Previous Events
BinderCon NYC: #WeNeedDiverseBooks:
The Campaign That Matters for All Readers and Writers
Saturday, October 12, 2014
BinderCon NYC:
Breaking into Podcasting
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 11:15am
2016
Multicultural Festival:
Characterization in Kid's Publishing
Rockland County, NY
Saturday, April 30, 2016
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts: We Count:
Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape (NYC)
Housing Works Bookstore
Monday, June 6, 2016, 7-8:30pm
Amp Lit Fest (NYC)
Mind the Gap: Diversifying the Field panel
Saturday, June 11, 3:15-4:45pm
AAUP 2016 Conference: Diversity in Publishing:
Transforming Our Profession and Practices (Philadelphia, PA)
Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Friday, June 17, 2016, 1:45pm
Sackett Street Writers Workshop & Minorities in Publishing:
"The Realities of Publishing" (NYC)
BookCourt Bookstore
Monday, June 26, 2016, 7pm
Word Up: In conversation with
Leland Cheuk, YiShun Lai, & Hasanthika Sirisena (NYC)
Word Up Community Bookshop
Thursday, July 21, 7-9pm
VIDA Lit Presents: How to Survive as a Writer (in NYC)
and Still Dismantle the Patriarchy
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
September 8, 2pm
Boundless Tales Reading NYC (5-Year Anniversary)
Queens Council on the Arts, Astoria, NY
September 9, 7pm
Slice Literary Conference (NYC)
Line Editing Class
September 11, 2:45-3:45pm
Women & Gender Nonconforming Writers of Color
in Digital Media (NYC)
New York Comic Con, Jacob Javits Center (Rm. 1A18)
October 6, 1:30pm
Geeks of Color Episode 4: The Force Awakens (NYC)*
New York Comic Con, Jacob Javits Center (Rm. 1A02)
October 8, 1:30pm
*Geeks of Color meet-up directly after panel in Rm. 1C03
SCBWI NY Region: Professional Series Panel
on Sci-fi/Fantasy for Young Readers (NYC)
38 W. 15th Street
Monday, October 10, 2016, 7:30-9pm
Girls Write Now - Memoir Craft Talk
Girls Write Now, 247 W. 37th Street, Suite 1000
Saturday, November 19, 2016, 2:30pm
Art After Trump
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby St, NYC
Thursday, December 15, 2016, 6pm
2017
The Freya Project
Ramona Bar, 113 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NYC
Thursday, January 26, 2017, 7pm
Tell Me About It: On Giving, Getting, and
Placing Good Author Interviews
2017 AWP Conference, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Liberty Salon L, Marriot Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Friday, February 10, 2017, 3pm
When Safe Spaces Aren't: (Re-)Imagining for a
MultiCultural Creative Space
2017 AWP Conference, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Liberty Salon M, Marriot Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Saturday, February 11, 2017, 10:45am
A Second Opinion: Utilizing Sensitivity Readers
(CDC Diversity)
Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway, NYC
Thursday, February 16, 2017, 12:30pm
Race Matters UnConference
CUNY School of Journalism
219 West 40th Street, NYC
Friday, March 10th, 2017, 2:15pm
Newtown Literary Writing Classes (World-building Workshop)
Queens Public Library (Jackson Heights)
35-51 81st Street, NYC
Saturday, March 25th, 2017, 2pm
Publishing Track Panel at Kweli Journal's
The Color of Children's Literature Conference
New York Times Conference Center
Saturday, April 8th, 2017, 2pm
The Writer's Wallet: Managing Freelance Finances
The Center for Fiction 17 E. 47th Street, NYC
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017, 7pm
Ditmas Lit Reading Series
Hinterlands Bar, 739 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017, 7pm
Dead Rabbits Reading Series
DTUT Bar & Cafe, 1744 Second Avenue, NYC
Sunday, August 13th, 2017 8pm
Pigeon Pages NYC
powerHouse Arena, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn
Sunday, August 27th, 2017, 5pm
Well-Read Black Girl Festival
Writing Rituals As Self-Care
BRIC, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, September 9th, 2017, 3pm
Slice Literary Writers' Conference
An Industry That Should Be Full of Diverse Voices
St. Frances College, 128 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, September 10th, 2017, 10am
LIC Reading Series (BKBF Bookends Event)
LIC Bar, 45-58 Vernon Blvd., Queens, NY
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017, 8pm
Brooklyn Book Festival
Fiction of Resistance panel
(North Stage) Historic Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, September 17th, 2017, 4pm
Prose Course with Bronx Council on the Arts
Bronx Library Center, 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY
Saturday, September 23rd, 2017, 12pm
Queens Then & Now: Through the Local Lens
Queens Public Library, Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY
Friday, November 3rd, 2017, 5pm
Miss Manhattan Nonfiction Reading Series
Niagara Bar, 112 Avenue A (at 7th Street), NYC
Monday, November 6th, 2017, 7:45pm
Library Journal Cultural Literacy Workshop
Stereotypes, Tropes, and Cultural Appropriation
Online
Thursday, November 16th, 2017, 1pm
Sackett Street Writers' Workshop Literary Series:
Ask the Agents!
Books Are Magic, 225 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY
Monday, December 4th, 2017, 7pm
2018
St. Peter's Presents: Legacies, A Reading
St. Peter's Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street, NYC
Thursday, January 18th, 2018, 7pm
Submitting Your Creative Writing to Literary Journals
Queens Public Library, 40-20 Broadway, Astoria, NY
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2018, 6pm
Black Lives Matter @ Bard High School Early College Queens
30-20 Thomson Avenue, the 6th floor Library, Room 642
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018, 9am
I, Too Arts' Creative Conversations: Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée Watson
20 East 127th Street, NYC
Thursday, February 8th, 2018, 7pm
Black Voices in Publishing
Civic Hall, 118 West 22nd Street, NYC
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018, 5:30pm
The Art of the Anthology: From Proposal to Publication and Thereafter (#AWP18)
Tampa Convention Center, First Floor, Rooms 7-9
Saturday, March 10th, 2018, 4:30pm
Diversity Matters Conference from AAP
Macmillan Offices, 1 New York Plaza, NYC
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018, 12:15pm
PEN America: Read The Resistance w/ Min Jin Lee
The Strand Bookstore & Online Streaming
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018, 12pm
Fearless: 9th Annual Engendering Progress Forum
PS 234 Independent School, 292 Greenwich Street, NYC
Saturday, March 31st, 2018, 12pm
Queens Writers Resist Reading Series
Terreza 7, 4019 Gleane Street, Elmhurst, NY
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018, 7pm
Mirrors & Windows: Writing Within and Outside Our Experiences Workshop (New England SCBWI Conference)
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place, Springfield, MA
Saturday, April 21st, 2018, 1:15pm
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018, 2:20pm
First Person Plural (FPP) Reading Series
Silvana, 300 West 116th Street, NYC
Monday, April 30th, 2018, 7pm
Bronx Book Fair: How To Get Your Work Published
Bronx Library, 310 E. Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY
Saturday, May 5th, 2018, 12:20pm
Writing for Online & Digital Outlets
(2018 Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference)
Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, May 25th, 2018, 1:30pm
PEN America: Read The Resistance w/ Hermione Hoby
Online Streaming (Facebook)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018, 12pm
Where Are My People? Diversity in Literature
Mid-Manhattan NYPL Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018, 10am
Angels Flight • Literary West: East Coast Salon
Red Room, 85 East 4th Street, NYC
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018, 7pm
Diversity and Dollars (New York Rights Fair)
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NYC
Thursday, May 31st, 2018, 2pm
Launch & Convo for Bethany Morrow's MEM
Books Are Magic, 225 Smith Street, Brooklyn
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018, 7:30pm
Memoir Monday Reading
Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NYC
Monday, July 16th, 2018, 7pm
Launch & Convo for Ivelisse Rodriguez's LOVE WAR STORIES
Word Up Bookstore, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
Thursday, July 19th, 2018, 6:30pm
Launch Party for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
I, Too Arts Collective at Langston Hughes House
20 East 127th Street, East Harlem, NYC
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018, 7pm
Getting Started When You Just...Can't...Even
(Slice Literary Conference)
St. Francis College,180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
Sunday, September 9th, 2018, 11:30am
Event for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
(with Nana Brew-Hammond & Glendaliz Camacho)
Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st Street, Queens
Monday, September 10th, 2018, 7pm
Literary Death Match
Littlefield, 635 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018, 8pm
New Visions of Masculinity
(Brooklyn Book Festival)
Borough Hall, Center Stage (Columbus Park), Brooklyn, NYC
Sunday, September 16th, 2018, 2pm
Event for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
(with Jason Reynolds & Hasanthika Sirisena)
Solid State Books, 600F H Street NE, Washington, DC
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018, 7pm
Writer's Digest indieLAB
Renaissance Cincinnati Downtown, 36 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, OH
Sunday, September 30th, 2018
Event for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
(with Nana Brew-Hammond, Mitch Jackson, Dennis Norris II)
Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn
Monday, October 1st, 2018, 7:30pm
LitCrawl NYC (Dead Darlings: A Literary Revision Game)
Work Heights, 650 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC
Saturday, October 6th, 2018, 8pm
Event for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
(with Dennis Norris II & Anastacia Renee)
Seattle Public Library (Central Library), 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA
Monday, October 8th, 2018, 7pm
Broadside Reading Series
The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Fl., NYC
Friday, October 12th, 2018, 7pm
Freya Project Reading Series for Everyday People
Elsa Bar, 136 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, October 14th, 2018, 4pm
NYPL Art & Activism Panel
(with Tanwi Nandini Islam, Renée Watson, Ibi Zoboi)
NYPL Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Avenue
Monday, October 15th, 2018, 6:30pm
Event for EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE
(with Alexander Chee & Nelly Rosario)
Mt. Holyoke College, 50 College Street (New York Room), South Hadley, MA
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018, 7pm
Wrexham Road Reading Series
Sarah Lawrence College, Wrexham House, 45 Wrexham Road, Bronxville, NY
Thursday, October 18th, 2018, 6:30pm
EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE + Uptown Stories
(with Glendaliz Camacho & Nelly Rosario)
Word Up Bookstore, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
Saturday, October 20th, 2018, 4pm
Authors Guild From Manuscript to Marketplace
(with Naima Coster & Vivian Lee)
Queens Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Queens
Thursday, November 1st, 2018, 6pm
Writopia Lab’s Teen Writers Summit
(The Silencing of Loud Voices panel)
The New School, 55 W. 13th Street, NYC
Sunday, November 4th, 2pm
Red Ink Series (Denial)
Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, November 8th, 2018, 7pm
Event in conjunction with EVERYDAY PEOPLE: THE COLOR OF LIFE (Nana Brew-Hammond & Mitch Jackson)
Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, NYC
Saturday, November 10th, 2018, 2pm
Pete's Reading Series
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, November 15th, 2018, 7:30pm
Sunday Salon
Von, 3 Bleecker Street, NYC
Sunday, November 18th, 2018, 7pm
Reading & Conversation with Wayétu Moore
I, Too Arts Collective, 20 East 127th Street, NYC
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018, 7pm
Best Online Editor Panel
The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, Rm. UL102, NYC
Friday, December 14th, 2018, 6:30pm
2019
Halfway There Reading Series
Red Eye Cafe, 94 Walnut Street, Montclair, NJ
Monday, January 14th, 2019, 7pm
World Read Along Day!
Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st Street, Queens, NY
Friday, February 1st, 7pm
4-Session Interviewing (Online) Workshop (for Written Pieces)
Workshop will be online
Sundays: February 10th, February 17th, March 3rd, March 10th, 2p-4:30pm (Eastern)
Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas
Austin Central Library, 710 West Cesar Chavez Street, Texas
Saturday, February 23rd, 2019
#YeahYouWrite Reading Series
Bo’s Restaurant, 6 West 24th Street, NYC
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019, 6:30pm
Tech Forum & ebook Craft
MaRS Discovery District, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON
Wednesday, March 20th
Show Me the Money: Making Ends Meet as a Writer
AWP, Oregon Convention Center, E141-142
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 12pm
Go Your Own Way: Plotting the Path to a Writing Career
AWP, Oregon Convention Center, D131-D132
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 3pm
The Sixth Annual Rock & Roll Reading
Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Avenue, Portland, OR
Saturday, March 30th, 1:30pm
The Revisionist Workshop: Using Your Inner Editor as Writer (Muse & The Marketplace 2019)
Park Plaza Hotel, 50 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 10:30am
Agents & Editors of Color Roundtable (Muse & The Marketplace 2019)
Park Plaza Hotel, 50 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 1pm
When Brooklyn Was Queer Discussion w/ Hugh Ryan
Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019, 7:30pm
On Writing the First Book Workshop
Inaugural Antiracist Book Festival
American University, 4300 Nebraska Avenue Northwest, Washington DC
Saturday, April 27th, 2019,11am
Publishing & Social Media Tips for Writers
LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thompson Avenue, Rm. E-111, Long Island City, NYC
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019, 6pm
Mirrors & Windows: A Continuation
NESCBWI Regional Conference, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place, One Monarch Place, Springfield, MA
Saturday, May 4th, 2019, 9:45am
Dialogue At Its Best
NESCBWI Regional Conference, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place, One Monarch Place, Springfield, MA
Saturday, May 4th, 2019, 10:50am
Library Journal’s Evaluating, Auditing, and Diversifying Online Collections
From Stereotype to Authenticity: The Importance of Representation in Children’s and Adult Collections
Online
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019, 2pm
The Affairs of the Falcons Book Talk w/ Melissa Rivero
Shakespeare & Company, 2020 Broadway, NYC
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019, 7pm
What’s At Stake? Finding Connections in Personal Experience and Political Structures
New York Writers Coalition, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NYC
Wednesday, June 12th, 2019, 7pm
Tin House Summer Workshop
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
June 7th-10th, 2019
Southampton Writers’ Conference
StonyBrook Southampton
Monday, July 15, 2019, 11:15am
Emerging Writers Festival
Alexandria, VA (Old Town)
Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 17th-18th
Writers Digest Conference
(Storytelling in Nonfiction: What Editors Can & Can’t Fix)
NY Hilton Midtown Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas
Friday, August 23rd, 3pm
Slice Literary Conference
(On Bringing Together a Group of Writers and Assembling an Anthology)
St. Frances College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, September 7th, 3pm
Crystal Hana Kim Paperback Launch
Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st St, Astoria
September 9th, 2019, 7pm
South Carolina State Library Inclusive Collections Webinar
Online
September 10th, 2019, 2pm
Editor Roundtable w/ Minorities in Publishing (BKBF Bookend Event)
I, Too Arts Collective, 20 East 127th Street, NYC
Monday, September 16th, 7-9pm
Brooklyn Book Festival (The Art of Belonging)
Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn
Sunday, September 22nd, 10am
Pitch-Draft-Revise Online Workshop (6 Sessions)
Online
Tuesdays, Sept. 24 to Dec. 10, 7-9pm EST (meets every other Tuesday)
Maple Grove Reading Series
Kew & Willow Bookstore, 81-63 Lefferts Blvd., Queens
Sunday, Sept. 29th, 5:30pm
Library Journal’s Equity in Action Webinar
Online
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019, 3:30pm
James River Writers Conference
Great Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd Street, Richmond, VA
October 12-13, 2019
Frankfurt Book Festival/Frankfurter Buchmesse
Frankfurt, Germany
October 15-19, 2019
Center For Fiction Reading Group: Harlem Renaissance
15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
Thursdays, Sept. 26, Oct. 24, Nov. 21, Dec. 19, 7-8:30pm
Langston Hughes’ Literary Arts Festival
Langston Hughes Branch, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Queens
Saturday, November 2nd, 1pm
Beyond Identity Panel
The City College of New York
Monday, November 4th, 6pm
Rumpus Rally Reading
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, November 7th, 7:30pm
What God Is Honored Here? NYC Launch
Word Up Community Bookshop, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC
Saturday, November 9th, 3pm
John Oliver Killens Reading Series w/ Rion Amilcar Scott
Center for Black Literature, Medgar Evers College, 1638 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn
Thursday, November 14th, 6:30pm
Franklin Park Reading Series
Franklin Park, 618 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn, NYMonday, December 9th, 8pm
Book Launch for We Were Promised Flying Cars
Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, NYC
Sunday, December 15th, 7pm
2020
Editing & Revision: What’s Your Process?
Queens Library at Broadway, 40-20 Broadway, Queens
Saturday, January 4th, 2020, 2:30pm
Book Launch: Before and After the Book Deal
Powerhouse Books, 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, January 9th, 7pm
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: The Recovery of Zora Neale Hurston
Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, NYC
Tuesday, February 11th, 6:30pm
Toni Morrison Festival
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 18th, 6:15pm
University of Connecticut-UConn Reading
UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center, Storrs, CT
Thursday, February 27th, 6pm
Zora Neale Hurston Reading Group
Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
Tuesdays (7-8:30pm): February 25th, March 31st, April 28th, May 26th
Out of the Box: Exploring the Boundlessness of Black Girlhood
Everywhere Book Fest on YouTube
Saturday, May 2nd, 1pm EST
LJ & SJL’s Evaluating, Auditing, and Diversifying Your Collections
Online
Tuesday, May 5th, 2pm EST
In Short: A Group Discussion of “Home” by George Saunders
Online (Center for Fiction)
Thursday, May 7th, 7pm EST
Editorial Master Class w/ Dennis Norris II
Online (A Public Space)
Saturday, May 9th, 3pm EST
Weekend of Words: Creating Literary Podcasts
Online
Sunday, May 10th, 3:30pm EST
PubTalk Live with Guest Host Racquel Henry
Online
Saturday, June 27th, 9pm EST
BIPOC Perspectives in Publishing
Online
Monday, July 13th, 7pm EST
Book Talk for Natalia Sylvester’s Running
Online
Tuesday, July 21st, 8pm EST
The Write Mindset Podcast Live
Online
Sunday, July 26th, 5pm EST
Book Launch for The Death of Vivek Oji with Akwaeke Emezi
Facebook Live
Tuesday, August 4th, 6:30pm EST
Bayard Rustin Center Power Hour
Online
Wednesday, August 26th, 7pm EST
The Resort LIC - Pitching & Editing Discussion
Online
Friday, September 11th, 5pm EST
Digital Book World - MiP Fireside Chat
Online
Monday, September 14th, 10:25am
Live MiP Podcast w/ Alex Gino & Mike Jung (w/ ASL Interpretation)
Online
Wednesday, September 30th, 7:30pm EST
Banned Books Week Panel w/ Loyalty Bookstore
Online
Thursday, October 1st, 6pm EST
School Library Journal Equity in Action Conference
Online
Tuesday, October 27th, 2pm EST
Boston Writers of Color Talk w/ Tricia Skinner
Facebook Live (Boston Writers of Color page)
November 4th, 6pm EST
Inside the Publishing Industry (Hosted by New York Writers Coalition)
Online
November 5th, 7pm EST
Well-Read Black Girl Festival
Online
Saturday, November 7th, 2pm EST
Family Ties w/ Britt Bennett & Bryan Washington
Portland Book Festival Online
Saturday, November 10th, 4pm EST/1pm PST
Cheddar TV’s All Hands (Segment on Diversity in Publishing)
Facebook Live
Wednesday, November 18th, 11:40am EST
Story/Teller with Zeyn Joukhadar
Online
Tuesday, November 24th, 7:30 EST
How to Pitch Electric Literature
Crowdcast
Monday, December 14th, 6pm EST
Inside the Editor’s Inbox
The LIC Resort Online
Friday, December 18th, 5pm EST
2021
Dignidad Literaria Anniversary Event w/ MiP Podcast
Online
Friday, February 5, 2021, 8pm ET
Barrelhouse Magazine’s The Editor Panel
Online
Saturday, February 6, 2021, 3:30pm ET
The Color of Life: Everyday People Reading
UNF Baobab Black Artist Series Online
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 6pm ET
Pedro’s Theory Book Talk for Marcos Gonsalez
Online (with suggested donation)
Friday, February 12, 2021, 7pm ET
#LGBTQReads Twitter Chat
Twitter
Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 8:30pm ET
Criminal Justice in Fiction Reading Group (Center for Fiction)
Online
Sundays at 1pm ET: Feb. 28, Mar. 28, Apr. 25, May 23, Jun. 27
Susquehanna University Publishing & Editing Lecture
Online
Monday, March 1, 2021, 7:30pm ET
Rethinking How We Do Story Panel
CityLit Festival
Saturday, March 21, 2021, 11am ET
Life After the MFA x Our Word: POC & Queer Resources
Online
Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7:30pm ET
Narrative Healing: In Conversation
Online
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 6pm ET
2021 Kweli Color of Children’s Literature
Online
Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10am ET
What’s Next? Publishing in the Time of Covid-19
Muse & the Marketplace Virtual Conference
Sunday, April 25, 2021, 10am ET
The Acquisitions Process: What Writers Should Know/Ask
Online
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 12pm ET
VirtuousCon: Black Women in Publishing
Online (Octavia Butler Room)
Saturday, June 19th, 12pm ET
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop Publishing Conference
Online
Saturday, June 26, 2021, 10:30am
Electric Literature Panel on Anthologies
Online
Tuesday, July 20th, 6pm ET
Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable Keynote
Online
Wednesday, September 29th, 1pm ET
Black Women Writers at Work (BKBF Bookend Event)
Online
Thursday, September 30th, 6:30pm ET
The Enduring Legacies of Amistad Books and Zora Neale Hurston (BKBF Bookend Event)
Brooklyn Law School (250 Joralemon Street)
Sunday, October 3rd, 4pm ET
Writing and Publishing Black Women’s Biography in the time of Black Lives Matter
Online (via Harvard Radcliffe Institute)
Tuesday, October 19th, 10:30am ET
The Book Acquisitions Process w/ Black Creators HQ
Online
Thursday, October 21st, 6:30pm ET
School Library Journal Equity Talk
Online
Tuesday, October 26th, 2:30pm ET
The Acquisitions Process (via The Authors Guild Business Bootcamp)
Online
Wednesday, November 3rd, 7pm ET
Diversifying Your Shelves (Oneida-Herkimer- Madison DEI Presentation)
Online
Tuesday, November 16th, 11am ET
From Query to Acquisitions (Highlights Foundation)
Online
Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, 7pm ET
Center for Fiction Harlem Renaissance Reading Group
Online
Sundays: Jan. 30th, Feb., 20th, Mar. 20th, 1pm ET
Pub Crawl’s Publishing in Color Panel
Online
Friday, Feb. 4, 7pm ET
Race in America Mini-Series with Kia Corthron
Online
Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, 8:30pm ET
Library Journal’s Equity in Action Series
Online
Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2022, 1:30pm ET
Kweli Conference Closing Keynote Conversation: Renée Watson
Online
Saturday, Mar. 26, 2022, 5:30pm ET
Lambda Literary Aqueersitions Panel
Online
Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, 6pm ET
Stadler Center Writers Series
Online
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, 7pm ET
Butler University MFA Program Visiting Lecture Series
Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022
From Query to Acquisitions (Highlights Foundation)
Online
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, 7pm ET
Library Journal’s Equity in Action Series
Online
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, 2pm ET
IBPA Podcasts and Publishers Panel
Online
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, 1pm ET
Roots. Wounds. Words. Masters Craft Talk
Online
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, 7pm ET
2023
Center for Fiction Thrills & Chills Reading Group
Zoom
Sundays, Jan. 15, Feb. 12, Mar. 12, Apr. 16, 2023, 12pm ET
Tin House Craft Intensive
Online
Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, 1pm ET / 10am PT
National Book Foundation Science & Literature Ceremony
Online and In-person (41 Cooper Square)
Wednesday, March 22nd, 6:30pm ET
Library Journal Equity in Action
Online
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 2pm ET
Tin House Novel Seminar
Online
Sundays, April 8th to June 18th, 1pm ET
Changemaker Authors Conference
Online
Saturday & Sunday, April 29 & 30, 1pm-6pm ET
The Nigerwife Book Launch
The Center for Fiction (in-person & livestream)
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 7pm ET
SLJ Day of Dialogue “Spreading Wings” Panel
Online
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Yale Youth Summer Writing Presentation
Online
Friday, July 14, 2023, 11am ET
One Story Summer Conference (Voice Craft Talk)
Online
Monday, July 24, 2023, 2:45pm ET
Grub Street Writers Publishing Summit - Black Publishing Today
Online
Saturday, July 29, 2023, 10am ET
Forgive Me Not Book Launch
The Center at Maple Grove, Queens, NY
Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 7pm ET
Well-Read Black Girl at DC Library
MLK Library Memorial Library, Washington DC
Thursday, August 17, 2023, 7pm ET
AfroPunk (Book Signing)
Greenpoint Terminal Market
Sunday, August 27, 2023, 2:45pm
Lo’Mas Book Festival (hosted by Word Up Books)
Pat’s Lawn, Inwood Hill Park
Sunday, September 10, 2023, 12-4pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About Book Bans
The Center for Fiction
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 7pm ET
Brooklyn Book Festival
Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
Sunday, October 1, 2023, 12pm ET
IG Live: Literacy, Juvenile Justice, and Organizing
Instagram
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 1:30pm ET
Ditmas Lit Reading Series
Hinterlands Bar, Brooklyn, NYC
Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7pm ET
Portland Book Festival
Portland Art Museum
Saturday, November 4, 2023, TBA
NCTE Conference (Between the World & Me Panel)
Columbus, Ohio
Friday, November 17, 2023, 9:30am
NYWC Presents Forgive Me Not: Jennifer Baker in Conversation with Caits Meissner
Online (Event Page + Registration)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 6:30-8p ET
Freedom to Read
Kew & Willow Books, Forest Hills
Saturday, December 16, 2023, 11a-3p ET
Pete’s Reading Series
Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NYC
Thursday, December 21, 2023, 7pm ET