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11.06.17-11.07.17 Rockville, Maryland
Montgomery College 
@ Potomac Review  
Visiting Writer
10.14.17 San Francisco, California
San Francisco Lit Crawl
The Unlimits of Our Language: Santa Monica Review versus the World! @6:30pm 
@ The Wildhawk 
​w/Louis B. Jones, Janice Shapiro, and Andrew Tonkovich
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10.09.17 Salt Lake City, Utah
Witch Lit Reading Series @7:30pm
@ The Water Witch
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w/Ashley Farmer
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9.30.17 Salt Lake City, UT
Creative Writing Workshop @10am
@ Junior League of SLC
​w/Writers at Work
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4.30.17 Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Review Celebration @5pm
@ The Edye, SMC Performing Arts Center
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w/Grace Singh Smith, Leslie Brody, Jim Krusoe, and others
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04.19.17 Salt Lake City, Utah
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City Art Reading Series @7pm
@Salt Lake City Public Library
w/ Ogden’s Poet Laureate Brad Roghaar
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02.24.17 Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 @11am
Bingham Poetry Room, Eckstrom Library 
@University of Louisville
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02.10.17 Washington, DC 
AWP Panel: "On the Care and Feeding of Interns, the Lifeblood of Lit Mags" @9am 
@ Supreme Court, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four 
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11.10.16 Ogden, Utah 
Ogden School Foundation Dinner @7pm
@ Eccles Conference Center  

I'll be introducing Anthony Doerr tonight. Come out and hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning author discuss writing and the writing life.   
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11.09.16 Ogden, Utah
New Faculty Reading @2:30pm
​Elizabeth Hall, Room 215
​@Weber State University
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07.21.16 Louisville, Kentucky
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The Spalding at 21c: Voice and Vision Series @6pm
@21C
w/ Sherry Chandler, Tasha Cotter, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, and others
06.22.16 Louisville, Kentucky
Institute on Contemporary American Literature  @6pm
​Bingham Poetry Room, Eckstrom Library 
@University of Louisville
04.16.16 Louisville, Kentucky
Miracle Monocle Launch Party @7pm
@Monkey Wrench
w/ Juan Thompson, Ron Whitehead, Wax Fang, and others
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04.02.16 Los Angeles, California
​Books & Booze @7:30pm 
​@Los Angeles Center of Photography 
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w/ Matt Bell, Kathy Fish, Eric Shonkwiler, Ben Tanzer, and others
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12.14.15 Louisville, Kentucky
​Flying Out Loud Series @6pm
@Sunergos Coffee
​w/ Morgan Eklund, Ashley Farmer, and Dave Harrity
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11.14.15 Louisville, Kentucky
Literary Death Match @7:30pm
@Haymarket Whiskey Bar
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w/ Hannah Pittard, Gabe Tomlin, and Will Lavender
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6.24.15 Louisville, Kentucky
Institute on Contemporary American Literature  
@ University of Louisville   
w/ The Commonwealth Center

4.18.15 Bowling Green, Kentucky
Southern Kentucky Book Fest  
@ Knicely Conference Center  @11am
w/ Ashley Farmer, Morris Allen Grubbs, and Mary Ellen Miller

4.3.15 Chicago, Illinois  
@ City Lit Books  @6:30
w/ Charles McLeod

3.13.15 Louisville, Kentucky
InKY Reading Series  
@ The Bard's Town  @7pm
w/ Angela Veronica Wong, and Kristen Miller

3.12.15 Morehead, Kentucky
Morehead State University 
@ Kentucky Folk Art Center  
solo mission  

9.26.14 Louisville, Kentucky
Books, Bluegrass, Bourbons
@ Melwood Arts Center @7pm
w/ Aaron Burch, Ashley Farmer, Leesa Cross-Smith, Chad Simpson, and Eric Shonkwiler
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6.15.14 Los Angeles, California
Sumarr Reading Series
@ The Pop Hop @3:00pm
w/ Michelle Brittan, Ashley Farmer, Ali Liebegott, and Kate Durbin
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6.5.14 Irvine, California 
Faultline Launch
@ 1030 Humanities Gateway @6:00pm
w/ Andrew Tonkovich and Ashley Farmer

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4.30.14 Los Angeles, California
Bibliocracy Radio
@ KFPK 90.7 FM @ 8:00pm
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4.6.14 Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica Review Celebration 
@4:00pm
@ The Edye, SMC Performing Arts Center 

I'll be introducing one of my absolute faves, Karl Taro Greenfield. Come out an hear him and a few other amazing writers read from the Spring '14 issue of the Santa Monica Review.
 
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10.25.13 Los Angeles, California
Friday Night Fever @7:30pm
@ The Last Bookstore 
w/ Amina Cain, Gabe Durham, Colin Winnette, and xTx

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow, as well as the forthcoming CREATURE (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013). She is also a curator, most notably for the literature/performance/video festivals Both Sides and The Center at the MAK Center/Schindler House (with Teresa Carmody) and When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation (with Jennifer Karmin) at Links Hall in Chicago. Recent writing has appeared in Dear Navigator, Dewclaw, LRL5, summer stock, The Encyclopedia Project, a chaplet from Belladonna* and a new chapbook in the PARROT Series. A few of her stories have been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS, and “Black Wings” appears in French in the Quebecois journal Jet d’encre. Visit her online here.

Gabe Durham is the author of the novel Fun Camp and the Editor of Boss Fight Books, a series of books about video games. He and his projects have been featured in The Onion A.V. Club, Nylon Guys Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Kotaku, Largehearted Boy, and Julie Klausner’s "How Was Your Week" podcast. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit him online here.

Colin Winnette is the author of three books: Revelation, Animal Collection, and Fondly. Recently, he won the Sonora Review’s 2012 Short Short Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for the 1913 Press First Book Award. His writing has been published in numerous journals. He lives in San Francisco. Visit him online here.

xTx is the author of the story collection Normally Special, and her chapbook, Billie the Bull, has just been republished by Dzanc Books. She blogs here. 
 
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9.27.13 Los Angeles, California
Santa Monica Review Launch @7:30pm
@ Skylight Books 
w/ Andrew Nicholls and g. c. cunningham

Andrew Nicholls began writing for radio, stage, syndicated cartoonists and TV in high school in Ontario, Canada. In his twenties he staffed The Tonight Show for six years, four of them as Johnny Carson's head writer and, with his writing partner Darrell Vickers, has created or staffed over 100 sitcoms, children's and animated series, thanks to which he has a 2005 memoir, Valuable Lessons, about failed television. He has recent humor in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Los Angeles Review of Books and short fiction upcoming in Black Clock, Kugelmass and the teacher's resource site Literature For Life.

g. c. cunningham, a UCLA graduate, lives in Los Angeles, sometimes working in film post-production, other times in Birmingham, Alabama, state of origin. His fiction is printed in Bat City Review, Cutbank, Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, Portland Review, Texas Review and Western Humanities Review. Google him for selections online at Eclectica, Fringe, Potomac Review and McSweeney's. "My First Marine Corps Essay" won 2nd place in Fringe's 2012 flash fiction contest judged by Steve Almond. 
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6.6.13 Irvine, California
Faultline Launch  @5:00 pm
@ The Hill 

Editors Warren Fong and Aaron Peters are proud to announce the Launch of the 2013 edition of UCI’s Faultline - Journal of Arts and Letters Thursday, June 6th at 5:00PM at UC Irvine’s bookstore, The Hill.

This year’s issue of Faultline features the work of Craig Nova, Michelle Latiolais, David Wagoner, Martha Ronk, Jeffrey Skinner, Jean Valentine and Rick Bass among others. Please join us for readings by Tatjana Soli and Sameer Pandya, as well as a reading of Rick Bass’ story by Ryan Ridge. Wine and cheese will be served at the reading.  All are welcome.
 
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4.12.13 Los Angeles, California
Southern California Review Launch @7:00pm
@ The Daily Dose 
w/ Trinie Dalton, Diana Wagman, Dana Goodyear and David Ulin 
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3.7.13 Boston, Massachusetts 
The Rally @8:30pm
@ The Distillery

A night of Beer, Broadsides, and Poetry w/ Ana Božičević, Sampson Starkweather, Bianca Stone, Luke  Bloomfield, Heather Christle, Alex Phillips, Marisa Crawford, B.J. Best, Gale Thompson, Jenny Zhang, and Cecilia K. Corrigan 

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2.26.13 Irvine, California 
Humanities Author Series @6:00pm
@ 1030 Humanities Gateway 

I'll be introducing William Kittredge tonight. Come out and hear a true hero of the West tell a tale or two.   
 
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8.4.12 Omaha, Nebraska
Folk Music/Lit Event @9:00pm
@ Barley Street Tavern  
w/ Mike Young, Simon Joyner, 
Gus & Call and The Betties
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10.19.11 Irvine, California
UCI Author Series 
@5:00pm
@ UCI Bookstore 
w/
Collier Nogues
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