Past Events
Arts & Science Council Midnight Marathon
April 11th from 7 to 8 pm
Charlotte, North Carolina
Creating Immediacy through Lyricism
Charlotte Lit class
April 8th from 6 to 8 pm
Charlotte, North Carolina
Greater Charlotte Book Crawl Reading & Book Signing
with Jordon Greene
April 5th from 12 to 3 pm
Monroe, North Carolina
Virtual Author Visit: San Antonio Book Club
December 14, 2024 @ 8 pm ET
via Zoom
Author Talk: Bard Early College Speaker Series
Bard High School Early College Queens
December 6, 2024
Long Island City, New York
Punch Bucket Lit Reading Series
with Jessie van Eerden
November 21, 2024 @ 7 pm
697 Haywood Road
Asheville, North Carolina
Author Talk: “Five Questions for Big, Beautiful Quests”
Read the lecture here.
November 12, 2024 @ 11 am
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Empowerment Panel and Book Signing
¡Celebramos! Wellness Day
¡Celebramos! A Celebration of Latin American Culture & Heritage
September 21, 2024
panel @ 3 pm in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Lecture Hall
book signings @ 4 pm
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Fort Worth, Texas
Reading & Conversation at La Gran Biblioteca
September 20, 2024 from 5:30 to 7 pm
Fort Worth, Texas
with SG Huerta
September 18, 2024 from 5 to 7 pm
Seguin, Texas
Reading, Drag Show, & Conversation
with Kara Foxx-Paris
September 17, 2024 from 6 to 8 pm
Austin, Texas
RSVP here.
September 16, 2024 from 5:30 to 7 pm
San Antonio, Texas
September 15, 2024 from 2 to 4 pm
Edinburg, Texas
September 9, 2024
3 to 4:20: Discussion of Country of Under in Professor Alan Michael Parker's Contemporary American Fiction seminar
7 to 8:30: Davidson Reads with Caroline New @ the Carolina Inn, lower level: open to the public
Davidson, North Carolina
Charlotte Pride Book Signings for Country of Under and It's Soulful and It's Survival: A Conversation with Four Drag Artivists in the South
with Archimedes Loft Bookstore and Mr. Charlotte Pride Oso Chanel, National Mx Nova Stella, & Mx Charlotte Pride Lolita Chanel
Booth 402 at the corner of E. MLK Blvd & S. Tryon St.
August 17, 2024 at 6 pm
Charlotte Pride Festival Zone on S. Tryon St.
Charlotte, NC
Virtual Re-Launch with Split/Lip Press
with SG Huerta
Country of Under has been re-homed with Split/Lip Press as Mason Jar Press has gone on hiatus.
August 13, 2024 @ 8 pm ET
Watch the video here.
Author Talk: Into the Great Wide Open: from Memoir to Socially Conscious Novel
Charlotte Writers Club
May 21, 2024 @ 7 pm
Charlotte, North Carolina
Author Talk: Gender & Street Art in Literature
with Jennifer Savran Kelly and Jess deCourcy Hinds
May 3, 2024 @ 7 pm
Kew Gardens, Queens, New York
Author Talk: Bard Early College Speaker Series
Bard High School Early College Queens
May 2, 2024 @ 11:30 am
Long Island City, New York
Reading, Screening, & Conversation
with Emily Branham and Marcelle LaBrecque/Marilyn Monhoe
April 30, 2024 @ 7 pm
Unnameable Books
Brooklyn, New York
Virtual event @ The Writer’s Center
with Hector Vaca Cruz
April 18, 2024 @ 7 pm
Watch the video here.
Double Book Launch + Drag Extravaganza
with Mr. Charlotte Pride Oso Chanel, National Mx Nova Stella, Mx Charlotte Pride Lolita Chanel, and DKO Entertainment Founder Onya Nerves
April 11, 2024 @ 6:30 pm
Charlotte, North Carolina
February 9, 2024
book signings from 11 am to 1 pm, Kansas City Convention Center
Reading with Black Warrior Review @ 5:30, Bliss Books and Wine
Kansas City, Missouri
NC Writers’ Network Conference
November 4, 2023
Class: “Manifesting Your Book in the World: Securing Time, Money, and a Publisher”, 9 to 10:30 am
“Digging Up Buried Stories” panel with Dr. Hilary Green, 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Search for Meaning as We Tell True Stories: Community Conversation with Patrice Gopo
October 4, 2023
Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts
Charlotte, North Carolina
Class: “Acing the Artist Statement”
Guild of Charlotte Artists
May 11, 2023
Charlotte, North Carolina