2025 Events
February 6, 2025 Virtual Craft Chat with The Writer’s Center, 7 pm ET / 6 pm CT (Free - RSVP here for login info)
March 19, 2025 New Orleans Public Library with Annell López and Vanessa Saunders, 5:30 pm (details TBD)
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 30, 2025 New Orleans - Tennessee Williams Fest (details TBD)
June 1, 2025 Berkeley, CA - Bay Area Book Fest (details TBD)
Sept 2025 “An Evening with Marguerite Sheffer” - National English Honor Societies Webinar (details TBD)
Past Events
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 Trees with 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 Trees with Julia Phillips at The BookMark Shoppe, 7 pm
Nov 6, 2024 New Orleans Release Party for The Man in the Banana Trees with 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, 2024 On 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 lit Summer 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