_____Coming Up Fast_____
October 4, 2025 – Moderating “Your Novel’s Home: Three Publishing Professionals Discuss Paths to Publication” @ Gotham Writers Fiction Conference [Zoom], New York, NY
_____In the Rearview_____
April 4, 2025 – Reading @ Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, Ada, OK
APR 19, 2025 – Presentating: “Talking Dialog” @ Fremont Area Writers [Zoom], Fremont, CA
OCT 19, 2024 – Presenting: “You’ve Got a Complete Manuscript, Now What?” @ Louisville Book Festival, Louisville, KY
JUL 11, 2024 – Author Talk with PCWP Writing Camp @ Angelo State University (via Zoom), San Angelo, TX
JUN 15, 2024 – In Conversation with Bobi Conn @ The Taleless Dog Booksellers, Berea, KY
OCT 1, 2022 – Magazine Editor’s Panel @ Heartland Book Festival, Elizabethtown, KY
OCT 8, 2022 – Kentucky State Poetry Society Conference @ Western Kentucky University (Cherry Hall), Bowling Green, KY
NOV 12, 2022 – Writers Block Festival @ Ivy Tech Community College, Sellersburg, IN
SEP 24, 2022 – Presentation @ Madison Book Fest @ Madison County Library, Richmond, KY
AUG 18, 2022 – Featured Reader @ Berea Arts Council Literary Open Mic, Berea, KY
JUL 22, 2022 – Reading @ Bluegrass Writers Studio Domestic Summer Residency, Richmond, KY
JUN 28, 2022 – Reading w Julie Hensley and Patricia Reis @
Centro Nacional de Cultura – Galeria Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal
JUN 3, 2022 – Leading pre-conference retreat @ Carnegie Center’s Books-in-Progress Conference, Lexington, KY
DEC 5, 2021 – Signing books, 3-5p, at Kentucky Author Open House @ Apollo Pizza in Lexington, KY
OCT 12, 2021 – My story, “Alexandrov & Petrooshki,” will be published in 2022 by Evening Street Review.
AUG 11, 2021 – Presenting “You Will Submit” with Brian Petkash at Literary Cleveland.
SEP 12, 2020 – New essay, “Simple Math,” in winter 2020 (issue 210) of Cimarron Review.
MAY 21, 2020 – New essay, “The Boys of Midsummer,” available in spring 2020 online edition of Baltimore Review.
MAR 5, 2020 – AWP20 Panel: “Small wonder: How small presses and their authors promote their work,” 3:20p-4:35p, room 303, Ballroom Level, Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX.
MAY 19, 2019 – Promoted to Full Professor at Eastern Kentucky University.
JAN 16, 2019 – Excited to announce I’ll be judging the 2019 West Virginia Writers Book Length Prose Contest.
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