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Appearances & Upcoming Workshops
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Roanoke Writers Conference (Roanoke, TX Library) 
Date: September 30 - October 1st, 2022
Location: Roanoke, TX 
Welcome to our 8th Annual Roanoke Writers Conference! To kick off this conference right, we'll begin Friday afternoon with a workshop on using tarot as a writing tool by L.J. Keys! Following the workshop, we have a Keynote speech by poet and activist Holly Walrath. Saturday we will have multiple sessions on genre, poetry, the basics of writing, and more. We end the conference with a Q&A with all the speakers, a great time to ask anything you didn't get a chance to in your sessions!

Micro & Flash Fiction (Writing Workshops Dallas) 
Date: 4 Weeks, Starting October 3rd, 2022
Location: ONLINE via Wet Ink
This generative workshop explores flash fiction in all its forms—from the dribble to the drabble to the micro-story—up to 1500 words. Writing flash can enhance your skills as a writer because it teaches you how to be concise and what makes a (very short) story. We’ll cover beginnings and endings—and what should lie in-between. We’ll discuss the details of rhythm, voice, and structure. Learn how to craft flash pieces that pack an emotional punch and leave the reader breathless, in the briefest of words.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
Writing the very very short story: dribbles, drabbles, and flash fiction.
How to weave emotion into a tiny space using situations.
Playing with words and sound.
Unique structures for flash fiction.

Journaling for Writers (Writing Workshops Dallas) 
DATE: 4 Weeks, Starting November 28th, 2022
Price: $259
Location: ONLINE via Wet Ink
Do you feel lost in your writing process? Get organized by journaling! In this workshop, we'll cover the basics of journaling for writers. Not just as a method of processing and keeping track of your thoughts, but as a method of improving your writing life and working towards a career as a writer. We'll cover tracking your writing, how to manage large ideas or projects, tracking submissions, creating goals, revising in a journal, and more, all while exploring popular methods of journaling to find the one that works for you. 
At the end of the class, you'll set up your journal for the new year.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
Tracking your writing
How to manage large ideas or projects
Tracking submissions and creating goals
Revising in a journal, and more, all while exploring popular methods of journaling to find the one that works for you.

Self-Paced Course: Journaling for Poets
DATE: Ongoing
TIME: Asynchronous, Self-paced via Poetry Barn
PRICE: $99
Poets are observers. One way to keep track of your observations and ideas is through a writing journal. In this workshop, we'll cover the basics of journaling for poets, not just as a method of processing and keeping track of your thoughts, but as a method of improving your writing life and working towards a career as a writer. 

In this workshop, you'll cover how to manage large ideas or projects, track submissions, create goals, revising, and more, all while exploring popular methods of journaling to find the one that works for you. If you feel out of sorts or disorganized in your writing life, this workshop is for you!

Self-Paced Course: Writing Resistance Through Erasure, Found Text & Visual Poetry
DATE: Ongoing
TIME: Asynchronous, Self-paced via Poetry Barn
PRICE: $99
Hybrid poetry forms can be a powerful form of resistance. From Jerrod Schwarz’s erasure of Trump’s inaugural speech to Niina Pollari’s black outs of the N-400 citizenship form, contemporary poets are engaging with the world through text, creating new and challenging works of art. Heralded by the rise of the “Instapoet,” visual works are a way to take poetry one step further by crafting new forms and structures that often transcend the page. 

Upcoming Con Appearances

August 31-September 6: Chicon (Worldcon), Chicago, IL
September 30-October 2: Roanoke Writer's Conference, Roanoake, TX
October 12-17: Multiverse Atlanta
November 2-6: World Fantasy Con

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Upcoming Workshops: 
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Stay tuned for 2023 workshops!

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Past Appearances
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August 2022: Strong Women, Strange Worlds Reading (Online) 
August 2022: Armadillocon (Austin, TX) 
July 2022: Writing Speculative Short Fiction (Writing Workshops Dallas) 
​July 2022: Journaling for Poets (Nebraska Poetry Society) 
​June 2022: Queer Poetics (Poetry Barn) 
​April 2022: NaPoWriMo Write-A-Long (Poetry Barn)
March 2022: Science Poetry (Poetry Barn)
November 2021: Journaling Your Way Through NaNoWriMo ( Fairway Library, Maricopa County Libraries ​, AZ) 
​October 2021: Speculative Poetics: Neither Here Nor There (Poetry Barn) 
October 2021: ArmadilloCon Austin
September 2021: FenCon Dallas
August 2021: Writing Speculative Fiction (Writing Workshops Dallas)
August 2021: Readercon 
July 2021: Re-Visioning Your Poetry (Poetry Barn) 
April 2021: Writing Speculative Short Fiction (Writing Workshops Dallas)
April 2021: Flights of Foundry, Writing Narrative Poetry panel
​March 2021: A Feminist Poetry Reading Primer: Writing with Our Foremothers (Poetry Barn)
October 2020: Writespace Poetry Critique 
​October 2020: Writespace Introduction to Found Poetry
November 2020: Writespace Journaling Your Way to a Better Writing Life
July, 2020: Writespace First Chapter Critique Session 
July, 2020: Writespace Q&A with an Editor
November 2019: Malvern Books: Speculative Poetry Reading with T.D. Walker
​October 2019: Gemini Ink Online Workshop: The Writing Life 101
​September 2019: Zinefest Houston
August 2019: Armadillocon, Austin
​July 2019: Readercon, Boston
February 2019: People's Poetry Festival, Corpus Christi
November 2018: Zine Fest Houston
November 2018: Finishing Line Press Showcase - Kaboom Books & Gemini Ink
October 2018: Book launch & Women's Voices Open Mic - Writespace Houston
September 29, 2018, 6-8pm - Art & Words Show, Fort Worth, TX - Featured Reader​
​August 22nd-September 12, 2018: Writespace Writing Life 101 Workshop
August 25, 2018: Writespace Poetry of the Fantastic Workshop
July 2018: Readercon: Panelist
May 2018: Comicpalooza (Panelist and hosting the SFPA Poetry reading May 25th)
June 2018: 2018 SFPA Contest chair. 
June 26, 2018: Reading at Fix Coffee Bar hosted by Mike Alexander

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