Thursday, April 11 (Cheney, WA) – 11am-12pm | Get Lit! Festival at Eastern Washington University: “The Things She Carried: Women Writing War” with Abby E. Murray, Shannon Huffman Polson, and MaxieJane Frazier
Saturday, April 13 (Spokane, WA) – 9am-5pm | The Montvale Event Center: Get Lit! Festival Bookfair Exhibitor (MilSpeak Books)
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PAST EVENTS:
Sunday, Oct 15 (San Francisco, CA) | San Francisco Public Library: “Beyond Combat Narratives: The New Wave of Military Writing,” with Abby E. Murray, Andria Williams, Liam Corley, M.C. Armstrong, and Steven Moore
Wednesday, Oct 4 (Wenatchee, WA) | Wenatchee Public Library: “Coming-of-Age Between 9/11 and the Great Recession: Millennial War and Travel Memoir” with Norris Comer
Tuesday, July 18 (Winthrop, WA) | Winthrop Public Library, Women Writing War: Lauren Kay Johnson in conversation with Shannon Huffman Polson
Monday, July 17 (Omak, WA) | Omak Public Library, The Fine Art of Camouflage reading in conversation with Air Force veteran and writer MaxieJane Frazier
May 20-21 (Salem, OR) | Oregon Women Veterans Conference
Friday, May 12 (Redmond, OR) | Keynote Speaker, Oregon Association of Veteran School Certifying Officials Conference
Thursday, April 13 (Boston, MA) | Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, The Fine Art of Camouflage reading in conversation with Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
Thursday, April 6 (Seattle, WA) | Elliott Bay Book Company, The Fine Art of Camouflage reading in conversation with Army veteran and writer Eric McMillan
Wednesday, March 29 (Portland, OR) | Powell’s City of Books, The Fine Art of Camouflage reading in conversation with Amy Almond-Schmid, Executive Director of Returning Veterans Project
Thursday, March 23 (Seattle, WA) | Third Place Books at Lake Forest Park, The Fine Art of Camouflage reading in conversation with Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch
Friday, March 10 (Seattle, WA) | Kells Irish Restaurant & Bar, AWP Offsite: Hot off the Presses! Fall 2022/Spring 2023 Debut Reading with Su Cho, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Chachi Hauser, Tonee Moll & Paige Towers
“Unconventional Women, Traditional Setting: Fiction By and About Military Women,” with Jerri Bell, Mary Doyle & Tracy Crow, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, San Antonio, TX (March, 2020)
Panel Discussion: “Women’s Voices in War Narratives,” CONSEQUENCE Magazine 10th Anniversary Launch, Boston (April 2018)
Panel Discussion: “Sum of the Parts: Creating Cohesion from Fragmented Narratives,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Tampa, FL (March 2018)
Guest Lecture/Classroom Discussion: Gender and War, Boston University (Feb 2018)
Skype Discussion/Q&A: “Writing to Heal” Jterm class, Middlebury College (Jan 2018)
Challenge America National Exhibit of Veteran Art: “Inheritance of War” and “Echoes, Boston,” Aspen, CO (Aug–Nov 2017)
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, Greenlight Bookstore (New York), April 3, 2017
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, New Haven Public Library (New Haven, CT), Feb. 25, 2017
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, Pete’s Candy Store (New York), Feb. 16, 2017
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, MA), Jan. 22, 2017
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, Adelina Books (Portland, OR), Jan. 6. 2017
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, University of Washington, Tacoma, Jan. 5, 2017
The Road Ahead reading and discussion, Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle), Jan. 3, 2017
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, Third Place Books (Seattle), Jan. 4, 2017
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA), Nov. 18, 2016
Veterans Day Presentation and discussion, Barbara Ingram School for the Arts (Hagerstown, MD), Nov. 15, 2016)
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, Towson University (Towson, MD), Nov. 14, 2016
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, Excelsior College (Washington, DC), Oct. 27, 2016
Retire the Colors reading and discussion, Central Connecticut State University (Oct. 25, 2016)
“The Square” Play Reading and Talkback, Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (April 2016)
Panel Discussion: “Unsung Heroes: Women Veterans’ Voices,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles (April 2016)
Panel Discussion: “Beyond Combat: Nontraditional War Stories,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles (April 2016)
Fairfield University Veterans Day Symposium, Fairfield, CT (Nov 2014)
MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Veteran-Centered Care Conference (Nov 2013)
“Proud to Be at Wordfest: Prose and Poetry by America’s Veterans,” Springfield, MO (2013)
Panel Discussion: “After the Flames: How Creative Writing Can Be Used as a Tool for Healing and Understanding in Veteran and Civilian Populations,” The Examined Life Conference: Writing, Humanities and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa (April 2013)
Panel Discussion: “Writing the War: How Creative Writing Can Be a Tool for Healing and Understanding in Veteran and Civilian Populations,” Boston Book Festival (Oct 2012) AUDIO FILE