Lori OstlundLori Ostlund

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Appearances

Please consider joining me for one or more of the following readings.  This list is a work-in-progress, so please check back frequently.

Also, I am available for readings, workshops, and/or talks.  I am also delighted to visit classes and reading groups to discuss my book, especially (though certainly not only) in the Bay Area and New Mexico.  I am in the process of putting together a Reading Guide for The Bigness of the World.

2009

September 25: New York, NY

NYU's Lillian Vernon Creative Writing House, 7:00 pm
Reading with 5 other recipients of the Rona Jaffe Foundation grant.

October 15: San Francisco, CA

Litquake, Varnish Fine Art, 77 Natoma Street, 7:00 pm
Original shorts around the theme “Survival of the Fittest”

October 22: Milledgeville, GA

Arts & Sciences Auditorium, Georgia College & State University, 7:30 pm
Reading with Geoffrey Becker, fellow Flanner O'Connor Award recipient

October 23: Atlanta, GA

Charis Books and More, 8:00 pm

October 28: San Francisco, CA

The Art Institute of California-SF, 12:00-1:00 pm
Guest reader for the Ai Guest Reader series.

November 5: Albuquerque, NM

Bookworks, 7:00 PM
Author's Talk & Reading.

November 6: Albuquerque, NM

UNM Poets & Writers Series, SUB Mirage/Thunderbird Room (NOTE: THIS IS A LOCATION CHANGE), 7:00 pm

November 16: San Francisco, CA

Books, Inc. Opera Plaza, 6:00 pm
Join me for my official San Francisco launching of The Bigness of the World.

November 28: Interview on WEST COAST LIVE

The show is broadcast from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon on KALW, 91.7 FM, as well as on many public radio stations nationwide.  For information, visit the West Coast Live website at www.WCL.org.  To join the live audience, you can purchase tickets by calling 415-664-950.

2010

January 21: Berkeley, CA

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, 7:30 pm
Author's Talk/Reading

February 1: Sacramento, CA

A reading at the Sacramento Poetry Center with Robin Ekiss (poet, The Mansion of Happiness) to celebrate our first books, both published by The University of Georgia Press in 2009.

February 18: San Francisco

Reading for the series Inside Story Time at Cafe Royale (800 Post Str at Leavenworth) with four other writers, including Alta Ifland and Stephen Kessler. 6:30-8:30.

February 26: Sacramento, CA

Local actors will read from one of my stories as part of Stories on Stage at the Sacramento Poetry Center, 7:30 pm