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Previous Events
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January 4-8 - Key West, FL
Key West Literary SeminarJanuary 30 - New Orleans, LA
Nikesha Elise Williams book launch @ Garden District BooksMarch 14 - New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane1000 Words of Spring/Summer Events
April 30 - Atlanta, GA
Origin Stories podcast taping at Grocery on Home (tix)May 19 - Asheville, NC
With Niina Pollari @ Malaprops Bookstore (free registration)May 30 - Spartanburg, SC
1000 Words Launch @ Hub CityJune 6 - Asheville, NC
1000 Words write-along @ Flatiron Writers Room (free registration)June 9 - Asheville, NC
DRAFT: Artistry in Conversation @ DayTripOctober 15 - Brooklyn, NY
Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series -
January 9 - Savannah, Georgia
1000 Words Creativity Workshop + Seersucker Live Reading @ Front Porch Improv (tickets here!)January 10 - Nashville, TN
1000 Words Creativity Workshop sponsored by The Porch @ The Bookshop (tickets here!)February 2 - Virtual
Deep Dive Virtual RetreatFebruary 6 - Community Book Center
Interviewing Olufunke Grace Bankole for The Edge of WaterMarch 22 -New Orleans, LA
Hosting Kristen Arnett & Isaac Fitzgerald, BJs LoungeApril 3 - Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Elizabethtown CollegeApril 5 - Tallahassee, Florida
Word of South FestivalMay 16-17 - Chicago, IL
Ragdale More Than a Novel Affair @ Newberry Library & Ragdale Campus (Tix)May 24 - New Orleans, LA
Three Muses Reading Series, 2-4, FreeJune 12 - New Orleans, LA
Hosting Megan Giddings @ Baldwin & Co (Tix)July 12 - Portland, OR
Putting Your Creativity First Workshop @ Literary Arts (Tix)July 12 - Portland, OR
In Conversation with Genevieve Hudson @ Literary ArtsSeptember 13 - Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book FestivalSeptember 19 - Chicago, IL
Jason Diamond Chicago launch @ Volumes BooksSeptember 27 - New Orleans, LA
Patricia Lockwood NOLA Launch (tickets via Blue Cypress Books)October 10 - New Orleans, LA
Lunchtime lecture @ Tulane UniversityOctober 14- New Orleans, LA
Delaney Nolan Launch @ Garden District BooksOctober 20 - Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series with Maris Kreizman and Jason DiamondOctober 30 - New Orleans, LA
A Reason to See You Again paperback launch with Brooke Pickett @ Other Plans GalleryNovember 3 - New Orleans, LA
Karen Russell interview @ Tulane UniversityNovember 18 - Key West, FL
1000 Words Talk @ The Studios of Key WestNovember 26 - Key West, FL
Patricia Lockwood at Books and Books KW -
January 9 - London, UK
London Writer’s Salon Live (virtual event)January 9 - New Orleans, LA
1000 Words Launch Party with Maurice Ruffin & Jacques Pierre Francois @ Baldwin & Co (Tickets)January 10 - Brooklyn, NY
Write-Along with Hannah Tinti @ Center for Fiction (Tickets)January 11 - Brooklyn, NY
NYC Launch with Kristen Arnett, Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, and Emma Straub @ St. Ann Church/Books are Magic (Tickets)January 12 - Washington, DC
With Nicole Chung and Jennifer Close @ Loyalty Books (RSVP)January 14 - Philadelphia, PA
With Eric Smith @ Indy Hall at 2 PMJanuary 18 - Evanston, IL
With Christopher Gonzalez, Courtney Sullivan and Camille T. Dungy (virtual event) @Bookends & BeginningsJanuary 20 - Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Public Library with Nikesha WilliamsJanuary 25 - New Orleans, LA
Write-Along with Katy Simpson Smith @ Blue Cypress Books (Tickets)January 27 - Kiln, MS
Homegrown: A Writer’s ExchangeFebruary 1 - Washington, DC
Craft Chat (Virtual) @ The Writer’s Center (Free, reservations here)February 20
Write or Die Magazine Craft Chat (Virtual, free, registration here)February 24
Writer’s League of Texas Saturday Craft Seminar (Virtual)March 22 - Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Festival of the BookApril 7 - Baton Rouge, LA
Delta Mouth FestivalApril 19 - Baltimore, MD
CityLit FestivalMay 11 - New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers Novel Writing BootcampMay 18 - Greensboro, NC
Greensboro Bound FestivalJune 1 - New York City
#1000wordsofsummer launch/write along at Hudson Park LibraryJune 1 - Brooklyn, NY
#1000wordsofsummer happy hour/write along at St. MazieJune 8 - New Orleans, LA
#1000wordsofsummer happy hour/write along at Low Point CoffeeSeptember 13 - Octavia Books
Interviewing Priyanka MattooSeptember 14 - Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book FestivalSeptember 22 - New Orleans, LA
A Reason to See You Again NOLA launch with Patricia Lockwood and Never Ever @ Piehxle (Tickets)September 23 - Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore with Courtney SullivanSeptember 24 -Brooklyn, NY
A Reason to See You Again NYC launch with Mary H.K. Choi @ Books are Magic (Tickets)September 25 - Washington, DC
Loyalty Books with Linda HolmesSeptember 28-29 - Kilmore Quay, Ireland
Write by the Sea Festival with Rosie SchaapOctober 10 - Tell Me Bar
Sponsored by Soho HouseOctober 12 - Courtyard Brewery
Third Lantern Lit GalaOctober 17 - Pass Christian, MS
Pass Christian Bookstore with Katy Simpson SmithOctober 18 - Gainesville, FL
The Lynx Bookstore with Kristen ArnettOctober 19 -St. Petersburg, FL
Tombolo Books with Kristen Arnett and Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaOctober 20 -Venice, FL
Jewish Congregation of VeniceOctober 24 - New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books with Alison FensterstockOctober 28 - Chicago, IL
Women & Children First with Laura AdamczykOctober 29-Chicago, IL
Master Class on How to Carve Out a Creative Life with Story Studio (Tickets)November 16 -Austin, TX
Texas Book FestivalDecember 8-New Orleans, LA
Holiday Market at Hotel Peter and Paul -
January 3 - New Orleans, LA
I Came All This Way to Meet You paperback launch @ Bar PomonaMarch 21 - New Orleans, LA
Dear Eliza reading series @ The Eliza Jane HotelApril 8 - New Orleans, LA
Sadie Dupuis/Cry Perfume event @ The White RoachApril 18 - New Orleans, LA
Katy Simpson Smith/The Weeds event @ Blue Cypress BooksApril 23 - New Orleans, LA
lmnl lit @ All Ways LoungeMay 16 - Paris, France
In conversation with Lauren Collins @ The American Library in ParisAugust 2- Montreal, Canada
Group reading with Ladee Hubbard and Megan Giddings at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly -
January 6-10 – Key West, FL
Key West Literary SeminarJanuary 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Launch Party! w/Kristen Arnett @ Books are Magic (Hybrid), 7 PM ETJanuary 13 - Washington, DC
Loyalty Bookstore (Hybrid), 7 PM ETJanuary 14 – Virtual
w/Benjamin Dreyer @ Literati (Ann Arbor), Books & Books (Miami) & Harvard Bookstore (Boston), 8 PM ETJanuary 18 – Virtual
w/Ada Limon @ Women and Children First 7 PM CTJanuary 20 – Virtual
w/Isaac Fitzgerald @ Booksmith (San Francisco), 6 PM PTJanuary 24 – Virtual
w/Patricia Lockwood @ Skylight(Los Angeles), 6:30 PM PTJanuary 25 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Launch! w/Anne Gisleson @ Upstairs at Anna’s with Blue Cypress Books, 6 PM CTFebruary 2 – New Orleans, LA
w/Katy Simpson Smith @ Octavia Books, 6 PM CTMarch 27 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary FestivalApril 18 – New Orleans, LA
Zachary Lazar book launch partyApril 15 – Seattle, WA
Hugo HouseApril 23 – Lübeck, Germany
St. Petrie zu LübeckApril 25 – Hamburg, Germany
Buchhandlung BlattgoldApril 26 – Hannover, Germany
Literature HouseMay 3 – London, England
Waterstones Gower StreetMay 9 – Belfast, Northern Ireland
The CrescentJune 25 – Austin, TX
Writers’ League of Texas, Keynote SpeakerAugust 20 – Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book FestivalSeptember 8 – Cleveland, OH
Inkubator Writing Conference, Keynote SpeakerSeptember 12 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Elif Batuman @ Octavia BooksSeptember 30 – Minneapolis, MN
Wordsmith Conference, Keynote SpeakerOctober 6 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Ladee Hubbard, hosted by Charisse Gibson @ Baldwin BooksOctober 15 – Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of BooksNovember 3 – New Orleans, LA
University of New OrleansNovember 5 – Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival -
February 6 – Philadelphia, PA
Temple UniversityFebruary 15 – Savannah, GA
Savannah Book FestivalMarch 12 – Flagstaff, AZ
Bright Side BooksMarch 15 – Tucson, AZ - cancelled
Tucson Book FestivalMarch 29 – New Orleans, LA - canceled
Tennessee Williams FestivalApril 25 – Lubeck, Germany - canceled
Kultur- und Universitätskirche St. PetriApril 27 –Berlin, Germany - canceled
Kulturkaufhaus DussmannApril 28 –Hannover, Germany - canceled
Literaturhaus HannoverApril 29 –Hamburg, Germany - canceled
Buchhandlung LesesaalApril 30 – Ulm, Germany - canceled
Kulturbuchhandlung JastramMay 4 –London, England - canceled
The Second ShelfMay 5 –London, England - canceled
Waterstones Gower Street with Evie Wyld and Irensosen OkojieMay 6 –Dublin, Ireland - canceled
With Sinead Gleeson at Gutter BookshopMay 7 –Belfast, Ireland - canceled
No Alibis BookshopJune 12-14 – Denver, CO
Lighthouse Writers Conference Lit FestJune 18-21 – Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Book FestivalJuly 15-19– Southampton, NY
Southampton Writers ConferenceAugust 3– Madison, NJ
Farleigh Dickinson MFA Summer ResidencySeptember 10-12 – Lexington, KY
Kentucky Women Writers ConferenceSeptember 16
In conversation with Susan Choi @ Women and Children FirstSeptember 17
In conversation with Courtney Sullivan @ Wellsley BooksOctober 1
In conversation with Laura van den Berg @ McNally Jackson -
March 29 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams FestivalJune 6 – New Orleans, LA
Disorder Press Reading Series, Bar LoaJune 12 – New Orleans, LA
Kristen Arnett Launch Party @ Saturn BarSeptember 19 – New Orleans, LA
Sneak Peek Series @ Blue Cypress Books with Katy Simpson SmithOctober 18– Philadelphia, PA
with Liz MooreOctober 20– Washington, DC
Loyalty BookstoreOctober 22 – Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic with Julie Orringer - All This Could Be Yours Launch PartyOctober 23 – Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore with Laura Van den bergOctober 24 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose with Matthew KlamOctober 26 - Austin, TX
Texas Book FestivalOctober 29 - Chicago, IL
Book Cellar with Samantha IrbyOctober 30 – Wheeling, IL
Indian Trails LibraryNovember 2 – Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana Book FestivalNovember 5– New Orleans, LA
Hotel Peter and Paul with Margaret Wilkerson-Sexton, hosted by Anne Gisleson - New Orleans LaunchNovember 6 – Memphis, TN
Novel with Alice BolinNovember 7 – Fayetteville, AR
Nightbird Books with Padma ViswanathanthanNovember 9 – Conway, AR
C. D. Wright Women Writers ConferenceNovember 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading SeriesNovember 12 – Columbus, OH
Gramercy BooksNovember 13 – Cincinnati, OH
UC Clermont Fiction Reading SeriesNovember 13 – Cincinnati, OH
Mercantile Library with Leah StewartNovember 14 – New Orleans, LA
Dogfish Reading Series with Rodger KamenetzNovember 17 – Oakland, CA
East Bay Booksellers with Jasmine GuilloryNovember 18 – San Francisco, CA
The Ruby with Rachel KhongNovember 19 – San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith with Esme WangNovember 20 – Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books with Alissa NuttingNovember 21 – Portland, OR
Live Wire!November 22 – Portland, OR
Powell’s Books with Cheryl StrayedDecember 2 – Tampa, FL
Oxford Exchange with Kristen ArnettDecember 3 – Gainesville, FL
Hippodrome Theater with Lauren GroffDecember 5 – Venice, FL
Jewish Congregation of VeniceDecember 6 – Key West, FL
Books & BooksDecember 12 – New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books with Ladee HubbardDecember 16 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Public Library with Susan Larson -
March 13 – Brooklyn, NY
All Grown Up Paperback Launch @ Books Are Magic featuring Rumaan Alam, Mary H.K. Choi and Maeve HigginsMarch 15 – Los Angeles, CA
All Grown Up Paperback Party @ The Last Bookstore featuring Laila Lalami, Morgan Parker, and Patrick SomervilleMarch 24-25 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams FestivalApril 11 – San Francisco, CA
Reading @ The RubyApril 12 – San Francisco, CA
All Grown Up Paperback Party @ The Bindery featuring Rachel Khong, Charlie Jane Anders, and Esme WangApril 13-15 – Orcas Island, WA
Orcas Island Lit FestApril 20-21 – Columbia, MO
Unbound Book FestivalApril 24-27 – Geneva, Switzerland
Salon du livre de GeneveAugust 30 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton @ Octavia Books.September 20 – Milan, Italy
Libreria VersoSeptember 21 – Roverto, Italy
Libreria ArcadiaSeptember 22-23 – Pordenone, Italy
Festival Pordenone LeggeSeptember 25 – Palermo, Italy
Libreria ModusviviendiSeptember 26 – Catania, Italy
Libreria Vicolo StrettoOctober 5-6 – Obidos, Portugal
Folio FestivalDecember 4 – New Orleans, LA
1718 Reading Series @ The Columns Hotel -
Feb 9 – Washington, DC
AWP Panel: Success, Failure, and the Green-Eyed Monster: Thriving in a Competitive Environment with Jean Kwok, Rebecca Makkai, Mitchell Jackson, Mira JacobALL GROWN UP TOUR
March 8 – New York, NY
Ace Hotel with Alexander Chee - All Grown Up Launch partyMarch 9 – Brooklyn, NY
Greenlight Bookstore PLG with Helen AtsmaMarch 10 – Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore with Maura JohnstonMarch 12 – Philadelphia, PA
Tattooed Mom with Jennifer Weiner (Sponsored by Open Bookstore)March 14 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose with Jennifer CloseMarch 15 – Brooklyn, NY
Powerhouse Arena with Morgan ParkerMarch 16 – Key West, FL
Books & Books with Judy BlumeMarch 18 – San Diego, CA
The Foundry Reading series with Karolina WaclawiakMarch 21 – Claremont, CA
Scripps College with Elif BautmanMarch 21 – Los Angeles, CA
Live Talks LA with Cynthia SweeneyMarch 22 – San Francisco, CA
Booksmith with Alexis CoeMarch 23 – Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay Book Company with Maria Semple, Sponsored by The StrangerMarch 25 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Literary FestivalMarch 29 – Milwaukee, WI
Boswell Books with Wendy McClureMarch 30 – Chicago, IL
Book Cellar with Lindsay HunterApril 6 – New Orleans, LA
Saturn Bar with Zachary LazarApril 10 – Oxford, MS
Square BooksApril 11 – Nashville, TN
Parnassus BooksApril 12 – Athens, GA
Avid BookshopApril 13 – Greenville, SC
Fiction AddictionApril 14 – Charlotte, NC
Park Road BooksApril 15 – Chapel Hill, NC
Flyleaf BooksApril 18 – New York, NY
Center for Fiction with Cynthia SweeneyApril 20 – London
Waterstones Gower St with Hadley FreemanApril 27-8 – Galway, Ireland
Cuirt Literature FestivalApril 29 – Dublin, Ireland
Cobblestone Pub with Mark O'Connell and Eoin ButlerMay 10 – New York, NY
#YeahYouWrite Author Series @ Bo's Kitchen & Bar RoomMay 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Red Ink Series @ Powerhouse BooksMay 13 – Brooklyn, NY
Difficult to Name Series @ Study HallMay 20 – Gaithersburg, MD
Gaithersburg Book FestivalMay 22 – Brooklyn, NY
In Conversation with Francesca Segal @ Books Are MagicJuly 10 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading SeriesAugust 8 – New Orleans, LA
Interviewing Ladee Hubbard @ Octavia BooksAugust 19 – Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book FestivalSeptember 18 – Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book FestivalOctober 3 – Tallahassee, FL
Florida State UniversityOctober 13-14 – Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of BooksOctober 17 – Dallas, TX
Wild DetectivesNovember 4-5 – Austin, TX
Texas Book FestivalNovember 9 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Public LibraryNovember 11 – Portland, OR
Wordstock FestivalNovember 18-19 -Miami, FL
Miami Book Fair -
Feb 26 – Baton Rouge, LA
Delta Mouth FestivalMarch 5 – Long Beach, CA
Literary Women FestivalMay 21-May 23 – Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Jewish Writers FestivalJune 21 – New York, NY
Saint Mazie paperback launch party @ Housing WorksSept 6 – Milan, Italy
Libreria VersoSept 8 – Mantova, Italy
Festivaletteratura, Seminario Vescovile, in conversation with Wlodek GoldkornSept 9 – Mantova, Italy
Festivaletteratura, basilica palatina di santa barbara, in conversation with Luisa Muraro and Sandra OzzolaSept 11 – Rome, Italy
Festival Letteratura Ebraica, in conversation with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Nadia TerranovaSept 12 – Palermo, Italy
Modusvivendi Libreria with Viola di GradoSept 13 – Palermo, Italy
Modusvivendi Libreria with Viola di GradoSept 22 – New Orleans, LA
Dogfish Reading Series -
Feb 3 – New Orleans, LA
1718 Reading Series, The Columns Hotel, 7 PMFeb 26 – New Orleans, LA
ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Brian Boyles @ Press Street HQ, 6 PMApril 12 – Greenwich, CT
NAIBA/NEIBA All About EventsApril 13 – Philadelphia, PA
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 7 PMMay 2 – Brooklyn, NY
Emily Books Relaunch Party, 4-6 PMMay 2 – Brooklyn, NY
Co-host, Independent Bookstore Day NYC Afterparty w/Emma Straub & Angela Flournoy @ Powerhouse BooksMay 27 – New York, NY
Bookrageous BEA Bash @ Housing Works, 7 PMMay 28 – New York, NY
Inside the Author’s Studio @ BEA, 1:30 PMJune 8 – New York, NY
In conversation with Rosie Schaap & McNally Jackson, 7 PMJune 10 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose, 7 PMJune 22 – Northbrook, IL
Max and Benny’s North Shore Jewish Author Literary Series, 7 PMJune 24 – Wheeling, IL
Indian Trails Public Library, 7 PMJune 25 – Chicago, IL
Book Cellar, 7 PMJune 26 – San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith, 6:30 PMJune 27 – San Francisco, CA
ALA Annual Conference, book signing, 12:00 PMJune 28 – Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Karolina Waclawiak @ Ace Hotel, 6:00 PMJuly 9 – New York, NY
Female Trouble – A Celebration of the Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak @ Housing Works, 7:00 PMJuly 15 – Jersey City, NJ
In conversation with Susannah Cahalan & WORD Jersey City, 7:00 PMJuly 20 – Brooklyn, NY
With Kate Bolick @ Books Beneath the Bridge @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00 PMJuly 29 – New York, NY
Sean Kelly Gallery, 7:00 PMSeptember 19 – Brooklyn, NY
Mellow Pages Summer Vacation @ Silent Barn @ 2 PM, with Lauren Groff, Alice Sola Kim, Sara Novic, Chinelo Okparanta and Julia PierpontSeptember 20 – Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival, Borough Hall Courtroom, 2 PM, Time Traveling panel with Marlon James and Stewart O’NanSeptember 22 – Grinnell, IA
Grinnell CollegeSeptember 23 – Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights BookstoreSeptember 24-25 – Columbia, MO
University of MissouriSeptember 29 – Fairfax, VA
Fall for the BookOctober 3 – Morristown, NJ
Morristown Festival of BooksOctober 6 – London, UK
Literary Death Match, Southbank CentreOctober 9 – Crystal Palace, London, UK
Bookseller CrowOctober 10 – London, UK
Southbank Centre, 5:30 PMOctober 11 – Ilkley, UK
Ilkley Literature Festival, 3 PM, with Liza KlaussmanOctober 12 – Manchester, UK
Manchester Literature FestivalOctober 17 – Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival, CPC, 12:45-1:30 PM, Motivation panel with Sloane Crosley and Sung J. Woo
Kickstarter Presents: Who Said It? with Maris Kreizman, Amy FitzHenry, Daniel José Older, and Karolina Waclawiak @ Liberty, 9:30 PMOctober 21 – Mexico City
with Zachary Lazar @ Benjamin Franklin Library, 6 PMOctober 24 – Toronto, ON
IFOA
With Adrian Tomine @ Fleck Dance Theater (Tickets), 4 PM
Artist Talk with Sue Carter @ Pub Hub, 7 PMOctober 26 – Washington, DC
Washington DC JCC @ 7:30 PMOctober 29 – New Orleans, LA
Maple Street Book ShopOctober 31 – Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana Book FestivalNovember 2 – Dallas, TX
Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Southern Methodist University, 12:00November 4 – Houston, TX
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, 12:00 PMNovember 5 – Austin, TX
Austin JCC with Laura Dave, 7:00 PMNovember 7 – Portland, OR
Wordstock Festival
Stranger than Fiction panel with Benjamin Percy, Glenn Taylor, and Scott Cheshire, 1 PM
Slaughterhouse 90210 party at Dig a Pony, 7 PMNovember 16 – New York, NY
With B.A. Shapiro @ Center for FictionNovember 18 – New York, NY
Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders at the City Winery with Advance Base, Tanya Donelly, Jon Glaser, Steven Page, Will Sheff, and Bobby Tisdale, 6 PM doorsNovember 20 – Dunwoody, GA
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, 12:00 PMDecember 17 – New York, NY
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest Awards Ceremony @ Jewish Museum -
January 24 – 25 – Charleston, IL
Lions in Winter Festival, Eastern Illinois UniversityMarch 22 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival, in conversation with Roxane Gay, 2:30 PMMarch 23 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival, Writing America Panel with Bill Cheng, Kiese Laymon, and Laura van den Berg, 10 AMApril 4 – Raleigh, NC
North Carolina Literary Festival, The Monti Storytelling Series, 8 PMApril 5 – Raleigh, NC
North Carolina Literary Festival, in conversation with Therese Fowler, 1:30 PMApril 7 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series, 8 PMApril 8 – Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Timothy Schaffert @ WORD Brooklyn, 7 PMMay 16 – Brooklyn, NY
Beauty Love TruthJune 1-6 – Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Writers’ ConferenceJune 15-22 – Whitefield, NH
Southern New Hampshire University Creative Writing Residency ProgramSeptember 5-7 – Morges, Switzerland
Le livre sur les quais festival
September 5, 5:30 PM, “Blood Ties” panel with Nathan Filer & Sadie Jones @ Musee Alexis Forel
September 6, 11:00 AM, “The confessional” with Helen Stubbs @ Midnight Sun GallerySeptember 8 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
2:30 PM, Centre Communautaire de Neuilly-sur-SeineSeptember 9 – Paris, France
7:00 PM, La Famille Middlestein launch @ Thé des EcrivainsSeptember 11-14 – Vincennes, France
Festival America
September 13, 12:00 PM, “The Place Where I Live” panel with Nickolas Butler, Ron Rash and Jesmyn Ward
September 13, 4:00 PM, “What Family” panel with Christopher Boucher & Stuart Nadler
September 13, 6:00 PM, “Characters in Search of Author” panel with Rick Bass & France Daigle
September 13, 7:00 PM, “Families” panel with Wally Lamb & Alexi ZentnerSeptember 15-17 – Rome, Italy
Festival Internazionale di Letteratura e Cultura Ebraica
September 16, 9:00 PM, “American Encounters” with Lara Crinò @ Palace of Culture (Via Portico d’Ottavia, Rome)September 18 – Palermo, Italy
6:30 PM, Modusvivendi Libreria
9:00 PM, Hotel Plaza OperaNovember 15 – New York, NY
Moby Dick Marathon @ Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport MuseumNovember 29 – Brooklyn, NY
Indies First Day @ WORD Brooklyn, 2 PMDecember 9 – New York, NY
Launch party for Frank Portman’s King Dork Approximately @ Housing Works, 7 PMDecember 20 – New York, NY
What the Dickens Christmas Carol Marathon @ Housing Works