Recent Events
April 10, 2024 — Middle Tennessee State University, reading and conversation
February 8, 2024 — AWP Event, Reading with EastOver Press and december
Previous Events, 2022-2023
March 20, 2023 — Dragonfly Books, Decorah, Iowa — launch party for Mississippi River Museum and The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, 7:00 p.m., Pulpit Rock Brewery
April 12, 2023 — Univ of Wisconsin-La Crosse, reading on campus
April 19, 2023 — Mt. Marty University, reading on campus
April 28-29, 2023 — Rivers & Ridges Book Festival, Viroqua, Wisconsin
May 4, 2023 — River Lights Books, Dubuque, Iowa, 6:00 p.m.
Sept 22-23, 2023 — Luther College Writers Festival
December 30, 2022 – January 5, 2023 — Cornell College Low-Res MFA (virtual)
December 6, 2022 – History Center of Cedar Rapids, 6:00 p.m.
Septemeber, 2022 — Artist Residency, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
Sunday, July 3, 2022 — Reading/presentation, Cornell College Low-Res MFA, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — Prairie Lights Bookstore, 7:00 p.m., Iowa City, Iowa, with Amanda Moore
May 25-30, 2022 — Participant in American Short Fiction’s inaugural workshop, Austin, Texas, led by writer & workshop instructor Dantiel W. Moniz
The Latest
Interviews, reviews, and other news
5/19/20 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Michael Czyzniejewski at Story 366
7/12/19 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Melissa Fraterrigo at Middle West Review
12/15/17 — Interview with Aryn Henning in Inspired Magazine
9/27/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Ray Barker at Heavy Feather Review
9/22/17 — Interview with Linda Michel-Cassidy at Heavy Feather Review
9/17/17 — Interview with Rob Cline in the Cedar Rapids Gazette
9/17/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Rob Cline in the Cedar Rapids Gazette
9/8/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Bret Farley at Rain Taxi
9/6/17 — Interview with Denton Loving at Cutbank
7/10/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed by Barrett Warner at Atticus Review
6/28/17 — Article in Bayfield County Journal
6/14/17 — Review/Blog at This Blog Will Change Your Life
6/13/17 — Interview with Anna Prushinskaya at Pulp: Arts Around Ann Arbor
6/6/17 — Excerpt of We Could’ve Been Happy Here at Two Dollar Radio
5/25/17 — Interview with Cameron Finch at Michigan Quarterly Review
5/23/17 — If My Book at Monkeybicycle
5/17/17 — Interview with Charity Nebbe on Iowa Public Radio
5/17/17 — Interview with Barrett Bowlin at Fiction Writers Review
5/17/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed at Sabatoge Reviews
5/16/17 — Article in Capital Times
5/16/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed at The Coil via Medium
4/1/17 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed at Books, Personally.
3/29/17 — Writers Recommend series at Poets & Writers
3/7/2017 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here reviewed at Kirkus Reviews
3/1/2017 — Interview with Jordan Bissell at Folio Magazine
1/5/2017 — We Could’ve Been Happy Here listed as one of Barrett Bowlin’s most anticipated books of 2017, on the Memorious blog