Appearances
I am available for readings, workshops, and/or talks. Please check back frequently for changes and additions to my 2012 reading and speaking schedule:
2012
February 9: Lock Haven University, PA
Reading at 7 pm at the Hamblin Hall of Flags.For more details, go here.
March 2: AWP Conference, Chicago
Panel Participant: "The Place at the Heart of the Story," 12:00-1:15 pm, Honore Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton
March 3: AWP Conference, Chicago
Panel Participant: "Preparing Short-Story Manuscripts for Contests & Publication," 10:30-11:45 am, Continental A, Hilton Chicago
March 29: Fort Collins, CO
Creative Writing & Reading Series at Colorado State University, 7:30, at University Art Museum, University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street (More details)
April 5: Works-in-Progress Reading, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC
Each semester, a faculty member in Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill reads from his or her work-in-progress. I am pleased to be this semester's reader, particularly as it is my last semester here. Open to the public. 12:30 pm in Donovan Lounge, 2nd floor of Greenlaw Hall
April 13: Get Lit! Literary Festival, Spokane, WA
Panel discussion, morning (details to come)
April 14: Get Lit! Literary Festival, Spokane, WA
Reading, afternoon (details to come--for information about the Get Lit! Festival, go here)
2011
February 5: McIntyre's Bookstore, Fearrington Village, NC
Reading with Belle Boggs (Mattaponi Queen) at 11 AM. For information, follow the bookstore link.
March 10: Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
Stories We Need: An Evening with Writer Lori Ostlund at Salem College. 7 pm. For more info, go here.
April 5: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Kenan Visiting Writer Public Reading, 3:30 pm, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall
April 30: Idlewild Books, NYC
PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 Launching, drinks and a reading by contributors to this year's collection, from 6-8 pm
May 5: The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC
Reading with Rachel Richardson (poet), at 7 pm. (See link for information)
September 29: UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
MFA Visiting Writers Series, 7 pm. (link)
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
May 13: Sausalito, CA
Reading as part of Why There Are Words Literary Series at Studio 333, at 7:00 pm. The theme is Complications.
September 23: Chapel Hill, NC
Flyleaf Books, 7-8 PM
October 1: Atlanta, GA
Charis Books, 7:30-9:00 PM
November 5: Pittsburgh, PA
Gist Street Reading Series, 8:00 PM (doors open at 7:15)
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.