Carol Mitchell — A Good Haunting: Stories- with Lisa Page
Carol Mitchell presents *A Good Haunting: Stories*, a speculative collection rooted in Caribbean and African myths and traditions. The stories blend myth, magic, and realism with contemporary life, examining love, betrayal, motherhood, grief, death, belonging, and the meaning of home. Mitchell will discuss the collection in conversation with Lisa Page.
The book’s stories include a grieving widower navigating an unusual death ritual, an eighteenth-century African queen who is made immortal and sold into slavery, and a final community on Earth whose members disappear one by one. Across the collection, characters confront painful truths, impossible choices, and profound losses, emerging changed by their experiences.
When: November 12, 2026
Showtimes: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Politics and Prose at Union Market, 1324 4th Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
Tickets: Free
Seating: First come, first served.
Featured book: *A Good Haunting: Stories* by Carol Mitchell is a hardcover published November 3, 2026, and is listed at $24.95.
Participants: Carol Mitchell, author, in conversation with Lisa Page.
About Carol Mitchell: Mitchell wrote *A Good Haunting: Stories*, the novel *What Start Bad a Mornin’*, and nineteen children’s books. Her reviews and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA and has been a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and other arts organizations. She teaches writing and is working on a new novel.
About Lisa Page: Page co-edited *We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America*. Her writing has appeared in publications including *The Atlantic*, LitHub Weekly, *The Crisis*, *Virginia Quarterly Review*, *American Short Fiction*, *The Washington Post Book World*, and *The Chicago Tribune*. She has worked as a writer, editor, speechwriter, lyricist, instructor, actor, and literary consultant, created the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and formerly served as president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She is an assistant professor of English and director of Creative Writing at George Washington University, a former interim director of Africana Studies there, and resident faculty at the Yale Writers’ Workshop.
Accessibility: Requests for accommodations or accessibility information should be emailed to events@politics-prose.com, ideally at least one week before the event. The venue will make an effort to accommodate requests made up to the event time.