Readings, Conversations, Workshops, Good Things
2023
Jan 12, Center for Fiction course begins online
Feb 27, Conversation with Margot Douaihy, Lambda Literary Award finalist, poet, professor, and editor, about her debut neo-noir novel Scorched Grace. In person at Odyssey Books, South Hadley, MA, 7 pm.
July 9 – 22, Smith College Creative Writing Workshop, Northampton, MA
2022
May 6, Center for Fiction course begins online
June 11, Power of Truths Arts and Education Festival, panel participant at experiential conference focused on creating a more just future, speaking on truth in fiction. At Bombyx Center, Florence MA, 9 to 4 pm ET
June 24-26, Iowa Summer Writing Festival weekend intensive, online
August 10, Conversation with Katie Hafner, New York Times journalist, podcaster (Lost Women of Science), and author about her debut novel The Boys, in person at Odyssey Books, South Hadley MA, 7 pm ET.
October 13, Governor’s Award Reading Group, A conversation on the importance of local journalism with president and publisher of New England Newspapers Fredric Rutberg, online. A Mass Humanities event, open to the public. Registration now open.
October 22-23, Center for Fiction weekend intensive, online. Registration now open.
November 5-6, Fiction Kitchen weekend intensive, a hybrid (in-person and online) workshop. SOLD OUT. Learn more and join the waitlist
2021
January 5, Six-week memoir workshop begins online
January 28, Conversation with New York Times Notable and best-selling author Mary-Beth Hughes about her new fiction collection The Ocean House, Oblong Books on Crowdcast, 7 pm ET
January 30, Online workshop: Premise, Plot, Poetry: Three Keys to the Novel, 10 am to 12 noon ET, sponsored by Straw Dogs Writers’ Guild
March 16, Iowa Summer Writing Festival course begins online
May 6, Center for Fiction course begins online
July 11-12, Solstice MFA Program Summer Residency, Boston MA, novel workshop and reading
2020
February 11, Athenaeum Club, Dallas, Texas
March 14 and 15, Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany–Cancelled
April 30, Spring Reading with Jennifer Rosner, Mary South, and Sarah Rauch, LIVE ON ZOOM
June 7, Online Workshop: The Propulsive Plot, Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop
July 3, Author Video Chat (pre-recorded) sponsored by Interabang Books, with Lori Feathers at Interabang Books
July 8, YOU AGAIN virtual launch party sponsored by McNally Jackson Books, NYC—with Cheryl Pearl Sucher on Zoom.
July 14, “Mighty Mystery, Celebrity Edition” conversation with Megan Abbott, on Facebook, sponsored by a Mighty Blaze. 4 pm EST, at https://www.facebook.com/amightyblaze
July 15, Writers on Writing with Marrie Stone, airs 9 am PST on KUCI and via podcast at https://writersonwriting.blogspot.com/ or your fave podcast app
July 15, YOU AGAIN and Us Again—Conversation with Kahane Cooperman, sponsored by Wachtung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ, on Crowdcast at 8 pm.
July 22, Book Party Chat with Laura Zam, on Twitter, 5 pm EST at #bookpartychat
July 27, Get Up with Michael Causey, airs 9 am on WOWD
July 29, Conversation with Jones Library in Amherst, MA, on Facebook, 3pm EST
September 2, Book Club Discussion (open to the public), Interabang Books, Dallas, TX, on Zoom
September 28, Online Writing Workshops begin, more info here — join me!
November 13, Northwoods & Donald Jordan Reading Series, with Jennifer Foerster, webinar on Zoom—register here
November 19, Meet the Author, Pequot Library, Southport CT, on Zoom — register here
2019
March 28 to 30, AWP Conference, Portland, OR
April 13, Juniper Literary Festival, Amherst, MA
April 24, MWA Symposium, New York, NY
July 8 to 20, Smith College Young Women’s Writing Workshop, Northampton, MA
October 14, Williston Northampton Writers’ Workshop, Easthampton, MA
2018
April 18 – 20, Connect: Beyond the Page Festival, Asheville, NC
June 6 Broadside Books, Northampton, MA—with Edie Meidav
June 16 Politics & Prose, DC—with Hannah Pittard
June 20 Books Are Magic, Brooklyn—with Bethanne Patrick
June 28 Interabang Books, Dallas—with Lori Feathers
August 2, Montague Book Mill, Montague, MA—with Kate Christensen AND special musical guest Johnny Irion!
September 28 – 30, Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, Michigan
October 13, Boston Book Festival
October 21, Springfield Central Library, Springfield, MA
October 28 – 30, Texas Book Festival, Austin
DEBRA JO IMMERGUT 