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Noley Reid
Readings & Events

Upcoming Events:
I'm gearing up for my ORIGAMI DOGS tour and will be attending book festivals and writers conferences all over the country. I hope to visit college and university campuses and your favorite bookstores, too, so if you'd like to have me visit nearby, drop me a message (noleyreid [at] gmail [dot] com) or suggest me to your favorite bookstore manager or reading series director. Thanks!

May 13, 2023
TBA  
Featured Reading & Interview w/ My Autumn House Press Editor for Origami Dogs, Mike Good 
Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, PA

May 12, 2023
TBA  
Reading with Liza Katz Duncan 
TBA
Pittsburgh, PA

April 29, 2023
9:30am-4:30pm  
Class
2023 Gathering of Writers
Indiana State Library
Indianapolis, IN

​Thursday, April 6, 2023
6:00pm-7:00pm
Reading with David James Poissant
Bluestocking Social
606 B S. Weinbach Ave.
Evansville, IN 

Sunday, March 26, 2023
1:00pm 
Reading with Wendy Wimmer
Lion's Mouth Bookstore*
211 N. Washington St.
Green Bay, WI 
*NB: LMB is opening up this Sunday just for our event. Hooray!

Saturday, March 18, 2023
6:00pm-7:00pm
My Hometown Book Launch Reading
Your Brother's Bookstore
504 Main St.
Evansville, IN

TBA
Reading
Kaskaskia College
Kaskaskia, IL

TBA
Reading
University of Missouri-Springfield
Springfield, MO

​September 26, 2020
9:30am-4:30pm  
2020 Gathering of Writers
Indiana State Library
Indianapolis, IN

November 14, 2019
1:30-2:45pm
Q&A & Evening Reading
Rock Valley College
Rockford, IL

July 24, 2018   
6:30pm
Reading in Conversation with Food Journalist Andrea Adlemen
East City Bookshop
Washington, DC

July 23, 2018   
7pm
Happy Hour with Author Melissa Scholes Young
Private Residence
Rockville, MD

July 22, 2018   
Noon Reading & 1:30pm Workshop
WriterHouse
Charlottesville, VA

July 21, 2018   
3pm Reading
Blacksburg Public Library
Blacksburg, VA

July 19, 2018   
6pm Reading
Radford Public Library
Radford, VA

March 28, 2018
4:45-6:15pm
Reading panel with Thomas Allbaugh, Nick B. Nusbaumer, and Doni York
PCA/ACA Annual Conference
Indianapolis, IN 

February 5, 2018
7-8pm
Literature in Person Reading
Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI

February 9, 2018
7:30pm
InKY Reading Series
The Bard's Town Restaurant
Louisville, KY

February 10, 2018
9:30am-12pm
InKY Writing Workshop
Mellwood Arts Center
Louisville, KY

​October 21, 2017
11:15am-12:15pm   panel
Who Tells Your Story 
&
3:15pm   reading

Writer's Block Festival
Louisville Literary Arts
Louisville, KY

October 14, 2017
Unhappy in Their Own Way:  Novels of Family with Jon Raymond and Emily Jeanne Miller
Fall for the Book Festival
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

August 2, 2017
7:00pm 
Reading & Signing
Barnes & Noble
Evansville, IN

March 23, 2016
Fiction Reading with Deirdre Fagan and Jonathan Wodarski 
PCA/ACA Annual Conference
Seattle, WA

July 15, 2015
Book Contests Panel & Fiction Panel
Murray State University’s Low-Residency MFA Program’s 10th Anniversary Regional Writers Celebration,
Murray, KY

Public Appearances  
Readings, Craft Lectures, Workshops, & Festivals 

I have extensive experience and love presenting creative, craft, and industry workshops, lectures, and panels.  To inquire about my availability for your event using one of these topics or virtually any other in the world of fiction, nonfiction, editing, teaching, publishing, marketing, and so much more, email me today!
Noley Reid is available for readings; signings; judging contests; keynote addresses and speeches; craft lectures; master classes; classroom visits; literary festivals, conferences, academic workshops, and residencies and retreats in fiction and nonfiction; and book groups.  An experienced former university professor and award-winning short story author, novelist, and essayist, Reid engages readers and writers at all levels of experience and age--from preschool through graduate students and lifelong learners.  

Drawing from her 15 years of editorial and publishing experience with seven literary journals and single-handedly running RopeWalk Press, she is also often asked to speak to graduate and undergraduate classes, publication staffs, retreat fellows, and workshop, conference, or festival attendees on matters relating to launching, designing, reinventing, publishing, marketing, administering, and distributing literary print and online reviews and books.

At a moment's notice, I can provide your organization's members, students, or attendees any of the following topics via interactive workshop, craft lecture, masterclass, speech, in person, on live radio broadcast, or via Skype:  
  • From Fiction to Nonfiction Midcareer
  • ​Right from the Start:  Turning Up the Heat in Your Story's Opening
  • Losing It:  Women on the Verge
  • How to Submit Your Work for Publication Just Like an Editor Does
  • Separate & Unequal:  The Problem of "Chick Lit"
  • The Writer at Work While Her of His Novel Percolates:  Build Your Literary Career & Community Now, One Book Review at a Time​
  • The Fiction Chapbook:  A Sleeper Form Wakes Up
  • Build a Bridge:  Teaching Forms of Professional Writing   Professional Writing as the Graduate's Life Vest
  • How to Write & Teach at the Same Time:   A Life Vest for Junior Faculty Who Haven't Yet Admitted They Are Drowning
  • Do Disagreeable Narrators Always Make for Disagreeable  Books?
  • Linked Stories & What They Say About Who We Are As Writers
  • What Literary Journal & Press Editors Want You to Submit
  • Right from the Start:  Turning Up the Heat in Your Story's Opening
  • Losing It:  Women on the Verge
  • Changing the Sheets:  How Best to Get Sex on the Page
  • Southern Fiction
  • Child Narrators in Literary Fiction
  • Violence in Literary Fiction
  • Otherworldly Fiction:  When Metaphor Is Reality​
  • Publication in the Age of  e-Everything
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Barnes and Noble, Evansville, Indiana 11/5/11
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Barnes and Noble, Evansville, Indiana 11/5/11
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So There! book launch at RopeWalk, USI 10/6/11
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Preparing at Red Rocks, Old Town Alexandria 9/22/11
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The Fiction Chapbook: A Sleeper Form Wakes Up, AWP, Chicago, 3/2/12

Noley Reid  |  Novelist & Short Storyist

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