Elizabeth will be talking about her memoir Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year in the Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series

This is a ZOOM only event. Find the link HERE.

Elizabeth Garber will have a reading and conversation about her memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Daring Year, at the Sedgewick Village Library.

Elizabeth will give a presentation with photos from her memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster, the story of her year at sea in 1971 that ended with being held hostage in Panama.

Elizabeth Garber will have a reading and conversation about her memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Daring Year, at Schooner Cove in Damariscotta.

Elizabeth Garber will have a reading and conversation about her memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Girl’s Daring Year, at the Rockland Public Library. For more information contact: Em Lewis at 207-594-0310

Elizabeth Garber’s book Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year is a finalist for a Maine Literary Award from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Congratulations Elizabeth!

The awards ceremony is being held at Bates College at the Olin Arts Center in Lewiston, Maine this Thursday May 18 at 7PM. You can still RSVP to be there in person, or to be there by Zoom!

One Day Only! Book Shop Pop Up

Readings by Authors: Linda Buckmaster, Suzanne D’Corsey, Elizabeth Garber, Ellen Sander, Deb Shepard, Karin Spitfire, Penny West

Refreshments and Book signings

A Presentation from Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance

With Elizabeth Garber, Julia Bouwsma, and Linda Buckmaster.

Join three Maine authors as they describe their experiences researching for their recent books and using the material in their writing. Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma, memoirist Elizabeth Garber, and prose writer and poet Linda Buckmaster will talk about family documents and objects, interviewing participants, tapping into personal experience, ephemera, museums, serendipity, and of course, books. They’ll touch on issues of copyright and permissions, incorporating imagery, and book design. An important concern is how to choose the relevant material to use from an excess of information.

PLEASE NOTE This talk will occur online via Zoom. Attendees do not need to create an account to participate, but should test out Zoom before the presentation if they are first-time users. The presenter and MWPA staff will not have the capacity to help attendees with tech issues during the talk.

This talk is free for MWPA members and $5 for nonmembers.

Elizabeth will be sharing a table with The Title Doctor—Kristen Paulson-Nguyen at the Boston Book Festival at Copley Square Park!

This is an all day event!

Join us for a day of books at the Maine LitFest!

Meet authors Laura Bonazzoli and Elizabeth Garber who will be there to sign books (book signing schedule to come), and chat about their work, as well as some local authors who’ve been published in our literary magazine kerning | a space for words.

Maine LitFest is a week-long event and is presented by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Colby College Creative Writing Program. If you’re interested in the other things they’ll be offering, visit MWPA here.

Elizabeth will be reading from her newest memoir Sailing at the Edge of Disaster at the Blue Hill Library. Linda Buckmaster will also be reading from her newest book Elemental. This event is in conjunction with Blue Hill Books.

For more info: contact Kayleigh at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or call 374-5515.

Susan Conley in Conversation with Elizabeth Garber about her new book Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine.

“This book is a beautiful, high-stakes coming-of-age tale about survival on an old square-sailed rigger. It’s also a vivid, stirring reminder that again and again the natural world will reduce us to our most elemental selves and allow us to finally see and know who we are.” 

—Susan Conley, author of the New York Times Editor’s Choice Landslide and the memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune

Elizabeth will be hosted by the Colonial Theatre in Belfast to show a Book Trailer for Sailing at the Edge of Disaster made by Camden film maker David Berez, as well as a slide show of images from her year at sea in the early 1970s.

Elizabeth Garber and Laura Bonazzoli will be selling and signing copies of their books at the Belfast Art Market this Friday.

Come find them at the Locally Grown Books tent!

The book launch party for Elizabeth Garber’s memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster with Left Bank Books in Belfast, Maine will be at the Belfast Public Library.

Join us for the launch event where Elizabeth will be reading from her book, talking about her book (and her adventures at sea) and signing copies!

Toad Hall Editions authors Elizabeth Garber and Laura Bonazzoli will read from their forthcoming books.

The 11 linked short stories in Laura Bonazzoli’s debut collection, Consecration Pond, takes place on the shores of a pond in rural Maine. Among the narrators are a burn victim begs her husband’s ghost for forgiveness for failing to save him, a retired teacher counsels a reporter seeking easy answers to the cause of his neighbor’s death, and a boy whose self-imposed rite of passage nearly costs him his life. Together, the stories offer a meditation on the nature of wisdom, the risks and gifts of allowing ourselves to be seen, and the challenge of creating meaning in the wake of loss.

Elizabeth Garber’s Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A memoir of a young woman’s daring year is the story of how a bookish teen and her younger brother are sent by their domineering father to “shape up” on a sail-training school ship, where they discover the rigors, joys, and triumphs of being at sea. As they scour the decks, learn to splice ratlines, and climb the rigging, they also survive an act of piracy, a near-sinking, and being held hostage by armed gunboats. The book chronicles a transformative year in the throes of late adolescence that leads to courage, grace, and a reclamation of selfhood.

Elizabeth and Laura will be joined by Belfast author Linda Buckmaster. The event is free, all ages welcome. Sponsored by Bayside Arts.