Events › Author Panel: Putting Mom on the Page (Without Getting Grounded)

Just in time for Mother’s Day, this lively and heartfelt panel invites readers and writers alike to explore one of the most universal relationships of all: the one we have with our mothers. Whether tender, complicated, joyful, strained—or all of the above—every mother leaves a story behind. The question is: how would you write about her?

Putting Mom on the Page (Without Getting Grounded) brings together five acclaimed Seattle-area memoirists who have done exactly that, transforming their maternal histories into powerful, poignant, and deeply human books.

Together, they will discuss the art and emotional bravery of writing about mothers: what to include, what to leave out, how to balance honesty and compassion, and why these stories resonate so deeply—especially in May.

Panelists:

• Deb Miller  
  • Forget the Fairy Tale and Find your Happiness
• Ronit Plank  
  • When She Comes Back
    
• Lynn Walker  
  • Midnight Calling, Breaking Midnight
    
• Gretchen Staebler 
  • Mother Lode: Confessions of A Reluctant Caregive:
    

• Leslie Johansen Nack 
  • Nineteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery

Books by all featured authors will be available for purchase and signing.

Registration not required. 

Sponsored by Friends of the Woodinville Library.

Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.