This is the closest a reading has gotten to being in my actual living room. Come hang out with me at my neighborhood library as I read from Another Appalachia!
As part of Huntington’s Pride celebrations, I’ll be reading at the newly-opened independent bookstore in Barboursville, Booktenders!
Last in-person reading in the Boston area (for now)! Join me for Adult Queer Storyhour at All She Wrote!
Join me at a gathering with folks from the teaching program I did way back in 2003. This reading will take place in the beautiful gardens at the Shirley Eustis house.
Please RSVP here: http://ow.ly/4mNT50IREJ3
Join me, Marianne Worthington, and Doug Van Gundy for a reading at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio. Tickets available at stuartsoperahouse.org.
Young people ages 13-18 can join me for a pressure-free writing class in which we’ll us an object from nature to launch us into a short writing piece.
Register here: https://reg127.imperisoft.com/.../35383.../Registration.aspx
Join me for a reading at the first ever Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books.
You can register here.
Young people ages 13-18 can join me for a pressure-free writing class in which we’ll us a family photo to launch us into a short writing piece.
Register here: https://reg127.imperisoft.com/.../35383.../Registration.aspx
Join me at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition for an After Hours Silent Reading Party on Saturday April 30, at 6PM. Bring your own book or get a new one that night. Grab a spot, enjoy some refreshments, and, you know, read.
After about 45 minutes we’ll gather together and everyone will have the opportunity to share about their book. After the share out, you’ll be invited to mingle, shop, eat, and drink as a community for a little while longer.
You can register for the party here!
Join me at Papercuts in JP to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. I’ll be flexing my skills as a handseller of books, and you might walk away with some unexpected additions to your stack!
Come out to Rozzie Bound’s FIRST pop-up since the start of the pandemic. I’ll be with them at the substation in Roslindale celebrating and signing books!
I’m so excited to read at Yu and Me, New York’s first bookstore dedicate to highlighting books that lift up Asian-American and immigrant voices.
DC family, I’m headed your way! So excited to read and talk with Washington Post investigative reporter (and former Boston Globe reporter) Nicole Dungca at Lost City Books. Nicole has done so much to lift up the voices of Asian-American writers, and is such an insightful and incisive writer herself, that the conversation is bound to be a great one!
Charleston, I’m coming home! Please come hang out with the phenomenal Catherine Moore and me as we read and talking about our writing. I can’t wait to see you!
Launching my spring book tour in Lexington, KY at Joseph-Beth!
Denver’s fantastic woman-owned wine and book store, BookBar, hosts fellow Indolachian writer Rahul Mehta and me for a reading and conversation. Rahul has been a huge champion of my work, and I’m a huge fan of his writing, and I think we have a lot to talk about when it comes to the intersection of writing, queerness, desi identity, and Appalachia!
I’m honored to be a teaching and writing fellow at the Follow Your Art Community Studios in Melrose. I’ll be doing an author talk there in conversation with Marjan Kamali, who is the author of two wonderful books: Together Tea and The Stationary Shop.
Register here.
Sejal Shah, the incredible author of This is One Way to Dance, joins me for a reading and conversation on the SkyLit Podcast, hosted by the wonderful Skylight Books in Los Angeles!
You can download the podcast here starting on 3/21.
I became a writer in Pittsburgh, and nothing gives me more pleasure than the thought of going back to Pittsburgh to read at a bookstore that has championed this book from the outset. Join me for the Northern Appalachia debut of the book, and I promise I will take you out for pierogis afterwards!
Join me at Baker Hall, where I first learned to craft a scene, write dialogue, and build a narrative, as I share stories from Another Appalachia with CMU students.
OK. The only thing better than a virtual event hosted by Malaprops would be an in-person event hosted by Malaprops, mainly because then I could go to Chai Pani for dinner afterwards. But in the absence of in-person events, getting to read in an event hosted by one of my favorite bookstores is still pretty lovely!
Register here.
When I first started to think about the possibility of this book having a home on bookshelves across the country, I would go to the Brookline Booksmith, walk to the Essays shelf, and find the spot among the As where my book would sit. Join me for a reading from Another Appalachia at my literary home: 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446.
Join me for the debut of Another Appalachia at the new Grub Street/Porter Square Books space in the Seaport! 50 Liberty Drive, Boston, MA 02210
Sharing writing and activism experiences with the young people of Rye, NY.
In our second year of celebrating Appalachia’s rich and diverse voices, our kickoff reader is Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, forthcoming from West Virginia University Press.
Seeing oneself represented in literature is vitally important for all groups, including young West Virginians, trying to find their place in the world. Not only will students be able to recognize themselves in the pages of these texts, but they will also come to understand that anything is possible for them, and being a writer is not something reserved for those in New York City. In this keynote session, four West Virginia women writers (Ann Pancake, Catherine Venerable Moore, Natalie Sypolt, and Neema Avashia) will discuss the importance of teaching Appalachian literature to children in all grade levels, will provide ideas for lessons that can be taken into the classroom, and share a bit of their own work.