2024
April 7 - Baton Rouge, LA
Delta Mouth Festival
April 19 - Baltimore, MD
CityLit Festival
May 18 - Greensboro, NC
Greensboro Bound Festival
June 1 - New York City
#1000wordsofsummer launch/write along at Hudson Park Library
June 1 - Brooklyn, NY
#1000wordsofsummer happy hour/write along at St. Mazie
June 8 - New Orleans, LA
#1000wordsofsummer happy hour/write along at Low Point Coffee
September 14 - Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book Festival
October 17 - Pass Christian, MS
301 East Scenic/Pass Christian Books
PREVIOUS EVENTS
2024
January 9 - London, UK
London Writer’s Salon Live (virtual event)
January 9 - New Orleans, LA
1000 Words Launch Party with Maurice Ruffin & Jacques Pierre Francois @ Baldwin & Co (Tickets)
January 10 - Brooklyn, NY
Write-Along with Hannah Tinti @ Center for Fiction (Tickets)
January 11 - Brooklyn, NY
NYC Launch with Kristen Arnett, Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, and Emma Straub @ St. Ann Church/Books are Magic (Tickets)
January 12 - Washington, DC
With Nicole Chung and Jennifer Close @ Loyalty Books (RSVP)
January 14 - Philadelphia, PA
With Eric Smith @ Indy Hall at 2 PM
January 18 - Evanston, IL
With Christopher Gonzalez, Courtney Sullivan and Camille T. Dungy (virtual event) @Bookends & Beginnings
January 20 - Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Public Library with Nikesha Williams
January 25 - New Orleans, LA
Write-Along with Katy Simpson Smith @ Blue Cypress Books (Tickets)
January 27 - Kiln, MS
Homegrown: A Writer’s Exchange
February 1 - Washington, DC
Craft Chat (Virtual) @ The Writer’s Center (Free, reservations here)
February 20
Write or Die Magazine Craft Chat (Virtual, free, registration here)
February 24
Writer’s League of Texas Saturday Craft Seminar (Virtual)
March 22 - Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Festival of the Book
2023
January 3 - New Orleans, LA
I Came All This Way to Meet You paperback launch @ Bar Pomona
March 21 - New Orleans, LA
Dear Eliza reading series @ The Eliza Jane Hotel
April 8 - New Orleans, LA
Sadie Dupuis/Cry Perfume event @ The White Roach
April 18 - New Orleans, LA
Katy Simpson Smith/The Weeds event @ Blue Cypress Books
April 23 - New Orleans, LA
lmnl lit @ All Ways Lounge
May 16 - Paris, France
In conversation with Lauren Collins @ The American Library in Paris
August 2- Montreal, Canada
Group reading with Ladee Hubbard and Megan Giddings at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
2022
January 6-10 – Key West, FL
Key West Literary Seminar
January 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Launch Party! w/Kristen Arnett @ Books are Magic (Hybrid), 7 PM ET
January 13 - Washington, DC
Loyalty Bookstore (Hybrid), 7 PM ET
January 14 – Virtual
w/Benjamin Dreyer @ Literati (Ann Arbor), Books & Books (Miami) & Harvard Bookstore (Boston), 8 PM ET
January 18 – Virtual
w/Ada Limon @ Women and Children First 7 PM CT
January 20 – Virtual
w/Isaac Fitzgerald @ Booksmith (San Francisco), 6 PM PT
January 24– Virtual
w/Patricia Lockwood @ Skylight(Los Angeles), 6:30 PM PT
January 25 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Launch! w/Anne Gisleson @ Upstairs at Anna’s with Blue Cypress Books, 6 PM CT
February 2 – New Orleans, LA
w/Katy Simpson Smith @ Octavia Books, 6 PM CT
March 27 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
April 18 – New Orleans, LA
Zachary Lazar book launch party
April 15 – Seattle, WA
Hugo House
April 23 – Lübeck, Germany
St. Petrie zu Lübeck
April 25 – Hamburg, Germany
Buchhandlung Blattgold
April 26 – Hannover, Germany
Literature House
May 3 – London, England
Waterstones Gower Street
May 9 – Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Crescent
June 25 – Austin, TX
Writers’ League of Texas, Keynote Speaker
August 20 – Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book Festival
September 8 – Cleveland, OH
Inkubator Writing Conference, Keynote Speaker
September 12 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Elif Batuman @ Octavia Books
September 30 – Minneapolis, MN
Wordsmith Conference, Keynote Speaker
October 6 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Ladee Hubbard, hosted by Charisse Gibson @ Baldwin Books
October 15 – Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of Books
November 3 – New Orleans, LA
University of New Orleans
November 5 – Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
2020
February 6 – Philadelphia, PA
Temple University
February 15 – Savannah, GA
Savannah Book Festival
March 12 – Flagstaff, AZ
Bright Side Books
March 15 – Tucson, AZ - cancelled
Tucson Book Festival
March 29 – New Orleans, LA - canceled
Tennessee Williams Festival
April 25 – Lubeck, Germany - canceled
Kultur- und Universitätskirche St. Petri
April 27 –Berlin, Germany - canceled
Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann
April 28 –Hannover, Germany - canceled
Literaturhaus Hannover
April 29 –Hamburg, Germany - canceled
Buchhandlung Lesesaal
April 30 – Ulm, Germany - canceled
Kulturbuchhandlung Jastram
May 4 –London, England - canceled
The Second Shelf
May 5 –London, England - canceled
Waterstones Gower Street with Evie Wyld and Irensosen Okojie
May 6 –Dublin, Ireland - canceled
With Sinead Gleeson at Gutter Bookshop
May 7 –Belfast, Ireland - canceled
No Alibis Bookshop
June 12-14 – Denver, CO
Lighthouse Writers Conference Lit Fest
June 18-21 – Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Book Festival
July 15-19– Southampton, NY
Southampton Writers Conference
August 3– Madison, NJ
Farleigh Dickinson MFA Summer Residency
September 10-12 – Lexington, KY
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
September 16
In conversation with Susan Choi @ Women and Children First
September 17
In conversation with Courtney Sullivan @ Wellsley Books
October 1
In conversation with Laura van den Berg @ McNally Jackson
2019
March 29 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival
June 6 – New Orleans, LA
Disorder Press Reading Series, Bar Loa
June 12 – New Orleans, LA
Kristen Arnett Launch Party @ Saturn Bar
September 19 – New Orleans, LA
Sneak Peek Series @ Blue Cypress Books with Katy Simpson Smith
October 18– Philadelphia, PA
with Liz Moore
October 20– Washington, DC
Loyalty Bookstore
October 22 – Brooklyn, NY
Books Are Magic with Julie Orringer - All This Could Be Yours Launch Party
October 23 – Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore with Laura Van den berg
October 24 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose with Matthew Klam
October 26 - Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
October 29 - Chicago, IL
Book Cellar with Samantha Irby
October 30 – Wheeling, IL
Indian Trails Library
November 2 – Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana Book Festival
November 5– New Orleans, LA
Hotel Peter and Paul with Margaret Wilkerson-Sexton, hosted by Anne Gisleson - New Orleans Launch
November 6 – Memphis, TN
Novel with Alice Bolin
November 7 – Fayetteville, AR
Nightbird Books with Padma Viswanathanthan
November 9 – Conway, AR
C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
November 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series
November 12 – Columbus, OH
Gramercy Books
November 13 – Cincinnati, OH
UC Clermont Fiction Reading Series
November 13 – Cincinnati, OH
Mercantile Library with Leah Stewart
November 14 – New Orleans, LA
Dogfish Reading Series with Rodger Kamenetz
November 17 – Oakland, CA
East Bay Booksellers with Jasmine Guillory
November 18 – San Francisco, CA
The Ruby with Rachel Khong
November 19 – San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith with Esme Wang
November 20 – Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books with Alissa Nutting
November 21 – Portland, OR
Live Wire!
November 22 – Portland, OR
Powell’s Books with Cheryl Strayed
December 2 – Tampa, FL
Oxford Exchange with Kristen Arnett
December 3 – Gainesville, FL
Hippodrome Theater with Lauren Groff
December 5 – Venice, FL
Jewish Congregation of Venice
December 6 – Key West, FL
Books & Books
December 12 – New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books with Ladee Hubbard
December 16 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Public Library with Susan Larson
2018
March 13 – Brooklyn, NY
All Grown Up Paperback Launch @ Books Are Magic featuring Rumaan Alam, Mary H.K. Choi and Maeve Higgins
March 15 – Los Angeles, CA
All Grown Up Paperback Party @ The Last Bookstore featuring Laila Lalami, Morgan Parker, and Patrick Somerville
March 24-25 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival
April 11 – San Francisco, CA
Reading @ The Ruby
April 12 – San Francisco, CA
All Grown Up Paperback Party @ The Bindery featuring Rachel Khong, Charlie Jane Anders, and Esme Wang
April 13-15 – Orcas Island, WA
Orcas Island Lit Fest
April 20-21 – Columbia, MO
Unbound Book Festival
April 24-27 – Geneva, Switzerland
Salon du livre de Geneve
August 30 – New Orleans, LA
In conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton @ Octavia Books.
September 20 – Milan, Italy
Libreria Verso
September 21 – Roverto, Italy
Libreria Arcadia
September 22-23 – Pordenone, Italy
Festival Pordenone Legge
September 25 – Palermo, Italy
Libreria Modusviviendi
September 26 – Catania, Italy
Libreria Vicolo Stretto
October 5-6 – Obidos, Portugal
Folio Festival
December 4 – New Orleans, LA
1718 Reading Series @ The Columns Hotel
2017
Feb 9 – Washington, DC
AWP Panel: Success, Failure, and the Green-Eyed Monster: Thriving in a Competitive Environment with Jean Kwok, Rebecca Makkai, Mitchell Jackson, Mira Jacob
ALL GROWN UP TOUR
March 8 – New York, NY
Ace Hotel with Alexander Chee - All Grown Up Launch party
March 9 – Brooklyn, NY
Greenlight Bookstore PLG with Helen Atsma
March 10 – Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore with Maura Johnston
March 12 – Philadelphia, PA
Tattooed Mom with Jennifer Weiner (Sponsored by Open Bookstore)
March 14 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose with Jennifer Close
March 15 – Brooklyn, NY
Powerhouse Arena with Morgan Parker
March 16 – Key West, FL
Books & Books with Judy Blume
March 18 – San Diego, CA
The Foundry Reading series with Karolina Waclawiak
March 21 – Claremont, CA
Scripps College with Elif Bautman
March 21 – Los Angeles, CA
Live Talks LA with Cynthia Sweeney
March 22 – San Francisco, CA
Booksmith with Alexis Coe
March 23 – Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay Book Company with Maria Semple, Sponsored by The Stranger
March 25 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival
March 29 – Milwaukee, WI
Boswell Books with Wendy McClure
March 30 – Chicago, IL
Book Cellar with Lindsay Hunter
April 6 – New Orleans, LA
Saturn Bar with Zachary Lazar
April 10 – Oxford, MS
Square Books
April 11 – Nashville, TN
Parnassus Books
April 12 – Athens, GA
Avid Bookshop
April 13 – Greenville, SC
Fiction Addiction
April 14 – Charlotte, NC
Park Road Books
April 15 – Chapel Hill, NC
Flyleaf Books
April 18 – New York, NY
Center for Fiction with Cynthia Sweeney
April 20 – London
Waterstones Gower St with Hadley Freeman
April 27-8 – Galway, Ireland
Cuirt Literature Festival
April 29 – Dublin, Ireland
Cobblestone Pub with Mark O'Connell and Eoin Butler
May 10 – New York, NY
#YeahYouWrite Author Series @ Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room
May 11 – Brooklyn, NY
Red Ink Series @ Powerhouse Books
May 13 – Brooklyn, NY
Difficult to Name Series @ Study Hall
May 20 – Gaithersburg, MD
Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 22 – Brooklyn, NY
In Conversation with Francesca Segal @ Books Are Magic
July 10 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series
August 8 – New Orleans, LA
Interviewing Ladee Hubbard @ Octavia Books
August 19 – Jackson, MS
Mississippi Book Festival
September 18 – Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival
October 3 – Tallahassee, FL
Florida State University
October 13-14 – Nashville, TN
Southern Festival of Books
October 17 – Dallas, TX
Wild Detectives
November 4-5 – Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
November 9 – New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Public Library
November 11 – Portland, OR
Wordstock Festival
November 18-19 -Miami, FL
Miami Book Fair
2016
Feb 26 – Baton Rouge, LA
Delta Mouth Festival
March 5 – Long Beach, CA
Literary Women Festival
May 21-May 23 – Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival
June 21 – New York, NY
Saint Mazie paperback launch party @ Housing Works
Sept 6 – Milan, Italy
Libreria Verso
Sept 8 – Mantova, Italy
Festivaletteratura, Seminario Vescovile, in conversation with Wlodek Goldkorn
Sept 9 – Mantova, Italy
Festivaletteratura, basilica palatina di santa barbara, in conversation with Luisa Muraro and Sandra Ozzola
Sept 11 – Rome, Italy
Festival Letteratura Ebraica, in conversation with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Nadia Terranova
Sept 12 – Palermo, Italy
Modusvivendi Libreria with Viola di Grado
Sept 13 – Palermo, Italy
Modusvivendi Libreria with Viola di Grado
Sept 22 – New Orleans, LA
Dogfish Reading Series
2015
Feb 3 – New Orleans, LA
1718 Reading Series, The Columns Hotel, 7 PM
Feb 26 – New Orleans, LA
ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Brian Boyles @ Press Street HQ, 6 PM
April 12 – Greenwich, CT
NAIBA/NEIBA All About Events
April 13 – Philadelphia, PA
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 7 PM
May 2 – Brooklyn, NY
Emily Books Relaunch Party, 4-6 PM
May 2 – Brooklyn, NY
Co-host, Independent Bookstore Day NYC Afterparty w/Emma Straub & Angela Flournoy @ Powerhouse Books
May 27 – New York, NY
Bookrageous BEA Bash @ Housing Works, 7 PM
May 28 – New York, NY
Inside the Author’s Studio @ BEA, 1:30 PM
June 8 – New York, NY
In conversation with Rosie Schaap & McNally Jackson, 7 PM
June 10 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose, 7 PM
June 22 – Northbrook, IL
Max and Benny’s North Shore Jewish Author Literary Series, 7 PM
June 24 – Wheeling, IL
Indian Trails Public Library, 7 PM
June 25 – Chicago, IL
Book Cellar, 7 PM
June 26 – San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith, 6:30 PM
June 27 – San Francisco, CA
ALA Annual Conference, book signing, 12:00 PM
June 28 – Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Karolina Waclawiak @ Ace Hotel, 6:00 PM
July 9 – New York, NY
Female Trouble – A Celebration of the Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak @ Housing Works, 7:00 PM
July 15 – Jersey City, NJ
In conversation with Susannah Cahalan & WORD Jersey City, 7:00 PM
July 20 – Brooklyn, NY
With Kate Bolick @ Books Beneath the Bridge @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 7:00 PM
July 29 – New York, NY
Sean Kelly Gallery, 7:00 PM
September 19 – Brooklyn, NY
Mellow Pages Summer Vacation @ Silent Barn @ 2 PM, with Lauren Groff, Alice Sola Kim, Sara Novic, Chinelo Okparanta and Julia Pierpont
September 20 – Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Book Festival, Borough Hall Courtroom, 2 PM, Time Traveling panel with Marlon James and Stewart O’Nan
September 22 – Grinnell, IA
Grinnell College
September 23 – Iowa City, IA
Prairie Lights Bookstore
September 24-25 – Columbia, MO
University of Missouri
September 29 – Fairfax, VA
Fall for the Book
October 3 – Morristown, NJ
Morristown Festival of Books
October 6 – London, UK
Literary Death Match, Southbank Centre
October 9 – Crystal Palace, London, UK
Bookseller Crow
October 10 – London, UK
Southbank Centre, 5:30 PM
October 11 – Ilkley, UK
Ilkley Literature Festival, 3 PM, with Liza Klaussman
October 12 – Manchester, UK
Manchester Literature Festival
October 17 – Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival, CPC, 12:45-1:30 PM, Motivation panel with Sloane Crosley and Sung J. Woo
Kickstarter Presents: Who Said It? with Maris Kreizman, Amy FitzHenry, Daniel José Older, and Karolina Waclawiak @ Liberty, 9:30 PM
October 21 – Mexico City
with Zachary Lazar @ Benjamin Franklin Library, 6 PM
October 24 – Toronto, ON
IFOA
With Adrian Tomine @ Fleck Dance Theater (Tickets), 4 PM
Artist Talk with Sue Carter @ Pub Hub, 7 PM
October 26 – Washington, DC
Washington DC JCC @ 7:30 PM
October 29 – New Orleans, LA
Maple Street Book Shop
October 31 – Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana Book Festival
November 2 – Dallas, TX
Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Southern Methodist University, 12:00
November 4 – Houston, TX
Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, 12:00 PM
November 5 – Austin, TX
Austin JCC with Laura Dave, 7:00 PM
November 7 – Portland, OR
Wordstock Festival
Stranger than Fiction panel with Benjamin Percy, Glenn Taylor, and Scott Cheshire, 1 PM
Slaughterhouse 90210 party at Dig a Pony, 7 PM
November 16 – New York, NY
With B.A. Shapiro @ Center for Fiction
November 18 – New York, NY
Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders at the City Winery with Advance Base, Tanya Donelly, Jon Glaser, Steven Page, Will Sheff, and Bobby Tisdale, 6 PM doors
November 20 – Dunwoody, GA
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, 12:00 PM
December 17 – New York, NY
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest Awards Ceremony @ Jewish Museum
2014
January 24 – 25 – Charleston, IL
Lions in Winter Festival, Eastern Illinois University
March 22 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival, in conversation with Roxane Gay, 2:30 PM
March 23 – New Orleans, LA
Tennessee Williams Festival, Writing America Panel with Bill Cheng, Kiese Laymon, and Laura van den Berg, 10 AM
April 4 – Raleigh, NC
North Carolina Literary Festival, The Monti Storytelling Series, 8 PM
April 5 – Raleigh, NC
North Carolina Literary Festival, in conversation with Therese Fowler, 1:30 PM
April 7 – Brooklyn, NY
Franklin Park Reading Series, 8 PM
April 8 – Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Timothy Schaffert @ WORD Brooklyn, 7 PM
May 16 – Brooklyn, NY
Beauty Love Truth
June 1-6 – Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Writers’ Conference
June 15-22 – Whitefield, NH
Southern New Hampshire University Creative Writing Residency Program
September 5-7 – Morges, Switzerland
Le livre sur les quais festival
September 5, 5:30 PM, “Blood Ties” panel with Nathan Filer & Sadie Jones @ Musee Alexis Forel
September 6, 11:00 AM, “The confessional” with Helen Stubbs @ Midnight Sun Gallery
September 8 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
2:30 PM, Centre Communautaire de Neuilly-sur-Seine
September 9 – Paris, France
7:00 PM, La Famille Middlestein launch @ Thé des Ecrivains
September 11-14 – Vincennes, France
Festival America
September 13, 12:00 PM, “The Place Where I Live” panel with Nickolas Butler, Ron Rash and Jesmyn Ward
September 13, 4:00 PM, “What Family” panel with Christopher Boucher & Stuart Nadler
September 13, 6:00 PM, “Characters in Search of Author” panel with Rick Bass & France Daigle
September 13, 7:00 PM, “Families” panel with Wally Lamb & Alexi Zentner
September 15-17 – Rome, Italy
Festival Internazionale di Letteratura e Cultura Ebraica
September 16, 9:00 PM, “American Encounters” with Lara Crinò @ Palace of Culture (Via Portico d’Ottavia, Rome)
September 18 – Palermo, Italy
6:30 PM, Modusvivendi Libreria
9:00 PM, Hotel Plaza Opera
November 15 – New York, NY
Moby Dick Marathon @ Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum
November 29 – Brooklyn, NY
Indies First Day @ WORD Brooklyn, 2 PM
December 9 – New York, NY
Launch party for Frank Portman’s King Dork Approximately @ Housing Works, 7 PM
December 20 – New York, NY
What the Dickens Christmas Carol Marathon @ Housing Works