2023
OCTOBER 9: Join us at Joseph Beth Lexington for a reading and conversation between Shawna Kay Rodenberg and Pauletta Hansel. 7pm ET.
SEPTEMBER 23: Join Shawna at the Madison County Public Library Book Fest.
2022
NOVEMBER 16th: Guest Speaker at California State University
A virtual event hosted by Women and Crime class.
OCTOBER 14-16: Southern Festival of Books
Hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN. Details to come.
SEPTEMBER 26: Reading and Conversation
Hosted by Exile in Bookville, Chicago.
SEPTEMBER 10: Author Talk with Robert Gipe
Hosted by Atlas books from 2-4 CDT at Johnson City Public Library, Johnson City, TN. Find more information here. .
MAY 7-28: HINDMAN MAKERY, HINDMAN KY
Join Shawna as she teaches Remembering in the Flesh, a virtual class in creative nonfiction here.
MAY 20TH: BLUE STOCKING SOCIAL, EVANSVILLE, IN
Join Shawna for a reading at Blue Stocking Social Bookstore at 6PM CST.
MAY 17: BIRCH BARK EDITING SERIES, VIRTUAL
Join Shawna for a virtual reading and conversation with June Gervais at 7PM EST. (Link will be shared here soon.)
APRIL 16: YOUR BROTHER’S BOOKSTORE, EVANSVILLE IN
Join Shawna for an in-person reading at 1:30PM at Your Brother’s Bookstore.
APRIL 14: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
Join Shawna virtually for VCU’s Visiting Writers Series here.
APRIL 12-13: EASTERN TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING LITERARY FESTIVAL, JOHNSON CITY, TN
Shawna will lead a nonfiction workshop— more information here.
APRIL 7: TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN WRITERS CONFERENCE, OAK RIDGE, TN
Please join Shawna as she leads a nonfiction workshop— more information about the schedule here.
MARCH 11: SURFACE NOISE RECORDS, LOUISVILLE, KY
Join Shawna for a reading with Robert Gipe (in person!) at 7PM.
Robert Gipe won the 2015 Weatherford Award for outstanding Appalachian novel for his first novel Trampoline. His second novel, Weedeater, was published in 2018 and his third, Pop, was published in 2021. All three novels are published by Ohio University Press. In 2021, the trilogy won the Judy Gaines Young Book Award. From 1997 to 2018, Gipe directed the Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College Appalachian Program in Harlan where he produced the Higher Ground community performance series; directed the Southeast Kentucky Revitalization Project, which trains workers in fields related to creative placemaking; coordinated the Great Mountain Mural Mega Fest; co-produced the Hurricane Gap Community Theater Institute; and advised on It’s Good To Be Young in the Mountains, a youth-driven conference. Gipe resides in Harlan County, Kentucky. He grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.
JANUARY 27: HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
A reading and discussion of KIN from 6-7:30 at HCPL.