Events
Upcoming Events
May 16, 2024 - Third Place Books Seward Park, Seattle, WA, Anastacia-Reneé with Gary Copeland Lilley — 'Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere'
May 29, 2024 - Cave Canem at Legacy (Dumbo), Brooklyn, NY. Join Anastacia-Reneé and her students for their final Cave Canem Regional Workshop session, featuring a reading from both the studens and Reneé herself. We invite you to also join us for a pre-reading reception at 6:30 PM ET, where we'll be serving light refreshment. For more information, visit the event page here.
June 3, 2024 - Jack Straw Alumnia Poetry Series, Seattle, WA
June 5, 2024 - Elliot Bay Book Company, Queering the Future: LGBTQ+ Authors on Octavia Butler's Impact: Join Seattle Public Library for a conversation about Octavia Butler’s influence on LGBTQ+ writers. As part of this year's Seattle Reads honoring the life and work of Octavia Butler, Elliott Bay Book Company and Clarion West are Amber Flame, Anastacia-Reneé, Nisi Shawl and Amy Hirayama for what promises to be a night of lively conversation and tribute to the inimitable Octavia Butler. This event is part of Seattle Reads “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler and is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company and Clarion West. It is made possible by The Seattle Public Library Foundation and The Wallace Foundation, with additional support from Grand Central Publishing, and media sponsor The Seattle Times.
June 11, 2024 - Powell’s City of Books, Portland, Oregon. Reading for Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere.
June 13, 2024 - Rainy Day Books, Fairway, Kansas. Anastacia-Reneé will be in discussion with Natasha Ria El-Scari regarding their new book, Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
June 23-29th, I'll be a member of VONA faculty teaching the workshop, Form As Resistance Legacy and Code!
PAST Events
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April 4th, 2024 Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series
April 26th, 2024 - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Couplet Reading Series, Red Room
AWP 2023: Archives of the Body (Kristen Millares Young, Danielle Geller, Putsata Reang, Anastacia Renée, Michelle Bowdler) In-person event and Babaylans, Griots, and Culture Keepers: Memoir as Collective Storytelling (Jen Soriano, Sasha LaPointe, Anastacia Renee, D.A. Navoti, Joyce Chen) In-person event). March 3, 2022: Jasmine Elizabeth Smith with Anastacia-Reneé and Quenton Baker // Virtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company
May 11 2022 - Jun 15 2022: Songwriting Series with Anastacia-Reneé
July 16th-22nd, 2023: Port Townsend Writers Conference
March 3, 2022: Jasmine Elizabeth Smith with Anastacia-Reneé and Quenton Baker // Virtually Hosted by Elliott Bay Book Company
ANASTACIA-RENEÉ: (DON’T BE ABSURD) ALICE IN PARTS
Frye Musuem, January 30 – April 25, 2021
Programming related to (Don't be Absurd) Alice in Parts:
March 10th | Poetry and Activism: Educator Workshop
March 25th | Artist Talk: Anastacia-Renée in Conversation with Elisheba Johnson
Hugo House (Seattle WA)
The Main Course: Poets Writing about Food
02/24/2021 - 03/31/2021
Wednesday 7:10 pm – 9:10 pm
StudioEll (NYC
F455i Writing and Practice: Art-ing Across Genres — ONLINE
MARCH 1, 2021 — APRIL 5, 2021
Photo by Bettina Judd
Hugo House (Seattle WA) Homecoming and Homegoing: Writing the Girl Protagonist
01/06/2021 - 02/10/2021
Wednesdays 7:10 pm – 9:10 pm
Hugo House (Seattle WA) 30 Prompts, 30 Days, 30 Lines, 30 Ways
01/05/2021 - 01/26/2021
Tuesday, 7:10 pm – 9:10 pm
January 12th-February 8th, New Orleans Writers Resident
https://www.neworleanswritersresidency.org/2019/12/08/announcing-the-january-2020-residents/
February 18 - March 24, 2020, Workshop Facilitator: Hugo House
May 1-3. 2020. Hedgebrook Vortex, Workshop Facilitator: Speak the Truth: Write Like a Kid
https://hedgebrook.org/vortext-2020/
June 26th-June 27th, 2020, Chuckanut Writers Conference: Craft Talk & Faculty
August 22, 2020–January 10, 2021, Frye Art Museum
https://fryemuseum.org/upcoming_exhibitions/
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 at 7:00 pm: Cave Canem Fellow Off-Site Reading; Portland, OR
Wednesday, March 27, 2019: AWP Conference— Panel & Reading “Come Celebrate With Me: Women of Color Writers and Literary Lineage. (Catina Bacote, Jane Wong, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Anastacia -Renee)” B113, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1. Poet Lucille Clifton writes: “come celebrate / with me that everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed.” Five women of color trace their literary lineages and celebrate narratives of survival and resilience. Reading their writing and the work of women of color who have shaped their lives, this event draws constellations of inspiration and connection— across time, genre, and resonant histories. This reading seeks to use language as a space for intervention, activism, and visibility.
Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 6:30 pm: Women Writers Bloom Off-Site Reading; Albera Abbey; Portland, OR
Friday, March 29th, 2019 at 6:30 pm: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism; Powell's City Books; Portland OR
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 4:30 - 5:45 pm: AWP Conference— “Teaching the Art of Imitation” Room B114, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1 “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.” How do writing teachers help their students mature into eloquent thieves? By presenting authorial voices as learnable “foreign languages,” teachers might impart class outcomes—fluency in figurative terms, prosaic and poetic techniques—simply by showing students how to mimic accomplished predecessors. Authorial influence need not cause anxiety. As writers, we can master our tradition by appropriating it.
Saturday, March 30th at 6:00 pm: Argus/Winged City Chapbook; Angst Gallery; Portland OR
4/6-4/8 Orcas Lit Fest https://oilf.org/featured-artists-2019
Get Lit Festival 4/22-4/28 https://getlitfestival.org/2019-festival-authors/
May 15, 2019 at 12:00 pm: Zapproved; Portland, OR.“How to Take Action as an Effective Ally”
June 20-22, 2019: Chuckanut Writers Conference; Bellingham, WA.
UPCOMING CLASSES
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