List of events including author visits to schools, libraries, book clubs, and…
This is your go-to-source for Jean Alicia Elster’s list of events including author visits to schools, libraries, book clubs, writing groups, conferences and book fairs.
Available now: Jean Alicia Elster’s young adult novel HOW IT HAPPENS.
To order your copy, click here.
To view the virtual launch event via YouTube, CLICK HERE
NATIONAL READING MONTH PROGRAMS
Wednesday, March 4, 11:45p – 1:30p
Jean Alicia Elster, one of four guest authors
2026 mParks Annual Conference
Delegate Lunch: Connection, Equity & Community Impact
Lansing Center
Lansing, Michigan 48909
Jean Alicia Elster joins three other contributors to Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors (Wayne State University Press, 2026) as she reads from her creative nonfiction piece “Neighborhood Constitutional,” which is included in the volume. All four readings invite conference delegates to rethink, reinvent and reignite how movement, place, and storytelling strengthen communities. More information about the conference is available here.
Sunday, March 22, 11 a – 5 p
Jean Alicia Elster, a featured author
Leon & Lulu’s March 2026 Books & Authors Event
96 West 14 Mile Road
Clawson, Michigan 48017
Returning to this juried book fair, Jean Alicia Elster will celebrate her award-winning historical fiction trilogy that is based upon her maternal family: HOW IT HAPPENS, THE COLORED CAR and WHO’S JIM HINES? She will join other local authors who will meet and greet Leon & Lulu’s customers and autograph their books. For more information, click here.
Friday, March 27, 3:30p – 4:30p
Use Your Voice with Jean Alicia Elster
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
1000 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Jean Alicia Elster gathered stories from her family to write her books. Her presentation will focus on learning and sharing family history through oral histories. Elster will share portions of the oral histories she obtained from her family and will read passages from her Ford family historical fiction trilogy, Who’s Jim Hines?, The Colored Car, and How It Happens, to show how she used oral histories to create the narratives in the books.
Elster will offer tips on obtaining oral histories from your family members during family gatherings such as reunions, holidays and other celebrations.
The program is free and registration is not required. For more information, click here.
Please continue to #SupportIndieBookstores.
Some Detroit-area independent bookstore links are posted below–
The Book Beat: click here
Source Booksellers: click here
Booksweet: click here
Next Chapter Books: click here
27th Letter Books: click here
