Events

 

Upcoming Events :

November 14—Little Bellas Bellabration party  from 6 – 9 pm at Quality Bicycle Products in Bloomington.

November 23, Saturday—10:30 a.m. — Blue Earth County Library, Mankato–Chasing AllieCat —author talk, short reading, and books for sale. Event link: https://www.beclibrary.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=3170&month=11&year=2024&day=30&calType=0

Nov. 30-Dec. 1— GSR Arts Festival at Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center

 


 

 

PAST EVENTS:

September:
Every weekend in September: Becky will have a tent at the Minnesota Cycling Association High School Mountain Bike Races. Come meet her! Snag a copy of Chasing AllieCat! https://minnesotacycling.org/racing-series/
Find out more about the Minnesota Cycling Association HERE https://minnesotacycling.org/

 September 28, 29— Minnesota Cycling Association High School and Middle School Mountain Bike Races at Mount Kato, Mankato, MN (a setting for a bunch of CHASING ALLIECAT!)

October 5—Deep Valley Book Festival, Country Inn and Suites Conference Center, 1900 Premier Drive, Mankato, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

October 6—BEST DAM PIE THANK YOU RIDE, meeting at Mount Kato, Mankato, MN, for organized casual rides. Chasing AllieCat will be available for purchase for interested riders and friends.

October 10—Becky will be a guest storyteller at the Art Center of Saint Peter, participating in the “Tell Me a Story—Trouble” event at 7:30, which is always a blast!  She will have copies of CHASING ALLIECAT (A story born out of trouble) for sale, as well as telling one of her stories of trouble!

September 7 & 8–Minnesota Cycling Association High School and Middle School Mountain Bike Races at Lake Rebecca, Rockford, MN

September 13, 14–Chequamegaon Mountain Bike Festival, Cable, Wisconsin

September 15–Minnesota Cycling Association High School Mountain Bike Races at Jail Trail, Saint Cloud, MN

September 21, 22—Minnesota Cycling Association High School and Middle School Mountain Bike Races at Theodore Wirth Park, Minneapolis, MN

August 6: “Readers are Leaders” guest speaker, Talent Search Program, Minnesota State University

August 24: River Valley 100 Bike Ride, selling books at LocAle Brewery , Mankato, staging area

January 23, 2023–St. Peter North Elementary, St. Peter, MN, 2nd Grade.

November 1, 2022–KIPP High School, Lynn, MA, Creative Writing Class

October 25, 2022–St. Peter High School,  St. Peter, MN, Creative Writing class

October 4, 2022–Montana State University, Havre, MT, Creative Writing class

October 1, 2022–Deep Valley Book Festival, The WOW Zone, Mankato, MN

September 6, 2022–Speaker, Kiwanis Club, Mankato, MN

July 25, 2022–Guest author at Eagle Lake Library, District 77 Summer program, Eagle Lake, MN

January 27 – South Dakota Writes: Local Writer Winter Book Fair,   1-5 p.m. Western Mall, 2101 W. 41st Street in Sioux Falls 

January 27 – South Dakota Writes: Local Writer Winter Book Fair, 1-5 p.m. Western Mall, 2101 W. 41st Street in Sioux Falls

February 10 – BOOK ENDS: Connecting Writers with Readers–a monthly Literary Event on Second Saturdays, 11 AM at The Uptown, 224 Jefferson St. S, Wadena, MN (I’m really excited to get to be the featured author for this program!)

March 15 –Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa – reading and lecture, 7 p.m. with classroom visits on Friday, March 16

March 22 or 23 TBA – Visiting District 77 Dakota Meadows Middle School (Very excited for this hometown event, if we can make it happen)

April 16-The Happy Bookers Book Club, Mankato

May 12- Midwest Book Awards Gala, Luther Northwestern Seminary, St. Paul

June 21-22-23 – Pekin Days, Pekin North Dakota, origination point of the Slider’s Son story. Details TBD.

Oct. 12, 13 – Deep Valley Book Festival, Mankato Event Center

Oct. 22 – North Mankato Taylor Library, Author event and discussion with author Kirstin Cronn-Mills, 6 p.m. at the Police Annex Building right next to the library.

September 12 – 6 p.m. – Book LAUNCH for Slider’s Son at the Blue Earth County Library, Mankato

Sept, 14 – 7 p.m. — Reading and continued Slider’s Son book launch at Mankato Barnes and Noble, RiverHills Mall

Sept. 20—Noon to 1 p.m. – Sakatah reading series, South Central College, Conf. Center C,  1920 Lee Blvd., North Mankato, MN

Sept. 21-24 —South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood, SD

Oct. 5-6—Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, ND

Becky participated in a panel, “The ‘Story’ Within the History: Great Plains History in Fiction and Nonfiction” Rebecca Fjelland Davis with authors Rachael Hanel, and Amy Mattson Lauters

Oct. 6, p.m., Oct. 7– Deep Valley Book Festival, Mankato Event Center, Mankato

Becky and her writing group presented a panel about making writing groups work, and writing for publication. (“Siblings in Ink” have been working together 13 years!)

Oct. 17—7 p.m.–Muir Library, Winnebago, MN; reading, book talk, books for sale and signing   36 Main St N, Winnebago, MN 56098

Oct. 19—7:30 p.m.—Arts Center of Saint Peter, “Rebecca Fjelland Davis: Prairie-Dogging Her Way to a Completed Novel”

Oct. 21–1 p.m.—Cambridge, IA Library; reading, book talk, books for sale

Oct. 26, 27, 28—Citizen Jane Film Festival, Stephens College, Columbia, MO

Chasing AllieCat the film was submitted and was ACCEPTED to this film festival. The premier of this film (shorts program) was well attended and well received! (And made Becky cry) 

Nov. 9 –Van Meter,Iowa!

All day, Becky will be at the Van Meter Middle School, talking about writing, about this novel and Bob Feller ties, and signing books as requested.

Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.–Van Meter Public Library, Van Meter, IA.  VAN METER IS the home of Bob Feller! Bob Feller is Grant O’Grady’s (Slider’s Son) idol! This is an exciting event!

Nov. 10–7:30 a.m. until noon–Ballard Middle School and Huxley Public Library: My alma Mater! Home town

Nov. 18–4 p.m., 5 p.m. Mankato premiere showings of Chasing AllieCat, the movie at Nicollet Bike Shop,   607 N. Riverfront Drive, Mankato

Nov. 20–12 p.m., 1 p.m, and 5 p.m. at South Central College–Mankato premiere showings of Chasing AllieCat, the movie

Dec. 1–6 p.m.–with Author Shelley Tougas, (newly released Laura Ingalls Wilder is Ruining My Life) at Chapter Two Books, 226 Locust Street, Hudson, WI 54016

December 2– 2 p.m., Addendum Books, also with Shelley Tougas! 

478 Cleveland Ave. S., St. Paul, MN 55105

December 16, 2 p.m. Bemidji Public Library

509 America Ave. NW, Bemidji, MN  56601

December 28–Curiosi Tea House, 5-7 p.m., North Riverfront Drive, Mankato

January 19–All day–JWP (Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton) Middle School with AWESOME 7th and 8th graders, Janesville, MN

January 20, 2 p.m.–The Red Balloon Book Shop, also with Shelley Tougas!

891 Grand Ave.,  St Paul, MN 55105

 

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