Events

upcoming  .  .  .

Saturday, April 20, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Union, NJ ~ Barnes & Noble Bookstore

Saturday, May 4, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Montclair, NJ ~ Montclair Literary Festival ~ “History Reimagined,” in conversation with Vanessa Chan and Judith Lindbergh

May/June, more details coming soon
Swarthmore, PA ~ Swarthmore College Bookstore

clips  .  .  .

past Coleman Hill book events . . .

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

Sunday, Sept. 10, 12:00 PM ET
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, Rachel Heng, Tom Comitta, and James Sturz

Friday, Sept. 15, 6:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY ~ MoCADA ~ Lampblack Reading Series ~ with Benjamin Wright and Mayada Ibrahim

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

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

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

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

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

POSTPONED: Wednesday, Sept. 27, 6:00 PM
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
Provincetown, MA ~ Provincetown Book Festival ~ “Biomythography: Family History Through Poetry and Fiction,” in conversation 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 ~ in conversation with Garin Cycholl

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

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

Saturday, Oct. 21, 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET
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 ~ with Jamila Minnicks

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

Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:00 PM
Montclair, NJ ~ Watchung Booksellers ~ in conversation with Dionne Ford

Sunday, Nov. 12, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
New York, NY ~ Sunday Salon ~ with Eric Borsuk, Gina Chung, and Jimin Han

Tuesday, Nov. 28, 6:00 – 7:00 PM ET
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 ~ with Julia May Jonas and Sahar Delijani

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

Sunday, Jan. 28, 3:00 PM
Winston-Salem, NC ~ Moveable Feast

Thursday, Feb. 8
Kansas City, MO ~ AWP conference ~ “Fictionalizing Marginalized Histories: India, Jamaica, Japan, USA,” in conversation with Maisy Card, Asako Serizawa, and Shilpi Suneja

Thursday, Feb. 15, 6:00 PM (reception at 5:00 PM)
Newark, NJ ~ Newark Public Library ~ “Our Stories to Tell: Black Authors Reflect on the Art of Writing,” in conversation with Maisy Card, Valerie Wilson Wesley, and Naomi Extra

Thursday, Feb. 22, 1:30 PM
Fairfax, VA ~ Fall for the Book Mini Fest ~ “Belonging and Exile: Contemporary Voices,” in conversation with Nana Brew-Hammond, Itoro Bassey, and Klara Kalu

Friday, Feb. 23, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Montclair, NJ ~ Montclair Public Library ~ “Finding Our Way Home” in conversation with Maisy Card, Dionne Ford, and Cleyvis Natera (sponsored by Friends of the Howe House)

Tuesday, March 19, 8:00 PM ET
Virtual ~ SwatTalk (sponsored by Swarthmore College)

Wednesday, March 20, 6:30 – 7:30 PM CT
Virtual ~ Indiana University Northwest ~ Dunes Literary Series ~ with Rachel Galvin

Friday, March 29, 7:45 – 9:00 PM ET
Virtual ~ Poets & Writers ~ Mapping the Maze for Fiction Writers: Chart Your Path to Publication: “The Writer’s Journey”

Friday, April 5, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Garden City, NY ~ Adelphi University ~ Writers & Readers Festival ~ “Breaking In and Breaking Through” with Jennifer Baker, Kermit Frazier, and Puja Shah in conversation with Ellen Hagan

Sunday, April 7, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Hoboken, NJ ~ Little City Books ~ Hoboken Literary Weekend ~ in conversation with Dr. Mariel Buqué

other 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 Books 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