Join us for an evening with author and educator Julie Carrick Dalton as she discusses her latest novel, The Last Beekeeper. This novel was longlisted for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award, and her other novel, Waiting for the Night Song, won the New Hampshire Writer’s Project 2023 People’s Choice Award for Best Novel, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Most Anticipated novel by CNN, USA Today, Parade and Newsweek. A former journalist, farmer, and beekeeper, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis.
About the Speaker
Julie Carrick Dalton is a New England based author and educator. A member of the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a recent Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University, Julie is a frequent speaker on the topic of Fiction in the Age of Climate Crisis at universities, conferences, libraries, and museums, nationally and internationally. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Orion, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and other publications.
Her third novel, The Forest Becomes Her, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2026. When she isn’t reading or writing, you can probably find Julie digging in her garden, skiing, kayaking, walking her dogs, or trying to keep track of her four adult children. Learn more on her website here.
About the Fall Festival 2025
Our Vermont Reads 2025 book, The Light Pirate, raises the question of how we choose to adapt and grow after experiencing climate related crisis and trauma. In a flooding world, Wanda finds solace and hope in building community.
For this year’s Fall Festival, we want to highlight similar stories of hope as Vermont cities, towns, and villages face interrelated, complex problems such as climate change and the housing crisis.
Please contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
