2021
October 17th
Queer Girls Literary Reading at Rabbit Rabbit, Asheville, NC
April 2021
UNCA's Queer Studies Conference
Queer Literary Reading with Local Authors
2020
February 22nd
A reading with Rick Chess, Jessica Jacobs at Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum.
March 19th
A Reading and Conversation with Addie Tsai at Malaprop's, Asheville, NC.
2019
Organized, hosted and presented personal essay at the Tenth Annual Queer Girls Literary Reading at the Mothlight.
AWP 2019 Panel: “Assimilate This!: Queer Literary Community as Sites of Mobilizing and Resistance,” Portland, OR, March.
Organized, hosted and presented personal essay at Benefit for the Women’s March on Asheville at the Mothlight, January.
2018
Organized, hosted and presented personal essay at the Tenth Annual Queer Girls Literary Reading at the Mothlight.
AWP 2018 Panel: “Truer Words Were Never Spoken: On the Challenges of Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir,” Tampa.
2018 San Miguel Writers' Conference and Literary Sala, Workshop Instructor.
Presented personal essay, “Chasing Squirrels,” at UNCA’s Queer Studies Conference.
Presented lecture: “Sexual Harassment in the Age of #Metoo,” to Asheville Inns of Court, an association of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals, Upstairs Room at Pack Tavern.
2017
Presented personal essay, “A Conversation With My Mother,” at Asheville WordFest, aSHEville Museum.
AWP 2017 Panel: “Triggered Writing/Creative Warnings: On Writing About Trauma and Trigger Warnings in the Creative Writing Classroom and Community,” Washington DC.
2017 San Miguel Writers' Conference and Literary Sala, Workshop Instructor.
2016
Presented fiction story, “The Story of Corn Cob” at Authors for Action Against HB2, Asheville Community Theatre.
Presented nonfiction essay, “On Death and Dying (My Hair)” at Ole Shakey’s: Stories By the River, Girls Rock Benefit.
Presented nonfiction essay, “My Father’s Mug,” at the Moth Story Hour, The Mothlight.
Organized and hosted Eighth Annual Queer Girls Literary Reading at the Mothlight, August, 2016.
2016 AWP Panel: “Shattered Quiet: Women Writers on the Truths and Consequences of Breaking the Silence
and Writing the Unspoken,” Los Angeles.
Selected PAST & Upcoming Events
Lori Horvitz
Edna's of Asheville Coffee House
Book Launch Celebration
Asheville, NC
Malaprop's Bookstore
Asheville, NC
Charis Books & More
Atlanta, GA
Bluestockings Bookstore
New York, NY
Ramsey Library Brown Bag Talk
UNC Asheville, Special Collections
Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
New Orleans, LA
UNC Asheville Queer Studies
Conference
Asheville, NC
The Regulator Bookshop
Durham, NC
Hazel Reading Series
San Francisco, CA
Corkscrew Wine Bar: Get Lit!
Petaluma, CA
Green Apple Books
San Francisco, CA
Elliot Bay Books
Seattle, WA
Readings Gallery at Village Books
Bellingham, WA
Women and Children First Bookstore
Chicago, IL
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore
Madison, WI
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
Minneapolis, MN
San Miguel Literary Sala
San Miguel Allende, Mexico
Harvard Bookstore
Cambridge, MA
AMP Gallery
Provincetown, MA