This year the Roanoke Book and Author dinner goes virtual! I’ll be part of a program including authors Adriana Trigiani, Martin Clark, and Samuel Shem. Click here for tickets, which also provide access to a recording up to 60 days after the event. Proceeds benefit Health Focus of Southwest Virginia and the Roanoke Valley Speech and Hearing Center. Books are available through Roanoke’s Book No Further.

Thanks to Virginia Humanities for hosting me in this free online program. Register at Virginia Humanities.org/events

Join me for a discussion at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond. Information on registration is available at Osher’s website. While you’re there, check out the many other interesting programs that are available.

Thanks to the Shepherd’s Center of Richmond for including me in its fall program. This is free with a Shepherd’s Center membership, included with Open University tuition and open to the general public with admission by donation. Lunch is noon to 12:30 (bring a sandwich — coffee and dessert are available), followed by my talk and book signing. Check the Shepherd’s Center website for more details.

Join me for a book talk and discussion at Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery. Click here for more details.

Join me for a book talk and discussion at Pale Fire Brewing Company. Click here for more details.

Join me at my home congregation for a talk, book signing, and reception. This is free and open to the public.

Join me at my book signing at Fountain Bookstore in Richmond’s Shockoe Slip.

I’ll be on a panel, “The Art of Political Engagement,” with Douglas Rogers, author of Two Weeks in November, to discuss creativity and passion in writing about current events. The festival, which runs from Thursday evening through Saturday, is free and open to the public. Details at https://1455litarts.org/

Please join me at The Book Bin for the Journalists' Jamboree, a signing event with authors William Geroux and Bill Sizemore.

This event is free and open to the public. Thank you to my hosts, the League of Women Voters of South Hampton Roads and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University.

Joining me in this talk will be Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Bill Lohmann and Pastor Alex Evans of Richmond's Second Presbyterian Church. Evans is a former Blacksburg police chaplain whose work the week of April 16, 2007, led to the formation of the Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program, which helps officers who have responded to traumatic events.

More information at: http://www.chopsueybooks.com/events/thomaskapsidelis

Joining me in this talk will be police chaplains Alex Evans and Tommy McDearis, and retired police lieutenant Kit Cummings, who were among the responders on April 16, 2007, and went on to found the Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program. Created in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, the organization is "committed to serving law enforcement officers and first responders who have undergone traumatic critical incidents in the line of duty or in their personal lives."

More information: http://mfrl.org/calendar.php?showbranch=b#event%7Cbburg-author-talk-tom-kapsidelis-with-after-virginia-tech%7C29314

Joining me in this talk will be Colin Goddard, a Virginia Tech shooting survivor and gun safety advocate. More information at: https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/thomas-p-kapsidelis-after-virginia-tech-guns-safety-and-healing-in-era-of-mass-shootings

As part of the Carole Weinstein Author Series, I’ll be on a panel with Elizabeth Hilscher, the mother of one of the students killed at Virginia Tech and a member of the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, and Sarah Kleiner, a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. The program will be introduced by the Rev. Alexander Evans, pastor of Second Presbyterian Church and a founder of the Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program. There will be a short reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. before the talk at 6 p.m. Limited free parking is available in the Library’s deck. More information: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/weinstein/

I’ll take part in a discussion with Kristina Anderson, a Virginia Tech shooting survivor and safety advocate. For more information:

https://www.press.org/news-multimedia/news/author-book-virginia-tech-massacre-survivor-plan-discuss-tragedy-headliners-boo (Note: This is a ticketed event.)

Southern Discomfort: Journalists Explore Guns and Drugs

I’ll be on a panel with Pam Kelley, author of Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South. For more information on our talk, and other Festival events:

https://www.vabook.org/program/southern-discomfort-journalists-explore-guns-and-drugs/