MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN Book Events:
Book Launch! Back Cove Books (Portland, ME)
In conversation with Meghan Gilliss
April 9th at 6:30pm
https://backcovebooks.com/events/1720320250409
Rochester Public Library (Rochester, VT)
In conversation with Aylie Baker
April 10th at 6:00pm
Commonplace Books (Oklahoma City, OK)
In conversation with Rachel White
April 14th at 6:00pm
https://www.commonplacebooksokc.com/events
Whose Books (Dallas, TX)
April 17th at 7:00pm
In conversation with Claudia Vega
Point Reyes Books (Virtual Event)
April 22nd at 9:00pm EST/6:00pm PST
In conversation with Katie Holten & Emily Raboteau
https://ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-04-22/chelsea-steinauer-scudder-mother-creature-kin
Northshire Books (Manchester Ctr, VT)
April 26th at 4:00pm
https://www.northshire.com/upcoming-events
Gibson's Bookstore (Concord, NH)
April 30th at 6:30pm
https://gibsonsbookstore.com/event/mother-creature-kin
Water Street Bookstore (Exeter, NH)
May 9th at 6:00pm
In conversation with Ella McGrail
https://waterstreetbooks.com/events/calendar/2025/05
Toadstool Bookshop (Keene, NH)
May 17th at 11:00am
https://toadbooks.com/events/calendar/2025/05
Francie and Finch (Lincoln, NE)
June 26th at 5:30pm
https://francieandfinch.com/events-page/
Glacier Creek Preserve (Bennington, NE)
June 28th at 2:30pm
Email: onehundredyears@gmail.com to register or for more information
Past Events:
Writing as Witnessing: An Open Genre Climate Storytelling Workshop
In partnership with Maine Climate Action Now, this six-part online workshop will explore the written word as a tool for navigating the shifting edges of climate change.
"(Re)Connecting to Creative Practice: Finding ritual and rhythm in the midst of uncertainty"
Over three sessions, we’ll explore together ways of reconnecting to our writing as a creative and nourishing practice, weaving together elements of ritual and community.
"Writing Creatures" (Virtual)
Over three sessions, we’ll delve into the world of a creature we’re interested in learning more about, stretch our writing practice across the species divide, and consider how writing can be a space to build bridges of empathy and care with the living world.
All We Can Save Reading Group (Facilitator)
A three-part community discussion hosted by the South Portland Land Trust and South Portland Library
(Summer 2024)
"Writing at the Edge" (Virtual)
A three-part writing workshop exploring the ecology of salt marshes and how to weave edge-places into our writing in a time of uncertainty.
"Writing at the Edge" (In-Person)
A three-part writing workshop exploring the ecology of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine and how to weave edge-places into our writing in a time of uncertainty.
"Great Mother & New Father Conference"
Teacher at the Great Mother and New Father Conference, on the theme of "Wayfinding, Unlikely Teachers and Steering into Mystery." For more information: greatmotherconference.org
"Sense-Making & Sensory Worlds"
A three-part virtual writing workshop exploring how to weave sensory experiences into our writing, through the lens of the incredible sensory worlds of barn owls, hemlock trees, and right whales.
Book event / contributor conversation with Katie Holten for The Language of Trees, at Back Cove Books in Portland.
"Memory and Community at the Edge of Land and Sea," a writing workshop for the Selsey Sea Bathing Society.
Guest speaker, Seguinland Institute. "Tree Migration in Maine: Rooting in Resiliency."
"Writing from the Roots," a six-week nature writing course for Emergence Magazine.
Emergence Magazine's "Writing Beyond Environment" nature writing series.
Emergence Magazine's monthly book club.
Guest lecturer for MassArt's Sustainability Series.
Earth Week nature writing workshop for the South Portland Land Trust.
Workshop leader for Phillips Exeter Academy's Environmental Literature Institute.