Art in the Village, well known for its 42 years, is a free community event that celebrates area artists offering a large variety of high-quality fine art paintings and drawings.

Shop the works of more than 50 Mountain Brook Art Association artists both inside and outside Mountain Brook City Hall, many award winning and regionally known. Enjoy the Floral Art competition featuring floral arrangements by Lisa Bailey Designs.

Charming Crestline Village is the perfect setting to visit with the artists and mingle with friends, where there is free parking and plenty of food choices. It is also pet friendly and handicapped accessible.

Mountain Brook Art Association is a community of artists helping each other grow and refine painting and drawing abilities through meetings and demos, as well as developing professional artistic careers through group shows. It has been promoting interest in art across the community since 1981 and currently has 135 members from within a 25-mile radius of Mountain Brook.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret... Can't wait to dive into this one with our friends Terri and Ben Osborne! Terri, a skilled ceramicist, may have extra insights about the planet of Kiln and its nefarious secrets! As always, free and open to everyone.

We can't wait to celebrate the release of MY HERESIES, the highly-anticipated new book of poems by local author and friend Alina Stefanescu. Ilya Kaminsky calls the collection "spellbinding": "The lyrical sweep and abandon of these poems is stunning...Truly, here is enough fire in these pages for seven poets." Alina will be in conversation with local poet Miriam Calleja, and a Q&A and signing will follow the reading. The event is free, as always, but please RSVP below. Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. More online at alinastefanescuwriter.com.

Martha Park's WORLD WITHOUT END, essays on the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South, have received rave reviews from Lisa Wells and Arwen Donahue, among others. We're so excited to welcome her to discuss her work with her editor (and our good pal) Katherine Webb. A Q&A and signing will follow. Free, as always, but please RSVP below. Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee. She received an MFA from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University, and was the Spring 2016 Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She has received fellowships and grants from the Religion & Environment Story Project, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her collaborative illustrated journalism has been recognized with an EPPY Award for Best use of Data/Infographics and was a finalist for the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Insight Award for Visual Journalism. Martha’s work has appeared in Orion, Oxford American, The Guardian, Grist, Guernica, The Bitter Southerner, ProPublica, and elsewhere. Katherine Webb is a writer, journalist, and editor. For many years, she covered justice in the South with Scalawag Magazine where her reporting was praised, published, or funded by the New York Times, the Nation, PEN America, the Atlantic, Longreads, The Marguerite Casey Foundation, and occasionally even her own family. As an editor with Hub City Press, Katherine works with writers from acquisition through development to publication. At home in Birmingham, Alabama, she's the mother of two young children.

A pinch-us event! We are all huge Kevin Wilson fans and he's coming HERE! He'll be reading from and discussing Run For the Hills, his brand new road trip novel featuring an unforgettable family pushed to its limits. Smart, funny, and wildly entertaining, with the signature deadpan wit and zaniness that make all of Wilson's books so special, Run For the Hills feels like the perfect kickoff to summerti A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. This event is FREE, but please RSVP below. Waiting list will be standing room only. Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Nothing to See Here, and The Family Fang, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons. Kevin Wilson photo credit: Leigh Anne Couch Jacket credit: Ecco

Winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky, Watel's BOOK OF POTIONS is a collection of prose poems about a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between generations, locked in stereotyped roles and stultifying social norms, confined by other people’s expectations and their projections of what a woman should be. With raves from Stuart Dybek, Sabrina Orah Mark, Amy Hempel, and others, BOOK OF POTIONS heralds an exciting new voice. We're so thrilled to welcome Watel in conversation with Emma Bolden, author of THE TIGER AND THE CAGE and dear friend of TYB. Free as always, but kindly RSVP below. Lauren K. Watel is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. Book of Potions, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books, is her first book. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books and The Nation. Her work has also won awards from Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation and Mississippi Review. Her prose poem honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was set to music by Pulitzer-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and the piece premiered at the Dallas Symphony. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she lives in Decatur, Georgia. Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, her work has appeared in The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Best American Poetry, The Best Small Fictions, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and such journals as Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Gettysburg Review, The Seneca Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah. She currently serves as an editor of Screen Door Review.

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Thomas Rhett with Tucker Wetmore and The Castellows