March 22, 2025

Great Lakes Environmental Festival / World Water Day

9:00am-4:00pm
Manistee High School
525 12th St
Manistee, MI 49660

Event info here!

March 18, 2025

GRCC English Department Spring ReadinG

6:30pm
GRCC Applied Technology Center Piazza
151 Fountain St. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

September 21, 2024

“What Does it Mean to Write Michigan?”
Write Michigan Day of Learning

2:30pm
Wyoming Public Library
3350 Michael Ave. SW
Wyoming, MI 49509

September 12, 2024

Prairie Lights Books Reading

7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240

Event info here!

September 7-8, 2024

She writes Press Booth

10:00am-4:00pm
Printer’s Row Lit Fest
Chicago, IL 60601

Event info and map here!

August 25, 2024

Land Marks: Stories of Environmental ActivisM

2:00pm
Pleasant Peninsula Art & Activism Fair
Intersection of Front Street and 6th Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Event info and schedule here!

June 18, 2024

Land Marks with Maryann LEsert

6:30pm
Schuler Books
2660 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512

RSVP and/or read more here!

June 16, 2024

Buttermilk Jamboree

2:00pm
Circle Pines Center (Apple Chapel)
8650 Mullen Road
Delton, MI 49046

Read more here!

May 3, 2024

Bay Books Summer Author Series

5:30pm
Bay Books
220 N. Saint Joseph Street
Suttons Bay, MI 49682

April 20, 2024

Great Lakes Environmental Festival

10:00am-4:00pm (Presentation time TBA)
Manistee High School
525 12th Street
Manistee, MI 49660

April 16, 2024

Pub Day Book Launch Party!

6:00-8:00pm
Books & Mortar Bookstore
966 Cherry St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Click here for more details!

March 19, 2024

GRCC English Department Spring Reading

6:15-8:00pm (Readings begin at 6:30pm)
Grand Rapids Community College — ATC Piazza
151 Fountain Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Click here for more details!
*Parking passes will be given out at the event

March 9, 2023

Storyknife at AWP 23 in Seattle!

March 9, 5:00-7:00pm
Vermillion Gallery and Bar
1508 11 th Avenue, Seattle

If you’re at AWP 23 or anywhere near Seattle, come and listen to the amazing voices of Storyknife! I’ll be reading from the novel-in-progress I began at Storyknife in May 22.

October 15, 2022

Kent District Library Grandville Branch presents Write Michigan Day of Learning: Ready to Seek Publication? with Maryann Lesert

2:30-3:30pm
Grandville Library
Grandville, MI 49418

This session will briefly tour publishing options for book-length works — agents and traditional publishing, medium and small “indie” presses, hybrid publishers and self-publishing. Participants will leave with a list of sites and tools to help them prepare to submit book-length works.

August 4, 2022

PCCI Creative Arts & Research Open House

On August 4, 2022, Pierce Cedar Creek Institute (PCCI) near Hastings, Michigan, held its annual Open House featuring the work of student Research and Creative Arts fellows.

Maryann was PCCI's Writing Mentor for students from Calvin University, Central Michigan University, Grand Rapids Community College, and Western Michigan University, who created place-based poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction while in residence at PCCI from July-August.

If you are a creative writer from any of PCCI's 12 regional member colleges and universities, see PCCI's "Apply" video at left for details. Applications are accepted on or about March 1 each year.