September-October 2026

Hobbit Day read-along, September 22nd, 2026: We're re-reading The Lord of The Rings! And what better day to start than on Frodo & Bilbo's birthday, September 22nd? We have Tolkien's works in stock if you need to grab a copy and get reading!

Author Signing with Sharon M. Carter & Alice Derry, October 17th, 2026, 1-4pm: Join us as we welcome authors Sharon M. Carter & Alice Derry to the store! We will be featuring their poetry collections with readings throughout! 
Sharon M. Carter is a poet and artist living on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Originally from the U.K. she recently retired from a health care career. Her work has featured in the Amsterdam Quarterly, One Art, Quartet and Panorama. Quiver and Ekphrastic Pastiche pre-dated her most recent book, Mimosas at Sunset (MoonPath Press, 2026). Sharon's degrees are science-based from Cambridge University. She was a staff member on the Semester at Sea in 2005, an unforgettable global circumnavigation. Previously she was one of four writers running a reading series and a co-editor of an online journal. She owes gratitude to Hedgebrook Retreats for Women and the Jack Straws Writers program for their support early in her writing career.
Asking (2022) is Alice Derry's sixth full collection of poetry. Her fifth book Hunger was also released by MoonPath Press in 2017. Her fourth book Tremolo appeared from Red Hen in 2012. Tess Gallagher writes of the book: "Tremolo is a tour de force of vibratory power that marks Alice Derry as having come into her own as one of our very best poets." Strangers to Their Courage (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), was a finalist for the 2002 Washington Book Award. Li-Young Lee writes of Strangers: "This book ... asks us to surrender our simplistic ideas about race and prejudice, memory and forgetfulness, and begin to uncover a new paradigm for 'human.'" Stages of Twilight (Breitenbush, 1986), won the King County Publication Award, chosen by Raymond Carver. Clearwater appeared from Blue Begonia Press in 1997. Derry has three chapbooks: Getting Used to the Body (Sagittarius Press, 1989), Not As You Once Imagined (Trask House, 1993), and translations from the German poet Rainer Rilke (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2002). Derry's M.F.A. is from Goddard College (now Warren Wilson). She is Professor Emerita at Peninsula College, Port Angeles, where she directed the Foothills Writers Series for three decades. In 2013, she helped plan the 75th Raymond Carver Birthday Celebration and delivered its keynote address; in 2017, she was Peninsula College's 17th Writer in Residence. With colleague Kate Reavey, she has also facilitated writing workshops for area tribes. She lives and works on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.