Upcoming Events
Babylon Salon (co-host)
Featuring Katie Flynn, Grace Loh Prasad, Elizabeth Stix, & other award-winning authors!
Saturday, June 15, 2024, at 5:30pm — As always, free!
The Sycamore, San Francisco
Central Coast Writers
“Plotting Secrets: How’s What Absent Can Drive Narrative”
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 6:15pm
522 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA
The Art of the Short Story
Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 3pm
Page Street Writers: 297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Past Events
The Santa Fe Literary Review Reading and Reception
Celebrating the new issue!
Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Writers Grotto Reading and Meeting
With Lisa Gray Laird Harrison, and others
Friday, May 20, 2022
Weekend of Words
Author Panel with Lyzette Wanzer, Eleanor Vincent, & Louise Nayer
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Berkeley Library Authors Dinner Honoree
Chaired by Michael Lewis, TJ Styles, & Vanessa Hua
Saturday, February 8, 2020
San Francisco Writers Conference
Presentations and classes
February 13 -16, 2020
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Lit Crawl 2019
Dystopia, Refuge, and Astral Sightings
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 5-6pm – FREE!
Public Works SF (main room), San Francisco
AWP Conference
Panel Chair, “What’s Missing: How Absence Can Drive Narrative”
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Portland Oregon Convention Center
Literary Speakeasy
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Martuni’s, 4 Valencia St., San Francisco
Odd Mondays Reading Series
January 7, 2019
Folio Books, San Francisco
Inside Story Time
November 15, 2018
Octopus Literary Salon, Oakland, CA
Lit Camp: Rising From the Ashes
November 9, 2018
Book Passage, Corte Madera
Lit Crawl
Sanctuary City Reading
October 20, 2018
The Laundry: 3359 26th St. San Francisco
Squaw Valley Writers Published Alumni Celebration& Reading
July 11, 2018
Squaw Valley Writers Conference
Litwings Event Series
May 23, 2018
Book Passage, Sausalito, CA
“The Art of the Short Story”
with authors Vanessa Hua & Lyzette Wanzer
Berkeley Public Library, March 17, 2018
Writers Week: Los Altos High School
March 12, 2018
Los Altos, CA
“Demystifying the Path to Publication”
with writers Lily Iona MacKenzie & Lori Ostlund
Oakland Public Library, January 13 & 23, 2018
Stranger Than Fiction
January 28, 2018
Edinburgh Castle Pub, San Francisco, CA
Why There Are Words
February 8, 2018
Sausalito, CA 94965
Stories on Stage Davis
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA 95616
Hazel Reading Series
January 11, 2017
The Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Action Fiction! Stories Performed
December 15, 2017
Stage Werx, San Francisco, CA
Babylon Salon
December 2, 2017
The Armory Club, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Generations
November 27, 2017
The Bindery, San Francisco, CA
Yuba Lit
November 9, 2017
The National Hotel -Nevada City, CA
Tahoe Book Party for World Gone Missing
November 5, 2017
Kings Beach, CA
World Gone Missing Book Party & In Conversation
with Alia Volz, New York Times & Best American Essays author
October 25, 2017
Green Apple Books on the Park – San Francisco
World Gone Missing Book Launch & In Conversation
with author Candace Eros Diaz
October 5, 2017
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore-Berkeley