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2023
May 6: CELEBRATION OF CT AUTHORS at the Waterbury Barnes & Noble! Stop by to join Donna and over two dozen authors! Talk with children's and YA writers, adult fiction and nonfiction writers, and poets (yay!) about their publishing journeys. Signed books will be available for purchase or you can come just to chat.
- Job Loss, A Journey in Poetry at Tina's Cafe
- Silas Bronson Library
- Signing at Foxwoods Resort & Casino
- National Poetry Month at Byrd's Books
- With CT Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson at Byrd's Books
- What's Wrong with Ordinary? at Hickory Stick
- We Walk Together at Hickory Stick
- Fish Tales, Tugs and Sails in New London, CT
- Emerson Theater/Riverwalk Restaurant
- "Chicks with Books" Book Club
- Barnes & Noble
- School Visits
- Warren Library
- Poetry reading at Bank Square Books
- Poetry at Fairfield University Bookstore
- Setting up for a school visit
- Signing children's books with Kate Duke
- Her House and Other Poems at Hickory Stick
- No Winter Maintenance, Hickory Stick
- Moderating a poetry panel at the Oxford Grange
- Book Club Bookstore authors' tent, S. Windsor Farmers' Market
- Reading Hush That Hullabaloo at a summer Scottish festival
- Reading Hullabaloo and making sheep masks, Gunn Memorial Library
- Poetry afternoon at Byrd's Books
- Summer 2018 Event
- TEENSY MEENSY MICE with Ed Heck at Books of Wonder, NYC
- 18th Annual Cat in the Hat Ball, Mitchell College
- Independent Bookstore day, Hickory Stick
- Poetry reading at Byrd's Books with Faith Vincinanza, Gail Carson Levine, Sydney Eddison, Alan Katz, Donna Marie Merritt, Jack Sheedy
- Round Hill Highland Games, Lakeville, CT
- Authors Donna Marie Merritt and Leslie Connor at the 2019 CASL Conference
- Launching BIBLE POEMS outdoors during the pandemic
- B&N CT Author Celebration