and include as much information as possible or send an email to: . Summer loves meeting readers, teachers, booksellers, librarians, and just about anyone who loves books as much as she does. She occasionally teaches writing workshops to writers of all ages.