Upcoming Events
July 2026 New Orleans, LA - “Submissions (to Lit Mags) 101” at Third Lantern Lit Writing Retreat (details TBD)
July 27, 2026 New Orleans, LA - Fantasy Reading at Rosa Keller Library, 5:30-6:30 pm
Past Events
March 4-7, 2026 Baltimore, MD - AWP
March 6 - Panel: “Lessons Learned: What the Short Story Can Do for the Novel,” with Annell Lopez, Lydi Conklin, Camille Acker & Deesha Philyaw, 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. ET, Room 321-322, Baltimore Convention Center, Level 300
March 6 - Off-site Reading - Randolph MFA w. Danez Smith, Phillip B. Williams, John Vercher, Yaccaira Salvatierra, Chet’la Sebree & Brittany Rodgers 6-7:15 PM ET, Bird in Hand Coffee & Books
March 13, 2026 New Orleans - Tulane’s New Orleans Book Fest (details TBD)
March 23, 2026 Hammond, LA - Southeastern Louisiana University, Common Read Guest Author Visit
March 25-29, 2026 New Orleans - Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival (details TBD)
March 29-April 1, 2026 New Orleans - Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society 2026 Conference (details TBD)
April 25, 2026 Houma - Jambalaya Writers’ Conference
Jan 17, 2026 Terrebonne Parish Library, LA - “The Long and Short of Flash Fiction,” 10 am-12 noon
Jan 2, 2026 New Orleans - Books, Banter & Cider, 6-7 pm at Broad Street Cider
Dec 10, 2025 Virtual - Barnard Author’s Shelf, 6:30-7:30 PM EST / 5:30-6:30 PM CST
Dec 6, 2025 New Orleans - New Orleans Book Fair, 11 am- 5 pm (tabling with Third Lantern Lit)
Nov 21, 2025 New Orleans - Words and Music Festival: “Suspend All Disbelief: Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction”, André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice, 2 pm CST (Free / Eventbrite RSVP)
Nov 20, 2025 Virtual - Book Banter with Rayna Nielsen, 6 pm Central (live on Youtube)
Nov 1, 2025 Baton Rouge, LA - Louisiana Book Festival: “Southern Currents: Short Stories of Place, People, and Possibility", 10:45 am to 11:45 am,A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B; followed by book signing (Noon to 12:45 pm in Cavalier House Books Tent)
October 24, 2025 New Orleans - Gold Room Reading Series, 8 pm
Sept 17, 2025 Virtual - “An Evening with Marguerite Sheffer” - National English Honor Societies Webinar, 6 pm CT
Sept 10, 2025 Virtual - Story Hour: Livestream Speculative Readings, with Jennifer Brozek, hosted by Daniel Marcus and Laura Blackwell, 9 pm CST / 7 pm PST (free / link here)
Aug 5, 2025 New Orleans - Revision Workshop (part of Third Lantern Lit’s Page to Stage Series: Fantasy & Fairy Tales Edition). BK Historic House, 6-8 pm (free / no RSVP)
Aug 1, 2025 Virtual - Strong Women, Strange Worlds Group Reading (11 AM CST / 12 pm EST) - Register here (free)
July 23, July 30, August 6, August 13 (Wednesdays 6-8 pm CT) Virtual - Genre Bootcamp: Cross-Training with Genre Exploration (Porch online class, co-taught with Tierney Oberhammer)
July 18-20, 2025 Boston, MA - Readercon (my schedule is here)
June 25, 2025 New Orleans - “The Long and Short of Flash Fiction” with NOPL and Third Lantern Lit, 5-6:30 pm at Nora Navra Library (FREE)
June 18, 2025 New Orleans - Book Launch for Frontier by Erica Stern at Blue Cypress Books (FREE)
June 5-8, 2025 Bloomington, IN - Indiana University Writer’s Conference Fiction Course: “Structure and Play in Fiction"
June 1, 2025 Berkeley, CA - Bay Area Book Fest: “Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction” with Anita Felicelli, Hon Lai Chu & Jacqueline Leung (translator), moderated by Jane Ciabattari, at Hotel Shattuck Plaza Crystal Ballroom, 12:30-1:15 pm (FREE)
May 18, 2025 Virtual - Writer's Digest University Short Story Writing Virtual Conference, 3pm ET (2pm CT) - register at link
April 12, 2025 Washington DC - Barrelhouse’s Conversations & Connections: Cross-Training with Genre Fiction, with Tierney Oberhammer
April 5, 2025 New Orleans - Coffee & Craft Series hosted by TWFest, 10 AM at Baldwin Books (Free / Register here)
March 28, 2025 Los Angeles AWP Panel: Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction with Anjali Sachdeva, Cleo Qian, Chelsea Sutton & Lena Valencia (Friday, 12:10 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. PT, Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two)
March 19, 2025 New Orleans - Author Night @ New Orleans Public Library with Annell López and Vanessa Saunders, 5:30 pm at Latter Branch (St. Charles Ave)
February 6, 2025 Virtual Craft Chat with The Writer’s Center, 7 pm ET / 6 pm CT (Free - RSVP here for login info)
Jan 25, 2025 New Orleans: Reading at “3 Muses, 2 Readers, 1 Mic” hosted by Chris Romaguera, 2-4 pm at 3 Muses
Dec 7, 2024 New Orleans Bookfair, 11am-5pm at the Fred Hampton Free Store (5523 St. Claude)
Dec 3, 2024 Chicago Release Party for The Man in the Banana Treeswith Julia Fine at The Book Cellar, 7 pm
Nov 17, 2024 Brooklyn Reading with The Literary Saloon @ The Center for Fiction, 5pm
Nov 13, 2024 Brooklyn Release Party for The Man in the Banana Treeswith Julia Phillips at The BookMark Shoppe, 7 pm
Nov 6, 2024 New Orleans Release Party for The Man in the Banana Treeswith Maurice Carlos Ruffin at Blue Cypress Books
Oct 26, 2024 Nashville - Southern Festival of Books, 11:30 am -12:30 pm
Oct 19, 2024 Iowa City Book Festival - 11:30 AM at the Iowa City Masonic Building, 312 E College St
Oct 2, 2024 New Orleans Workshop: “The ABC’s of Ending a Story: Learning Plot from Picture Books” with Third Lantern Lit at BK House
June 2024 Publishing Short Fiction workshop with Third Lantern Lit, New Orleans, LA
March 7, 2024 Speculative Fiction for Social Change: Author Panel with Daniel Jose Older, Brittany N. William & Danny Cherry Jr. (I was the moderator). Taylor Center at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Feb 10, 2024On the Frontlines / School Matters: K-12 Teachers Writing the Classroom w. Mahru Elahi, Brittany Rogers, Matthew E. Henry, and Davon Loeb, AWP Panel, Kansas City, MO
Jan 20, 2024 Fix it Later: Drafting as Play w. Tierney Oberhammer & Corinne Cordasco-Pak, X-R-A-Y Online class
Sept 23, 2023 Drafting as Prototyping: How to Apply Design Thinking to Your Writing Process with Corinne Cordasco-Pak at Barrelhouse’s Conversations and Connections Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
June 17, 2023 Reading at lmnl litSummer Fest, The Art Park at Zeitgeist, 6621 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans
April 19, 2023 The Adroit Journal Issue 45 Release Reading: Prose
April 15, 2023 Drafting as Prototyping: How to Apply Design Thinking to Your Writing Process with Tierney Oberhammer at Barrelhouse’s Conversations and Connections Conference, American University, Washington, DC