Upcoming Events 

 
Due to Covid19 and safety requirements for all, many events have been canceled or postponed. Some virtual events are being planned and will be posted when information is available. If you are an artist or know an artist who needs financial assistance, please visit Artist Relief online for resources. 





2/5/22 - Say It Loud with Ebony Stewart

2/15/22 - Literary Cypher 

2/16-22/22 - The Watermill Center 

3/3-6/22 - Snowbound Writers Retreat with Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

3/4/22 - Surprise Event (stay tuned!) 

4/2-9/22 - Iota Literary Conference 

6/9 - 21/22 - Hedgebrook Residency


 
PAST EVENTS 

8/26/17 - Tent Revival, Allgo, Austin, TX 

8/30/17 - Aural Lit, Austin, TX 

9/18/17 - Happy Birthday to Me!, Everywhere! 

9/22/17 - I Scream Social, Malvern Books, Austin, TX 

10/14/17 - Free Minds Workshop, Austin, TX 

10/23/17 - Chicon Street Poets Reading Series, Austin, TX 

11/4/17 - Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX

1/4/18 - Another Way to Say Enter Book Launch, Austin, TX

1/6/18 - Prizer Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony, Austin, TX

1/10-14/18 - Stonecoast MFA Residency, Freeport, ME

1/15/18 - MLK Day Open Mic @ The Vortex, Austin, TX 

1/18/18 - Poetry & Wine, San Marcos, TX 

2/8/18 - TexasCASA, Austin, TX (private event)

2/10/18 - Amanda Johnston & Friends @ Prizer, Austin, TX 

2/15/18 - Community Poetry Workshop @ Prizer, Austin, TX

2/24/18 - TORCH Wildfire Reading Series, BookWoman, Austin, TX

3/1/18 - Zumbi Radio KAZI, Austin, TX 

3/2/18 - Resistencia, Celebrating Verses of Black Women, Austin, TX

3/8-9/18 - AWP Conference, Tampa, FL 
Fri. March 9th - 12:00PM // Political Pivoting: Literary Publishing at the Pace of Politics, Sponsored by CLMP.(Johnny Temple,  Paul Reyes,  Amanda Johnston,  Meara Sharma) Room 18 & 19, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor, F194 
Sat. March 10th - 9:00AM // The Thing Builders: Building Literary Communities That Matter. (Amanda Johnston,  JP Howard, Janna Marlies Maron,  Penny Guisinger) Grand Salon B, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor, S109

3/17/18 - Another Way to Say Enter Book Launch, Harlem, NY

3/31/18 - Salvage Vanguard Theater, con flama talk back, Austin, TX

4/5/18 - Poetry & Prose: Amanda Johnston & Alexis Paige, Austin,TX

4/19-21/18 - Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C. 
Date/Time/Location TBD: Kevlar Hearts: Poetic Strategies for Engaging Police Violence. Presenters: F. Douglas Brown, Mahogany Browne, Kyle Dargan, Amanda Johnston

4/22/18 - Black Ladies Brunch Collective, Washington, D.C. 

4/26/18 - Cultural Lounge at the Carver, Austin, TX 

4/27/18 - Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, TX 

5/4/18 - Lisa L. Moore Release of 24 Hours of Men, Austin, TX

5/12/18 - Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX 

5/26/18 - Malvern Books, Austin, TX 

5/30/18 - Aural Literature Reading Series, Austin, TX 

7/11 - 15/18 - Stonecoast MFA Residency, Freeport, ME 

7/27/18 - 60-IN-SIXTY, FUSEBOX Festival Fundraiser, Austin, TX

9/1/18 - Six Square District Cultural Arts Festival, Austin, TX 

10/6/18 - Babes Bar with Alexis Paige, Bethel, VT 

10/12/18 - New Works Reading, NYU & Cave Canem, New York, NY
 
10/27/18 - Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX 

10/27/18 - Lit Crawl Austin - Black Poets Speak Out, Austin, TX 

10/28/18 - TORCH Wildfire Reading Series, Austin, TX 

11/1/18 - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

11/2-3/18 - Hugo House Reading & Workshop, Seattle, WA

12/13/18 - Bookwoman 2nd Thursday Reading Series, Austin, TX

2/28 - 3/2/19 - SUNSTAR Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 

3/27-30/19 - AWP Conference, Portland, OR
                                   Sat. Panel: 21st Century Innovations in Poetic Form, 3:00PM

3/28/19 - Women Writers in Bloom Reading, Portland, OR

3/28/19 - Affrilachians at the Heathman, Portland, OR
 
3/29/19 - Women of Resistance Anthology Reading, Portland, OR

3/30/19 - Argus House Press Reading, Portland, OR 

4/18/19 - ECTC, Elizabethtown, KY
 
4/19/19 - Carnegie Center, Lexington, KY

5/5 - 6/2/19 - Let's Get Physical: Writing the Body, IOTA Online
 
5/8/19 - LOGOS Reading Series, Austin, TX 

6/2/19 - A Womb of One's Own, Spider House Ballroom, Austin, TX 
 
6/9-15/19 - Cave Canem Summer Retreat, Greensburg, PA

6/15/19 - CAAPP, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

7/5-12/19 - Stonecoast, Dingle, Ireland 

10/16-18/19 - Furious Flower, Harrisonburg, VA
 
10/26-27/19 - Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX ​
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10/27/19 - TORCH Wildfire Reading
 
10/28/19 - University of New Haven, West Haven, CT

2/11/20 - Maine College, Portland, ME  
 
2/22/20 - Texas Poetry Out Loud Finals, Austin, TX 
 
3/3/20 - Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era Book Launch, Austin, TX 

3/8/20 - Revel: Witness, Austin, TX 

9/12/20 - Kentucky Women Writers Conference: Wild Women of Poetry
 
9/17/20 - Poetry as Praise, Protest & Power
 
10/13-30/20 - Early Voting in Texas 

11/17/20 - McMaster University, Canada 

12/8/20 - Dallas ISD 

12/19/20 - Soul Sister Review & Women Writers in Bloom Reading 

1/29/21 - BreakBeats Poets at Denton Black Film Festival

1/29/21 - Live From the Draylen Mason Studio

2/1/21 - The Fire Gilders: A Celebration of Women Poets marking Brigid’s Day & Black History Month

2/1/21 - University of Alabama Creative Writing Contest Judge

3/6 - AWP Conference: Panel - for colored girls: fam, friends, fans, A Celebration of Ntozake Shange

4/10/21 - Every Shining Gift: A Birthday Celebration for Toi Derricotte 

4/17/21 - Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, Carving a New Sound. Workshop 

4/27/21 - The Heartland Review at ECTC, Reading 

4/29/21 - The Heartland Review at ECTC, Workshop 

6/13/21 - Stone House Reading Series

6/18/21 - ACC Juneteenth Virtual Reading 

6/28 - 7/4/21 - Tasajillo Residency

8/01/21 - Maine's Literary Arts Fellowship, Award Panel 

10/6/21 - “with love like black, our black”: Black Poetry and Literary Citizenship

10/9/21 - Little Girl Blue by Sequoia Maner Book Launch 

10/23 - 11/20/21 - New Beginnings Workshop, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

11/20/21 - The Eastside Event Series, Weekend 3: "Blues, Bites, & Cocktails" 

12/10/21 - The Moth Mainstage at the Paramount 

12/18-21/21 - Tasajillo Residency