EVENTS

UPCOMING:

For upcoming events, readings, and speaking engagements, please see my Instagram page. 
 
PAST 2020 - 2022:

Thursday April 7th, 8:30 pm (EDT) 
​George Mason University: Visiting Writers Series 
Register here: Crowdcast 

Sunday, May 15, 3pm (CST)
Chicago Humanities Festival/American Writers Festival 
Chicago Cultural Center - Grand Army of the Republic Hall 
In Conversation with Rebel Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández on US Empire & the 1910 Mexican Revolution
Register for Free Tickets here
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January 30, 6pm
Thacker Mountain Radio, Off Square Books
Oxford, MS

February 1, 3pm
Lemuria Books in conversation with Katy Simpson Smith
Jackson, MS

February 8, 2:30pm
Chicago Release Party: The Hideout
Chicago, IL

February 12, 7pm
Prairie Lights 
Iowa City, IA

February 20, 7pm
The Dial Bookshop with Eye 94 and Lumpen Radio
Chicago, IL

February 27, 7pm
Boswell Book Company
Milwaukee, WI

March 5, 7pm
Madison Street Books in conversation with Cristina Henriquez
Chicago, IL

March 13, 6:30pm (CANCELED)
City Lit Books in conversation with Kathleen Rooney
Chicago, IL

March 19 & 21 (CANCELED) 
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, VA

Stories of Displacement: Fiction, Far from Home
Thu. March 19, 12:00 PM - Central JMRL Library
 
Family Secrets in Fiction
Sat. March 21, 4:00 PM - Central JMRL Library
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March 27, 6pm (CANCELED)
Octavia Books in conversation with Maurice Ruffin
New Orleans, LA

March 29 (CANCELED)
​Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
​New Orleans, LA 

​How the Quality of Obsession Sustains a Novel
10:00 AM to 11:15AM - Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom

Remember Your First Time: Debut Novelists
11:30 AM to 12:45PM - Hotel Monteleone, Riverview Room

April 3-5 (CANCELED) 
Muse & the Marketplace
Boston, MA

May 1-2 (CANCELED)
Booktopia
Manchester, VT

May 6, 12:30 pm ET on Zoom 
Jewish Book Council Authors at the Table 
​Register Here

May 7, 5pm ET on Zoom 
Northshire Live 
​Register Here  

May 8, 7pm CT on Facebook Live 
2020 Quarantine Book Club Live Q&A
Register Here

May 15, 7pm on Instagram Live 
Janklow & Nesbit IGTV in-conversation with Maurice Ruffin

May 21, 12pm on Zoom
Bookends and Beginnings Literary Lunchbreak in conversation with Chicago Tribune features reporter/columnist Christopher Borrelli 
Register Here

May 21, 7pm CT on Zoom
City Lit Books in conversation with Kathleen Rooney
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June 17, 6pm ET
The New York Society Library & Chicago Review of Books Conversation w/ Michael Zapata, Lydia Millet, and Amy Brady
​Register Here

June 23, 12pm ET
Virginia Festival of the Book: SHELF LIFE in conversation with Meredith Cole
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June 30, 4pm CT
Harold Washington Library w/ the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, Michael Zapata & Dr. Marcela Carena
Chicago, IL
Register Here

July 1, 12:30 CT
Texas Book Festival: In Conversation with Richard Santos
Instagram Live 

July 8, 12pm PT
We Love Bookstores: Fundraising event for Dark Carnival with John Scalzi, Sarah Gailey, & Michael Zapata
​Register Here

July 17, 6pm CT 
Women and Children's First
Virtual Author Conversation in celebration of ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS by llana Masad
Register Here

July 30, 7pm CT on Zoom
​Forest Park Public Library: Author Visit/ Book Discussion

August 13, 6:30pm CT
American Writer's Museum
Release Celebration for CHER AMI AND MAJOR WHITTLESEY by Kathleen Rooney 

September 5 & 6 (Canceled)
Printer's Row Lit Fest 
​Chicago, IL

September 13
Ragdale Ring 2020 Performance w/ Rebecca Makkai and The Herbsaint Band
Ragdale Foundation (Live: Outside and Socially Distanced)
Lake Forest, IL 
Register Here

October 31 (canceled)
Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge, LA 

October 16, 6:30pm CT
Fox Cities Book Festival 2020: Latin American Literature at the End of the World
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October 17, 10am CT
Fox Cities Book Festival 2020: So, You Want to Make a Literary Magazine? 
​Register Here

October 21, 7pm CT
Ragdale Talks featuring Chloe Benjamin, Alex Kotlowitz, Michael Zapata in conversation with Rebecca Makkai
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November 5, 7pm CT
Art Institute of Chicago Virtual Reading and Conversation: Chicago Drives
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November 20, 4:45pm CT
Words & Music Literary Festival 2020: Home and Homecoming with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Maisy Card, and Michael Zapata
Moderated and Curated by Annell López
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February 9, 2021, 8pm EST
Authors in Conversation: K Chess and Michael Zapata
Exile in Bookville
​Register here

February 14, 2021 7pm CST
I Love My Library Fundraiser for Appleton Library 
Register here

April 24, 2021
National Antiracist Book Festival 
Immigrant Stories: In Conversation with Angie Cruz