Kyle Minor

Upcoming Readings

2011-2012

September 10, Corydon, IN, Frank Bill Crimes Out of Southern Indiana Release Party, 7 pm (with Frank Bill, Scott Phillips, and Donald Ray Pollock)

November 4, Akron, OH, Big Big Mess / NEO MFA reading series, 7-9 pm

November 12, New York, NY, private event

November 17, Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University, Winter Wheat Literary Festival, Featured Reader, 7 pm

February 29-March 3, Chicago, IL, AWP Conference:

• Thursday, March 1, 8-10 pm, The Galway Arms, Lincoln Park (2442 North Clark Street), “The Wrong Kind of Reading,” sponsored by Plots with Guns, with Pinckney Benedict, Anthony Neil Smith, and others.
• Friday, March 2, 10:30-11:45 am, Wabach Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor, “Home and Away” panel, with Jeff Parker, Stephan Clark, Sabina Murray, and Jensen Beach. Time & Location TBA.
• Friday, March 2, 9-10:15 am, Grand Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor, “Literature and the Internet 2012.” Blake Butler, Stephen Elliott, Roxane Gay, and James Yeh, panelists; Kyle Minor, moderator.
• Saturday, March 3, 3-4:15 pm, State Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor, “Men from Venus” panel, with Alan Heathcock, Reese Okyong Kwon, Jennine Capo Crucet, and  Kevin Wilson.

Past Readings

2010-2011

October 16, 2010, New York, NY, Greek-American Writers Association Reading, Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village), 6-8 pm, $7 cover (with Dean Kostos and others)

October 28-31, 2010, Marshall, MN, Southwest Minnesota State University, Featured Reader, Marshall Festival 2010 (with Stephen Graham Jones, Scott Phillips, and others)

November 12-13, Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University, Winter Wheat Literary Festival

January 28, 2011, Blacksburg, VA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) Visiting Writers Series, Soniat Reader, Friday evening, 7 pm

February 22, Columbus, OH, The Ohio State University. Reading, 7 pm & Discussion with English 291 class (U.S. Literature 1865-present) about In the Devil’s Territory, 1:30-3:00 pm

March 10, St. Louis, MO, Noir at the Bar (with Anthony Neil Smith), 7 pm

April 1-2, Denton TX, University of North Texas (with John D’Agata and others)

April 25, Louisville, KY, Sarabande Reading Series, 21c Museum Hotel, 7:30 pm

May 12-13, Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Salon Reading (with Albert Goldbarth and others)

2009-2010

September 29 – Anderson, IN, Anderson University

February 3 – New York, NY, Freerange Nonfiction Reading Series, Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village), 6 pm, $7 cover (with Janice Erlbaum, author of Girlbomb)

April 7-10, Denver, CO, AWP Writers Conference, two panels: (1) Points of View Panel, Sat., Apr. 10, Room 108, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level (with Benjamin Percy, Holly Goddard Jones, Christopher Coake, and Lauren Groff); and (2) Writers in Universities Panel, Fri. Apr. 9, Room 11o, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level (with Matt Tullis, Joe Oestreich, Emma Bolden, and Miroslav Penkov); and one evening reading, Thurs., Apr. 8, Forest Room 5 (with Aaron Burch, Kathy Fish, and others)

May 7, Lake Charles, LA, McNeese State University

May 11, Champaign-Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Benefit Reading for Haiti, with Philip Graham, Okla Elliott, and Sean Karns.

2008-2009 Tour with Kathleen Rooney and friends, among them Rebecca Barry, Steve Almond, Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Joshuah Bearman, Blake Butler, Laura Benedict, James Yeh, and more:

New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Brookline, Providence, Provincetown, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, Lexington, Columbus, Toledo, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, Champaign, Edwardsville, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Fayetteville, Memphis, Seattle, Bellingham, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

2006-2008 Readings in Support of Surreal South and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers and “A Day Meant to Do Less,” with friends including Pinckney Benedict, Rodney Jones, Andrew Hudgins, Lee K. Abbott, Jennifer Glaser, Jess Lacher, Shahnaz Habib, and more

Columbus, OH; Toledo, OH; Upper Arlington, OH; Carbondale, IL; Edwardsville, IL; New York, NY

To Schedule a Reading, Lecture, Q&A, or Radio Interview: email kyle (at) kyleminor.com