Unlikely Collaborators Spark Salon with Katherine Center

Best-selling novelist Katherine Center, author of The Love Haters, The Bodyguard, Things You Save in a Fire, How to Walk Away, and Happiness for Beginners, has built a career exploring resilience, love, and transformation through story. As a fiction writer, she works at the level where identity is formed: character, internal dialogue, belief, and turning point.

Through the disciplined craft of narrative, she studies how characters organize experience into meaning and how they construct a sense of self from memory, assumption, fear, and hope—and what changes when that internal story shifts.

In this Spark Salon, Center examines how the stories we live by shape who we become—not just the stories we read but the narratives we construct about failure, belonging, love, ambition, and possibility. She reflects on how narrative framing influences creativity and identity and how revising a story, on the page or in life, can expand what feels possible. Because fiction is not an escape. It is a laboratory for transformation.
6:00 p.m.: Doors open, reception
7:00 p.m.: Program begins promptly, doors close no late admittance
8:00 p.m.: Book signing and reception

Prior to the event you will receive an email from Unlikely Collaborators’ building registration system (coming from: [email protected]) to confirm your attendance and to offer pre-check in for the event. During the in-person check in process each attendee will be required to:

• Present a government-issued ID
• Take a photo for the building registration system
• Review and sign a general liability waiver and a house rules agreement (can be completed during pre-check in)
• Wear an event badge that displays your first name

No exceptions.

Attendance is complimentary, full and completed registration is required. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis until capacity is reached. Doors open at 6:00pm and close promptly at 7:00pm. Late entry is not permitted as the event is being filmed and livestreamed.

No pets allowed (except for service animals), no outside food or beverages allowed.

Center is the author of The Shippers, releasing May 19.

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