• Author Patricia McCormick will be visiting Bakersfield College on Oct. 15.

Students can stop by to meet the author at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6:30 p.m. in the Fireside Room.

Her books, “Sold” and “Never Fall Down,” will be available for sale during her visit in the Fireside Room.

• Students are invited to attend a poetry reading by award-winning poet, novelist, and painter Clarence Major.

The poetry reading will be Oct. 3 at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. at the Norman Levan Center for Humanities on the BC campus.

Clarence Major has won many awards including a Western States Book Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and a National Council on the Arts Fellowship.

• Roughneck Review, an online journal featuring student works, is encouraging students to submit their work for a chance to be published online.

The submission deadline will be Oct. 1.

Roughneck Review publishes papers, artwork, musical files, dramatic readings, and many others.

Students can find submission guidelines on Roughneck Review’s website www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/roughneck.