Appearances
Upcoming/Ongoing Events
July 6, 2022: The Bookstore in Haines
July 15, 2022 at 7pm: UAA Anchorage: Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series
July 16, 2022: Chilkat Inlet Retreat
Of Bears and Ballots Past Events
June 15, 2020
- 5pm Alaska Time
Zoom interview with Kyle Clayton, a Hospice Fundraiser (by donation)
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June 29, 2020
- 2-3 pm Alaska Time
Alaska Public Radio “Hometown Alaska” with Kathleen McCoy, Heather’s former editor from the Anchorage Daily News.
June 30, 2020
- 8:42 am ET
Ashort chat with “Morning on Maine Street” with Bill Maine, on Northeast Georgia’s Morning Show WDUN-AM/FM. - 11-12 am ET
An interview on NPR 1A. - 5 pm Alaska Time
Zoom book launch and birthday party! In Haines, with a brief reading, a conversation with The Bookstore owner and recent Haines transplant Amy Kane, and answers to your questions.
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Thank you to the Alaska Arts Confluence and Fine Art Alaska for hosting the Of Bears and Ballots book launch and all their continued support and promotion, and for sharing Haines artists and writers with the World.
Wednesday July 1
- 3:40-4 pm AKDT
Juneau, “Juneau Afternoon” on KTOO-FM - Alaska News Nightly interview
Thursday, July 2
- 9-10am PT
Jefferson Public Radio for Southern Oregon and Northern California, interview with Geoffrey Riley. - 10 am AKDT
Haines, Skagway, Klukwan on the KHNS radio Lynn Canal Voice fundraiser program with Henry Lesia. - 9-9:30pm CT
KNOX-AM “Overnight America” with Ryan Wrecker
Wednesday July 8, 2020
- 5pm Alaska Time
U Bookstore, In conversation with Ross Reynolds, 4326 The Ave, Seattle WA 98105
https://www.ubookstore.com
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Friday July 10th, 2020
- 9:30-10 am CT
The Dave Nemo Show in Nashville TN, airs on XM Radio’s Road Dog channel 146 - 6pm Alaska Time
Homer Bookstore, In conversation with Erin Hollowell.
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Monday July 13, 2020
- 8:40-9am PT
KSVY-FM interview with Marcia Macomber in Sonoma, CA. - 5pm Alaska Time
Booksmith in San Francisco will host Heather over Zoom, and she will be interviewed by radio host and film maker Sedge Thomsen, at 5:PM
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Wednesday, July 15th
- 11:10-11:30 CT
“Morning Mix” show on WCMY-AM Chicago. - 7pm EST
Virtual event in Atlanta with the Atlanta History Center in conversation with Jessica Handler. View replay.
Monday, July 20th
- 7pm EST
Virtual event in Alexandria, VA Old Town Books, in conversation with Melissa Block.
https://www.oldtownbooks.com
Thursday, July 23rd
- 6pm PST
Virtual event, in Portland OR at Powell’s Books in conversation with Jennifer Steinhauer.
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Tuesday, July 28
- Skagway Books, Skagway, AK, 4pm AKDT w/ Eva Holland.
Wednesday, July 29
- Village Books, Bellingham, WA, 7pm PST w/ M. Jackson:
Wednesday, August 12
- 6:30 EST in conversation with Annie Philbrick, an old friend, fellow Middlebury alum with Alaskan connections, and the owner of Banks Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café in Mystic CT and Westerly RI
Thursday August 20 at 6pm Alaska time
- Sing Lee Alley, Petersburg – In conversation with bookstore owner and Petersburg assembly member Chelsea Tremblay.
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Thursday August 27 at 6pm Alaska time
- Old Harbor Books in Sitka in Conversation with author John Straley.
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- Thursday September 3rd at 1:30-2:30 pm AKDT, 5:30-6:30pm ET
The Palm Beach Book Festival
New Books Network Interview
I just did an interview with Dr. Christina Gessler on the New Books Network. Listen now
Other Past Events and Appearances
11/5/21: Keynote speaker at the annual Association of Alaska School Boards convention in Anchorage at the Anchorage Hilton
11/6/21: Writer’s Block in Anchorage
11/7/21: Hearthside in Juneau
Oct. 14 at 9am I did a virtual Yes on 2 event–the Alaska ballot measure 2 for fair elections campaign— with democracy advocate Dave Daley, author of Unrigged and Rat F**ked
August 4-7, the Pacific Northwest Library Association and Alaska Library Association joint annual conference in Juneau
Virtual North Words Writers Symposium, August 2-4, 2020
Middlebury College Reunion
June 9, 2021
Join Alumni Achievement Award winner Heather Vuillet Lende ’81 as she recounts her experiences chronicling life in small-town Alaska, gaining national attention and eventually being named the state’s Writer Laureate. The award recognizes her accomplishments as a writer; her most recent book is Of Bears and Ballots, and her memoir If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name made it to the New York Times bestseller list. Annie Hartmann Philbrick ’80 will moderate the Q&A. Sign in via Zoom beginning 15 minutes before live events. Register/Sign In
Join Heather this fall, winter and spring, for a remarkable literary series to celebrate Alaska Quarterly Review’s 4oth Anniversary, featuring many if the most influential and acclaimed writers of our time, Sundays beginning Oct. 4 and running through May 2.
Alaska Reads
Tune to libraries and bookstores around the state to listen to discussions about Find the Good, this year’s Alaska Reads selection. Click here for full info…