How do you receive pleasure? How do you seek it? What do you 'allow' yourself in hard times? Where are your barriers, where are your openings? How does language inform your orientation?

Join Catherine for a writing workshop for mothers and caregivers. This program, funded by the Mississippi Arts Commission, is offered in partnership with The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jxn Motherhood, and the Mississippi Public Health Institute.

Join us for a reading and writing workshop with Catherine Simone Gray as part of the Columbus-Lowndes Library local program called "Writing to Heal".

Proud Flesh is the March Bottom Reader Book Club pick for Rooted Magazine. Join for a conversation between Catherine and Lauren Rhoades, founder of the magazine, and bring your own questions.

Join us for a reading and conversation between Catherine and Beth Ann Fennelly, the esteemed former Poet Laureate of Mississippi and author of Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother.

Join us for The Visiting Writer Series at Millsaps College for a conversation between Catherine and Kate Royals, Mississippi Today's Community Health Editor.

Join us for a conversation between Catherine and Molly Boeder of The Breathe Network, a nonprofit that supports sexual assault survivors with trauma-informed, sliding-scale healing resources.

It's the Proud Flesh hometown launch celebration! Join us for a signing that begins at 4:30 p.m. A conversation between Catherine and Lauren Rhoades of Rooted will begin at 5:30 p.m. Come get a signed book and some fun Proud Flesh swag.

launch event

A conversation between Catherine and Joelle Hann of Brooklyn Book Doctor, who was Catherine's book coach and developmental editor of Proud Flesh.

Catherine will be in conversation with author Beth Kander about Beth's USA Today Bestselling novel I Made It Out of Clay.