Upcoming 2026 Events:
(all times are local times)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026: Louisville, Kentucky
Author Talk + Fantasy Writing Workshop, 5-7pm
at the Oldham County Public Library (Goshen Branch)
3000 Paramont Commons
Prospect, KY 40059
PAST EVENTS
Wed July 8: New York City book launch at Love & Legends with author Katie Wu, 7pm
Ticketed event. *SOLD OUT
Thurs July 9: Louisville book launch at Carmichael’s Bookstore with author Gwenda Bond, 7pm
The event is free, but registration is encouraged.
Sat July 11: Chicago in-store signing and event at The Last Chapter Book Shop, 1-3pm
Pop-up event open to the public.
Sun July 12: St. Louis event at The Novel Neighbor, 2pm
The event is free, but registration is encouraged.
Sat July 18: Orlando author panel at Barnes & Noble East Colonial, 6pm
Join moderator Ellen Goff (literary agent and debut author) for a evening with your favorite young adult authors: Allison Saft, Rachel Griffin, R.M. Gray, Julia Alexandra, Sara Raasch, and Beth Revis!
Ticketed event. *SOLD OUT
Sat July 25: Salem event at The Midnight Bookseller with author Aleese Lin
*Grand-opening weekend party, 6pm
Ticketed event. *SOLD OUT
Thurs July 30: Louisville event at A Novel Romance with author Callie Rowland, 6:30pm
Ticketed event.
Mon August 3: Lexington - author Callie Rowland’s launch of her novel FIELDS OF ASPHODEL at Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Ellen will be in conversation with Callie), 7pm
The event is free, but registration is encouraged.
Thurs August 6: Cleveland event “FAREWITCH Baked Goods Swap!” and reading with Loganberry Books, 6pm
The event is free, but registration is encouraged.
Sat Aug 15: Atlanta event with The Impossible Moon Bookshop for *BOOKSTORE ROMANCE DAY*
A community baked goods swap!
2-3:30pm
Ellen Pauley Goff (she/her) was born and raised in the wilds of Kentucky. Her short fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, F(r)iction, and New Millennium Writings, among others. Her poetry can be found in the Atlanta Review, and her creative nonfiction can be found in The Inquisitive Eater and Karma Comes Before. Her short story “S.P.A.M.” was F(r)iction’s Grand Prize Winner of their Short Story Contest, selected by guest short fiction judge Madeline Miller (Circe). She is also the inaugural winner of SCBWI's A. Orr Fantasy Grant for children's/YA speculative fiction.
Ellen received her BA from the University of Chicago, and her MFA dual degree in Fiction and Writing for Children & Young Adults from The New School. She has worked a lot of places to learn a lot of things: Kentucky Shakespeare, the oldest free Shakespeare festival in North America; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and The White House in the Office of Presidential Correspondence under the Obama Administration.
Ellen is the proud founder of a longstanding writing workshop and critique group in the heart of Manhattan, with the goal of providing publishing knowledge and resources to emerging writers, including un-agented, unpublished, and traditionally excluded writers. When she's not writing, Ellen works in publishing and international rights.
She is the author of The Farewitch of Foxe Holler (Saga Press/S&S, July 2026) and a forthcoming romantic fantasy novel set in Foxe Holler (Saga Press/S&S, Fall 2027).
