EVENTS
2026 Upcoming Events
...More to Come!
Saturday, February 21: YARDBARDS. Birdcoat Quarterly . 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM . Readings start at 7:00 . Grant Park, Atlanta . follow link for free tickets
Friday, March 6: AWP/ Baltimore . Red Hen Off-site reading
Saturday, March 7: AWP/ Baltimore . 12:20 to 1:25 Ballroom II of the Baltimore Convention Center Level 400 Red Hen Panel 1 with Abrea Armstrong, Lara Ehrlich and Luke Goebel . moderated by editor and publisher Kate Gale
Saturday, March 28: Georgian Gallery, McDonough, GA . (poetry!)
Saturday, April 4: Eagle Eye Book Shop . Decatur, GA . 1-3:00
Saturday, April 4: Arabia Reads . Arabia Mountain . 3-5:00
Sunday, April 12: FAYETTEVILLE BOOK LAUNCH: Scholar & Scribe Bookshop & Library Bar, Trilith, GA ; 6:00 - 8:00
300 Trilith Pkwy. Suite 260
Saturday, April 25: ATLANTA BOOK LAUNCH: Lost in the Letters . Candler Park ATL (time & other presenters TBA)
Tuesday, April 28: Pace Academy Lunch & Learn with artist Teah Charkawi
Saturday, May 2: Atlanta Writers Conference
Tuesday, May 26: Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry 2026 . Charleston, SC . (poetry!)
2025
April 19, 2025: Launch of WE TRAVEL TOWARDS IT, La Cathedral de Noonerosa, with art by Dorothy O'Connor and music by The Bryans
May 6 . 2025: 7:00 PM . Georgia Center for the Book . Decatur. GA. Sisterhood & Stanzas: Women and the Art of Poetry with readers Hester L. Furey, Livija Rieksts Bolster, and Claire Bateman. Get tickets here: https://aftontickets.com/SisterhoodandStanzas
June 12 . 2025: With featured reader Rupert Fike . The Book Bird of Avondale Estates . 32 N. Avondale Rd.
August 9. 2025: Writing Contrapuntal Ecopoems + Reading at 6:00 pm . South Carolina Poetry Society . Charleston, SC
August 11. 2025: In Conversation with Claire Bateman . M. Judson Books . Greenville, SC . 130 Main St
November 2 . 2025: 3:00-5:00 . Pine Lake Art Salon & Playhouse . 4641 Ridge Drive . Pine Lake / with Stell Simonton and Feral Willcox