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… Continue reading Minneapolis: Reading and Conversation with Asali Solomon (Virtual)

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,… Continue reading San Francisco: Reading and Conversation with Oscar Villalon (In Person)

A reading, talk and Q&A in the heart and heat of downtown Sacramento, upstairs in Capital Books on K's Flamingo Lounge.

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.

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… Continue reading Seattle: Reading And Conversation with Piper Lane (In Person)

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… Continue reading Berlin Launch Party: Reading and Conversation with Jane Flett

In conversation with Sasha de Buyl.

With moderation by Alexander Wells.

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… Continue reading International Literature Festival Berlin—Landpartie: Alaska Reading and Birdwatching in Brandenburg. With Rebecca Rukeyser, Nell Zink und dem NABU

In conversation with Rachel Yoder.

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… Continue reading AWP 2023: The Narrative of Desire: The Importance of Writing Horny Women

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… Continue reading Horny Between the Covers: Women Writers on Lust