Events

Zoe reading at Life, Death, Love, Lies...and Cupcakes - Litquake's All-Memoir Women's Night

Women's Voices
Saturday, Feb. 9, 1:00
San Francisco Library (Potrero Hill branch
) Pam Houston, Mara Purl, Barbara Graham, Victoria Zackheim, and Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Saturday, Feb. 9, 6:00 PM
Books, Inc. (Opera Plaza, San Francisco
), reading with Sylvie Simmons, Mara Purl, Barbara Graham, Victoria Zackheim, and Zoe FitzGerald Carter
Books, Inc. - Opera Plaza

Sunday, Feb. 10, 7:00 PM
Book Passage (Corte Madera
) reading with Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Allison Bartlett, Pam Houston, Mara Purl, Barbara Graham, and Victoria Zackheim

February 14th-18th
Zoe will be talking about the "do's and don'ts of writing memoir" at the tenth annual San Francisco Writers Conference 
www.sfwriters.org

February 20th – March 13th
Truth, Lies and Storytelling: A User's Guide to To Writing Memoir

A class at The San Francisco Writers Grotto on four consecutive Wednesday nights 
www.sfgrotto.org


Past Events:

October 9 and 10, 2012
First-person plural: Crafting stories from our lives 
A writing workshop with Zoe FitzGerald Carter and Connie Hale
Greensboro and Hardwick, Vermont
more info

October 13th
at San Francisco's Lit Crawl Write+Beat: Musicians Who Write, Writers Who Play
Location: Creativity Explored
3245 16th St., San Francisco
7:15-8:15

June 4th
The Jewish Community Center on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan at 7:00

June 3rd

BookCourt on Court Street in Cobble Hill,
Brooklyn at 7:00

June 1st

Mrs Dalloway's on College Avenue in Berkeley at 7:00

May 30th

A Great Good place for Books in Montclair at 7:00 

May 20th

BookPassage in Corte Madera at 5:30 

May 18th

Zoe will be singing at a benefit for 826 Valencia at The Red Vic movie house at 1727 Haight Street as part of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto's yearly reading series.

May 8

Zoe's essay in "Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death" (North Atlantic Books) will be released on May 8th.

March 24

Women's Power Strategy Conference, Marin

February 17-19
2012 San Francisco Writers Conference

December 3rd, 10am
Marin chapter of the American Association of University Women

June 14
Zoe will be talking with the South Bay Chapter of the California Writer's Club in Sunnyvale, CA.

June 4th
Chicago Tribune's Printer's Row Literary Festival

Saturday, March 26th from 9:00 to 12:30

Keynote speaker
Women's National Book Association's 8th "Meet the Agents/Publishers/Editors"
Sinbad's Restaurant at Pier 2 in San Francisco

March 24th, 7:30
Books, Inc
Alameda

January 28th, 1:00 
pm
Barnes & Noble, Palm Desert

January 28th, 4:00 pm
Perris Library

January 29, 2011
Zoe will be appearing at the
Women Inspiring Women Conference

October 5, 1:30- 3:00pm

Oakmont Algonquin Roundtable
Santa Rosa

Friday, October 8
Life, Death, Love, Lies...and Cupcakes Litquake's All-Memoir Women's Night

July 14th,
6:30pm
Hicklebee's bookstore
San Jose, CA

July 29th at 7:00 pm
The Book Cellar
Brattleboro, VT

Event photo

News

Zoe is kicking off
the publication of
Imperfect Endings
in paperback!


IMPERFECT ENDINGS
has been chosen as
a finalist for the
National MS Society’s 
Books for a Better
Life Awards in the
“Inspirational Memoir”
category
.


May, 2010
- Foreign rights sold
to Taiwan and Korea!

O Excerpt: Imperfect Endings
- oprah.com

Should Zoe Fitzgerald Carter and her family stand by as their mother commits suicide? A daughter's tale of the agonizing decision between life and death.

Imperfect Endings has been picked as one of Barnes & Noble's
"Discover Great New Writers" books for 2010
- keep an eye out
for the book in upcoming Barnes & Noble storefront displays!

Imperfect Endings
gets Library Journal, 'Starred Review'
"First-time memoirist Carter comes close to perfection in this chronicle of her mother's quest to orchestrate her own assisted suicide." Read complete review