2010 Events

Sept. 10, 2010
Reading, University of Miami, 6:00 p.m.
Coral Gables, FL

Sept. 11
Community workshop, free and open to the public
Books & Books, 12:00 – 1:30
Coral Gables, FL

Sept. 20, 2010
Southern Connecticut State University
Craft lecture, 4:00 p.m., Reading 8:00 p.m.

Sept. 24-26
Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival Carmel, CA

Sept. 28
Scout, Atticus and Boo: San Francisco Public Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird. Join Andrew Sean Greer, Jewelle Gomez, and Michelle Richmond on a panel moderated by Oscar Villalon. Main Library. Visit the event website.

Oct. 5
Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind. Join me for a Litquake event at the Mechanics Institute Library, with Book Passage president Elaine Petrocelli; memoirist Mark Vonnegut; Robert Burton, former Chief of Neurology at Mt. Zion-UCSF Hospital; moderated by Ransom Stephens (The God Patent). Admission: $12 general public, free to members of Mechanics Institute; reservations at (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org

Oct. 30, 2010
Brentwood CityRead, Brentwood City Library
2:00-3:00 pm.
During the month of October, copies of The Year of Fog will be available, free of charge, in coffee shops and local establishments throughout the city of Brentwood. Pick up a copy, pass it on when you’re finished, and join me on October 30 for a discussion and signing!

April 8, 2010
UC Berkeley Story Hour
Doe Library, Details here

April 10,2010
AWP Conference, Denver
10:30 Colorado Convention Center Room 301, 302
Panel with four terrific writers: Elizabeth Brundage, Richard Bausch, Meg Waite Clayton, and Jennifer Haigh
3:00 Mid-American Review reading

April 29-30
Alabama Writers Symposium, Monroeville, AL
“Literature on Location: The Muse of Place”

May 11, 2010
In conversation with Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kittredge, at the San Francisco JCC. This event will also be broadcast on KQED. Reception, 7:00 p.m. Conversation begins at 8:00 p.m. Tickets here.

June 13, 2010
Writing Mamas, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
5:00-8:00 pm

Feb 6, 2010
Festival of Women Authors
YWCA, Oakland, CA

Feb. 6, 2010
Berkeley Public Library Authors Dinner

Feb. 12, San Francisco Writers Conference
2:00 Panel: “Creating Literary Fiction That Keeps Readers Turning the Pages,” with Herbert Gold, Michelle Richmond, Monte Schulz. Moderator: agent Elise Capron

March 12-13, 2010
Tuscon Festival of Books
March 13, 2:30 p.m.
Panel with Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters