press & events

Saturday, October 5th – “Not Just the Thing with Feathers: Writing on/about/through Grief” (panel discussion)

Amy Monticello, Heather Bartlett, and I will be speaking at Barrelhouse’s “Conversations & Connections Conference,” down in Philadelphia, at Temple University. Come join us!

Wednesday, April 12th – Come join me at SUNY Cortland for a reading from Ghosts Caught on Film at the Dowd Art Gallery, starting at 5pm! (I’m also running a generative creative writing workshop beforehand for Cortland students, called “‘And Then What Happened?’ Overcoming Writer’s Block through Flash Fiction.”) Thank you and thank you and thank you to Heather Bartlett for the invitation to come out and visit!

Tuesday, November 8th – I’ll be reading selections from Ghosts Caught on Film as part of Suffolk University English Department’s Faculty Lecture for the Fall 2022 semester, from 12:30-1:45pm, in the Poetry Center. Come join us in person if you’re in Boston, and, if not, come join us on Zoom! [Update: the department’s own administrator extraordinaire, Elizabeth Finnen, was awesome enough to record & cut a video of the reading, which you can view here. (Thanks, Elizabeth!)]
Tuesday, May 24th – “Play-Doh, Lincoln Logs, and a Couple of Barbie Dolls: an Interview with Barrett Bowlin,” up now at Fiction Writers Review. (Thanks to FWR‘s outstanding editor, Eric McDowell, for the conversation!)
Monday, May 16th – Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk (and a bunch of other amazing fiction), was awesome enough to mention Ghosts Caught on Film in a segment for The Week on his favorite new fiction.

Thursday, November 19th, at the Spring Writes Literary Festival in Ithaca, NY – 7:15-8:45pm (Panel: “Total Submission: Understanding the Kinks and Quirks of Literary Magazines”) [Free registration for the Zoom session here]
Saturday, March 7th, at the Association for Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in San Antonio – 10:35-11:50am in Rm. #007B of the Gonzalez Convention Center (“Round Characters: Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction”)
Saturday, May 2nd, at the Spring Writes Literary Festival in Ithaca, NY – 3:30-4:30pm in the Borg Warner East Room of the Tompkins County Library [event rescheduled to November 2020]