Current Events
April 11: Miracle Mile Litfest, Stockton, CA. Poetry reading.
April 19: Sacramento Book Festival.
May 17: Sibling Revelry online writing workshop: Happy Accidents.
July 17: Sibling Revelry online writing workshop: Places and Spaces
Sept. 17: Sibling Revelry online writing workshop: Beginnings & endings
Invite Anara to visit your book group in person or via Zoom. Contact her to arrange details.
Past Events
January 11, 2025: Poetry reading and house party, private home, Sacramento.
February 8, 2025: Telling Your Story workshop with Gay Guard-Chamberlin, Auburn, CA.
March 8, 2025: Authors on the Move. Fundraiser for Sacramento Literacy Foundation.
June 9, 2025: Sacramento Suburban Writers Club. “Grandma Dated Tarzan: Truth and Lies in Fiction”
August 2: Poetry reading and book launch for Kansas, Reimagined. A Seat at the Table, Elk Grove.
August 29: UUSS book club, author visit, Sacramento
June 16: Poetry reading and book launch for Kansas, Reimagined.Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento.
June 11. Susan C’s bookclub, Sacramento.
June 3. Author visit, Mercy McMahon Terrace, Sacramento.
May 25: Poetry reading, Kenyon College, Ohio. Featuring poems from Hand on My Heart and the new collection, Kansas, Reimagined.
May 28: Poetry reading, Blackstone Library, Chicago.
May 29: Poetry reading and book launch, Edgewater Library, Chicago. Sibling Revelry writing workshop with Gay Guard-Chamberlin.
March 9: Stories on Stage, Davis. Featuring an excerpt from Like a Complete Unknown.
March 13: Zoom visit with Mary L.’s book club, Chicago.
February 2024: Conversation with authors Julie Chavez and Leticia Ordaz. A Seat at the Table, Elk Grove, CA.
October 2023
Roberta’s bookclub, Sacramento, in person.
August 2023
Collaborative poetry workshop with Gay Guard-Chamberlin, via zoom
April 2023
Harvestime Senior Program, North Highlands, CA
March 2023
Authors on the Move, Sacramento Literary Foundation
February 2023
Dolores’ bookclub, Chicago, via zoom.
January 2023
Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Awards ceremony, The Book Cellar, Chicago.
Margaret’s writing group, Chicago.
November 2022
Barbara’s bookclub, via zoom
October 2022
Deirdre’s bookclub, Sacramento, CA
Julie’s bookclub, Sacramento, CA
September 2022
Karen’s bookclub, San Jose, CA
Keith’s bookclub, Chico, CA
July 2022
Ruby’s Books, Folsom, CA
Literary Fundraiser for Stories on Stage, Sacramento. Anara’s story “Crossing the River” from the TWENTY TWENTY Anthology is performed.
June 2022
Karen’s bookclub, Portland, OR
Stories on Stage Sacramento. Professional actors read from Anara’s novel Like A Complete Unknown and Vanessa Hua’s novel Forbidden City.
Signing books, Gloucester Bookshop, Gloucester, MA
Nina’s bookclub, Belmont, MA
May 2022
Reading and signing, East Village Bookshop, Sacramento
April 2022
Reading and signing, Chicago
March 2022
Discussion with Meredith Hall, Seminary Books, Chicago, via Zoom
Book launch, UUSS, Sacramento
Book launch, Capital Books, Sacramento
Authors on the Move, Sacramento
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