Upcoming Author Events & Readings
4 upcoming author events and readings from Milton Public Library, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 17 · 2pm
Violist Taisiya Sokolova and violinist Leqing Wang play a duo recital for all ages. Sokolova, born in Russia, recently completed a doctorate in viola performance at Boston University under Steve Ansell of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Wang, born in China, has played Walton’s Violin Concerto as soloist with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and won the Grand Prize in the BU Bach Competition.
Thu Oct 22 · 7pm
Dennis J. Curran, a former Massachusetts Superior Court judge, examines the Salem witch trials and the “perfect storm” of conditions behind their injustices, part of his series “Great Trials That Changed History: A Judge’s Perspective.” Curran presided over 450 civil and criminal trials in 15 years on the bench and has received four statewide awards for judicial excellence; he holds a law degree from the University of Virginia.
Wed Oct 28 · 7pm
An evening to meet Kat Gonso, named the library’s 2026–2028 Dr. Herb Voigt Writer-in-Residence, who will offer workshops and events throughout her residency. Gonso’s short prose has won the Gover Flash Fiction Prize and The Southeast Review’s World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest and made the Wigleaf Top 50. She is a Professor of the Practice in English at Boston College and teaches in Emerson College’s graduate creative writing program.
Mon Nov 2 · 7pm
Kathleen Foster and Emily Franklin, two writers with ties to Milton, discuss finding novels in the stories missing from the historical record. Foster’s debut The Jewel of Corlivo is a historical fantasy set in a world inspired by the early Byzantine empire; Franklin’s Love & Other Monsters tells the origin of Frankenstein through Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s stepsister. Franklin also wrote The Lioness of Boston, about Isabella Stewart Gardner.
