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Past events

Feb. 9, 6 pm
Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1212 18th St. NW Washington D.C.  20036 
Reading for the museum of americana
With Cornelius  Eady Trio, Amorak Huey,  Keith Lesmeister,  Sandra Marchetti
Free and open to the public.
Details here.

March 9, 7:15 pm
Why There Are Words, Sausalito
Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St.
Book launch for Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow
with Harriet Chessman, Molly Giles, Glen David Gold, Stefan Kiesbye, Ethel Rohan, Sarah Stone.

March 18, 1:00 pm
Private book group talk and luncheon, Healdsburg, CA

March 23, 7:30 pm
In Conversation with Grant Faulkner
The Booksmith. 7:30 pm.
1644 Haight Street, San Francisco

April 5, 7 pm
Inside Story Time
The Make Out Room
3325 22nd Street, San Francisco
With Ethel Rohan, Jon Sindell, Amy Berkowitz, and Christine No

April 20, 7 pm
WTAW-Los Angeles
A pre-L.A. Times Festival of Books event with With Antonia Crane, Siel Ju, Paula Priamos, Rob Roberge, and emceed by Patrick O’Neil.
RSVP on the Facebook event as there will be limited access. BYOB!
DTLA at 1614 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90017

April 23, 7:30 pm
The Last Bookstore
453 S Spring St – Ground Floor, Los Angeles
In conversation with Marisa Silver

April 30, 3 pm
Stranger than Fiction
Edinburgh Castle Pub
950 Geary Blvd., San Francisco
With Ethel Rohan, Rachel Howard, Jason Bayani, Alan Black, and Jon Boilard
Frances Stroh's reading series

May 6
Sonoma County Writers Boot Camp
Discussing WTAW Press and Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series

May 7, 3 pm
Four-Eyed Frog Books
Gualala, CA

May 10, 7:45 pm
Passages on the Lake
The Terrace Room at the Lake Merritt Hotel, Oakland

May 18, 7 pm
Octopus Literary Salon
2101 Webster St #170, Oakland
Mother Lode: Women on the Topic of Mothers
with Nancy Au, Melissa Cistaro, Jacqueline Doyle,  Kara Levy, Micah Perks, Monica Wesolowska, and  Olga Zilberbourg.

May 19, 7 pm
At the Inkwell

Alley Cat Books in the Mission district, San Francisco

May 23, 6 pm
Book Passage
100 Bay Street, Sausalito, CA
In conversation with Melissa Cistaro

May 24, 6 pm
Mad Monk Books
Berkeley, Telegraph Ave in the old Cody's Books building, next to Moe's.
Reading with Robert Thomas, author of Bridge

June 4, 6 pm
Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Cafe
5927 California Street, between 21st & 22nd Avenue
With
Aamina Ahmad, Michael Shewmaker, and Shelley Wong
Hosted by Peter Kline

June 10 @ 7:30 pm
Stories on Stage, Davis
Also featuring Shawna Yang Ryan (Green Island).
7:30 p.m. at Pence Gallery, 212 D St.
Doors open at 7.
Recommended donation, $10; minimum donation, $5

June 20 @ 7:30
The Inner Loop
Washington, D.C.
The Colony Club
3118 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20010

June 24 @ 7pm
WTAW-Pittsburgh

White Whale Bookstore

July 9 @ 3pm
Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series

Hosted by Connie Post
Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona St., Crockett, CA

July 14 @ 7pm
Peninsula Literary Reading Series

Gallery House, 320 California Ave., Palo Alto

July 16 @ 1:30pm
Healdsburg Literary Guild Third Sunday Salon

Bean Affair Coffee Shop, 1270 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg

July 28 @ 9am
Napa Valley Writers Conference First Books Panel

Upper Valley Campus of Napa Valley College, St. Helena, CA

August 13 @ 6pm
In Conversation with Stefan Kiesbye
Pt. Reyes Books
Pt. Reyes, CA

August 17 @ 6:30pm
Writers Forum. Flash Fiction: The Power of Writing Short
Copperfields Books, Petaulma
140 Kentucky Street,  Petaluma, CA

August 29 @ 7pm
In Conversation with Rebecca Winterer about her wonderful book, The Singing Ship Folio Books 
3957 24th St.
San Francisco

September 10 @ 3pm
Write on Mamas Salon

Is it harder to birth a child or a book? Peg Alford Pursell will moderate a panel discussion with authors on the recently published authors.
Creekside Room, Mill Valley Library

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 @7:00pm

 IN CONVERSATION: PEG ALFORD PURSELL & STEFAN KIESBYE
Local literary luminaries Kiesbye and Pursell discuss their books and the craft of writing. Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow & Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames
Copperfield’s Books Inc.
Montgomery Village Store, Santa Rosa
775 Village Court, Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Thursday, September 14, 6 pm
Celebration for the book launch of WTAW Press's inaugural titles!
Limited number of tickets available now HERE while supplies last.
Readings begin at 7:15; doors open at 7pm. $10. Details here.
Studio 333
333 Caledonia St., Sausalito

September 22, 3:30 pm
Using Constraints to Write
The Writers' Cafe
University of Pittsburgh
4024 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

September 26 @ 10 am
Madwomen In the Attic Workshop
Carlow University
3333 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

September 26 @ 7pm
Red Dog Reading Series, Carlow University
Carlow University Commons, 2nd floor university space.
3333 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

September 28 @ 7 pm
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
Greenwich Village, NYC
With Thaddeus Rutowski, Paul Beckman, Karen Moulding, and Laurie Stone

September 30 @ 7pm
Poets Corner
570 Main Street
New Rochelle, NY 10801
With Michael Collins

October 1 @ 6pm
Why There Are Words-NYC
Bowery Poetry Club
With Maggie Anderson, Panio Gianopoulos, Vincent Guerra, Kevin "Mc" McIlvoy, & Kamilah Aisha Moon

October 2 & 3 @ 6:30pm
NYU School for Professional Studies
7 East 12 St.
NY, NY

October 5 @ 6:30pm – 8:30pm
The Mom Egg Reading
Readers from the literary journal The Mom Egg
Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave, NYC 10032

October 6 @ 7 pm
KGB Bar Red Room
85 East 4th Street
NYC

October 7 @ 2:30-3:45pm
Litquake's Art of Writing Panels
Art of the Short Story
The American Bookbinders Museum
355 Clementina St, San Francisco, California 94103
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you.” – George Saunders. Author Jane Ciabattari moderates this panel of short fiction, as writers Jon Boilard, Dave Madden, Edie Meidav, and Peg Alford Pursell discuss and take questions. $12 Ticket Link

October 25 @7-9pm
Rebound Bookstore
1611 4th St., San Rafael
With Jacqueline Doyle

Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 3 to 6 pm
The Middlebrook Salon, San Francisco
with Renate Stendhal

Thursday, December 7, 2017 @ 7 pm
Flash Fiction Collective
Alley Cat Books in the Mission district, San Francisco

Wednesday, December 20, 2017 @ 7 pm
Why There Are Words - Austin
Malvern Books (613 W. 29th St., Austin)

Sunday, January 21, 2018  @ 6:30-8 pm
Adobe Books
3130 24th St., San Francisco
With Rebecca Winterer, Shauna Hannibal, & Genanne Walsh

MARCH 3 @6 - 8 PM
Babylon Salon
The Armory Club, 1799 Mission St., SF
With Julie Lythcott-Haims, K. M. Soehnlein, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jacqueline Doyle, and Roxanne Hernandez.
Facebook event here
Free admission; cash bar exotica

MY AWP CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, Tampa, March 8-11
  • WTAW PRESS and Why There Are Words will have a table at the Bookfair daily from 9am - 5 pm: T1508 is our location. I will be there most of the time.
  • My book-signing at T1508 will be Thursday, March 8, 1:30 to 2:00 pm.
  • I will participate on the panel (R113) The Pleasures and Pains of Small Press Publishing. Thursday, March 8, 2018, 9:00 am to 10:15 am
  • I will emcee the WTAW Press off-site reading, March 8th, from 6-7:30pm at Irish 31, 1611 W Swann Ave| Tampa, FL 33606

SONOMA WRITERS FESTIVAL at Sonoma State University, April 13-14.
  • I’ll give a reading Saturday, April 14, 2 - 3 PM with Stefan Kiesbye, Kevin Moffett, Noelle Oxenhandler, Jane Ridgeway, Domenic Stansberry.
  • Saturday, April 14, 4 - 5PM I’ll moderate the Editing/Publishing Panel: How books are chosen and made. With Domenic Stansberry, Peter Maravelis, Kathleen Winter
The festival offers many other worthwhile workshops, panels, readings, discussions, wine & food receptions, a book fair, the whole enchilada! You can snag a ticket for $75, which includes all meals, receptions, and activities, up until March 30 (click on the link above).

MAY 8, 2018 @6 - 8 PM
Launch for Nothing Short Of: 100 Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Bindery, 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco

 March 20, 2018 @4-6 PM
Why There Are Words - PDX

Leach Botanical Garden in SE Portland
With Meredith May, Jennifer Perrine, Keith Rosson, Natalie Singer, Mary Jo Thompson, Leni Zumas

June 21, 2018 @7:30 - 9:30 PM
Story Is the Thing Quarterly Reading

Kepler's Books

1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
With Dinika Amaral, Idris Anderson, Tristen Chang, Betsy Franco, Carrie La Seur, Elaine Castillo

July 10, 2018 @ 7pm
Warren Wilson MFA Program - Post MFA Conference

Dominican University
The Creekside Room, 50 Acacia Ave. San Rafael
open to the public

August 3, 2018 @ 9am
Napa Valley Writers Conference

First books panel
With
Dickson Lam, Marci Vogel, and Justin McFarr

September 16, 2018 @2pm
Books on Stage

Cloverdale Performing Arts Center
209 N. Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, CA  95425

The event will be followed by wine, cheese and conversation in the lobby. 
Suggested donation $10

October 20, 2018 
@12:30 PM – 4 PM
Litcrawl Book Fair
The Chapel
777 Valencia St, San Francisco, California 94110

October 20, 2018 @6:30 pm
Lit Crawl: Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
Creativity Explored 3245 16th St, San Francisco
with Jacqueline Doyle, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Cornelia Nixon,  and Ethel Rohan

November 1, 2018 @7:30 pm
Green Apple Books on the Park

1231 9th Ave. San Francisco
Anita Felicelli discusses her debut story collection, Love Songs for a Lost Continent with Peg Alford Pursell

January 7, 2019 @4-5:30 pm and 7-8pm
Dominican University Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing
Open to the public:
Panel discussion on the hybrid form with Maw Shein Win and Carlos Rodriguez, 4pm
Reading, 7pm

February 11, 2019 @7pm
Odd Mondays Reading Series
Folio Books in Noe Valley, SF

 June 15, 2019. 9am-9pm
Bridging: A One-Day Writing Retreat
St. Mary's College of California, Morega


June 23, 2019 @ 2pm
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th St., SF
Benefit for Alley Cat Books hosted by the San Francisco Writers Workshop
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