Upcoming appearances:
March 2019
- BC Illuminates, panel discussion with Kirsten Lunstrum and Becky Mandelbaum, Saturday, March 9, 3-4 pm at Bellevue College.
- 2nd Annual Strange Theater, A Fabulist Reading, Thursday, March 28, 6:30-9 pm at The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company, 915 Hawthorne Blvd, Portland OR. (AWP offsite event.)
- Literary Bingo, Friday, March 29, 9-10 pm at The Big Legrowski, 812 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209. (AWP offsite event.)
- Book Signing at the Lanternfish Press booth, AWP Bookfair, Oregon Convention Center, Saturday, March 30, 12-1 pm.
April 2019
- Buying Time: The Ins and Outs of Writing Fellowships and Residencies, a panel at the Get Lit! Festival in Spokane, Tuesday, April 23, 4:30-5:30 pm.
I love to give readings! Contact me at anca [dot] l [dot] szilagyi [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to schedule an appearance. I’m also happy to meet with book clubs by video chat or speaker phone or in person if I’m in the area.
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Previous events:
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- The Furnace Reading Series at Hollow Earth Radio, August 1, 2012*
- Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues Reading Series at Liberty Bar, October 27, 2012
- The Naked Bunch at The Can Can, October 28, 2012
- The Castalia Reading Series at Richard Hugo House, February 5, 2013*
- Made at Hugo House Midyear Reading at Richard Hugo House, February 15, 2013*
- Cheap Beer & Prose at Richard Hugo House, March 21, 2013
- The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents Original Music Inspired by the Furnace, at the APRIL festival at Richard Hugo House, March 30, 2013
- South Sound Writers’ Reading Series at the King County Library – Des Moines branch, June 9, 2013*
- Made at Hugo House Final Reading at Richard Hugo House, September 25, 2013*
- Dark Coast Press Reading at the Seattle Lit Crawl, at Sam’s Tavern, October 24, 2013
- The Casserole (on YouTube), November 17, 2013*
- Pacifica Literary Review Holiday Party, December 15, 2013
- New Fairy Tales from the North, February 27, 2014
- Literary Bloggers Party at AWP, at the Canoe Social Club, February 27, 2014
- A Night at the Victrola, February 28, 2014
- ekFRANTICS at the Greg Kucera Gallery, August 7, 2014
- Old Growth Northwest at the Jewelbox Theater, August 26, 2014
- Wage Slaves at Office Nomads, September 11, 2014
- Unchaste Readers Series, at The Knock Back in Portland, November 18, 2014
- It’s About Time Reading Series at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library, December 11, 2014
- Literary Wilderness — Reading and Benefit, The Nicollet, Minneapolis, April 9, 2015
- Cambridge Writers Workshop, Boneshaker Books, Minneapolis, April 11, 2015
- Jack Straw May Reading Series at Jack Straw Cultural Center, May 15, 2015
- Family Affair at the Rendezvous, August 19, 2015
- Dock Street Salon at Phinney Books, August 27, 2015
- Jack Straw Reading at the University Bookstore, August 28, 2015
- It’s About Time Reading Series at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library, September 10, 2015
- Jack Straw Reading at the Walla Walla Public Library, October 17, 2015
- Quick & Dirty: A Reading by Shotgun Wedding at Lit Crawl, October 22, 2015
- Jack Straw Reading at the central branch of the Seattle Public Library, November 7, 2015. Recording here.*
- Pay Dirt, an extra special reading at the Rendezvous, December 3, 2015*
- Makeshift Reading Series, March 5, 2016
- Lit Fix at Chop Suey, April 6, 2016
- Castalia at Richard Hugo House, April 13, 2016
- Moss & Pacifica at Open Books, December 7, 2016.
- Seattle Fiction Federation #8 at Richard Hugo House, December 13, 2016.
- APRIL Festival at Hugo House, April 1.
- With Leanne Dunic and Bernard Grant at the Chin Music Press shop, June 10.
- June “Write In” with afrose fatima ahmed and Catherine Bull at Hugo House, June 24.
- Literary Happy Hour with Sean Beaudoin and Joshua Mohr at Capitol Cider, June 27.
- PURGE Zine Release Party with Kate Berwanger and Steve Sibra at Revival Shop Seattle, as a part of the Capitol Hill Art Walk, August 10.
- Brooklyn Book Festival with Lanternfish Press , September 17.
- Made at Hugo House Fellow Alum Reading, Seattle Lit Crawl, October 19.
- Daughters of the Air launch party! WHAT! The Hotel Sorrento, Seattle, Tuesday, December 5, 2017.
- Word Works with Jess Walter at Washington Hall, Seattle, Wednesday, December 6, 2017. I’m honored to have lead the the onstage Q&A.
- At the Inkwell, Vermillion, Seattle, with Kathy Harding and Laura W. Allen, Tuesday, January 9, 2018.
- Castalia, Hugo House, Seattle, with Emma Aylor, Areej Maysarah Quraishi, and Ainsley Kelly, and faculty reader Maya Sonenberg, Wednesday, January 10, 2018.
- WLZ Volume 3, Issue 1 Launch Party, Common AREA Maintenance, Seattle, Sunday, January 14.
- Literary Happy Hour at Capitol Cider, Seattle, with Jekeva Phillips, Jarrett Middleton, and Bill Carty, January 30, 2018.
- Eagle Harbor Book Company, with Julie Christine Johnson, Bainbridge Island, WA, February 11.
- Lilac City Fairy Tales, Bing Theater, Spokane, WA, February 14.
- Powell’s City of Books, in conversation with Susan DeFreitas, Portland, OR, February 19, 2018.
- Trident Booksellers and Cafe, in conversation with Lori Lefkovitz, Boston, MA, February 22, 2018.
- WORD Brooklyn, February 27.
- The Book Cellar, with Gint Aras, Chicago, IL, March 3.
- Strange Theater: A Menagerie of Fabulists – AWP Offsite Reading at 5 Star Dive Bar, Tampa, FL, March 8.
- Book Signing, Lanternfish Press table (T1246) at the AWP Book Fair, Tampa, FL, March 9.
- Spontaneous Reading Party for C & R Press, The Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women, Tampa, FL, March 9.
- Ask the Oracle with Bill Carty and Marie Caroline Moir at the Hotel Sorrento, Seattle, March 13.
- Origin Stories: Local Writers on Identity and Storytelling, Capitol Hill Branch of the Seattle Public Library, March 25.
- It’s About Time Reading Series, Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library, April 12.
- Alley Cat Books, with Hilary Zaid, San Francisco, April 14.
- Dock Street Salon at Phinney Books with Ross McMeekin, April 19.
- A Discussion of Place as Character at University Bookstore with Natalie Singer, Jennifer Haupt, and Priscilla Long, April 24.
- Cascadia Magazine Almost Summer Reading at Vermillion, Seattle, June 1.
- Seattle7Writers Summer Bookfest at Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, WA, June 2.
- Lit Fix at Vermillion, Seattle, June 21.
- Authors on Editing: a panel discussion with the Northwest Independent Editors’ Guild, Phinney Neighborhood Association, Seattle, July 9. Video here.
- Brooklyn Book Festival, September 16.
- Pete’s Candy Store Reading Series, with Leslie Jameson, Chelsea Hodson, and Lucas Mann, Brooklyn, September 20.
- Jack Straw Writers, with Ross McMeekin, Erin Malone, and Linda Andrews, Walla Walla Public Library, Walla Walla, Wa, September 29.
- Write Our Democracy, Seattle Lit Crawl, October 11.
- Welcome to the Writer’s Life, Seattle Lit Crawl, October 11.
- Words West Literary Series, C & P Coffee, Seattle, October 17.
- Inside Storytime at Lit Crawl, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 20.
- With Michelle Bailat-Jones & Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, TypeSet, Seattle, October 25.
- Seattle7Writers Holiday Bookfest, Phinney Neighborhood Center, November 17.
- Why There Are Words, Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, OR, November 18
- Chin Music Press at Pike Place Market, December 15. Reading with Montreux Rotholz and Alex Gallo-Brown.
- Word Play: Original Music Inspired by Seattle7Writers, March 2 at Hugo House.
I’ve read at KGB Bar, Cornelia Street Cafe, and Telephone Bar in New York as well as Richard Hugo House , The Can Can, Liberty Bar, and Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle. I love to read! Contact me at anca [dot] l [dot] szilagyi [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to schedule a reading.
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