A three book release reading party featuring Susan Chiavelli, Frances Davis, and Isabelle Walker at Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E Valley Rd., Suite 51, Montecito, December 5th, 3 pm.

The event is free; books will be available for purchase.

Come celebrate Close at Hand: a conversation in verse (Sungold Editions) by Susan Chiavelli & Frances Davis; Alas…a memoir-in-verse (Finishing Line Press) by Susan Chiavelli; and Something Good in All That Darkness (Finishing Line Press) by Isabelle Walker.

Susan Chiavelli’s award winning prose and poetry have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, SALT, Miramar, San Pedro River Review, The Packinghouse Review, Shoreline Voices anthologies and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart nominee and the recipient of the Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Nonfiction Prize.

Journalist and poet Frances Davis is the author of the historical novel Red Summer (2025). Her poetry and prose have appeared in Reed Magazine, Calyx, SALT, Passager, Chattahoochee Review, Anacapa Review, Askew, The Hopper, New Verse News, and elsewhere.

Isabelle Walker lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she teaches and writes for magazines and newspapers. Her poems have appeared in December, The Maine Review, The Santa Barbara Literary Journal, The Sierra Nevada Review, Seven Hills Review, Salt, among others. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.