Events

book tour  .  .  .

More events to be announced soon!

Tuesday, Sept. 5, 7:00 PM EDT
Brooklyn, NY and Virtual ~ Center for Fiction ~ Coleman Hill publication day and inaugural reading, in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Sunday, Sept. 10, 12:00 PM EDT
Virtual ~ SJP Lit Salon ~ in conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker

Monday, Sept. 11, 8:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY ~ Franklin Park Reading Series ~ with Jamel Brinkley and Rachel Heng

Friday, Sept. 15, 6:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY ~ MoCADA ~ Lampblack Reading Series

Saturday, Sept. 16, 11:00 AM
Newark, NJ ~ Source of Knowledge Bookstore ~ New Jersey premier, in conversation with Maisy Card

Monday, Sept. 18, 8:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
Virtual ~ BGC (Black Girl Collective) Book Club podcast

Tuesday, Sept. 19, 4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
Virtual ~ Adriana Ink Book Club (FB Live)

Thursday, Sept. 21, 7:00 – 8:30 PM: Register now (free)
Bethesda, MD ~ The Writer’s Center ~ in conversation with Marita Golden

Saturday, Sept. 23, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Baltimore, MD ~ Urban Reads Bookstore

Wednesday, Sept. 27, 6:00 PM: Register now (free and paid options)
Boston, MA & Virtual ~ East End Books ~ in conversation with Asako Serizawa

Thursday, Sept. 28, 7:00 PM
Exeter, NH ~ Water Street Bookstore ~ in conversation with Courtney Sender

Saturday, Sept. 30, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Register now (free)
Provincetown, MA ~ Provincetown Book Festival ~ “Biomythography: Family History Through Poetry and Fiction,” with Rio Cortez

Sunday, Oct. 1, 2:15 PM
Maplewood, NJ ~ Maplewood—South Orange (MAPSO) Book Festival ~ in conversation with Dionne Ford

Saturday, Oct. 7, 1:20 PM
Morristown, NJ ~ Morristown Festival of Books ~ with Andrea Yaryura Clark and Ilyon Woo in conversation with Faith Childs

Tuesday, Oct. 10, 6:30 PM
Chicago, IL ~ City Lit Bookstore

Saturday, Oct. 14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Charlottesville, VA ~ New Dominion Bookstore ~ in conversation with Daisa Granger Pascall

Wednesday, Oct. 18, 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Vauxhall, NJ ~ Vauxhall Public Library ~ a reading in the actual neighborhood where Coleman Hill is set!

Saturday, Oct. 21, 1:00 – 3:00 PM EDT: Register now (paid)
Virtual ~ Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop ~ “Funding Your Writing Getaway and More: Residencies and Merit Fellowships”

Sunday, Oct. 22, 11:15 AM
Baltimore, MD ~ Lost Weekend Literary Festival ~ in conversation with Jamila Minnicks

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7:00 PM
South Hadley, MA ~ Odyssey Bookshop

Sunday, Nov. 12, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
New York, NY ~ Sunday Salon

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 PM
Virtual ~ Dunes Literary Series

Tuesday, Nov. 28, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EDT: Register now (free)
Virtual ~ Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop ~ a reading from Coleman Hill in conversation with Joy Baglio

Thursday, Dec. 7, 7:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY ~ The Rally Reading Series at Pete’s Candy Store

Sunday, Jan. 14, 4:40 – 5:40 PM EDT
Virtual ~ One Breath Rising Reading Series

Saturday, Jan. 27, Time TBA
Winston-Salem, NC ~ Bookmarks ~ Moveable Feast

More events to be announced soon!

video clips  .  .  .

event flyer showing five featured authors and their book covers

Buzz Books Editors Panel, 2023

author reading from podium

Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Reading, 2023 (excerpt from Coleman Hill, starts 57:00)

author at podium

Exeter Bennett Fellow Reading, 2021 (excerpt from Coleman Hill, starts 22:00)

Center for Fiction logo

Center for Fiction Fellows Reading, 2018 (excerpt from Salt Water Sister, starts 28:00)

recent appearances  .  .  .

2023

  • Kweli International Literary Festival, New York, NY
  • US Book Show keynote with Sarah Jessica Parker and Glory Edim, New York, NY
  • Publishers Marketplace Fall/Winter 2023 Buzz Editors Panel, Virtual
  • Deepening Diaspora Relations panel, New York Public Library, Virtual
  • Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Reading, Provincetown, MA

2022

  • Funding Your Writing Getaway and More: Residencies and Merit Fellowships, The Muse and the Marketplace, Virtual

2021

  • Finding Money for Your Prose and Poetry Projects, New York Writers Coalition, Virtual
  • Assembly Reading, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
  • Trauma, Tresses, & Truth conference panel: “Race, Stigma, and the Politics of Black Hair,” Virtual
  • Family Friction in Fiction, KGB Bar, Virtual

2020

  • A Ninth Anniversary Reading by Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellows, AWP Conference, San Antonio, TX

2019

  • Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellows Reading, Brooklyn, NY
  • Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY