DAVID LaROCHELLE >> One of our favorite children’s authors reads from his new picture book “100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli,” about dragons who got blown off their mountaintop home and where they went, including some who joined the Green Bay Packers. Free. 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 13, Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul. Registration is helpful to the staff to estimate headcount. Go to eventbrite.com/e/david-larochelle or redballoonbookshop.com.

AMANDA PARRISH MORGAN >> Presents “Stroller” in conversation with Dane Parrish. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

JIM RULAND >> Discusses “Make It Stop.” 7 P.m. Friday, May 12, SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul.

JOYCE SIDMAN >> Author of award-winning children’s books, including the Newbery Honor-winning “Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night,” as well as two Caldecott Honor books for illustration, reads from her new book “We Are Branches,” and explores nature artifacts with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources at a craft station. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, Shoreview Library, 4560 N. Victoria St., Shoreview.

JOHN WEST >> Presents “Lessons and Carols,” in conversation with Michael Bazzett. 7 p.m. Monday, May 8, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.

CHAUN WEBSTER >> Minneapolis poet and graphic designer, whose work interrogates blackness and being as a way to interrogate the world, reads from his latest poetry collection “Wail Song.” His 2018 collection “Gentry!fication,” won the Minnesota Book Award. 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul.

What else is going on

Joe Hart, Grand Rapids-based author of short stories and 16 novels, mostly horror and thrillers, won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for “Or Else” in the Best Paperback Original category. The novel is about a secret love that becomes a fatal affair. Hart grew up on a farm in northern Minnesota His books include “Obscura,” “The River is Dark” and “The Last Girl.” Awards were presented in late April at the Marriott Marquis New York in Times Square. Joanne Fluke, author of the bestselling Hannah Swenson Mysteries with Recipes, was named a Grand Master, the MWA’s highest award. Fluke grew up in the small Minnesota town of Swanville, near Little Falls, and her light-hearted cozies are set in fictional Lake Eden, Minn.

Loft Literary Center/McKnight Artist Fellowships have been awarded to four Minnesota creative prose writers and one children’s literature author. Each will receive $25,000 through the program that provides Minnesota writers of demonstrated ability with an opportunity to work on their writing for a concentrated period of time.

Art Coulson, winner in the middle grade/young adult category, has written more than a dozen books, graphic novels and plays, including “The Reluctant Storyteller,” named a best book of 2020 by Bank Street and American Indians in Children’s Literature

Recipients in creative prose are: Naomi Cohn, writer and teaching artist who has worked as a guerrilla feminist art collective, community organizer and therapist and whose memoir “The Braille Encyclopedia” is forthcoming in 2024; Gen Del Raye, half Japanese, born in Kyoto, winner of the 2022 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction for his debut story collection “Boundless Deep & Other Stories;” Hilal Isler, whose writing has appeared in national literary publications, staff reader for the literary journal Ploughshares and founding editor of the Hennepin Review; Kao Kalia Yang, Hmong American author of books for adults and children whose widely-praised work includes “The Latehomecomer,” “The Song Poet,” and “Somewhere in the Unknown World,” co-editor of “What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color,” honored by Minnesota Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, PEN/USA Literary Awards and others.