As part of the 2024 Kickass Writers Festival, ACW presents the Regional Author Showcase! We’ve selected a line-up of emerging and established authors from across the North Country to prove that Adirondack writers kick ass too.

Hosted by Christopher Shaw, this event will feature readings by local and regional writers of various genres including Robin Caudell, Kelsey Francis, Amy Godine, Alice P. Green, Betsy Kepes, Roger Mitchell, Curt Stager, Annie Stoltie, and more!

Join us for an in-store event with Hannah Grieco, editor of Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away, with authors Jamy Bond, Kelsey Francis, Amber Sparks, Sarah Tollok, and James J Patterson.

About the book:

Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot or purely in your own mind? In Already Gone, forty of today’s most exciting writers take flight in all these ways and more. In an electrifying hybrid collection of fiction and memoir, authors such as Deesha Philyaw, Amber Sparks, and Lilly Dancyger finish what Thelma & Louise started. From a reimagined tale of Lot’s wife fleeing a burning city to a secret elopement to avoid an arranged marriage, from a mother who wins the lottery and abandons her family to a rich man’s obsessive search through space and time, from a drag queen who transforms into her fantasy to a teenager who walks the city streets at night in search of a way out, Already Gone is a collection of runaway stories that explores what it means to fly, to flee, to escape—to search for who we are. These stories and essays take us to dangerous places in order to free us from what holds us back.