Join me at Salesforce Park with authors Heather Bourbeau and Jesus Francisco Sierra for the Words & Stories series. I’ll be reading from The Nutcracker Chronicles, the teen angst years.
I’ll be at Barnes and Noble at the Fountains discussing The Nutcracker Chronicles with Robert Seltzer. Drop by, El Paso! I’d love to see you.
Full details here.
Please join me for Reading and Meeting Friday June 21 from 5PM - 7PM at the Writers Grotto. "Summer Solstice Reading" will feature Britta Stromeyer, Sarita Sarvate and me! We’ll read from our latest work. Louise Nayer will emcee. As always there will be fabulous company and refreshments.
Register here.
I’m a new member of the Writers Grotto! Join me for an evening of reading and meeting and eating.
Featured readers are: Doug Henderson, Moazzam Sheik, Lenore Weiss, and Shikha Malaviya. Emcee’d by Celeste Chan.
Come say hi! I’ll be the one in the corner pretending I don’t have social anxiety.
Join me, Lisa Brown, Tarja Parssinen and Meg Elison as we read from our favorite dystopian novels. COVID-19…84?
Full info here!
Two decades after the very first Litquake, we're older and wiser. Some of us are yelling at kids to get off our lawn. Some of us are still partying like it's 1999. Eight authors reflect.
Phones Down. Looking Up. In Real Life.
From ScreenSense, the Mill Valley resource that's helping people find a healthy relationship with screens, comes an event that asks: What does it mean to stay human in today's digital world? Come hear some of the best musicians, storytellers, and performers in Mill Valley as they share their stories of being either unplugged, overplugged or trying to parent in the age of screens.
So often in our society, writing by a group of people is lumped together and dismissed. This has certainly been the case with motherhood literature. In 1976, Adrienne Rich began Of Woman Bornwith this: “We know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of motherhood.” Almost four decades later, we have made progress, yet motherhood literature is still largely ignored, and motherhood memoir, christened “momoir,” is routinely dismissed. But like all great writing, literature about motherhood, is, as Patricia Hampl says about memoir, “an attempt to find not only a self but a world.” Motherhood literature is not about motherhood; it uses motherhood as a lens through which to see the world.
Author Kate Hopper launched the Motherhood & Words Reading in 2007 as a way to highlight motherhood literature. This year, she is thrilled to partner with ModernWell and offer a day-long writing conference for women and mothers interested in deepening their understanding of craft and exploring creative nonfiction in a supportive community of writers.
Featured presenters are Anika Fajardo, Shannon Gibney, April Gibson, Janine Kovac, Kate St. Vincent Vogl, Erin O. White, and Wise Ink co-founders, Dara Beevas and Amy Quale.
Anika Fajardo, April Gibson and Janine Kovac will be the featured readers for the 13th Annual Motherhood Reading. Join us for this amazing day!
Unlock your chastity belt, we're going all the way...six writers take you on their glorious journeys of awkward sexual awakenings!
Join writers and Moxie Road Productions co-founders, Janine Kovac and Tarja Parssinen, as they - ahem! - lay themselves bare. Joining them will be Literary Death Match producer Matthew DeCoster, author Courtenay Hameister, of the newly published book, "Okay Fine Whatever," writer Shannon Hughes, and columnist Justin McCarthy.
For more info and to see the whole Lit Crawl SF schedule, click here: http://sched.co/G35b
Hedgebrook supports visionary women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come.
Join Janine Kovac, Dr. Anu Taranath, and Anna Vodika, each a Hedgebrook alumna, as they head to Barca to share their stories and vision.
https://litcrawlseattle2018.sched.com/event/GcpX/hedgebrook-reading
This summer Moxie Road brings the spirit of Hedgebrook to you!
For the second year in a row, Moxie Road Productions teams up with Hedgebrook, the women's writing collective, for an afternoon of writing, reading, and sharing. Bring your five-minute-piece (800-ish words) to share at our open mic!
At 5 pm, we'll meet for a silent write-in. At 7 pm, we'll pick four names out of a hat to join Hedgebrook authors Ingrid Rojas Contreras (FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE), Mae Respicio (THE HOUSE THAT LOU BUILT), and Janine Kovac (SPINNING: CHOREOGRAPHY FOR COMING HOME.
Read! Write! Drink wine! Buy books!
This month at Stories on Stage Davis's Non-Fiction Night, features author Janine Kovac's memoir, Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home and writer Fátima Policarpo's essay "Speak, Body."
$10 recommended donation, $5 minimum. Free with Student ID. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
https://www.facebook.com/events/393550831071041/
