Events
M. Allen Cunningham reading in Portland, Oregon, November 2018
Woody Skinner reading at The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence, Kansas, January 2018 (Photo: Presley Goff)
Margaret Malone reading at Powell's Books, Portland, OR, Nov. 2015 (Photo: Laura Stanfill)
Harriet Scott Chessman reading at Books, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, 2013
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UPCOMING:
Take a 4-day fiction workshop with M. Allen Cunningham this summer in beautiful Pebble Beach, California, at the Catamaran Writing Conference! July 31 - August 4 
PAST EVENTS *M. Allen Cunningham's fall 2018 appearances were funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council Thurs. Oct. 21, 2021 / 7:00PM local time > ZOOM Book Cellar, Chicago IL featuring Amy Lee Lillard (Dig Me Out) and the Broads and Books podcast Email for RSVP link: https://www.bookcellarinc.com/event/amy-lee-lillard-dig-me-out Tues. Oct. 26, 2021 / 7:00PM local time > ZOOM The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore MD Amy Lee Lillard in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl Register for this Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTvbHDsASAmxZItQoaC43Q Wed. Oct. 27, 2021 / 6:30PM > DES MOINES, IA Amy Lee Lillard (Dig Me Out) at Beaverdale Books moderated by Kali White VanBaale https://beaverdalebooks.com/event/meet-the-author-amy-lee-lillard/ Wed. Nov. 3, 2021 Amy Lee Lillard Broads and Books Presents: Small Press Story Writers Virtual Event - info tk Nov. 5-6, 2021 Amy Lee Lillard I.O.W.A (Imagine Other Worlds with Authors) Virtual Event More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/383799976646497 Wed. Nov. 10, 2021 - Virtual Event: info tk Atelier26 Short Story Writers Extravaganza, featuring Amy Lee Lillard, Margaret Malone, and Woody Skinner Wed. Nov. 17, 2021 / 7-8PM - ZOOM Cedar Crest College Pan European MFA Program Visiting Writers Series: Reading & Publishing Panel featuring M. Allen Cunningham, Amy Lee Lillard, Margaret Montet, & David R. Roth https://zoom.us/j/97021998313?pwd=c2haOU1vcy9QZ0dKc0J0K25WTDVwdz09 Saturday Sept. 29, 2018 / 10:30 - 11:30AM > TACOMA, WA M. Allen Cunningham at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow (PNBA) In-booth signing of Perpetua's Kin IPG Booth (#11) Sunday Oct. 7, 2018 / 6PM > NEW YORK, NY M. Allen Cunningham at Why There Are Words Reading Series NYC with Esther Cohen, Tim Fitts, Carol Ghiglieri, Fran Hawthorne, and Leslie Shinn The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Houston & Bleecker) NYC 20012 https://www.facebook.com/events/2211680375746608/ Wednesday Oct. 10, 2018 / 7PM > NEW YORK, NY M. Allen Cunningham at NYC's Same Page Reading Series with Kendrick Greer, Laura Buccieri, Jessica Gross, Krista G., and Kirsten S. Chen KGB Bar's Red Room (3rd floor) 85 East 4th Street NYC 10003 https://www.facebook.com/events/2078634192188287/ Monday Oct. 29, 2018 / 7PM > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham, Tony Ardizzone, and Dan DeWeese at Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232 www.broadwaybooks.net https://www.facebook.com/events/241436759882088/ Thursday Nov 1, 2018 / 7PM > PORTLAND, OR "Don't Write What You Know" Margaret Malone reads with Jason Arias and M. Allen Cunningham Literary Arts 925 SW Washington https://www.facebook.com/events/343443189547306/ Friday Nov 9, 2018 / 7 - 8PM > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham reads with Samiya Bashir, Anne-Marie Kinney and Janice Lee at Lit Crawl Portland 2018, "Unchartable: An Evening of Environmental Unknowns" Hosted by Portland Review, Entropy, Civil Coping Mechanisms, and Writ Large Press Literary Arts 925 SW Washington https://www.facebook.com/events/641569186259802/ Saturday Nov. 10, 2018 / all day > PORTLAND, OR Atelier26 Table, with Author Signings Portland Book Festival Book Fair (Wordstock) Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave https://www.facebook.com/events/728076860864663/ Sunday Nov. 18, 2018 / 4PM > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham at Why There Are Words PDX with Michael Copperman, Kate Carroll De Gutes, Ramiza Koya, Anca Szilágyi, and Valerie Wallace Leach Botanical Gardens 6704 SE 122nd Ave *This event is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council Monday Nov. 26, 2018 / 7:30PM > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham at Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd Sunday Dec. 2, 2018 / noon - 4PM > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham signs books at OHS Holiday Cheer 1200 SW Park Ave Saturday Jan. 26, 2019 / 11:30AM > SEATTLE, WA M. Allen Cunningham signs Perpetua's Kin American Library Association Midwinter Meeting Washington State Convention Center 705 Pike Street Seattle Tuesday March 5, 2019 / 6PM > SANTA CRUZ, CA M. Allen Cunningham discusses & signs Perpetua's Kin Catamaran Literary Salon Gabriella Cafe 910 Cedar Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 https://www.facebook.com/events/351998042197126/ Thursday March 28 - Saturday March 30, 2019 > PORTLAND, OR Atelier26 Books at AWP 2019 Book Fair Table (T8007), with Author Signings, plus special offsite reading (see below!) AWP Conference Oregon Convention Center Friday March 29, 2019 / 4:00PM > PORTLAND, OR Woody Skinner and M. Allen Cunningham read in the Catamaran contributors AWP offsite event Full lineup: Jacqueline Doyle, Steve Gutierrez, Syed Afzal Haider, Zack Rogow, Paul Skenazy, Woody Skinner, M. Allen Cunningham Another Read Through 3932 N. Mississippi Ave https://www.anotherreadthrough.com/event/awp-offsite-event-with-catamaran-contributors/ Friday March 29, 2019 / 7:00PM > PORTLAND, OR AWP Offsite Reading: Atelier26 Books, Moss & Friends Featuring Jason Arias (Momentary Illumination of Objects in Motion), Margaret Malone (People Like You), Donna Miscolta (Hola and Goodbye), Woody Skinner (A Thousand Distant Radios), Sidney Wade (Bird Book), and Kristen Millares Young (Subduction). Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th (at Division St) https://www.facebook.com/events/2251386005074769/ Tuesday August 6, 2019 / 2PM > PEBBLE BEACH, CA Craft Talk by M. Allen Cunningham; signing of Perpetua's Kin 6th Annual Catamaran Writing Conference Stevenson School Pebble Beach, CA Sunday September 22, 2019 / 10AM - 6 PM > BROOKLYN, NY Atelier26 at the Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall & surroundings Sunday December 22, 2019 / time TBA > PORTLAND, OR Atelier26 at Publication Fair 2019 The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel 403 SW 10th Thursday April 16, 2020 / 6:30PM > MILWAUKIE, OR M. Allen Cunningham reads and discusses his work Ledding Library Past Events >Mondays, April 2 - 23, 2018 / 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham teaches Writing Fiction with Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" at Literary Arts. Broadway smash and cultural sensation, Hamilton: An American Musical is a masterpiece of fictional form. With its ingenious handling of time, characterization, plot, perspective, voice, theme, and all the other essential elements of storytelling, Hamilton offers writers every ingredient for a master class in creating fiction. This 4-week class will explore the inner fictional workings of the sensational genre-bending musical. Through inspiring listening exercises, writing prompts, analysis, discussion, and related readings, participants will use Hamilton to unlock their understanding of how fiction functions and what makes a good story great. Learn more and sign up HERE. >February 14 - March 21, 2018 / Wednesday evenings > PORTLAND, OR Atelier26 Creative Writing Workshops, winter 2018 Learn more & apply by January 26th HERE >Sunday, February 18, 2018 / 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR Margaret Malone, author of People Like You, reads at Why There Are Words PDX with David Biespiel, Elyse Fenton, Jacqueline Keeler, Sara Quinn Rivara, and Wendy Willis. *suggested $10 donation Leach Botanical Garden Manor House 6704 SE 122nd Ave Portland, OR 97236 >Saturday, March 3, 2018 - JACKSONVILLE, FL Sidney Wade is a featured author and leads a poetry workshop at the Douglas Anderson Writers' Festival. Douglas Anderson School of the Arts 2445 San Diego Rd. Jacksonville, FL 32207 >Friday, March 9, 2018 / 1:30 p.m. > TAMPA, FL Sidney Wade reads from Bird Book at the AWP Conference, with fellow poets Randall Mann, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Molly McCully Brown, Mitchell L.H. Douglas, and Heather Derr-Smith. Persea Books: Poetry of Protest (Event F230) Room 20 & 21, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/11133 >Saturday, March 10, 2018 / 12:00 p.m. > TAMPA, FL Bird Book author Sidney Wade discusses perspectives on the creative process of translation with fellow translators Hélène Cardona, Hilary Kaplan, Willis Barnstone, and Christopher Merrill. The Glories of Impossible Translations: International Perspectives on Creative Process (Event S196) Room 23, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/12764 >Sunday, March 11, 2018 / 3:00 p.m. > GAINESVILLE, FL Sidney Wade reads with Natalie J. Graham and Nicole Harris. Thomas Center Galleries 302 NE 6th Ave Gainesville, FL Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/2Fics8p >Saturday March 17, 2018 / 6:30 p.m. > LITTLE ROCK, AR Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios. Argenta Reading Series Little Rock, AR >Sunday March 18, 2018 / 2:00 p.m. > MEMPHIS, TN Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios. Novel Bookstore 387 Perkins Ext. Memphis, TN 38117 Facebook Event page: http://bit.ly/2EUu4XX >Friday, November 10, 2017 / 7:00 p.m. > GAINESVILLE, FL Sidney Wade reads and signs Bird Book. Third House Books & Coffee 113 North Main Street Gainesville, FL http://bit.ly/2ivdd3j >Saturday, November 11, 2017 / 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham's Starting the Novel workshop at WORDSTOCK. >Sunday, November 26, 2017 / 4:00 p.m. > LITTLE ROCK, AR OFFICIAL LAUNCH EVENT! Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios. WordsWorth Books & Co. 5920 R Street Little Rock, AR 72207 Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/2jAuDj2 >Thursday, January 4, 2018 / 6:30 p.m. > FAYETTEVILLE, AR Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios at Nightbird Books. 205 W. Dickson St. Fayetteville, AR Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/2Br33IF >Friday, January 5, 2018 / 7:00 p.m. > LAWRENCE, KS Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios at The Raven Book Store. 6 East 7th St. Lawrence, KS Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/2jC1Fzh >Saturday, January 6, 2018 / 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon > EMPORIA, KS Coffee with the Author: Woody Skinner signs A Thousand Distant Radios at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore. 1122 Commercial Emporia, KS Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/2ABWEgy >Saturday, January 6, 2018 / 3:00 p.m. > WICHITA, KS Woody Skinner reads and signs A Thousand Distant Radios at Watermark Books and Cafe. 4701 E. Douglas Wichita, KS Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/2mD21Xl >Wednesday, May 3, 2017 / 7:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR M. Allen Cunningham reads in Southeast PDX's Plonk Reading Series. Corkscrew Wine Bar 1665 SE Bybee Blvd. >Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. > AUSTIN, TX Balcones Fiction Prize reading featuring 2015 winner Margaret Malone. Malvern Books 613 West 29th Street Austin, TX 78705 http://malvernbooks.com/events/ >Tuesday, April 11, 2017 / 6:00 p.m. > LONGVIEW, WA M. Allen Cunningham reads at WordFest. Cassava Coffee Shop 1333 Broadway Longview, WA >Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. > VANCOUVER, WA Margaret Malone speaks at WSU Vancouver's Professional Writers Series. (Free and open to the public.) Multimedia Classroon Building, Room 6 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave Vancouver, WA 98686 http://www.cityofvancouver.us/community/one-writers-path-margaret-malone >Saturday, September 24, 2016 / 7:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR Margaret Malone reads with Alexander Maksik, author of Shelter in Place (Europa Editions). Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison Street Portland https://www.facebook.com/MotherFoucaults/ >Thursday, September 29, 2016 / 4:00 p.m. > WILLIAMSTOWN, MA Margaret Malone reads at Williams College. Griffin Hall 6 844 Main St Williamstown, MA 01267 >Sunday, October 2, 2016 > 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. TACOMA, WA Margaret Malone signs copies of People Like You at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall trade show. (IPG booth) Hotel Murano 1320 Broadway Tacoma, WA >October 11, 2016 > 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. > LONGVIEW, WA Margaret Malone reads/signs books at WordFest in Longview. Cassava 1333 Broadway Longview, WA 98632 >October 13, 2016 > 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. > NEW YORK, NY Margaret Malone reads with authors Alexander Maksik, Tim Murphy, and Randa Jarrar at Behind the Book in NYC's KGB Bar. KGB Bar 85 E 4th Street New York, NY 10003 >October 19, 2016 1:00-2:00 p.m. > GRESHAM, OR Margaret Malone presents her work at the Mouths of Others Reading Series. Mount Hood Community College 26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030 >October 26, 2016 > 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. > PORTLAND, OR Margaret Malone reads with Mike Copperman and Ashley Tolliver at Literary Arts. Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Portland, OR 97205 >November 9, 2016 > 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. > SALEM, OR Margaret Malone reads in Willamette University's New Voices Showcase with Sara Jaffe, author of Dryland. Willamette University Hatfield Library 900 State Street Salem, OR 97301 |
