Upcoming Events

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

September 11, 2020, 1 pm  |   Virtual Event
Naomi Jackson will moderate a panel celebrating recent books by Caribbean writers, including Donna Hemans (JA), Lauren Francis-Sharma (TT), Caroline Mackenzie (TT), Ingrid Persaud (TT), Maisy Card (JA). More details here.

Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference

June 19-26, 2021  |   Paul Smith's College, Paul Smiths, NY
Naomi Jackson will be teaching a weeklong creative writing workshop at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference. More details here.

Previous Appearances

2019

Washington University, St. Louis

April 17-18 |   St. Louis, MO

Colgate Writers’ Conference

June 16-22 |   Hamilton, NY

Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference

June 22-29| Paul Smiths, NY   

Noepe Center for the Literary Arts

July 10-14| Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Iowa Summer Writing Festival

July 21-26| Iowa City, IA

2018

Key West Literary Seminar (Writers of the Caribbean)

January 12-19 |   Key West, FL

2017

Tin House Writers Workshop

July 9-16 |   Portland, OR

PEN World Voices Festival

May 1-7 |   Various Venues, New York, NY

For Colored Nerds Live Podcast Taping

April 22   |   The High Line, New York, NY

Writing as Resistance Apogee Journal Workshop

April 19   |   The High Line, New York, NY

NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series

March 24   |   New York, NY

Genre Bias in the Creative Writing Workshop

AWP Conference Panel

February 9   |   Washington, DC

Socially Conscious Fiction

AWP Conference Panel

February 11   |   Washington, DC
 

2016

Gracie Mansion Book Club Launch
Langston Hughes Community Center
September

Barnes & Noble, Court Street
Naomi Jackson & Masande Ntshanga
September|   Brooklyn, NY

Community Bookstore
August   |   Brooklyn, NY

Barbados Museum & Historical Society
The Star Side of Bird Hill Barbados Launch
July|   Barbados

Chattel House Books, Barbados
July|   Barbados

Quaternary: Four Barbadian Female Artists, Barbados
Gallerie NuEdge
July|   Barbados

Brass Tacks: A Workshop on the Nuts & Bolts of Building a Writing Life
Fresh Milk
July|   Barbados

This Summer, You Write Your Novel, Fine Arts Work Center
July   |   Provincetown, MA

Sarah Lawrence College
June   |   Bronxville, NY

Jami Attenberg Saint Maizie Paperback Launch
Housing Works
June 21   |   New York

Girls Write Now, CHAPTERS Reading Series
Scholastic
June|   New York

Pete's Candy Store
June|   Brooklyn, NY

POPSICKLE
Throne Watches
June   |   Brooklyn, NY

Poetry Project
May   |   New York

Anguilla Literary Festival
Paradise Cove Resort
May|  Anguilla

Brews & Prose
Market Garden Brewery
May|   Cleveland, OH

Caribbean Feminisms on the Page with Dr. Gloria Joseph
March|   Barnard College,  New York

Oberlin College
Afrikan Heritage House
February   |   Oberlin, OH

Enoch Pratt Free Library Writers LIVE Series
January|   Baltimore, MD