Events
Sunday, Dec. 9th, 2018
reading on the Why Are There Words reading series
1000 South Olive St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
hosted by Patrick O’Neil & Ashley Perez
7 pm
Sunday May 20, 2018
Pitch + Publish + Brand
How to Position Your Writing for Success
with Shawna Kenney & Andrea Guevara
1888 Center
115 N. Orange Street
Orange, CA
Friday Dec. 1, 2017
1:15 pm – 3:15 pm
My PITC Teaching Residency ends with students reading from their new anthology. PEN in the Community (PITC) brings professional writers into underserved schools and communities through their Writer in Residence program and the Guest Speaker program.
For PITC’s Writer in Residence program, author Chris Terry created curriculum highlighting topics such as immigration, persecution, and assimilation to allow increased empathy to inform students’ own storytelling. These multigenerational workshops were informed and taught by myself and Peter H Z Tsu. Facebook link above.
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
Live at the Safari Club: A History of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital
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