Vada Shield Community Center Trout Room

Beth Ann wil talk about her new book, The Irish Goodbye, with comedian, writer, and social media personality Mary Ryan Brown in the Galloway Fellowship Center

in Columbus, MS, on Saturday, August 29 I’ll be the keynote from 12:30-1:30 and after the book signing I’ll teach a micro-memoir workshop from 2:30-4pm.

I’m reading alongside David Baker, Maya Popa, and Owen Lewis!

https://bryantpark.org/calendar/event/poetry

July 17-26, 2026—

Workshop: July 18

Craft Talk: July 25

With musician Claire Holley at Duling Hall

With Musician Claire Holley at Red Panther Brewing

Beth Ann and musician Claire Holley have an evening of music and micro-memoirs at Vinyl Tap

https://www.porchtn.org/happenings/the-porch-visiting-writers-series-presents-beth-ann-fennelly-claire-holley

Join Beth Ann for this 2-hour class on writing flash non-fiction! https://www.porchtn.org/class/build-me-a-hummingbird-of-words-how-to-distill-your-life-into-a-flash

Location: Special Collections & University Archives at Vanderbilt University, 1101 19th Avenue, Nashville TN 37212

I’ll be a reader on the Thacker Mountain Radio road show at the Eudora Welty House

I’ll read micro-memoirs and lead diners through a creative writing exercise as part of this YAC event.

The festival takes place outside of DC on May 16. My event is in the Rachel Carson Pavillion.

The Secret World Bookshop, reading and signing

April 30 Grace College in IN

Cool Dog Sound hosts a house concert for Beth Ann and Claire Holley.

I’ll appear with Tom Franklin to accept a prize for “distinguished contributions to Southern Literature.”

Thank You Books

5502 Crestwood Blvd, Unit B

Birmingham, AL 35212

(205) 202-3021

Open to All: Tuesday, April 14 at 5pm

Patterson Hall, Room 456

The University of Memphis

I'll teach a fun interactive micro-memoir workshop at a bookstore called Paperhearts. 

Build Me a Hummingbird of Words: How to Distill Your Life into a Flash

What should we do when we have the urge to write our stories but can’t figure out
how or where to start? This all-levels, interactive workshop provides strategies for
those seeking to answer this question. Our main strategy? Start small.

Our spirit animal for this class will be the hummingbird. The hummingbird is the only
bird that can fly forward, backward, sideways, and, for short distances, upside down.
Precisely because they are so small, hummingbirds can do things other birds can’t.

Likewise we’ll look at tiny texts and study the things that they can do because they are
small. How can attention to the tiniest literary creations challenge and inspire us?  How
can writing small trick us into writing our big stories?

Our time together will be a mix of craft talk, including insight into varieties of word-hummingbirds

such as the monostich, the 6-word memoir, the aphorism, the ten-second essay, and the American Sentence. We’ll also cover the top ten things I’ve learned from writing tiny texts before rolling up our sleeves and generating my favorite short form: the user-friendly micro-memoir, an exciting hybrid that combines the extreme brevity of poetry, the narrative arc of fiction, and the truth-telling of creative nonfiction. We’ll be sure to save time for sharing our work with our fellow writers.

Class price includes a signed and personalized copy of the newly-released The Irish
Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs!

Friday, Feb. 20, 2026: reading at Univ. of AR Little Rock, Visiting Writers Series

March 25-27, The Oxford Conference for the Book, 4pm reading on flash at Southside Gallery with Steve Almond and Ira Sukrungurang

Hey y’all! Join me in New Orleans for this all-levels, interactive micro-memoir writing class! All class members get a signed copy of The Irish Goodbye: micro-memoirs!

Pass Books, Reading & Signing, 6pm

I’ll be on and AWP panel moderated by Paisley Rekdal on failing.

I’ll read with David Baker at the famed NYC series!

Lost Dog Coffee in Taylor, MS