Events

Save the date for a Coin of the Realm release party on March 14, 2027 at Colvin House!

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Past Events
January 15, 2017 Speak Up/Warm Up: A Logan Square #WritersResist Benefit for LSNA, Cole’s Bar, Chicago, 6:00 PM

January 20, 2016Shout Your Abortion Benefit, Township, Chicago, 8:00 PM

January 22, 2017 Read-Write Library Book Club, Read-Write Library, Chicago, 2:00 PM

January  26, 2017 The Conversation: Art and Resistance, I’m a co-host, not a panelist. The panelists are awesome: Aleksandar Hermon, Roger Reeves, Coya Paz, Eula Biss, and Monica Trinidad, Women and Children First, Chicago, 7:30 PM

February 2,  2017 Motherhood, Creativity, and Identity, Women and Children First, Chicago,7:00 PM

February 9, 2017 But That’s Not How It Was: Memoir Writers on Pushing Back Against Expected Narratives, with Alice Anderson, Laurie Cannady, Wendy Ortiz, and Lynn Hall, AWP Bookfair Stage, Washington Convention Center, AWP, Washington D.C., 10:30 AM

 February 10, 2017 Tell Me About It: On Giving, Getting, and Placing Good Author Interviews, with Swati Khurana, Jennifer Baker, Sari Botton, Neelanjana Banerjee, Liberty Salon L, Marriott Marquis, 3:00 PM
February 24, 2017 Loose Chicks, with Thea Goodman and others, Emerald City, Chicago, 8:00 P

February 28, 2017 The Conversation: Civil Disobedience, lineup to be announced, Women and Children First, Chicago, 7:30 PM

May 10, 2016 Evanston Literary Festival, Evanston Public Library, 7:00 PM
May 12, 2016 BookExpo of America, McCormick Place, BEA Selects: Memoir and Biography, Uptown Stage, Chicago, 2:00 PM
May 16, 2016 Reading with Toni Nealie, Literari Book Store, Ann Arbor, 7:00 PM
May 20, 2016 Book Launch Party at Women and Children First, Chicago, 7:30 PM
May 21, 2016 Reading with Kim Brooks at Bookends and Beginnings, Evanston, 5:00 PM
May 22, 2016 Sunday Salon, Riverside Tavern, Chicago, 7:00 PM
June 4, 2016, The Happier Hour, Los Angeles
June 11, 2016  Printers Row List Fest, Welcome to the Neighborhood, with Nestor Gomez, Ben Tanzer, Britt Julious, and Clarence Browley, South Loop Stage, 10:30
June 12, 2016 Printers Row List Fest, Life Stories: Garrard Conley, Elisha Cooper, Zoe Zolbrod in conversation with Tony Romano, Hotel Blake/Shedd Room, 12:15 pm
June 14, 2016 Reading with Dan Raeburn, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka
June 17, 2016 Reading with Toni Nealie, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, 7 pm
June 21, 2016 The Rumpus Presents, in conversation with Ben Hurely, Diesel Books, Oakland
June 22, 2016 Unchaste Readers Series, with Sarah Einstein, Ariel Gore, and Liz Prato, Literary Arts, Portland
June 23, 2016 Reading with Claire Dederer at Phinney Books, Seattle
August 4, 2016 Reading with Ben Tanzer to celebrate the release of his new essay collection, The Book Cellar, Chicago
August 18, 2016 Reading and discussion with Jessica Blau and Holy Jones, Soho House, Chicago
September 6, 2016 Wit Rabbit Reading Series, Quencher’s Salon, Chicago
September 8, 2016 You’re Being Ridiculous, Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago
September 17, 2016 Wicker Park and West Town Lit Fest, 826CHI event, Chicago
September 27, 2016 Reading and conversation with Joanna Rakoff at Newtonville Books, Newton MA
September 29, 2016 Reading with Sari Wilson and others at Tire Fire Reading Series, Philadelphia
October 1, 2016 Reading with Sari Wilson at Book Court, Brooklyn
October 5, 2016 Reading with Christine Sneed at City Lit, Chicago