PAST APPEARANCES
August 14-16, 2025 Fan Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
January 3, 2025, American Library, Paris, France
June 29, 2024 Thousand Oaks Public Library, Thousand Oaks California
June 12, 2024 Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois
October 8 2023, Park Ridge Library, Park Ridge Illinois
August 7-10, 2022 Fan Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
April 30, 2022 Friends of the Lake Geneva Library Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
September 30, 2021 Manchester Public Library, Manchester, Iowa
September 29-30, 2021 Des Moines Public Library Big Read/ Des Moines area high schools, Des Moines, Iowa
August 22, 2021 Sundays on State Celebration of Ray Bradbury’s birthday, sponsored by the American Writers Museum
April 27, 2021 American Writers Museum, Ray Bradbury Centennial Event (Virtual)
April 7, 2021 Lakes Community High School Writers Week, Lake Villa, Illinois (Virtual Writers Workshop)
April 29, 2020 Waubonsee Community College Virtual Reading Series, Sugar Grove, Illinois, Horror Writing Master Class; Dark Black reading
March 31, 2020 Lakes Community High School Writers Week, Lake Villa, Illinois (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
February 7th, 2020 Chinook Middle School, Bellevue, Washington (Skype presentation)
December 30, 2019 Carson Center, Peducha, Kentucky, National Endowment for the Arts Big Read celebration of Fahrenheit 451
October 13, 2019 Ace Comic Con Centennial Celebration of Ray Bradbury. Rosemont, Illinois
September 26-28, 2019 Saugatuck Story Fest, Westport, Connecticut
September 25, 2019 Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, Connecticut
April 30, 2019 Friends of the Lake Geneva Library Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
April 2, 2019 Antioch High School Writers Week, Antioch, Illinois; Lakes Community High School Writers Week
October 13, 2018 Saugatuck Story Fest, Westport, Connecticut
August 23-26, 2018 Wizard World Chicago, Illinois
April 19, 2018 The Book Cellar, Chicago, Illinois
April 9, 2018 Columbia College Chicago Library "Signature Series", Chicago, Illinois
March 1-4, 2018 StokerCon 2018, Providence, Rhode Island
February 15, 2018 Elgin Community College Writers Center Reading Series, Elgin, Illinois
October 27-28, 2017 Roanoke Writers Conference, Roanoke, Texas
October 13-14, 2017 Kansas Association of Teachers of English conference, Wichita, Kansas
August 24-27, 2017 Wizard World Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
August 19, 2017 Rockford Illinois Public Library, Rockford, Illinois
May 10-12, 2017 Dimensions Academy Writers Festival, Norman Oklahoma
April 21, 2017 Texas Library Association Conference, San Anotono, Texas
March 20, 2017 Antioch Community High School Writers Week, Antioch, Illinois
February 23-24, 2017 Marshall High School, Marshall, Missouri
January 20, 2017 Jones College Prep High School, Chicago, Illinois
November 4-5, 2016 Wichita, Kansas Public Library Big Read/Wichita area high schools
October 13-14, 2016 Dimensions Academy, Norman, Oklahoma
September 30, 2016 Rockford Illinois Public Library
August 3, 2016 Geneva Public Library
May 20, 2016 Los Angeles Central Library
April 8, 2016 Oklahoma University, Norman, Oklahoma
April 8, 2016 Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma
April 4, 2016 Pioneer Library, Norman, Oklahoma
March 21, 2016 Boys and Girls Club of America, Kansas City, Missouri
March 20, 2016 Mid-Continent Library, Woodneath Auditorium, Liberty, Missouri
October 5, 2014 Poughkeepsie Public Library, Poughkeepsie, New York
September 24-25 2014 University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
September 17-18, 2014 University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada
September 3, 2014 Corona Public Library, Corona, California
December 9, 2013, Arlington Heights Public Library, Arlington Heights, Illinois, Fahrenheit 451 film/novel presentation
October 1, 2013, Tuscarawas County Public Library, New Philadelphia, Ohio, National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Keynote
September 27, 2013, The Book Cellar, Chicago, Illinois, with Mort Castle, Jay Bonansigna and Bayo Ojikutu
August 22, 2013, McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City,
with Mort Castle, Alice Hoffman, Jaquelyn Mitchard and a live Skype reading by Neil Gaiman
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