Upcoming Events
October 29, 2022 ~~ Conversations and Connections, Pittsburgh, Fiction Session: “Writing Imagery that Pops”
October 2022 ~~ Check back here for the trailer for upcoming novel Subversive, seeking agent representation
Previous Events
May 2022~~ Launched the first credit-level novel/memoir class at HCC
March 24-26, 2022~~ AWP in Philadelphia with HCC English Club
March 29, 2021~~Organized Black History Month Poetry Contest – online event
March 2018~~Organized Open Mic with HCC and Barbara Ingram School for the Fine Arts
January 2018~~ Hedge Apple opens its call for submissions globally rather than just to the HCC college community
April 23, 2016 ~~ Conversations and Connections, Fiction Session: “Voice: Creativity through Imitation”
December 15, 2015 ~~ Joined the fiction staff at The Baltimore Review
December 12, 2015 ~~ Public Reading for the Johns Hopkins University AAP program
October 24, 2015 ~~ Hosted the 7th annual Hedge Apple literary magazine reception and open mic — open to the public
October 10, 2015 ~~ Attended Conversations and Connections, Pittsburgh, with the HCC English Club
August 7-9, 2015 ~~ Taught at the Hub City Teen Writers Conference at HCC
July 20, 2015 ~~ Public Reading of “The Fishing Lesson” at City Park
July 12-19, 2015 ~~ Tin House Summer Writers Conference
April 23, 2015 ~~ Reading at the Family Literacy Night at Washington County Public Library
April 12, 2015 ~~ Attended Conversations and Connections, DC, with the HCC English Club
December 4, 2015 ~~ 7th annual Hedge Apple literary magazine reception and open mic — open to the public
November 2, 2014 ~~ Visiting Author at Fountaindale Elementary School
September 20, 2014 ~~ Unveiling of “The Fishing Lesson” sculpture in City Park — first 50 kids get a free book
September 15, 2014 ~~ “The Fishing Lesson” book is distributed to all 1st graders in Washington County
August 9-10, 2014 ~~ Taught at the Nora Roberts Young Writers Conference
July 1, 2014 ~~ My story “Inventory” wins story of the month at Bartleby Snopes
January 8, 2014 ~~ Visiting Author at Mercersburg Elementary School
Subversive 