Rebecca Rukeyser

Horny Between the Covers: Women Writers on Lust
2023-05-18 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Electric Literature’s 2023 Spring Salon Series is presented by Mount Saint Mary’s University.
All events are pay-what-you-want, and proceeds support Electric Literature, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
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In a time when women’s bodily autonomy is under renewed legal attack, narratives about ungovernable female desire take on new urgency. As our laws regress, more and more contemporary fiction is pushing back against outdated beliefs regarding writing about sex, giving female horniness the central focus it deserves.
Our panelists Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House), Rebecca Rukeyser (The Seaplane on Final Approach), and Lillian Fishman (Acts of Service) began this conversation during a packed panel at AWP, but found that there was still so much to say about bodies, lust, and publishing. Now Electric Literature is continuing the conversation for free, online. Whose desire gets to be depicted, and how are narratives about lust molded by society’s judgments? And how do authors navigate the vulnerable process of publishing explicit work? Moderated by Alyssa Songsiridej, author of Little Rabbit and managing editor at Electric Literature. Their discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.

AWP 2023: The Narrative of Desire: The Importance of Writing Horny Women
2023-03-11 13:45 - 15:15 UTC
A panel discussion with Carmen Maria Machado, Alyssa Songsiridej, and Lillian Fishman.
Sexual desire is a perfect narrative accelerant. It propels plot, informs character, thwarts plans. But pure sexual desire is often denied female characters, who are allowed to be desirous-but-doomed or desirous-but-it’s-self-actualization but rarely messily, humanly horny. In this panel, four writers discuss the strategies, challenges, and value of writing horniness in fiction, the impoverished history of women’s desire in fiction, and importance of a robust future of horny women characters.

LIVE from Prairie Lights
2022-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Prairie Lights, 15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, United States
In conversation with Rachel Yoder.

International Literature Festival Berlin—Landpartie: Alaska Reading and Birdwatching in Brandenburg. With Rebecca Rukeyser, Nell Zink und dem NABU
2022-09-17 16:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Bahnhof Wilmersdorf [b. Angermünde], Angermünde, Brandenburg, 16278, Germany
Together with friends, the writer Lola Randl has transformed a train station in Brandenburg into a cultural venue. The ilb will be there for a reading and bird-watching stroll for one afternoon.

International Literature Festival Berlin—New US-American Voices: Lauren Oyler & Rebecca Rukeyser
2022-09-16 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Schaperstraße 24, Berlin, Germany
With moderation by Alexander Wells.

Edinburgh International Book Festival: Wild At Heart
2022-08-26 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Wee Red Bar, 74 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
In conversation with Sasha de Buyl.

Berlin Launch Party: Reading and Conversation with Jane Flett
2022-07-12 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Lettrétage, Veteranenstraße 21, Berlin, 10119, Germany
In conversation with Jane Flett, whose fiction has been appeared on BBC Radio 4, in Electric Literature, and awarded the Berlin Senate Award for non-German literature and the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award.
After the brief reading there will be a book signing (books provided by Curious Fox) followed by drinks and dancing.

Seattle: Reading And Conversation with Piper Lane (In Person)
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, Washington
I’ll be reading and chatting with Seattle writer, doula, and fisherman Piper Lane, who herself hails from Homer, Alaska. She has a first novel-in-progress, Standing in the Bight, and has been a Hugo House Fellow and Hedgebrook resident.
The event is free, but you should register beforehand. You can do that here.

Los Angeles: Reading and Discussion at the LAPL (Virtual)
2022-06-28 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
As part of the Los Angeles Public Library’s “Summer With The Library” I’ll be doing a virtual reading hosted by the Palisades Branch of the LAPL.

Sacramento: Reading and Conversation
2022-06-23 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Capital Books, 1011 K Street, Sacramento, CA
A reading, talk and Q&A in the heart and heat of downtown Sacramento, upstairs in Capital Books on K’s Flamingo Lounge.

San Francisco: Reading and Conversation with Oscar Villalon (In Person)
2022-06-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco
In an in-person event presented in partnership with ZYZZYVA, I’ll be reading and chatting with Oscar Villalon, the managing editor at ZYZZYVA. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, Literary Hub, and other publications.
Masks required for in-person attendance—or you can watch online by registering here!

Minneapolis: Reading and Conversation with Asali Solomon (Virtual)
2022-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
I’ll be reading and chatting with Asali Solomon, the author of The Days of Afrekete, Disgruntled, and Get Down: Stories, which earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Solomon teaches fiction writing and literature of the African Diaspora at Haverford College.
The event is virtual: you can register here.

Los Angeles: Reading and Conversation with Angela Flournoy (In Person)
2022-06-13 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 NORTH VERMONT AVE, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
I’ll be reading and chatting with Angela Flournoy, the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel won the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize and was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an NAACP Image Award.

Philadelphia: Reading and Conversation With Annie Liontas (In Person)
2022-06-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
In an in-person event presented by the Free Library of Philadelphia, I’ll be reading and chatting with Annie Liontas, author of Let Me Explain You and co-editor of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors.
The event is free, but you need to register beforehand—you can do that here.

BROOKLYN LAUNCH: Reading and Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado (In Person)
2022-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | Books Are Magic, 225 Smith St., Brooklyn, United States
The official book launch for The Seaplane on Final Approach. An in-person reading and a conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In The Dream House at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. You can get tickets here.
The event will also be broadcast free live here.

The Seaplane on Final Approach Book Tour (In-Person and Virtual)
2022-06-08 - 2022-07-12
I’m excited to be talking with so many amazing people and visiting so many cities. Hope to see you at one of the events!
