Prior Speaking Engagements
2024
Finding Your Voice: YA Fiction Pizza Party,” Virginia Festival of the Book, March 21, 2024 6:30-8:00 PM
Faculty Research Presentation – University of Lynchburg – 12:00 PM on February 19th, 2024
Signing at the Split/Lip Table Booth 842, AWP Conference in Kansas City, Friday, February 9th 12:00-1:00PM
Reading for Split/Lip’s Anniversary Offsite AWP Event – The Brick – 1727 McGee St, Kansas City, MO – 6-9 PM on February 8, 2024.
2023
Reading and Author Q&A – Shenandoah University – 6:00 PM on October 23rd, 2023
Fall for the Book – George Mason University – 2:00 PM on October 14th. 2023
University of Lynchburg – October 5, 2023 – Talk with author Addie Tsai about queer reimaginings – Lynchburg, VA
Aaron’s Books – June 10, 2023 – Reading and Signing – Lititz, PA
Gaithersburg Book Festival – May 20, 2023 – Workshop “Retelling Classic Stories in Young Adult Fiction” and tabling all day – Gaithersburg, MD
Little District Books – May 11, 2023 – 6:30-8:00 PM.
2022
Writer-in-Residence, Story Catcher Writing Retreat, August 2022
SNHU AWP Online MFA Instructor Reading, March 2022 (Philadelphia, PA)
Split/Lip Offsite AWP Reading, March 2022 (Philadelphia, PA)
Tink and Wendy Reading, Ernest and Hadley Booksellers (Tuscaloosa, AL – February 2022)
2021
“Prose! Poetry! Party!” Reading with Three Rooms Press (Virtual – December 2021)
Tink and Wendy Virtual Book Launch (Virtual – November 2021)
Tink and Wendy Book Launch at Dog Street Café (Livingston, AL – November 2021)
Book launch for An Inventory of Abandoned Things from Split/Lip Press – Zoom – April 2021.
Split/Lip Press and Long Day Press Reading – SMOL Bookfair – March 2021
2018
“Fantasy Prompts for Young Writers,” Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 2018
2017
Featured Reader and Panelist, “Of Stars, Steam, and Swords” and “Queer Enough,” OutWrite Book Festival, August 2017
Philadelphia Pyramid Club Women’s Author Panel – May 11, 2017
Unrequited Book Party at Wall of Books (Off-Site during AWP) – February 10, 2017.
Private Book Club Event for Cairo in White – February 3, 2017.
Candlesticks and Daggers Book Launch Party at Upshur Street Books.
2016
Abundent Grace launch at Politics and Prose – November 20, 2016 – 3:30 PM – You can find more information here
“The Geography of Place: Writing Where We Know,” Panelist, Indie Lit Fest, Frostburg MD, October 14-15.
Outwrite book festival, august 6, 2016 — anthology panel discussion “All That Glitters” — free and open to the public
Camelot School Visit, June 3, 2016 — Private
Unrequited Book Launch, June 17, 2016 — 7:00 PM — Upshur Street Books — Free and open to the public. Facebook event page here!
Poetry reading, April 19, 2016 — 7:30 PM — Inner Loop Reading Series — Free and open to the public
Poetry reading, March 15, 2016 — 7:30 PM — Inner Loop Reading Series — Free and open to the public
2015
Dear Robot book launch, January 13, 2016 — 7:00 PM — Upshur Street Books — Free and open to the public
*Sparkle* Featured Reader, November 1, 2015 — 8:00 PM-10:00 PM — Busboys and Poets 14th & V — More info here
Fall for the Book, Reader, October 2, 2015 –10:30-11:30 AM — Sandy Spring Bank Tent in the Johnson Center Plaza, George Mason’s Fairfax Campus — Free and open to the public
Outwrite LGBT Book Fair , Exhibitor, 11:00 AM-5:30 PM August 1, 2015 — Washington, DC –Free and open to the public
Conversations & Connections, Panelelist, April 18, 2015 — Washington, DC- here
Inner Loop, Reader, July 21, 7:30 PM — Johnny Pistolas — Washington, DC
MWA Young Writers Club, Speaker, March 12, 2015 — Private Event
Riviera Beach Elementary, Speaker, February 19, 2015 – Private Event
2014
December 5, 2014 – Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Magical Fiction for Adults Book Launch Party – Bethesda Writers Center – Bethesda, MD – 7:00-8:30 PM, Free but Registration Required
October 29 – DC Public Library at the Watergate – Washington, DC – 7:00 PM (Reading and Signing Cairo in White)
October 19 – Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival’s Local Author Fair – Washington, DC – 7:00-9:00PM (Presentation, Signing, Table), Free and Open to the Public
September 28 – Baltimore Book Festival – Baltimore, MD – All Day (Author Table) and reading at 4:00 PM – Free and Open to the Public
September 15- One More Page Books – Arlington, VA – 7:00 PM – Reading (Cairo in White)
August 23 – Greetings & Readings – Hunt Valley, MD – 3:30-5:00 PM – Meet and Greet with Editor and Contributors Faye Rivkin and Samantha Solomon (Open to the Public) for Answers I’ll Accept: True Accounts of Online Dating
August 2 – Outwrite Book Fair – Washington, DC – Exhibitor
July 17 – Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Bucks County, PA – 6:30-7:30 PM Book Signing and Reading of Dreamweaver Road – Click here to attend.
On Monday July 14th there will be an author’s reception and book reading at IQnection in Doylestown Pennsylvania. Eric Allen Jacobson will host the event and Kelly will have copies of her book Cairo In White available for purchase. The event will take place from 6pm-8pm
June 18 – Cornelia Street Cafe – New York City – 6:00 PM – Organizer and Reader of Cairo in White (Open to the Public)
May 12 – George Washington University – Alumni Event – Speaker
May 17 – Gaithersburg Book Festival – Exhibitor (Open to the Public)
Tuesday, April 1 7:30 PM – Washington, DC – Inner Loop Launch event – 829 Upshur Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20011
Saturday March 29 3:30Pm-5pm – North Wales, Pennsylvania
Seltzer’s Open Mic Night 1/30/14
2013
“Cairo In White” Excerpt from upcoming fiction novel. John’s Hopkins December 13, 2013
Workshops, Johns Hopkins University, May 11, 2013 (Washington, DC).
2012
“Las Dragas: Identity and Popular Culture” presented at Gender Matters Conference,
Governors State University, April 13, 2012 (University Park, Illinois). Listen here.
