Events
Catch Soma reading/speaking/signing books alongside other badazz authors.
(It’s nice to be read to like a baby at bedtime…)
(It’s nice to be read to like a baby at bedtime…)
Fall Local Author Expo: November 15, 2025, noon EDT
Author panel, Q&A, signing
406 Chapel Drive
Syracuse, NY 13219
SUNY Oswego Living Writers Series: October 13, 2025, 3pm EDT
Reading, discussion, Q&A
State University of New York at Oswego
7060 NY 104
Oswego, NY 13126
Sights & Sounds: September (date TBA)
NPR Podcast / KALW 91.7 FM Bay Area Radio Interview with host Jeneé Darden
Aspects of Writing: September 11, 2025, 3pm EDT
Town Hall Q&A
One Arkie Albanese Ave.
Manlius, NY 13104
Bay Area Book Festival: June 1, 2025, 3:30pm PDT
Strength and Solace in Numbers, author panel with Tomas Moniz and Keiko Lane
Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
2086 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Northern Onondaga Public Library Cicero : May 21, 2025, 6pm EDT
Cicero Legacy Writers reading, craft/process discussion and Q&A with Sari Fordham
NOPL Cicero Branch
8686 Knowledge Ln
Cicero, NY 13039
Pomona College: May 3, 2025, 9am PDT
Reading, discussion with Lian Dolan and Ginny Kubitz
Ena Thompson Room, Crookshank Hall, Pomona College
140 W. 6th Street
Claremont CA 91711
Off-Site and Unnamed: March 29, 2025, 7-9pm PDT
Reading, signing with Laleh Khadivi, Shanthi Sekaran, Keenan Norris and Tina Ontiveros
North Figueroa Bookshop
6040 N. Figueroa Street
Highland Park, CA 90042
WriteOn! Toastmasters: January 9, 2025, 6:30pm PST / 9:30pm EST
Your Evolution as a Writer
Virtual Book Talk
Why There Are Words Fall Salon: November 21, 2024, 8:30pm EST
Virtual Reading
Writers Project: October 28, 2024, 12:40pm EDT
Reading, Signing
SUNY Adirondack Visual Arts Gallery
640 Bay Rd, SUNY Adirondack. Queensbury, NY 12804
Lattes & Literature: October 20, 2024, 3pm EDT
Book club chat led by Ann Duddy…plus, glorious caffeine
333 South Salina Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
Off the Books at Golden Bee Bookshop: October 4, 2024, 7pm EDT
Reading, book talk with Isaiah Bedoar, Signing
324 1st Street
Liverpool, NY 13088
NPR Member Stations Interview: October 2024
North Words with Mitch Teich: October 4, 2024
North Words the Radio Show: October 25, 2024 noon EDT
Northern Light: 8am EDT, mid-October 2024
Community FM: mid-October 2024
WCNY 91.3 FM Syracuse
WUNY 89.5 HD-3 Utica
WJNY 90.9 HD-3 Watertown
NCPR 96.3 North Country, NY, Vermont, Ontario and Quebec
WSYR-TV NewsChannel 9: October 1, 2024, 10am and noon EDT
Author appearance on Bridge Street
SUNY Canton Living Writers Series: September 26, 2024, 6:30pm EDT
Reading, book talk
Payson 219
SUNY Canton, 34 Cornell Drive
Canton, NY 13617
The Sunday Salon: September 22, 2024, 5pm EDT
Reading with Chiwan Choi, Charlee Dyroff, Annell López and Soraya Palmer
Von Bar
3 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Off the Books Syracuse Book Launch: September 14, 2024, 6pm EDT
Reading, discussion with Juliet Giglio
333 South Salina Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
Off the Books Oswego Book Launch: September 12, 2024, 6pm EDT
Reading, discussion with Dr. Erik Wade
19 West Bridge Street
Oswego, NY 13126
New Voices Summer Luncheon: August 12, 2024, 12pm EDT
RJ Julia Book Discussion
Madison Beach Hotel
94 West Wharf Road
Madison, CT 06443
Off the Books Boston Book Launch: August 9, 2024, 7pm EDT
Reading, discussion with Jendi Reiter
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Off the Books NYC Book Launch: August 7, 2024, 6pm EDT
Reading, discussion with Blake Z. Rong
44 Mulberry St
New York, NY 10013
Off the Books OC Book Launch: August 4, 2024, 1:30pm PST
Book talk with Dr. Samuel H. Yamashita
115 W Main St, Tustin, CA 92780
Off the Books Los Angeles Book Launch: August 3, 2024, 6pm PST
Reading, discussion with Dr. Samuel H. Yamashita
9900 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Off the Books Bay Area Book Launch: August 1, 2024, 7pm PST
Reading, discussion with Tomas Moniz
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
Black Lawrence Press: September 30, 2023, 7pm EDT
Reading/Party
Hudson Valley Writers Center
300 Riverside Dr
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Living Writer Series: Fall 2023
Join Soma and her students on Zoom in conversation with living legends throughout the the fall. Visiting writers include US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Josie Mendez-Negrete (with master ceramicist Veronica Castillo), Robert O’Connor, Danez Smith, Josh Aaseng and Kimberly Clark. The classroom visit with Ta-Nehisi Coates is closed to the public, but Coates will be featured in a live event that is on campus and open to the public.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP): March 8 – April 8, 2023
The Chronic: Medicine and the Body in Writing (multigenre reading)
Seattle Convention Center, formerly “Washington State Convention Center”
705 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP): March 9, 2023, 12:10pm PST
Textploitation: Topical Issues in Fiction (panel presentation)
Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
705 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
Subnivean Awards: April 13, 2022, 7pm EDT
U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, Daniel “Lemony Snicket” Handler and Subnivean celebrate the 2022 Subnivean Awards finalists (Moni Brar, Lauren Holguin, Artemisio Romero y Carver, Alicia Rebecca Myers, Avtar Singh, Zach Swiss and Melissa Brown) during National Poetry Week.
Register here. $0 to attend.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP): March 25, 2022, 12:10pm EDT
Total Strangers: Undergrads, Authors, Editors on Amplifying International Voices
120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
1101 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
FUSE Colloquium: November 12, 2021, 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST
Publishing Pros Q&A (panel discussion with fellow author Daniel O’Malley and publishing industry pros)
Zoom: https://bgsu-edu.zoom.us/j/83428782405?pwd=YVhNKzJ2NEU2NWZGaFpzeDBBZDRHQT09
Meeting ID: 834 2878 2405
Passcode: 607630
FUSE Colloquium: November 12, 2021, 8am PST / 11am EDT
Running a Globally-Read Publication from the Ether (panel discussion with students)
Zoom: https://bgsu-edu.zoom.us/j/89946733326?pwd=NmtZRldoYWNBbHNuVlRYTXdEME0wQT09
Meeting ID: 899 4673 3326
Passcode: 437911
The Unchaste Variety Show: May 29, 2021, 6pm PST / 9pm ET
Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/unchaste-may2021
The Racket + Foglifter Present: The Queer Here & Now: March 11, 2021, 7pm PST / 10pm EDT
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85816789418
Doors open at 7pm/10pm. Show starts at 7:15pm/10:15pm.
The Greatest Indoor Reading Series: October 23, 2020, 5pm PST / 8pm EDT
Zoom venue: 728 9321 2031
Kore Press Institute’s Notes From the Motherfield LIVE: October 9, 2020, 6pm PST / 9pm EDT
Click here for the Facebook event page
Get Lit: June 16, 2020, 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Meeting ID: 847 7504 6781
To Boldly Go: Unconventional Publishing Opportunities from Radio and Beyond, 2020 AWP Conference: March 5, 2020, 1:45pm
Room 214D, Henry B. González Convention Center
900 E Market Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
Two Tats and a Lie, PEN America’s Lit Crawl Brooklyn: October 12, 2019, 8pm
279 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11231
Why There Are Words NYC: September 8, 2019, 6pm
Bowery Poetry
308 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
She-Radical Panel, AWP Conference & Bookfair: March 29, 2019, 9am
A105, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Portland, OR 97232
Nomadic Press Author Book Signing, AWP Conference & Bookfair: March 28, 1pm
Nomadic Press Table T14106, Bookfair
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Portland, OR 97232
COG Poetry/Animation Panel, AWP Conference & Bookfair: March 28, 2019, 10:30am
E146, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Portland, OR 97232
Dig a Reading: CutBank Chapbook Release Party: March 27, 8pm
Why There Are Words: March 14, 2019, 7pm
333 Caledonia St
Sausalito, CA 94965
COG (Soma’s students) – Get Gory, Litcrawl: October 20, 2018, 8pm
Dovre Club
1498 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
As-Am Authors Spill the Tea! Litcrawl: October 20, 2018, 6:30pm
San Francisco Public Library, Mission Branch
300 Bartlett Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Get Lit #36: May 15, 2018, 7:00pm
3096 East 10th Street
Oakland, CA 94601
Zyzzyva Literary Showcase: May 12, 2018, 7pm
Petaluma Arts Center
230 Lakeville Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
AWP Tampa – Queer Sweet Home: Foglifter Press Writers Redefining Home: March 9, 2018, 6pm
Bradley’s on 7th
1510 East 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
AWP Tampa – Taking it International Panel: March 9, 2018, 4:30pm
Room 1, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
700 South Florida Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602
Oakland First Fridays – Nomadic Authors Reading, Signing: Friday, March 2, 2018, 7pm
2301 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers: February 9, 2018, 7pm
The Octopus Literary Salon
2101 Webster Street at 22nd St.
Oakland, CA 64612
Uptown Fridays – Nomadic Authors Reading, Signing: Friday, December 1, 2017, 7pm
2301 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Uptown Fridays – Nomadic Authors Reading, Meet & Greet: Friday, November 3, 2017, 7pm
2301 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Afro Comic Con: Saturday, October 21, 2017, 3pm
Ex’Pression College for Digital Arts
6601 Shellmound Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
Litquake – Library Laureates Go Beast-mode: Saturday, October 14, 2017, 8pm
San Francisco Public Library, Mission Branch
300 Bartlett Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Oakland First Fridays: Friday, October 6, 2017, 6:30pm
25th and Telegraph Outdoor Stage
Oakland, CA 94612
Meeting Places, Luoghi d’incontro Panel: Saturday, September 9, 2017, 2pm
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Eclectica Magazine – Celebrating 20 Years: Sunday, June 11, 2017, 2pm
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery St
San Francisco, CA 94131
LitFest Pasadena – Refugee America Panel: Saturday, May 20, 2017, 3:30pm
Vroman’s Bookstore – Upstairs
695 E. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91101
2017 Library Laureates Gala: Friday, April 7, 2017, 7pm
San Francisco Public Library – Main Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Hazel Reading Series: Thursday, March 2, 2017, 7pm
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Nomadic Press (Uptown) Grand Opening: Friday, February 3, 2017, 7pm
2301 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
Litquake: Oakness Monsters Invade: Saturday, October 15, 2016, 6pm
540 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
COG @ Litquake: Saturday, October 15, 2016, 6pm
3121 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Literary Speakeasy: Thursday, July 28, 2016, 7pm
Martuni’s
4 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Passages on the Lake: Wednesday, June 8, 2016, doors open 6:45pm
1800 Madison Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Sundays @ SAFEhouse: Sunday, May 29, 2016, 6pm
Nomadic Press at Pegasus: Thursday, May 26, 2016, 7pm
Pegasus Bookstore
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Oakland Book Festival: Sunday, May 22, 2016, 1pm
Outdoor Amphitheater
1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
Write This Minute Festival: April 23, 2016, 7:50pm
We are All of Our Identities All of the Time: Women of Color on Punk, Parenting, and the Beautiful Struggle for Social Justice in the Face of White Anxiety (panel): April 21, 2016, 10:30am
2016 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
520 3rd Street #109, Oakland, CA 94607
ZYZZYVA Spring/Summer Issue Celebration: April 21, 2016, 6pm
57 Post Street
San Francisco, CA
Readings with Jee Leong Koh and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier: March 26, 2016, 7pm
Nomadic Press Spring 2016 Chapbook Collection Release: March 19, 2016, 4pm
3234 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
Through the Concrete: February 26, 2016, 6pm
3098 East 10th Street
Oakland, CA 94601 (Right off Fruitvale BART)
KPFA 94.1 FM / Online: November 2, 2015, 3:30pm
KPFA – 94.1 FM Radio (when show airs)
A Rude Awakening (archived after November 2)
LitQuake Original Shorts: Love/Hate: October 15, 2015, 7:00pm
3225 22nd. Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Get Lit: August 8, 2015, 7:00pm
Ale Industries: Jingletown Jazz Room
3096 East 10th Street
Oakland, CA 94601 (Right off Fruitvale BART)
Writers With Drinks: August 8, 2015, 7:30pm
3225 22nd. Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
InsideStoryTime: April 21, 2015, 7:00pm
La Movida Wine Bar & Community Kitchen
3066 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Voz Sin Tinta: January 8, 2015, 6:30pm
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Enizagam Volume 8 Launch: December 17, 2014, 6:00pm
Creative Growth Art Center
355 24th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
ZYZZYVA at Lit Crawl: October 18, 2014, 6:00pm
Casanova
527 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
The Stories She Carries: A Book-It Happy Hour with AWP Writers: February 27, 2014, 6pm
The Center Theatre Lobby
305 Harrison Street
Seattle, WA 98109
Book-It Repertory Theatre has adapted a story from Collateral Damage: A Triptych for the stage. Stay tuned for video…
Best of Kore Press 2012 Reading: February 26, 2014, 5:30pm
Black Coffee Shop
501 E Pine St
Seattle, WA 98122
RADAR Reading Series: February 13, 2014, 6pm
San Francisco Public Library
Main Library – 100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Collateral Damage: A Triptych Book Bash: November 21, 2013, 7:30pm
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
Hazel Reading Series: November 17, 2013, 5pm
1564 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Bellies and Buffalos Book Launch: November 14, 2013, 7:30pm
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
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