I'll be in conversation with the brilliant short story writer Megan Mayhew Bergman at what is possibly the coolest bookstore in the world. (Ten-way tie.) It's a Friday night, so we'll make it a party.

I'm teaching at the "Your Word" teen writing residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL.

Robin Black (author of Life Drawing and the new craft book Crash Course) and I will have a public conversation (not a reading!) called "Building a Writing Life (In the Middle of Real Life)" at StoryStudio Chicago's beautiful Ravenswood loft space. This is free and open to everyone, but RSVPs are encouraged. Book sales from […]

I have no idea what I've gotten myself into, but I'll be appearing at the WizardWorld ComicCon in Chicago. Because I am a wizard. I will take a lot of pictures. I'll be signing books from 1-2 and from 3-4 at table J27 in Artists Alley. At 2, I'll be on the panel "Ode to Leading […]

We'll be celebrating the paperback publications of both Music for Wartime and Anna's novel The Life and Death of Sophie Stark with a joint reading and conversation at Women & Children First. Please join us and help welcome Anna to town!

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I'll be in conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer about his new novel, Here I Am, at the Music Box Theater in Chicago. Tickets come with a copy of the book provided by Unabridged Bookstores.

I'll be teaching the weekend-long course "The Basics of Fiction: For Newbies and Pros" at Iowa Writers House in Iowa City. Registration and more info here.

Literary Death Match is coming to Subterranean in Chicago, and I will be one of the judges deciding who gets fed to the lions. Featured author/victims are Vu Tran, C. Russell Price, Nnedi Okorafor, and Hanna Gamble. More details here!