Our Events

Book-Themed Events in Downtown Greenville

Books naturally bring people together, we’re just here to add a little pizazz. Whether you’re looking for a stimulating conversation, author-attended luncheon, or literary libation, we’ve got an event ready to take your reading life to the next level.

Check Out Our Events

In Conversation with Maddie Norris

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

Join us on Thursday, March 28th at 5:30 pm for an In Conversation event with Maddie Norris. She’ll be chatting about her debut collection of essays, The Wet Wound alongside Lindsey […]

Runaway Friday Wine Lunch

The Gallery at M. Judson 130 S. Main St. Suite 200, Greenville, SC, United States

Some of the best times we have at M. Judson come from our collaborations with Mission Grape and Camilla Kitchen, where we let the food and wine do the storytelling. One […]

$50.00

Launch Party with Mamie Morgan

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

Writers wait lifetimes to get their work published. Which is why publication is a thing to be celebrated; the culmination of days and months and years of work and rework […]

Sold Out $40.00

Pop-Up with Terresa Cooper Haskew

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

A novel of 1960s Southern suspense in which two life insurance agents unknowingly carry similar secrets about the same dead man--one leak and each could lose everything. NEVER TELL A […]

Books Over Drinks with Megan Miranda

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

We look forward to welcoming back author Megan Miranda as she spends an evening with us on Monday, April 8th starting at 7:30 pm! Grab a cocktail and a seat […]

Open Mic Night

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

Time for your poems or stories or essays to be heard? Join us for something new… Open Mic Night! Work up a 5 minute sample of your literary arts, then […]

Literary Bingo

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

It's Bookish Game Night at M. Judson! Join us and our friends at the Greenville County Library for a night of Literary Bingo, complete with prizes. Look for this event once […]

In Conversation with Courtney Tollison

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

  Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South city Greenville, South Carolina has become […]

Runaway Friday Wine Lunch

The Gallery at M. Judson 130 S. Main St. Suite 200, Greenville, SC, United States

Some of the best times we have at M. Judson come from our collaborations with Mission Grape and Camilla Kitchen, where we let the food and wine do the storytelling. One […]

Pop-Up Blair Knobel – Vessel Magazine

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

  Vessel is a new print quarterly, celebrating the creativity, culture, and soul of the modern South. Blair Knobel, founder and CEO of Knobel Media, is the creator of Vessel. […]

Page Pairings

M. Judson Booksellers 130 S. Main St., Greenville, United States

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the […]

An Event For Every Reader

We like to think that our events bring some of the best things together: books, readers, authors, conversation, wine, food… Whatever combination suits you best, we bet you can find it below.
Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting! We pair six wines with six books for a night of fun browsing and sipping. Your ticket includes a full tasting as well as your choice of one of the featured books. As a bonus, bottles of the featured wines are sold at a discounted rate.

Join us for a dinner party you’ll never forget! One of the most wonderful things we do here at the bookstore is our Sunday Sit Down Supper series, where we invite a great writer to talk about their work and our Chef Teryi Youngblood Musolf to plan a menu inspired by it. After hours, we transform the bookstore with long tables and family china, wine and conversation, books and inspiration. Starting with a welcome cocktail, guests spend an evening with an author enjoying a four course meal and incredible conversation. Tickets include your cocktail, dinner, evening with the author, a signed copy of the featured book, and gratuity.

Join us for an evening of conversation and book-inspired libations! For each event, we concoct a unique cocktail inspired by the featured book, then spend the evening sipping away and chatting with the author. Your ticket includes a cocktail and a personally signed copy of the author’s book.

Join us for a Camilla Kitchen event where we bring a cookbook to life! That’s right, at these events Chef Teryi Youngblood Musolf serves up three small plates from the featured cookbook, even preparing some of it in front of you, all while chatting about the book, some tips, and some tricks in the kitchen. Your ticket includes three small plates, wine pairings, time with Teryi, and a copy of the book.

Pop-Up events are just what they sound like: informal chances to meet new authors and vendors in the local area. You can find these at booths set-up in-store on Saturdays, so come by and say hi!

Join us for a leisurely lunch spent with a bestselling author! Our most popular event by far, each Lunch and Lit features a three-course meal at Soby’s Southern Cuisine as the featured author visits each table to chat and sign books before speaking to the room as a whole during dessert. Your ticket includes lunch and a personally signed hard copy of the author’s book.
Join us for an intimate and stimulating conversation with an author! To start, we’ll listen to the featured author converse with a carefully chosen conversation partner, then follow up with Q & A’s and a book signing. This is a free event!

Calling all teachers for a special night out! With a teacher ID you’ll get a free glass of our house bubbles and receive a 15% discount on any purchase. These nights are always a blast, packed with raffles, giveaways, and fun. We try to keep them on the third Thursday of every month, but make sure to check the dates in case of changes.

Where are our little readers? Join us for a weekly Storytime out on the front steps of the courthouse (or in the lobby depending on weather). One of our booksellers will read through a big stack of our children’s picture books, then offer kid-sized cookies from Camilla Kitchen to close out the festivities. This is a free event!

Book Clubs

M. Judson book clubs are popular for a reason. Eclectic and lively, our book clubbers show up with a desire to discuss whether they’ve finished the book yet or not (no judgment here). Some of our clubs are genre-based, some are topical, but they’re all guaranteed to bring you new friends and new worlds. Each meets four times a season to discuss four different books covered in the price of your ticket.

Are you an author who’d like to do an event with us?

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