Pictured left to right: Fritz Lentz, Karl Vondal, Margaret Hawkins
Essay "On Getting Lost " to appear in Volume I of She Can Find Her Way, a five-volume pocket-sized anthology from Upper Hand Press, to be released in October 2017
Margaret Hawkins spoke about her book, "How We Got Barb Back" at the The Gabe Miller Foundation November 13.
Intervew with Margaret Hawkins STEVE BERTRAND ON BOOKS Margaret Hawkins talks with Steve Bertrand on Books on being remembered, on writing and on listening-in on the conversation one table over.
Confessions of a Lifelong Eavesdropper New York Times / opinionator Confession: I eavesdrop. Not only that, I make my students do it. I eavesdrop all the time. You could say it’s my hobby...read more
BACK STORY: AN ACT OF KINDNESS CREATES A BOOK DEAL Kirkus Reviews I started writing Lydia’s Party with the idea that it would be interesting to write about a group of friends who gather annually over many years. The book would be about friendship, also art, ambition, secrets, what changes over time and what stays the same...read more
Come to Lydia’s Party — And Meet Margaret Hawkins BooksontheTable.com Last week, Chicago author Margaret Hawkins made the trek north to Lake Forest and delighted a group of 35 avid readers with a discussion of her new novel, Lydia’s Party...read more
PICTURE THIS – A VISIT WITH MARGARET HAWKINS shereads.org On the morning of the day our new dog was to be delivered by the rescue people, who promised us a 48-hour window in which to change our minds if we didn’t think we could bond with him, She Reads invited me to write a blog post about an image that inspired something in Lydia’s Party...read more
December 13 Poets and Writers at Work City News Cafe, Chicago Loyola University Chicago's part-time and non-tenure-track poets and writers read from their recent books and manuscripts on the theme of work.
June 11 - 17, 2017 Memoir Workshop, The Clearing
Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
2016:
July 13, 2016 Tea and Talk, Radale, Lake Forest, IL
June 26 - July 2, 2016
Memoir Workshop at The Clearing, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
November 4, 2015 Margaret Hawkins will appear at the book launch for the Portuguese language edition of her third novel, Lydia's Party, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
January 30, 2015
7:00 pm
Come celebrate the paperback release of LYDIA'S PARTY, hosted by Women & Children First and held at The Swedish American
at 5211 N. Clark Street, Chicago click here for details
January 28, 2015
Milwaukee book launch for Lydia's Party paperback: hosted by Boswell's Bookstore, at Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI .... click here for details
October 8, 2014
Margaret Hawkins will be signing books at 2 PM out of the Penguin Book Truck, at the Highland Park Library, on October 8 (the day of a total lunar eclipse!)