New books by New England Review authors (short review of MARRYING FRIENDS)

Thursday November 16, 6 p.m. Broadway Books reading from MARRYING FRIENDS and conversation with Natalie Serber

November 8, 7 p.m. Stories Bookstore, Los Angeles, reading from MARRYING FRIENDS and conversation with actor Beth Littleford.

Saturday, November 4, Portland Book Festival MARRYING FRIENDS Pop Up Reading at the Portland Art Museum

Thursday, November 2, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Cover to Cover/Portland Book Festival Happy Hour with Propeller authors Dan DeWeese, Miriam Gershow, Mary Rechner and Evan P. Schneider at Up Up Books

Friday,October 27, 7 p.m. MARRYING FRIENDS celebratory reading and conversation with Chelsea Bieker at Portland’s Powell’s City of Books.

Wednesday, October 25, 7 p.m. MARRYING FRIENDS at the New Short Fiction Series live streamed from Los Angeles. (Info about tickets coming soon.)

Tuesday, September 19, 10:30 a.m. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Authors on the Map Brunch

Sunday, August 20, 7 p.m. Red House Reading Series 3820 SE Bybee Blvd. PDX reading from MARRYING FRIENDS along with writer Margaret Malone

July 2023 Lit Hub cover reveal for MARRYING FRIENDS

Sunday June 11, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Turn! Turn! Turn! Celebrating the re-release of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women (forward by Miriam Gershow), the Treat Podcast (featuring Alex Behr, Amanda Gersh and Aliera Dulcinea Zeledon-Morasch) & sound and music by everynightdaily

Saturday May 13 7:00 p.m. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop I’ll be reading from re-release of Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women (forward by Miriam Gershow) along with poets Dan Kaplan and Patrick Dundon

“The Crone” published in New Letters and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Essay “Real Time” published in Litro Magazine.

Launch of Treat, a series of less-than-two-minutes-long prose and music collaborations edited by Mary Rechner and produced by Core Productions. For your coffee break, tea time, happy hour or midnight snack. Listen to Treat

Interview with Kesha Ajọsẹ Fisher, author of the story collection No God Like the Mother, which won the Ken Kesey Oregon Book Award for fiction, is up at Propeller.

Reading from The Opposite of Wow in the Lilla Lit series… video!

Novella The Opposite of Wow published in The Hong Kong Review.

Interview with Debra Gwartney , author of memoir I Am a Stranger Here.

AWP Book Fair: repping Propeller with Evan P. Schneider

Curator and featured reader (with Susie Bartley, Jacque Dixon, Kelly Gomes & Desmond Spann): Listen Up! Public School Teachers Rick the Mic @ Lit Crawl

Featured reader (with Natalie Serber and others): One Page Wednesday Mashup @Lit Crawl

SHARE: a bi-monthly event in Portland, Oregon brings different groups of artists together to create from the same prompt. We had two hours to work before sharing their creations. Our prompt was “sneak.” See what we made.

Interviewed writer Alex Behr about her newly released story collection Planet Grim at Powell’s Books on Burnside, Portland, @7:30 pm

Reading at Portland Art Museum, Queen of the Night reading series.

Reading at Literary Arts

“Family Leave” published in the Harvard Review Online

Emceed student reading at Wordstock book festival

Interview with Katie Chase, author of debut story collection Man & Wife at Propeller

Moderated panel A Writer’s Guide to Political Advocacy at AWP Los Angeles

Story “Short Sale” published in the Burnside Review performed at the New Short Fiction Series 20th Anniversary reading in Los Angeles

story publication “Elliptical” in Flash Flash Click

group reading in celebration of poet James Wright at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop

emceed celebratory student reading of Off Center at Wordstock book festival

story publication “Denouement” in the New England Review

story publication “A Day at the Beach” in the Gettysburg Review

Loggernaut 10th Anniversary reading at the IPRC

Windfall Reading Series (with poet Armin Tolentino), Downtown Eugene Library

Review of Tanya Tagaq’s performance at PICA’s TBA festival in Backwords Blog

Conversation with Elizabeth Lopeman, author of the story collection TransEurope Express at Broadway Books, recorded for Late Night Library

Interview with Cary Luna, author of The Revolution of Everyday at Propeller

story publication “Short Sale” in the Burnside Review

Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women review at Move Lifestyle

Reading at Caldera with Susan Denning, Ellen Waterson, and Ellen Santasiero

Blogging about art: PICA’s TBA festival

story publication “The A-Frame” in Propeller

Truth or Fiction?  The Daddy Issue, Featured Reader, The Funhouse Lounge, Portland

Conversation with poet Susan Moore about Hannah Gamble’s debut poetry collection, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast on Late Night Library

Author & Artists Fair, Eugene

Propeller Books reading (with Evan P. Schneider and Dan DeWeese) at Boora Architects, Portland

Story publication “The Playwright Sits Next to Her Sister” in Still

Interview with Negative Press about story writing that includes the work of photographer Christy Goldsby

“Why I Hate Food: A Polemic“ in Propeller

Reading at the University of Portland

Wordstock Festival panel moderator: “Banned” featuring Ellen Hopkins, Jonathan Hill, and Nancy Sullivan

Reading at THIS! Fest, Portland

Writer in residence at Mabel & Zora, Portland

Reading with poet Martha Silano at Portland State University

Loggernaut Reading Series, Portland, (with Debra Gwartney and Carl Adamshick)

Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women makes the Long List for the 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

Stories from Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women performed by professional actors in New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles

Reading from Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women at Broadway Books, Portland

Book launch for Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women Powell’s City of Books in Portland

Story publication “The Loop Trail” New England Review

Reading at Wordstock, Portland’s premier books festival