2025

(all times local unless otherwise noted)

January 12, 7pm | Writers Reading Series | Bennington College  | Tishman Lecture Hall & online | more info

2024

December 9-13 | Revising Yourself and Others | 24Pearl Street | online | register + more info

October 3, 6pm | Wilder Words Reading | 24Pearl Street | online | register + more info

Sept. 23–Nov. 4, 630-830pm | Advanced Story Writing Workshop | Center for Fiction | online | more info

July 8-August 12, 630-830pm | Advanced Story Writing Workshop | Center for Fiction | online | more info

July 18, 630-830pm | Summer Novel Series: Homeward Bound | Story Studio Chicago | online | more info

June 14 | Professional Development Lecture | Bennington MFA

2023

November 3, 6pm | Off the Page Literary Festival | Hermitage Beach, Manasota Key | details

October 12, 6pm | Visiting Writers Series | Appalachian State | details

July 11-August 1, 630-9pm | Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop | 92NY
online 

April 6-27, 630-9pm | Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop | 92NY
online 

January 26 | Reading at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2022

December 16, 1215pm | Muhlenberg Center for American Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | more info 

December 5, 8pm | Home Field Advantage: In conversation with Musa Okwonga | English Theatre Berlin | more info | recording

November 30, 730pm | Wooden bats, leather gloves & dollar bills: In conversation with Justin Andreae | Literaturhaus Leipzig | more info

October 29, 1045 am | Louisiana Book Festival | Baton Rouge, LA
more information

October 11-13 | Smith Visiting Writer | Nichols School, Buffalo, NY

September 8–September 29, 630-9pm | Advanced Fiction Writing | 92Y
details 

September 20, 7pm | Launch event forBest Debut Short Stories 2022 | online via McNally Jackson | register

July 12–August 2, 630-9pm | Advanced Fiction Writing | 92Y
details 

April 26-May 31, 6-8pm | Short Story Writing | Center for Fiction
details

April 23 | Unbound Book Festival | Columbia, MO
details

April 15, 6pm | Adverse Abstraction Reading Series | Otto’s Shrunken Head, NYC, NY
details

March 31-April 21, 630-9pm | Advanced Fiction Writing | 92Y
details and application

March 29, 7pm | Creative Writing Faculty Reading | Drew University | online
details

March 23, 630pm | Agnes Scott College | Decatur, GA
details

2021

October 17, 11am | Don’t Write Alone: Online Retreat | Catapult

August 25, 12pm | Launch of Something Wonderful, by Jo Lloyd, Politics and Prose | Washington, DC (online) | watch

July 7 | All Star Game event with Chad Harbach, Tattered Cover Books | Denver, CO | recording

April 24 | Glossolalia Festival, Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA

April 8, 8pm | University of Wisconsin & Wisconsin Book Festival | Madison, WI

March 9, 7pm | Poisoned Pen | Scottsdale, AZ

February 25, 7pm | Visit Writer Series, Lenior-Rhyne University | Hickory, NC
more information

February 4, 7pm | Paperback Launch at McNally Jackson | New York,  NY
In conversation with Gish Jen | recording

2020

December 8 | Wellesley Authors on Stage | Wellesley, MA

November 16, 6:30 pm | Portland Book Festival | Portland, OR
“Typecasting” with Charles Yu | more info

October 30 | Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS

October 26 | University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN

October 4, 4pm | Brooklyn Book Festival | Brooklyn, NY
“Icons of American Culture” with Curtis Sittenfeld and Nelson George

September 24 | Sewanee Writers Conference Alumni Reading | Sewanee, TN

September 17 | Bates College | Lewiston, ME

June 26, 7pm | Greensboro Bound Literary Festival | online

June 15, 7pm | Halfway There Reading Series | online
more info

June 1, 7pm | Politics and Prose | online
In conversation with Chris Beha | more info

February 26, 7pm | Hugo House | Seattle, WA
In conversation with Adrianne Harun | more info

February 25, 730pm | Green Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave) | San Francisco, CA
In conversation with Emily Bell, editor at FSG | more info

February 22, 2pm | Wellstone Center | Soquel, CA
In conversation with Molly Knight | more info

February 21, 7pm | Tower Theater, Fresno State | Fresno, CA
Part of the Diverse Voices in Contemporary Fiction Series

February 20, 730pm | Skylight Books | Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with J. Ryan Stradal | more info

February 18, 430pm | Hampton Room, Scripps College | Claremont, CA
In conversation with Aaron Matz

February 13, 7pm | VCU Cabell Library | Richmond, VA
Tarumoto Prize reading with Christine Schutt | more info

February 12, 630pm | The New School | New York, NY
In conversation with Luis Jaramillo

February 6, 7pm | Politics and Prose at Union Market | Washington, DC
In conversation with Leslie Pietrzyk | more info

February 5, 7pm | Harvard Book Store | Cambridge, MA
In conversation with Mark Polanzak | more info

February 4, 7pm | McNally Jackson South Street Seaport | New York, NY
In conversation with David Duchovny | more info | transcript of interview

January 9-12 | Key West Literary Seminar | Key West, Florida
Three days of conversation with sportswriters from the past thirty years.
listen