Upcoming Readings/Lectures
Upcoming Panels/Presentations
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs – Philadelphia, PA (Mar 23-26, 2022) – Worth a Thousand Words: Integrating Visual Elements into Creative Nonfiction – This panel will speak to a growing sub-genre of mixed media creative nonfiction writers looking to incorporate visual elements in their work. With Lilly Dancyger, Grace Talusan, Megan Culhane-Galbraith, and Mary-Kim Arnold.
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Previously
- 12/19/21 – Lilla Lit “Solstice” reading at the Leach Botanical Garden CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
- NonfictionNOW – New Zealand/online (Dec 3-5, 2021) Non-fiction meets the non-human: Writing about animals in the Anthropocene – What is at stake in writing about animals in the Anthropocene? How can we acknowledge our complicity in animals’ crisis? Should we? Furthermore, how does the nonfiction form uniquely enable us to address these questions and others? With Courtney Kersten, Ben Goldfarb, & Rebecca Giggs.
- 10/6/20: “Small Press Reading: Creative Nonfiction Edition” Colgate University/Syracuse University. Free & Virtual.
- 7/23/20: “Coffee Talk #11” Grief readings during the pandemic. Free & open & virtual. Zoom.
- “Writing Toward Belonging,” with Sarah Cannon, Sarah Townsend, Ginna Luck and Jeff Henigson; Orcas Island Lit Fest April 17-19, 2020 – CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
- 2/26-28/20: Elgin Community College Reading Series, Elgin, IL
- 2/2/20: Lilla Lit “Thirst” reading, Leach Botanical Garden, Portland.
- 1/6/20: PNCA’s Low Residency MFA Winter Residency Creative Writing Lectures.
- 1/5/20: PNCA Low Residency MFA Winter Residency Reading 2.
- 12/28/19: Jolabokaflod, book sale/signing. Nordic Northwest. Free & Open to the public.
- 11/9/19: Portland Book Festival, pop-up reading
- 10/24/19: Melissa Matthewson reading from Tracing the Desire Line at Powell’s Hawthorne (in conversation)
- 10/15/19: Reading at Night Heron Books, Laramie WY
- 10/2/19: Host of One-Page Wednesday, Literary Arts, Portland
- 9/4/19: One-Page Wednesday, featured reader with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Literary Arts, Portland
- 8/18/19: Why There Are Words, PDX – Truth and Reconciliation reading, Portland
- 8/16/19: Reading at Third Place Books, Seattle
- 8/15/19: Reading and conversation with Janice Lee at Hugo House, Seattle
- 6/26/19: Reading and conversation with Rene Denfeld at Powell’s books downtown
- 6/3/19: Reading with Grief Rites Foundation at Post 134
- 5/2/19: Book launch for The Skinned Bird at Broadway Books, in conversation with Justin Hocking
- 3/27/19: KERNPUNKT PRESS reading at AWP PDX – 9 pm at Rose City Book Pub
- 3/30/19: Magnify Small Press reading at AWP PDX – 7 pm, at Another Read Through
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs – Portland, OR (Mar 27-30, 2019) Rewriting Wild Bodies – In this session, writers and teachers of ecological literature will use theories of ecofeminism and environmental justice to consider how built urban and suburban spaces exclude or erase “others”—nonwhite, non-cisgendered, poor, disabled bodies. With Heidi Hutner, Olivia Olivia, J Drew Lanham, and Marco Wilkinson Seiryu
- NonfictionNOW – Phoenix, AZ (Nov 1-3, 2018) The F Word – including a roundtable on how a book’s failure can impact our confidence, productivity, and drive in both negative and positive ways—and, most importantly, what to do next. With Randon Billings Noble, Berry Grass, Lisa Nikolidakis, & Susan Olding