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Events

April 18, 2026
Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Writing
Kathryn Fay will be part of the Speed Dating with Editors session
American University
Washington, DC
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May 13, 2026
Book Launch Event for Chitra Demands to Go Home
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay with Eman Quotah
Wonderland Books
Bethesda, MD

Past Events

Event graphic for the book launch and signing event for We're Gonna Get Through This Together; includes an image of the book cover, and the author Z. Hanna, as well as images of the conversation partner, Zak Salih and his book cover, Let's Get Back to the Party

March 4, 2025
Book Launch at Lost City Books
Z. Hanna with Zak Salih
Washington, DC

March 27, 2025
AWP25 Panel
From Satire to Dad Jokes: How Humor Can Be Literary, Political & Funny
with Kristen Arnett, Isle McElroy, Z. Hanna, and Alana Saab
Los Angeles, CA

Event graphic for the reading, discussion, and Q&A at Red Emma's with an image of Z. Hanna and Dominic Moulden with the image of the book cover for We're Gonna Get Through This Together in the middle

April 10, 2025
Reading and Discussion at Red Emma’s
Z. Hanna with Dominic Moulden
Baltimore, MD

May 23, 2025
Book Talk at Possible Futures
Z. Hanna with Aaraf Afzal
New Haven, CT

June 14-15, 2025
Lavender Con
Keynote Panel: Reading is Political
Washington, DC

July 1, 2025
Launch at The Bookshop
Erin Cecilia Thomas with Liz Riggs
Nashville, TN

July 17, 2025
Craft Class and Workshop at The Porch
Erin Cecilia Thomas
Nashville, TN

October 1, 2025
Lost City Books Fall Salon
Nicole Chung (nonfiction), Issam Zineh (poetry), Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (poetry), Erin Cecilia Thomas (fiction)
The Line DC
Washington, DC

September 19-20, 2025
Punch Bucket Literary Festival
Short Story Reading by Gregory Ariail, Garrett Ashley, Paul Luikart, and Erin C Thomas
Asheville, NC

November 20, 2025
Get the Word Out Fiction Reading
GTWO Fiction Fellows: Hillary Behrman, Denise Derya Brandt, Kim Coleman Foote, Sophia Huneycutt, Rachel León, Kat Lewis, Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, Radhika Singh, Grace Spulak, and Diana Xin
Online
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March 5-7, 2026
#AWP26 Bookfair
Table 611
Baltimore, MD

March 7, 2026 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Author Signing at Table 611
Erin Cecilia Thomas signs copies of her debut story collection, I Watched You from the Ocean Floor

March 5, 2026
6 Local Publishers at Pickles Pub – An AWP Off-site
Modern Artist Press, akinoga press, The Baltimore Review, Mason Jar Press, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Yellow Arrow Publishing
Pickles Pub
Baltimore, MD