Past Events:
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Sept. 29--Rollins College' Center for Inclusion and Campus Involvement Book Club, Winter Park
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Oct. 6--Jackson Middle School, Orlando, Reading
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Oct. 12--Farm Credit Association (US Department of Agriculture), Virginia, Hispanic Heritage Month presentation
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Oct. 12--Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Reading
Oye What I'm Gonna Tell You received a lot of publicity thanks to UCF's article on me and the Guardian's listing of my story collections.
Here's a link to WUCF-TV where Diane Trees interviewed me; please note that my segment starts at the 13:00 minute mark.
2015-16 events:
Sept. 16-17--Florida Heritage Book Festival held at Flagler College. I presented "Fact/Fiction/Film and Craft" and a reading on Saturday
March 30 (Monday) at 6:00 p.m.--Library Performance at Apopka branch en español
with Kevin Meehan and Jorge Milanés and special
guest Dr. Alma Alarcón, translator.
April 2 (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m. -- Book Signing and Launch of
Oye What I'm Gonna Tell You at
Writers Block Bookstore in Winter Park
April 10 (Friday) at 9:00 a.m. -- Book Signing at AWP Book Exhibit Hall
until noon -- at the Florida Review Table in Minneapolis, MN
April 11 (Saturday) 7:00 p.m. -- Book Signing at Midwest Independent Bookstore
Association in Minneapolis, MN
April 18 (Saturday) 2:00 p.m. -- UCF Book Festival in Orlando, Morgidge Center
April 21 (Tuesday) at 6:30 p.m.-- Library Reading and Book Signing at the Orlando
Downtown (main) branch
May 9 (Saturday) at 7:00 p.m.-- Book Signing and Reading at Books & Books in
Coral Gables
June 15 (Monday) at 7:00 p.m.-- Book Signing and Reading at Bluestocking Books
-- at 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
June 16 (Tuesday) at 7:30 p.m. -- Book Signing and reading at Greenlight
Bookstore in Brooklyn
June 17 (Wednesday) at 7:00 -- Book Signing and Reading at Word in Jersey City
July 20 (Monday) at 7:00 p.m. -- Reading of poetry and fiction at Orange County
Public Library-Chickasaw Branch
On August 15 I was privileged to be featured at the Functionally Literate Series sponsored by Burrow Press and at the end of September I was invited for a two day visit to Washington State University at Pullman to present "Our American Story"; an excerpt can be viewed here. In October I read at UCF along with Russ Kessler.