Events

Thursday, Oct 30th 2008 - Ocala, FL

Tuesday, Jan 27th 2009 - Friends of the Library Fernandina Beach Annual Luncheon

Readings and signings for Tourist Season:

Thursday, May 3, 7:00 pm - Tampa, FL - Inkwood Books

Sunday, May 13, 2:00 pm - Gainesville, FL - Goerings Book Center

Saturday, May 19, 1:00pm - Methuen, MA - Methuen Public Library

Friday, June 15, evening - Kansas City, MO - Mark Twain Conference at the University of Missouri, Kansas City

Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 pm - Tampa, FL - Lifelong Writers, University of South Florida

Thursday, October 4 - Winnetka, IL - The Book Stall

October 15-20 - Readings at 5 universities in Florida, details to be announced

November, date to be announced - Savannah, GA - Armstrong Atlantic University

November, date to be announced - Asheville, NC - University of North Carolina


Other events:

Monday, May 21, 4:00 pm - Valencia, CA - Dance Opera "Pope Joan" based on Shomer's poem cycle will be performed at CalArts' concert hall.
CD release date September 2007.

Monday, June 4, 6:30 pm - New York City - Repertorio Español, 138 E 27 St (between 3rd and Lexington Aves.)
Performance of Crash Course, a play adapted from Shomer's short story "Crash Course," part of the Raymond J. Flores' Award Series.

Selected Works

Novel
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
To be published in 2012 by Simon and Schuster both in the U.S. and in the U.K.
Short Fiction
Tourist Season
"Beautifully made, surprising and inevitable, wonderfully inventive and deeply true"
—Pam Houston
Imaginary Men
"Remarkable insights into tradition and family, love and sex... This is a splendid fictional debut."
—Robert Olen Butler
Poetry; Biography
STARS AT NOON: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
Poems that give voice to the mercurial, dazzling woman who first broke the sound barrier.
Poetry
Black Drum
A stunning collection that adroitly mixes the sacred and the profane, the classical and casual.
—Booklist
This Close to the Earth
Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight.
Stalking the Florida Panther
"In this fine first book the eternal themes of love, loss, unrequital, and forgiveness come together with the characters to form a remarkably unified whole."
—Maxine Kumin