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Los Angeles: Reading and Conversation with Angela Flournoy (In Person)

Skylight Books 1818 NORTH VERMONT AVE, Los Angeles, CA, 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.

Free

Minneapolis: Reading and Conversation with Asali Solomon (Virtual)

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

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San Francisco: Reading and Conversation with Oscar Villalon (In Person)

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!  

Free

Sacramento: Reading and Conversation

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.

Free

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

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.

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Berlin Launch Party: Reading and Conversation with Jane Flett

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.

Free

LIVE from Prairie Lights

Prairie Lights 15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

In conversation with Rachel Yoder.

Free

AWP 2023: The Narrative of Desire: The Importance of Writing Horny Women

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