Back together, again! It’s always an honor to be with Estelle. Thank you, Books and Brew! 06.08.2025

It was a joy to be with these phenomenal Black authors at Books and Brew! 02.15.2025
A Tale of Two Cities: Water Valley’s Connection to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, 09-12-2024

Join author and researcher “Dottie” Quaye Chapman Reed at the Switzer Library for a discussion about the amazing Black Women of Yalobusha County, 4.22.2024. Register Here

Chapman Reed hosting an author’s table at the Decatur Book Festival, 10.5.2024

You never know who you might run into at the Decatur Book Festival. I’m enjoying a talk with the mother and sister of Stacey Abrams!
Meet Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed at the Conyers Book Festival, 4.20.24. For more information about the author and researcher access her page. Click for more information about the festival.

Quaye Chapman Reed presented at the Henry County Cochran and Fortson Libraries, 3.9.2024 & 3.23.2024

Gathering at Agnes Scott College with Dr. Kneshi Thom El Amin and sociology class 2.28.2024

Telling Our Stories: Using Memoirs to Document One’s Own History – Black History as American History, February 17, 2024
Cobb County Switzer Library, 266 Roswell Street, Marietta, GA 30060
Watch and listen to Dottie Quaye Chapman Reed, featured panelist, at #PenPOSSE Roundtable “Identifying and overcoming hurdles to book publishing and promotion” 12.16.2023

The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Convening, November 2-3, 2023
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS


Annual Art Crawl, October 13-15, 2023
Water Valley, MS
207 N Main Street (Main Street Association Office) will host Dottie Quaye Chapman Reed, Alysia Steele, and a panel of women featured in Dottie’s book – Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County. A trailer for a documentary filmed by The Valley Imagery & Productions will be shown. This speaking engagement was made possible by Mississippi Humanities Council. (For more information)

Art Crawl & Water Valley High School Events, North Mississippi Herald, October 19, 2023


ASALH National Conference, September 20, 2023: Book signing – Thursday, 9/21, 7:30 PM; Presentation – Friday, 9/22, 8:40 AM
Hyatt Regency Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL

9th Annual Mississippi Book Festival, August 19, 2023
State Capitol Grounds, Jackson, MS
Book Signing at City of Johns Creek Juneteenth Celebration, June 17, 2023
Newtown Park in Johns Creek, GA

Monthly Meeting of the Atlanta Writer’s Club, March 18, 2023
GSU Perimeter, Decatur, GA

Symposium at Lost Lodge Reserves, March 8, 2023
Sandy Springs, GA


Annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society
March 2-3, 2023,
Mississippi Department of Archives & History – Jackson, MS

March 1, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
Peck House, 3601 Pearl Street, Hattiesburg, MS
Celebration of Women’s History Month
OLLI at Southern Miss
SouthTalks – “Coming Full Circle” with Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed
September 29, 2022, 12:00 p.m. University of Mississippi Libraries and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture




