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  .  .  .

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