Events

Here are some things I’ll be doing, if you’d like to join me:

March 18, 6pm
2nd Story at The Story Week Festival of Writers
Buddy Guy’s Legends, 700 S. Wabash Avenue

March 1, 7pm
Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books present The Fiction Feed: AWP Edition
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue

March 1, 1:30pm
AWP Conference – Chicago
Everybody Stand Up: Using Performance in the Teaching of Writing (with Amanda Delheimer Dimond, Sage Morgan-Hubbard, Bobby Biedryzcki & Sara Kerastas)
Astoria, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor

February 28, 7pm
Write Club
The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia

January 26, 7pm
2nd Story
In Fine Spirits, 5418-5420 N. Clark, Chicago

January 20-21 
ORD Camp
Chicago

January 19, 4pm
EIU’s Lions in the Winter Reading Series
Doudna Fine Arts Center, 600 Lincoln Ave, Charleston, IL

January 15, 7pm
Come Home Chicago
Underground Wonder Bar, 710 N. Clark, Chicago

December 17, 3pm
The Paper Machete 2011 Round-up
The Horseshoe, 4115 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

November 16, 8pm
The First Time: First Date for CHIRP Radio
The Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, Chicago

November 14, 7pm
The Great Baby Show
The Vittum Theatre, 1012 N. Noble, Chicago

October 26, 7pm
2nd Story presents the Everyone Remain Calm book release party!
The Morseland, 1218 W. Morse Avenue, Chicago

October 13-15
&Now Literary Festival
UC San Diego

October 5, 7pm
Reading Under the Influence
Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago

October 1, 11pm
Literally Sexy
Victory Gardens Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

September 11, 7 pm
The Chicago Way
The Hidden Shamrock, 2723 N. Halsted, Chicago

September 10, 3 pm
The Paper Machete
The Horseshoe, 4115 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

September 6, 6pm
The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanual Book Release Party
The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia, Chicago

 

Here are some places I’ve told stories and/or talked about telling stories, if you think maybe I was that girl you saw that one time:

Telling Stories
I’m super lucky to be a storyteller and curator for 2nd Story, so I often get to perform and work with performers at our monthly events at Webster’s Wine Bar and The Morseland, as well as special events both in Chicago and nationally. Upcoming events are here—come join us!

No Love for Love, The Chicago Poetry Center
Neo Solo at the Neo Futurarium
Story Week Festival of Writers
Wordstock Literary Festival, Portland
Printers Row Literary Festival
Literary Death Match
Looptopia for The Goodman Theatre
The Center for Art and Public Life, San Francisco
Chicago NOW
Strawdog Late Night
The Dollar Store
Reading Under the Influence
Write Club
Write Club for Rhino Fest
Funny Ha Ha
SKALD, WNEP Theatre, The Chicago Cultural Center
Piece by Piece, Barefoot Productions
Pilcrow Literary Festival
Snapshots, 20% Theatre Company
Silvertongue, Columbia College
Old Town School of Folk Music
Printers Ball
Re:Action, Around the Coyote
Punk Planet’s Better Read Than Dead
Neo-Futurists’ Releasing Harry Potter
Fixx Reading Series
Essay Fiesta
Sunday Night Sex Show
Sunday Salon
Danny’s Reading Series
Quickies
Oops!
Uptown Writer’s Space
Rec Room

Talking About Telling Stories
Associated Writing Programs
Theatre Communications Group
Printer’s Row
Young Chicago Authors
Story Week Festival of Writers
Creative Nonfiction Week, Columbia College
Taking the Stage, Goodman Theatre
National Association of Writing in Education, London
Imagining America, Seattle
Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts
Emerging Writers Series, University of Chicago
Teaching Artist Series, University of Chicago
Lake Forest College
Pilcrow Literary Festival
InCUBATE
Illinois Association of Teachers of English