Readings and Events

This Page has not been updated since early COVID. Stay tuned.

Here are three new activities, readings and talks, just added. 

March 18, 2021, Thursday, 7 pm CST, Missouri Novelist panel. Go to Unbound books 2021. This can be viewed on Youtube or through facebook.

May 14, 2021, Friday, 8pm CST, Riverport Readings, KC. This most likely online. More details coming.

Below are older readings dating from the release of Swimming on Hwy N, four years ago.

March 26, 2019, Tuesday, noon—St. Louis Women’s Club, Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO

Talk: “Living in Bewilderment, Making Visible People, Stories, and Worlds, Aiming for   Truth.” This will be followed by a short reading of new stories. $28.00 a person for talk, reading, and lunch.

April 6, 2019, Saturday, 11 am—Veterans Writing Workshop, St. Louis Central Library, St. Louis, M0.

Talk:  ‘Characters Cause Action; action Illuminates Character.’ A lesson on some ways character and plot are connected.  Free.

April 11, 2019, Tuesday, 7 pm—University of Missouri—Columbia (Mizzou).  Reading from Swimming On Hwy N and stories from the new book. Free

November 9, 2016, 7 pm, reading/signing, The Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln Avenue,   Chicago, IL, www.bookcellarinc.com

November 14, 2016, 7 pm, reading/signing, Left Bank Books 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108. www.leftbank.com.

 January 30, 2017, UMSL Center for the Humanities noon series reading/signing, 12:15 pm, Gallery 210, UMSL campus.umsl.edu

March 2, 2017, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, 7:00 pm in rm. 125 in Crisp Hall.

March 24, 2017, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO–time and place to be added

        April 21, 2017,Writers’ Place, KC, MO –7 pm

September 13-14, [2017] Shasta College, Redding, CA.–Writing Jump Start talks and exercises and workshops 9:30-noon on the 13th, Lecture and workshops 4-6:30 on the 14th. Reading 7-9 on the 14th.

          September 15, UC-Chico, 3 PM, location to be announced

October 2, 2017 Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 6:30 p.m.
Writers on Writing, Bergstrom Hall – North Dining Room.RSVP online

November 9, 2017, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, 5 Pm, Morris University       Center Bookstore.

January 30, 2018, Lehigh University, 4 pm, Zoellner arts center, Lehigh campus. (open mic 7 pm same night.)

       March 19, 2018, River Styx Reading Series  with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, 7 PM, Contemporary Art Museum, 3750  Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108

April 11, 2018 ,Wednesday, 1 pm, as part of Meramec Literature Festival, Meramec campus of  St. Louis Community College, room 200 Student center.

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