2025 Events: Your mother’s bear Gun

An Evening with Two Montana Writers: March 6th, 7:00pm, with Russell Rowland: Lewistown, MT, American Prairie National Discovery Center

Virginia Festival of the Book - Words of Healing: Poets on Self-Care and Connection, March 21, with Jen Jabaily-Blackburn and Sarah Schweig, 4:00pm, Jefferson Madison Regional Library Central, Charlottesville, VA

Montana State University Billings, MSUB Campus LA 205, April 16th, with Joe Wilkins, Billings, MT

Montana Book Company, April 17th, 6:30pm, with Joe Wilkins, Helena, MT

Fact & Fiction, April 18th, 7pm, with Joe Wilkins, Missoula, MT

Artist Night at The Mob, May 7th, 6pm, Lewistown MT, Makers on Broadway

Poetry Across the Wild Divide, Friday, May 30, 6pm at River Arts and Books, Roscoe, MT

Fact & Fiction, June 26th, 7pm, with Noah Davis, Missoula, MT

Elk River Books, July 24th, with Austin Segrest, Livingston, MT

Past Events

The Reading Series at Rocky Mountain College, with Danell Jones: Billings, MT: February 21st, 2024 7pm in the Great Room of Prescott Hall

November 10th, 2023: POEMS, STORIES, AND SPIRITED CONVERSATION: AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF THE MONTANA POET LAUREATE CHRIS LA TRAY, 7pm Missoula Public Library, Missoula MT

Montana Book Festival, Missoula, MT September 2023: Cascadia Field Guide Contributors Reading, Sept 8th, 2:30, Missoula Public Library

July 11th, 2023: Environmental Poetry and Prose with Joe Wilkins and Justin Gardiner: Rose City Book Pub, Portland OR, 5:30 - 6:30pm

July 10th, 2023: “From Off-Grid to Renewed Connections: Poetry/Prose Reading and Roundtable.” Panel at ASLE+AESS 2023 Conference with Joe Wilkins and Justin Gardiner. Portland Convention Center, 8:30am

February 11th, 2023: Saturday Storytelling at Traveler’s Rest State Park, Lolo, MT, 11am

August 11th, 2022: A Flight of Writers, with Chris La Tray and Austin Segrest: Montana Book Company, Helena, MT, 7pm

High Desert Journal, Issue 32 Live Facebook Reading, June 2021

Montana Book Festival, September 2020: A Reading with the 2019 Montana Book Award Winner and Finalists (on Youtube)

AWP SAN ANTONiO, 2020

March 6th: The Swamp with Driftwood Press Offsite Reading, 5:30pm, Charrity Bar

March 7th: Perugia Press Offsite at Candlelight, 7-9pm, Candlelight Coffee House with Megan Peak and Abby Murray

March 7th: Author Signing at Perugia Press Table 1941 at the Bookfair, 11:00 - 12:30

December 8th: Open Mouth Reading Series, Fayetteville, AR

• Generative Workshop: This Is What You Changed Me To: Playing with Persona

  Nightbird Books, 2-3pm

• Reading

  Nomads Southtown, 7:30pm

November 9th: Reading at This House of Books, 3:30pm, Billings, Montana

November 6th: Carroll College Literary Festival, Keynote Speaker/Reader with John Hennessy, 7pm, Carroll College Trinity Lounge, Helena, Montana

October 24th: Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

• 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
  Panel with Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Bill Sullivan, Leslie Williams, and Emily Jungmin Yoon

  John C. Guyon Auditorium (1st Floor Morris Library)

• 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

  Crab Orchard Open Competition winners Poetry Readings with Leslie Williams
  John C. Guyon Auditorium (1st Floor Morris Library)

October 15h: Reading with Henrietta Goodman: 7pm, Shakespeare & Co., Missoula, Montana

October 12th: Book Launch with special guests Keetje Kuipers and Sean Hill: 2pm, Holter Musuem, Helena, Montana

April 5th, 7-9pm: Reading with Roger Dunsmore, Cassiopeia Books, Great Falls, Montana

AWP Portland, 2019:

• Panel Presenter: “So You Think you Need a Website: A Tech-Wonk(ish) Lesson for DIYers.” E146, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, Thursday, March 28

• Off-site reading with the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Alums: Cassidy's, 7:30pm Thursday, March 28

• Book signing, Bookfair, Perugia Press Table: Friday, March 29, 10:30 - 12:00

• Off-site reading with Perugia Press: The Waypost, 5:30 - 7:30, Friday, March 29

Poets' Roundtable: Montana Book Festival - September 28, 12:30, The Public House

Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing Release Party! - June 23rd, 2018: Imagine Butte Resource Center, Butte, Montana, 5pm

Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence - April 20th, 2018: Shakespeare & Co Bookstore, Missoula Montana, 7pm 

Queen City Writers Resist - January 15, 2017: Red Atlas Helena Montana, 6pm

Poetry in the World (Not by the Line): An Afternoon of Workshops and Conversations - "The Poet in the Machine" - November 12, 2016: at 2:30, Smith College

Poetry Center at Smith College Celebrates Perugia Press - November 15, 2016: Northhampton MA: Q & A at 4pm; Reading with Gail Martin and Lisa Allen Ortiz, 7:30pm

Montana Book Festival - September 22nd - 23rd, 2016: "Building a Literary Organization without all the Bullshit;" "Poets of Place, Class, and Legacy;" "Helena Authors Showcase."