News about Elyssa East and Dogtown

Dogtown wins the 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award in Nonfiction
Dogtown named a Must-Read Book by the Massachusetts Book Awards
The New York Times Sunday Book Review names Dogtown an Editors' Choice
Dogtown makes the Boston Globe Bestseller List
Dogtown makes Entertainment Weekly's 2010 "You Gotta Read This" list

Forthcoming Events

May 17, 2016
7:00 PM
Identity Crisis
Panel discussion on writing in multiple genres with Alex Segura and Erica Wright, moderated by Ricardo Maldonado. Sponsored by Guernica Magazine.
Word Brooklyn, 126 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY 11222
June 2, 2016
2:30-5:30 PM
Writers Hotel Genre Lab
Elyssa will be teaching a nonfiction workshop with the New Guard Review's Writer's Hotel.
Byrant Park Hotel, Board Room Suite, 40 W. 40th St., New York, NY 10018

Past Events

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
7:30 PM
Dogtown launch party at WORD Brooklyn
126 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY 11222
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
7:00 PM
Rockport Library with Toad Hall Bookstore
17 School St., Rockport, MA, 01966
Saturday, January 09, 2010
2:00 PM
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant St., Gloucester, MA 01930
Monday, January 11, 2010
7:00 PM
River Run Bookstore
20 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH 03801
Friday, January 29, 2010
7:00 PM
Paragraph Member Reading Series KGB Bar
85 E 4th St., New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
7:00 PM
South Portland Maine Borders Bookstore
430 Gorham Rd, South Portland, ME 04106
Thursday, February 04, 2010
7:30 PM
Salem State College
352 Lafayette St., Salem, MA 01970
Saturday, February 06, 2010
1:00 PM
Cornerstone Books
45 Lafayette St, Salem, MA 01970
Sunday, February 07, 2010
2:00 PM
Cape Ann Community Cinema
21 Main St, Gloucester, MA 01930
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
7:00 PM
Manchester By The Book
27 Union St., Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944
Thursday, February 11, 2010
6:00 PM
The Book Rack
52 State St., Newburyport, MA 01950
Friday, February 12, 2010
7:00 PM
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
561 Congress St., Portland, ME 04101
Thursday, February 18, 2010
8:00 PM
Literary Death Match
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Sunday, February 28, 2010
7:00 PM
Eyedrum with A Capella Books
290 MLK Jr. Dr. SE, Ste 8, Atlanta, GA 30312
Monday, March 01, 2010
7:00 PM
Kennesaw State University
Student Center, University Room B, 1000 Chastain Rd, Kennesaw GA 30144
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
7:00 PM
St. James Episcopal Church
161 Church St., Marietta, GA 30060
Friday, March 12, 2010
4:00-5:00 PM
LitChat
Participate on Twitter with the hashtag #litchat
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:00 PM
KGB Bar Nonfiction Night
85 E 4th St., New York, NY 10003
Sunday, March 28, 2010
3:00 PM
P.E.N. New England Award Ceremony
J.F.K. Presidential Library & Museum
Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125
Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:00 PM
Andover Bookstore
89R Main St., Andover, MA 01810
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
7:00 PM
Porter Square Books
Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA 02140
Saturday, April 24, 2010
1:00 P.M.
Newburyport Literary Festival
Greek Orthodox Church Annunciation, 7 Harris St., Newburyport, MA 01950
Thursday, May 20, 2010
7:00 PM
Cary Memorial Library
1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420
Saturday, September 18, 2010
11:00 AM
Salem Literary Festival
Grace Church, 385 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
Book Release
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Dogtown's
paperback release date
Saturday, October 16, 2010
1:30 PM
Boston Book Festival
Trinity Church Forum, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
7:00 PM
Water Street Bookstore
125 Water Street, Exeter, NH 03833
Thursday, October 21, 2010
7:00 PM
The Bookstore of Gloucester
61 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Friday, October 22, 2010
7:00 PM
Jabberwocky Books
50 Water Street, Newburyport, MA 01950
Saturday, October 23, 2010
4:00
Spirit of ’76 Bookstore
107 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
7:00 PM
Baker Books
69 State Road (Route 6), Dartmouth, MA 02747
Friday, October 29, 2010
7:30 PM
Concord Festival of Authors
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main St., Concord, MA 01472
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
12:00 PM
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square Portland, ME 04101
Thursday, November 04, 2010
5:00 PM
University of New Hampshire Writers & Speakers Series
Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH 03824
Friday, November 05, 2010
7:00 PM
Manchester by the Book
27 Union St, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944
With fellow 2010 L.L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Winners Meg Kearney and Anne Sanow
Saturday, November 06, 2010
4:00 PM
Authors in Conversation
First Church of Salem, 316 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
As part of Kathleen Kent's Carrier Family Reunion, Elyssa will be moderating a panel featuring Salem and North Shore, Massachusetts-inspired women authors Kathleen Kent, Brunonia Barry, and Katherine Howe
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
6:00 PM
Purchase College, State University of New York
Lieb Creative Writing Center Room, Humanities Building, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
7:30 PM
Endicott College
Rose Performance Hall, Center for the Arts, 376 Hale Street, Beverly, MA 01915
Book Release
June 2011
Cape Cod Noir
Edited by L.A. Times Book Critic David L. Ulin, Cape Cod Noir includes Elyssa’s story “Second Chance.”
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
7:00 PM
Imagination Conference
Cleveland State University, Main Classroom Auditorium, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115
Saturday, October 30, 2011
1:00 PM
The Essex County Greenbelt Association
82 Eastern Avenue Essex, Massachusetts 01929
Saturday, August 18, 2012
3:00 PM
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Friday, March 8, 2013
10:30 AM
AWP Conference
Sea Change: Writing Remade Off the New England Coast
Hynes Convention Center, Room 303, Level 3, 900 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02115
Saturday, August 17, 2013
4:15 PM
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
4265 Route 125, Ripton, VT 05766
Saturday, September 14, 2013
8:15 PM
Lit Crawl New York
Preserve 24, 177 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002
Book Release
November 5, 2013
Best of the Akashic Noir: USA Noir
Elyssa’s story “Second Chance” is anthologized in Akashic Books’ USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir.
February 26 - March 1, 2014
2014 AWP Conference & Bookfair
Panel on Crafting the Nonfiction Narrator with Phillip Lopate, Lia Purpura, Michael Steinberg, and Bob Root
Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl, Seattle, WA 98101
June 12-17, 2014
Writer's Hotel Master Class
Elyssa will be teaching a fiction workshop with the New Guard Review's Writer's Hotel.
The Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th St., New York, NY 10036

Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, by Elyssa East (book jacket)

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