Join me for a conversation with Cynthia Newberry Martin, award-winning author of TIDAL FLATS.

For Louisvillians who love our library! Join me at Highlands-Shelby Park branch on Oct 6 for a book discussion. Adults only. : ) #LFPL

I’ll be talking about mothers and daughters with fabulous novelists Laura Moriarty and Becky Mandelbaum!

Join my as I read with a group of Spalding MFA alumni from our recently published books! Nancy Chen Long hosts.

Hosted by Steve Cambron. Join me as I read with Ashlee Clark and Tina Parker.

Learn about community writing and reading opportunities around Kentucky.

Join esteemed novelists and Spalding MFA Alumni Silas House, Crystal Wilkinson, and Katy Yocom, who will provide short readings from their new nationally recognized novels that are set in Kentucky. Kathleen Driskell hosts.

In this two-hour craft seminar, we’ll examine stories and essays that get emotion right—and wrong—and try our hand at a writing exercise. You’ll leave with new tools for your writing toolbox.

Join me for a Bloomington Writers Guild reading with Laurie Stone, Hiromi Yoshida, and Jason Ammerman. Music by Sarah Cassidy. On Facebook Live.

A talk to students and faculty of Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing. Via Zoom.

Hosted by Louisville Literary Arts

A socially distanced reading and Q&A via Zoom

My hometown reading ended up being my last event before the coronavirus pandemic shut the country down. My high school Advanced Biology teacher came out for the evening. <3

Sponsored by the North American Review, the nation’s oldest literary journal!

2:00-3:00 p.m. Craft Discussion: Writing in the Age of Extinction

7:00-8:00 p.m. Reading

Both take place at the Gallery, Memorial Union

Spalding School of Creative and Professional Writing friends and family: Come out for an open mic reading and reunion at Freetail!

Come see me at AWP! I’ll be presenting on “Innovative Partnerships: The Advantages of Publishing with Small Presses,” a panel with K.L. Cook, Nan Cuba, Tim Bascom, and Andrew Gifford.

Kentucky Great Writers Series

Join me for a generative workshop on the craft of writing about place. I’ll talk about techniques I used during my research trip to India and discuss the uses of place in creating tone, atmosphere, and mood; developing character; and shaping story. We’ll read examples that excel in creating a vivid sense of place and try our hand at exercises.

Reading with Michael Washburn at InKY!

I’ll be signing books 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. as well as appearing on a panel, “Noteworthy New Fiction.”

I’ll speak with the WKU writing community as the guest writer at the Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing, 2 p.m. Central Time.

Panel: The Bonds We Break: Three Novels, with Jolina Petersheim and Claire Gibson. Book-signing immediately follows on the Signing Colonnade.

See you at Hugo House at 7 p.m. Pacific. I’ll be there with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/author Dianne Aprile. We’ll read a little, but mostly we’ll talk writing.

Seattle friends, see you at Phinney Books at 7 p.m. Pacific for “The Process“ reading series! New work, followed by an informal craft Q&A. I’ll be appearing with Loreen Lee, author of The Lava Never Sleeps.