Past Events | 2010 - 2011
- October 26, 2011 "Brave New Books" Possssion Sound Writers Reading Series with Melissa Stein at Whiethorse Hall Open Gallery at Everett Community College, in Everett, WA.
- October 15, 2011 "Goons and Greed," a panel conversation with Jennifer Egan and Lawrence Douglas. Moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power at The Boston Book Festival in Boston, MA.
- October 8, 2011 Reading with Steve Almond at Wordstock Festival in Portland, OR.
October 1, 2011 Did It Really Happen or Did You Make it Up? Historical Novels panel at Northwest Bookfest with Kathleen Alcala, Dave Boling, Bill Dietrich, Maria Dahvana Headley, and Craig Welch. In Kirkland, WA.
September 22, 2011 David Shields vs. Peter Mountford Debate/Discussion of Reality vs. Fiction at Couth Buzzard Bookstore in Seattle, WA
September 17, 2011 Who? New! at Brooklyn Book Festival with Barbara Browning, Haley Tanner, and Samuel Park in Brooklyn, NY
August, 16, 2011 Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company (for Hotel Angeline, a novel) in Seattle, WA
July 26, 2011 Reading at RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
June 22, 2011 Reading at Revolution Books, Seattle, Washington.
June 16, 2011 Reading at King's English. Salt Lake City, Utah.
June 4, 2011 Babylon Salon Reading Series, with D.A. Powell, Michael Jayme-Becerra, Phil Lang, Leticia Del Toro, and Teresa Burns. San Francisco, California.
May 21, 2011 Reading at Village Books, Bellingham, WA
May 15, 2011 Reading at Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, WA
May 25, 2011 Group reading and discussion of Hotel Angeline at University Bookstore in Seattle, WA. For more information see the Hotel Angeline page at Open Road Media.
May 27, 2011 Reading at Third Place Books in Seattle, WA
May 7, 2011 Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA
May 5, 2011 Gray Skies Reading Series. The Swing Wine Bar. Olympia, WA
May 4, 2011 Loggernaut Reading Series (with Marie-Elizabeth Mali and David Wolman) Portland, OR
April 30 , 2011 Reading at Politics and Prose. Washington, DC
April 26 , 2011 Reading D.B.A. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
April 26 , 2011 Reading at Centenary College. Hackettstown, NJ
April 25 , 2011 Cocktails for Peter Mountford's novel A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism.
- Moran's Restaurant and Bar. New York, NY
- April 23, 2011 Reading and Keynote Address, Verbal Arts Festival. Springfield, Illinois.
- April 23, 2011 Reading at Bookcellar with Patrick Somerville. Chicago, Illinois.
- April 21, 2011 Reading at Magers and Quinn Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- April 18, 2011 Reading at Capitola Book Cafe Capitola, California.
- April 16, 2011 Reading at Book Passage. Corte Madera, California.
- April 15 , 2011 Reading at Booksmith. San Francisco, California.
- April 14 , 2011 Reading at Powell's City of Books (Burnside) with Alexi Zentner, author of Touch (Norton). Portland, Oregon.
- April 6, 2011 The Off Hours Spring reading (as host) featuring Ed Skoog, Urban Waite, and Paullette Gaudet. At Sole Repair, Seattle, WA.
- March 1, 2011 Castalia at the Richard Hugo House with David Shields and others.
- February 3, 2011 Debut Books by Recent Bread Loaf Waiters, a reading with Jennine Capó Crucet, Tiphanie Yanique and Alexi Zentner, emceed by Michael Collier. Busboys and Poets. Washington, DC.
- February 5, 2011 “What to Expect When You’re Expecting a First Book” with Téa Obreht, Adrienne Brodeur, Alexi Zentner, Jill Bialosky, and Noah Eaker; emceed by Josh Weil. At the 2011 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Washington, DC
- January 20, 2011 Reading and Guest Lecture for the Writer's on Writing Seminar at the University of Washington.
- December 2, 2010 "WITS Faculty Reading",
with Amber Flame, Kathleen Flenniken, Nicole Hardy, Rachel Kessler, Colleen O'Brien, & Storme Webber. At the Richard
Hugo House in Seattle.
- October 13, 2010 Reading with Maria Dahvana Headley and Erik Larson.
- October 10, 2010 The Novel: Live at The Richard Hugo House in Seattle.
- October 7, 2010 Celebration of Authors Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association Tradeshow Portland, OR Holiday Inn.
- September 8, 2010 Stage Fright I’m hosting 2010-2011’s first “Stage Fright” at the Richard Hugo House. I’ll read from my second novel, Kamikaze, and various teens will read their work, too. Event is sponsored by Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
- June 19, 2010 PLOP! Cabaret reading.
- June 19, 2010 Word Salad reading, Bobby Morris Park.
- May 21-23, 2010 FINDING YOUR READERS IN THE 21st CENTURY, a writer’s conference at the Richard Hugo House. Two panels during the weekend-long conference: “Agents, Editors, Publishing Houses and the Business of Publishing” with Alan Rinzler, Elizabeth Wales and Lyanda Haupt; and “Rejection: Get Over It” with Bruce Taylor and Wendy Call.
- April 15, 2010 SAM Word reading, with Kevin Emerson, Eli Hastings, and Margot Khan Case, Seattle Art Museum.
- April 13, 2010 Seattle Arts and Lectures Writers-in-Residence Reading, The Richard Hugo House.
- April 9, 2010 Death Issues: A Reading by Contributors to Seattle Review’s Death-Themed Issues, (with David Kirby, Janet Desaulniers, Robin Hemley, David Shields, and Dorianne Laux) AWP Conference – Denver, CO.
- March 2, 2010 Castalia (with David Shields and others), The Richard Hugo House.
- January 27, 2010 InPrint Panel, Traditional or Low-Res MFA Programs: What’s Right for You? , The Richard Hugo House.
2009 and before
- November 30, 2009 Screening of “The Wire” Followed by Q & A With Novelist and Screenwriter Richard Prince (as moderator), Seattle Art Museum.
- September 4, 2009 Bumbershoot, “Wax-on/Wax-off Reading,” Seattle, WA.
- May 6, 2009 The Off Hours, Jewel Box Theater, Seattle, WA.
- February 27, 2009 Creative Writing Colloquium: Life After the MFA, The University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- January 13, 2009 Instructional Invitational: How to be New Anew, The Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA.
- February 2, 2008 Best New American Voices 2008 (with Richard Bausch, Natalie Danford, David James Poissant, and Elizabeth Kadetsky), Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) 2008 Conference, New York, NY.
- December 13, 2007 Best New American Voices 2008 (with Tucker Capps and Stefan McKinstray) University Bookstore, Seattle, WA.
- October 13, 2006 Native Son: A Reading From The Play (with David Guterson and Charles Johnson) at Faire Café, Seattle, WA.