Events

Thursday June 7, 2017

UCLA Instructors’ Publication Party

7-9:30 pm

Skirball Cultural Center

27-1 North Sepulveda Blvd.

FREE!

Thursday June 29 – July 2, 2017

signing first copies of Live at the Safari Club with Rich Dolinger at Rev Fest

Saturday, August 26, 2017

art show & signing of Live at the Safari Club at It’s Not Dead Fest

San Bernardino, CA

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

EAST COAST PUNK NIGHT AT SKYLIGHT

Talk and signing with Shawna Kenney & Rich Dolinger, the authors of Live at the Safari Club: A History of Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998 (Rare Bird Books) and XXX 1983-1988 (Bridge 9 Records) by Mike Gitter

Skylight Books, Los Angeles

7 pm

Thursday Dec. 8th, 2016

PEN CENTER USA & The Rattling Wall present Only Light Can Do That: 100 Post-Election Poems, Stories & Readings

7-9 pm

Free

Shawna Kenney and other contributors reading from their work at The Last Bookstore

Saturday Nov. 12th, 2016

Rumpus reading for Mellrose Bellow at Radiant Ink Lab 7365 Melrose Ave.

8 pm

Saturday Nov. 5th, 2016

book release party for Jimmy Jazz, the Book of Books, at the San Diego Art Institute with Minerva, Kimberly Dark, Gill Sotu, Michael Klam, ted Washington, Steve Abee and Rich Ferguson

6:30 pm

Saturday August 20, 2016

reading for Vermin on the Mount in San Diego with Scot Sothern, Jim Ruland and others:

3rdspace 4610 Park Blvd, San Diego CA

7:30 PM

Saturday June 11

reading as part of the Vermin on the Mount reading series in Highland Park

Wednesday June 8, 2016

UCLA Instructors’ Publication Party

7-9:30 pm

Skirball Cultural Center

27-1 North Sepulveda Blvd.

FREE!

Pub Party Flyer 2016

Wednesday May 18, 2016

Signing books & conversing with Charlotte Shane at Book Soup, 7 pm

8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA

Saturday Oct. 10, 2015

signing books in the Art Zone at It’s Not Dead Fest

Saturday March 21st, 2015

curating/hosting a WAMItYourself reading at Ave. 50 Studio, Highland Park

Wednesday April 1st, 2015

presenting workshop students’ work at Stories Books in Echo Park

Sunday Night Writers’ Club

Thursday April 21st, 2015

reading at benefit for Mini Heart of Art Gallery, Cal State LA, 4 pm

June 8-10, 2015

University California Riverside Palm Desert MFA, Spring Residency Guest Lecturer

June 11, 2015

UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, Instructor Publication Party, Skirball Cultural Center

7 pm

 

Sunday Feb. 8th

4 – 7 pm

Memorial for Michele Serros

The Los Angeles Theater Center

514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles

Friday Sept. 12th

8 pm
Traxx Bar, Union Station
DTLAB by Writ Large Press
#90for90 series

My Hollywood: local takes on our little town

Sunday, September 14, 2014

CatalystCon

discussion panel: Envelope-Pushing Erotica: How Sexy Stories Can Change the World
with Joan Price, Rachell Kramer Bussel & Rebekah Weatherspoon

Friday, July 11th, 2014

Lust & Letters: A Reading with Tera Patrick & Shawna Kenney, Chicago, IL

Women and Children First Books

5233 N Clark
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
www.womenandchildrenfirst.com

7:30 pm

Free

sponsored by Early 2 Bed

August 8, 2014

Book Lovers features at the Poetry & Art series

readings by Chelsey Drysdale, Danielle Bauter, Laura Roberts and Shawna Kenney

San Diego Art Institute

Museum of the Living Artist

1439 El Prado

Balboa Park

7 pm

Door at 6:30

$5 entrance fee or free with wine or snacks

Thursday, June 12th, 2014

UCLA Extension Writers’ Program 21st Annual Publication Party, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Free

Sunday May 4th, 2014

BOOK LOVERS reading: tea and erotica at Laurel Books, Oakland, CA

with Michelle Gonzales, Trina Calderón, Jay Xuret, Chelsey Drysdale &Assia Fengari

4 pm

 

Monday May 5th, 2014

BOOK LOVERS anthology release party, Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco, CA

reading & signing with Michelle Gonzales, Trina Calderón, Jay Xuret, Chelsey Drysdale &

Assia Fengari @ 7:30 pm

Tuesday May 6th, 2014

Radar Reading Series, San Francisco Public Library

7:30 pm

 

Friday April 11 & Saturday April 12, 2014

signing I Was a Teenage Dominatrix & Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers at Exxotica Expo

Atlantic City, New Jersey

with Tera Patrick

Saturday April 19th, 2014

BOOK LOVERS anthology reading & release party

Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA @ 7:30 pm

Sunday December 8, 2013

UCRiverside MFA Residency

guest lecture: The Experiential Essay

Sunday Nov. 24, 2013

hosting What We Do is Secret writing workshop reading

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

Venice, CA

5 – 7 pm

Saturday August 10, 2013

ScareLA

signing books and summer issue of Girls and Corpses Magazine (which I’m in!) with Tera Patrick and Sid Haig!

past readings and performances

Thursday, June 6th, 2013

Skirball Cultural Center

Wed. Nov. 7th, 2012

Literary Death Match

Busby’s East, Los Angeles

Fri. Dec. 7th, 2012

Spice Radio interview with Christy Canyon & Ginger Lynn, Siruis Channel XM 103, noon – 12:30

Sept. 30, 2012

reading at Stories Books and Cafe in Echo Park, CA with Dito Montiel and Cara Bruce,

presenting The Story of Milk