readings + events
See below for full event list
Truth I’d Dare Event with Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon on February 3, 2019.
READINGS + EVENTS
(Please check with venue + sites to see if registration is required)
2024
For additional 2024 dates & info please visit the calendar at Torrey House Press
AUGUST 2024
August 26: VIRTUAL Terrain.org with Blas Falconer and Jennifer Case
August 27 6pm: Alamosa, CO
Society Hall with Narrow Gauge Book Coop
August 29 1pm: Boulder, UT
Hell’s Backbone Grill with Blake Spalding & Kirsten Johanna Allen
SEPTEMBER 2024
September 3 6pm: Sante Fe, NM
Collected Works Bookstore | LAUNCH
September 4 6pm: Albuquerque, NM
Bookworks
September 17 4pm: Corte Madera, CA
Book Passage, Corte Madera Location
September 24 5:30: Port Orford, OR
Sea Wolf Books
OCTOBER 2024
October 1 6pm: Durango, CO
Maria’s Bookshop
October 2 5:30: Telluride, CO
Wilkinson Public Library
October 10: Crested Butte, CO
Townie Books
October 20 2pm: Bluff, UT
Bluff Arts Festival with the Montvales
October 21 7pm: Salt Lake City, UT
Church & State with the Montvales
October 23 6pm: Portland, Oregon
Broadway Books
+MORE ONLINE & TO COME
PAST EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 2020
(For in person events please check with the venue because some require (free) tickets)
September 20: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, Hell’s Backbone Grill at Boulder Mountain Lodge, Boulder, UT, 3pm
September 21: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, Entrada Institute, Torrey, UT, 7:30pm
September 22: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, The Courtyard at 610, Ridgeway, CO, 5pm
September 23: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride, CO 5:30pm
September 26: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, Townie Books/Rumors Coffee House, Crested Butte, CO 4pm
September 26: ON LINE With Joe Wilkins, High Plains Book Award Reading, 7pm
September 27: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine, Basalt Regional Library, 2pm
OCTOBER 2020
October 1: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced!) With Amy Irvine and Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Rochester Hotel Secret Garden, Durango, CO 5:30pm MT Register Here
October 7: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, Park City Library Reading Series, Park City UT,
7:00 pm MT
October 12: ONLINE With Amy Irvine AIRMAIL OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH King’s English Bookstore, Salt Lake City, UT, 6:30pm MT
October 13: IN PERSON (masked and distanced. This is a ticketed event.) Boulder Bookstore, Boulder Colorado, 5pm MT
October 14: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM 6pm MT
Visit the site or connect via Zoom here.
October 15: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, 6pm MT. Writing By Writers Readings By Writers Series
Event is free but please make sure to RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
October 17: IN PERSON (outside, masked and distanced) With Amy Irvine Modern West Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 11am MT Register here
October 17: IN PERSON SIGNING ONLY Ken Sander’s Rare Books 2-3pm MT
October 17; IN PERSON SIGNING ONLY The Kings English, Salt Lake City, 4-5pm MT
October 18: ONLINE with Amy Irvine, Bluff Festival of Writers, closing keynote, 12 Noon MT. Please be sure to register here.
October 20: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, Bookworks, ABQ, 6pm MT
October 25: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, Book Bar, Denver, CO 6pm MT.
Please see the site to RSVP.
October 26: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, Bub Warner Memorial Library Event, Steamboat Springs, CO 7:00pm MT Register here
October 27: ONLINE Moab Museum Speaker Series, 6:30pm MT
October 28: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, A Conversation of Politics, Pandemics and Place with Lithic Books, Fruita, CO, 7pm MT
October 29: ONLINE With Amy Irvine, House of Books, Kent, CT, ***6pm Eastern Time (all other times listed are Mountain) Register Here
NOVEMBER 2020
November 5: IN PERSON (and online) Broomfield Library, One Book, One Town, Broomfield, CO, Deep Creek 7:30pm
November 11: ONLINE With Amy Irvine and Ginger Gaffney, Taos Film Fest 7pm
November 13: ONLINE Tahoe College Reading Series
November 17: ONLINE Lyons Friends of the Library Event, 7pm
November 18: ONLINE With Amy Irvine: Books In Common NW 7:30
November 30: ONLINE With Amy Irvine and Sumanth Prabakar at Orion Magazine Events 5pm
JANUARY 2020
January 11: With Brandon Hobson, 6pm, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
January 17: Reading and fun at Casey’s, Whitefish, MT
January 21: Reading at Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge, Mammoth, WY
January 23: Reading at Snow Lodge, Geysir Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY
January 29th: Reading at Summit County Library, 6:00-7:30, Kamas, Utah
January 30: Books Inc, (Shattuck) Conversation with Kate Wisel (Driving In Cars With Homeless Men) 7:00pm Berkeley, CA
January 31, Keynote, Sierra’s Writer’s Conference, 10:00am Rocklin, CA
January 31: Stories on Stage, Sacramento, 7:30-9:30, At the Auditorium at CLARA, Sacramento, CA
FEBRUARY 2020
February 1: Keynote, Sierra Writer’s Conference, 2:00pm Grass Valley, CA
February 1: Foothills Events Center, 7:00pm, Grass Valley, CA
February 6: Longmont Public Library, 7:15-9:00, Longmont, CO
February 8: Conversation with Stephanie Land, Corporeal Writing, Portland, OR
February 10: Reading with Stephanie Land, 7:00 pm at Broadway Books, Portland, OR
February 11: Reading at Copperfields, 6:00pm Healdsburg, CA
February 18: Brazos Bookstore, 6:30 pm, Houston, TX
February 19: Reading with Cynthia Newberry Martin at Square Books, 5:30pm, Oxford, Mississippi
February 20: Reading with Cynthia Newberry Martin at Interabang Books, 6:00pm, Dallas, Texas
February 21: Inkberry Books, 7:00pm, Niwot, Colorado
February 27: Pine River Library, 6:00-7:30, Bayfield, CO
February 28: Cortez Library, 6:00-7:30 Cortez, CO
MARCH 2020
March 6: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Back of Beyond Books, 7pm, Moab, UT
March 10: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, King’s English Bookstore, 7pm, Salt Lake City, UT
March 12: Fundraiser for 350 Colorado, Unity of Boulder, 5:30-8:30, Boulder, CO
March 14: Reading with Jericho Brown and Dorothy Allison, 7pm, Chatauqua Community House, Boulder, CO (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
March 16: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Changing Hands Bookstore, 7pm, Tempe, AZ (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
March 17: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Bright Side Books, 5pm, Flagstaff, AZ (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
March 18: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Sedona Public Library in cooperation with The Literate Lizard, 6pm, Sedona, AZ (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
March 26: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Maria’s Bookshop, 7:00m pm, Durango, CO (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
APRIL 2020
April 15: Reading with Ginger Gaffney, Book People, 7pm, Austin, Texas (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 16: Reading with Ginger Gaffney at Arcadia Books, Spring Green, WI (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 17/18: Featured Presenter at Ragdale’s Novel Affair, Lake Forest, IL (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 22: National Writers Series, Doors open at 6pm, Traverse City, MI (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 23rd: Powells City of Books, Burnside Store, with Ginger Gaffney, 7:00pm, Portland, OR (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 26th: Bookbash, fundraiser for The Learning Source, Tattered Cover, Denver, CO (Postponed due to Covid-19, to be rescheduled)
April 28th: Reading with Cynthia Newberry Martin at Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA
JANUARY, 2019
January 26: Keynote and on-stage conversation with Andre Dubus III, Writers In Paradise Conference, 8:00pm, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
January 28: Collected Works, 6:00pm, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, New Mexico
January 29: Deep Creek Launch Day! Bookworm of Edwards, 6:00pm, 295 Main Street C101, Edwards, Colorado
January 30: Boulder Bookstore, 6:30pm. ***This event will be held at Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, Colorado
January 31: Tattered Cover, 7:00pm, 2526 East Colfax Ave, Denver, Colorado
FEBRUARY, 2019
February 1: Elliott Bay Book Company, 7:00pm, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, Washington
February 2: Imprint Books, 820 Water Street, 7:00pm, Port Townsend, Washington
February 3: Revolution Hall with Cheryl Strayed & Lidia Yuknavitch, doors open at 6:30pm, event starts at 7pm, 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, Oregon
February 4: Vromans 7:00pm, 695 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California
February 5: Pen On Fire Writers’ Salon at Lido Village Bookstore 6:00pm, Newport Beach, California
February 6: Book Passage 7:00pm, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, California
February 7: Bookshop Santa Cruz, 7:00pm, 1520 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz, California
February 8: Paulina Springs Books, 6:30pm, 252 W Hood Ave, Sisters, Oregon
February 9: Sunriver Books and Music, 5:00pm Sunriver, Oregon
February 11: Bend Art Center, 6:00 (Afternoon writing workshop on Sunday February 10, available by ticket only) 550 SW Industrial Way, Bend, Oregon
February 12: Northwest Passages Bookclub, ticketed event, Spokane, Washington (Cancelled because of snow, make up date March 26th)
February 13: Red Rocks Community College, 1:30pm, Lakewood, CO
February 13: Bookbar, (Afternoon writing workshop available by ticket only. Get yours here) 4280 Tennyson St, 7:00pm, Denver, Colorado
February 15: Lithic Books, 7:00pm 138 S Park Square, Fruita, Colorado
February 16: Narrow Gauge Book Co-op, 6:00pm, 602 Main Street, Alamosa, Colorado
February 19: Georgia College’s Mayfair Hall 7:00pm, Milledgeville, Georgia
February 20: Midtown Reader, 1123 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, Florida
February 21: Pass Christian Books, 6:00pm 300 East Scenic Drive, Pass Christian, Mississippi
February 22: Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Keynote Speaker, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 23: Bookworks 3:00pm, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 23: Garcia Street Books, 7:00pm, Santa Fe, New Mexico
February 24: Northshire Books, 6:00pm Manchester Center, Vermont
February 25: RJ Julia’s, 6:00pm 768 Boston Post Rd, Madison, Connecticut
February 26: Gibson’s, 45 South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire
February 27: Workshop, talk and book signing. Event benefits Sachuest Point Wildlife RefugeWildlife, Providence, RI
MARCH, 2019
Marc 1-3: Grand County Community of Writers, Winter Park, Colorado
March 5: In Conversation with Megan Griswold, International Museum of Wildlife Art, 7:00 pm Jackson Hole, Wyoming
March 6: Country Bookshelf, 6:00 pm, 28 W Main St, Bozeman, Montana
March 7: Fact & Fiction, 7:00pm 220 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, Montana
March 8: Bonner’s Ferry Books, Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho
March 9: Montana Book Co, 6:00 pm, Helena, Montana
March 12: The Community Library, 6:00pm
Ketchum, Idaho
March 13: King’s English Bookstore, 7:00pm Salt Lake City, Utah
March 19: Maria’s Bookshop, 6:30, Durango, Colorado
March 22: Luncheon at Beach Books, 12:00pm Seaside, Oregon
March 26: MAKE UP DATE Northwest Passages Bookclub, ticketed event, Spokane, Washington
March 27-30: Featured presenter at AWP, Portland Oregon
March 30th: Bloomsbury Books with Stephanie Land, author of Maid, 7:00pm, Ashland, Oregon
APRIL 2019
April 9: Literary Luncheon, Orinda Books, Orinda, CA
April 19th: Old Harbor Books, 6:00 pm, Sitka, AK
April 20th: Alaska State Museum, APK Lecture Hall 2-4, Juneau, AK
April 22nd: Ketchikan Public Library, 6:30, Ketchikan, AK
April 25: Napa Bookmine event at the Napa Main Library in partnership and as a fundraiser for Napa County Resource Conservation district, 7:00 pm Napa, CA
April 26: Copperfield’s Books 7:00pm, 138 N Main St. Sebastopol, CA
April 27: Earth Day Readings, Admiral Maltings, 3:00-5:00, Alameda, CA
April 28: Point Reyes Books, Location TBD, 4:00pm, Point Reyes Station, CA
MAY 2019
May 4: With Katie Peterson, Political Optimism, Political Despair, and the Wilderness, The Marsh Cabaret, 1:30pm-2:45pm, Bay Area Book Festival, Oakland, CA
May 6: Story Studio, Master Class 6:30-9:30, Chicago, IL
May 7: Volumes Book Cafe, 7pm, Chicago, IL
May 11: Stories on Stage UC Davis, Davis, CA
May 18: Somos Author Series, 7pm, Taos, New Mexico
May 19: Telluride Lit Fest, (featured author) 6:00pm, Telluride, CO
May 20-21: Keynote Speaker Outdoor Writers Association of California Conference, Mount Shasta Resort, Mt. Shasta, California.
JUNE 2019
June 1: Reading and Q and A, Denison University, 2:00pm, Granville, Ohio
June 2: Book Party at the Foundry 42, 5:00-7:00. Port Jervis, NY
June 26th: Esalen Writers Camp Faculty Reading, with Sam Dunn, Steve Almond, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Lynell George, Leonard Pavillion, Esalen, 8:00pm, Big Sur, California
June 29th: Reading at Rare Things Gallery, 3:00pm Creede, CO
JULY 2019
July 5: Between The Covers, Reading to Celebrate the Reissue of Tomboy Bride, Telluride, CO
July 11: Steamboat Springs Bud Werner Library, 7:00pm, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
July 12: Colorado Mountain College Auditorium, sponsored by Next Page Books, 6:30, Breckenridge, Colorado
July 15: Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, 6:00pm Provincetown, Massachusetts
July 27: Summer Readers Gathering with Chip Livingston and Kristiana Kahakauwila, Institute of American Indian Arts Auditorium, 6:00pm, Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 31: Fundraiser for RiGHT (Rio Grand Headwaters Landtrust), Windsor Hotel, Del Norte, CO
AUGUST 2019
August 1: Townie Books, 6:00pm, Crested Butte, Colorado
August 6: Homer Library, 6:00pm, Homer, Alaska
August 8: Stories and Song, an evening with musician Emma Hill, Sutton Public Library, Sutton, Alaska, 7:00pm
August 9: Stories and Song, an evening with musician Emma Hill, Writer’s Block, Anchorage, Alaska
August 10: Signing, Fireside Books, 1-3pm, Palmer, Alaska
August 12: Kodiak Library, Kodiak, AK
August 16: Book Haven, 6:00pm, Salida, Colorado
SEPTEMBER 2019
September 21: Arcadia Books, 5:30, Spring Green, WI
September 23: Four Seasons Book, 7:00 Sheperdstown, WV
September 27: Out West Books, 6:00, Grand Junction, CO
OCTOBER 2019
October 7: Ridgeway Chautauqua Society, Sherbino Theater, Ridgeway, CO
October 8: Coyote Tales Storytelling Series, 6:30pm, Ivans, UT
October 17: Reading with Tommy Orange, 8:00, Marconi Center, Writing By Writers@Tomales Bay, Marshall, CA
October 26th: Texas Book Festival, Panel with Ross Gay: This Joyful Moment 1:30, Austin, TX
October 27-Nov 1: Santa Fe Writers Lab Generative Workshop in San Miguel Allende, MX
NOVEMBER 2019
November 6: Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA 4:30
November 12: Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tennessee, 6:30 with Cynthia Newberry Martin, author of Tidal Flats
November 15: Antigone’s Books, Tucson, AZ
DECEMBER 2019
December 10: Book talk and slide show at Sedona Library, 6:30, Sedona, AZ
December 11: Book talk and slide show at Prescott Valley Library, 6:30, Prescott Valley, AZ
December 12: Book talk and slide show at Flagstaff Library, 6:00, Flagstaff, AZ