Reading Series at the Park-McCullough Carriage Barn
Tuesday, September 15, 5 - 6:30 PM
with Genevieve Plunkett & Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
September 15 Authors: Genevieve Plunkett will celebrate the release of her new novel The Lonely Girl's Vegetable Patch along with novelist Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, author of Fierce Little Thing (now in paperback, NY Times bestseller list) and most recently June.
Park-McCullough, in partnership with Prospect Street Writers House and The Bennington Bookshop, welcomes esteemed authors from Vermont and beyond for a Summer Reading Series taking place in the Carriage Barn at the Park-McCullough. Once a month, June - December 2026, poets and writers, including Peter Cameron, Rage Hezekiah, June Gervais, and Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, among others, will be reading from recent work, discussing the writer's life, and engaging with audience members. This is a great opportunity to meet authors connected to the area, ask questions, and expand one's literary horizons! Admission is free. Donations support programming such as this Reading Series.
Print the poster for the entire 2026 Reading Series lineup! CLICK HERE!
More about the September 15 authors:
Genevieve Plunkett. Genevieve Plunkett is the author of novel In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel and the story collection Prepare Her. A recipient of an O. Henry Award and The Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize for best short story published in 2023, her short fiction can be found in The Sewanee Review, New England Review, Southern Review, Electric Literature, Story, Colorado Review, and The Best Small Fictions 2018. Her second novel The Lonely Girl's Vegetable Patch will be published in September of 2026.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore. Author of The Effects of Light, which, with her sister filmmaker Kai Beverly-Whittemore, she co-wrote and co-produced a short film adaptation of called Camera Obscura (starring Mary-Lynn Rajskub). Set Me Free was next, followed by Bittersweet (on the New York Times bestseller list), and most recently June named one of the summer’s hottest reads by the New York Post.
