Events

UPCOMING

Guest: Sisters in Crime: Writers’ Podcast, November 2024 

PAST

Panelist: “Make It Snappy: Agatha Best Short Story Nominees,” Malice Domestic, Bethesda, Md., April 26, 2024

Moderator: “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Impact of Setting on Story,” Murderous March, Sisters in Crime. Upper Hudson, New York, Chapter, March 8, 2024

Presenter: “Master Class: Solving the Mystery of Social Media,” Murderous March, Sisters in Crime. Upper Hudson, New York, Chapter, March 8, 2024

Panelist: “It’s a Crime! Genre Fiction’s Bad Rap (Sheet) in Academia’s Mean Streets,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Kansas City, Miss., February 2024

Guest: What Are What We Read, YouTube, October 2, 2023

Guest speaker: MFA Writing Colloquium: “Writing Genre Fiction for Social Justice,” Sarah Lawrence College, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, September 19, 2023

Guest: Undiscarded: Stories of New York, Episode 12: “Display Cake,” August 2023

Guest reader: Story Hour, Livestream Speculative Fiction Readings, June 7, 2023

Guest: Meet the Author, Chocobar Cortés BX, Bronx, N.Y., September 19, 2022

Panelist: Groovy Kind of Death: Mysteries Set in the ’60s and ’70s, Bouchercon, Minneapolis, Minn., September 2022

Guest: Story Hour, Livestream Speculative Fiction Readings, May 2022

Moderator: “Mysteries for All Ages,” Malice Domestic, Bethesda, Maryland, April 2022

Panel: “Noir as an Agent for Social Change: A Look at Transgressive Crime Fiction,” Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Philadelphia, Penn., March 2022

Moderator/Curator: “International Noir” Reading Group, Center for Fiction, November 2021

DC Noir at the Bar, November 15, 2020.

On Sunday, November 8, 2020, I’ll be speaking to the I.E. Latinx Book & Chisme Club for Hipster Death Rattle: Discussion with the author, Richie Narvaez. For more information about this private group, go here.

Panel: “How Do I Get It Write?” at CrimeCONN (Express), with Jill Fletcher, Reed Coleman, Alexia Gordon, on November 5. For information, go here.

LaGuardia Community College: Hipster Death Rattle, Discussion with author Richie Narvaez, 11 a.m., November 5. For details, go here.

Panel: “Looking for the Answers: Latinx Authors Amplify Teen Voices” at Harris County Public Library, with  Alex Temblador and Anna Garcia Schaper, on October 29. A video of the event is available here.

Panel: “The Future of Noir” at Bouchercon 2020, with Holly West, Michael Bracken, Craig Faustus Buck, and Kelli Stanley, on October 17, 2020.

Panel: “Growing Up Mysterious: Juvenile and Young Adult Crime Fiction” at the Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter meeting, with Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon, and Melanie Rehak, on October 7.

Moderator, Creating a Nuyorican Identity: A Reading Group with Richie Narvaez Four reading groups sessions at the Center for Fiction, Wednesday, September 30.

https://centerforfiction.org/group-workshop/creating-a-nuyorican-identity-a-reading-group-with-richie-narvaez/

On July 11, 2020, at 4 p.m., celebrate the re-publication of LATINX RISING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY. Join Read Aloud host Yadhira Gonzalez-Taylor and the editor Matthew David Goodwin and authors Kathleen Alcalá, Pablo Brescia, Carl Marcum, and Richie Narvaez as each reads from their work.

June 26, 2020 Reading from the Pa’Que Tu Los Sepas anthology
As part of Two Bad Apples Present: Reading for Relief Night 2, featuring the Two Hectors, Acosta and Duarte, Carmen Jaramillo, Jessica Laine, Cina Pelayo, Richie Narvaez, y Desiree Zamorano. FYI, as part of this two-day event, Once Upon A Crime bookstore and the Astoria Bookshop sold $3,000 worth of books, and $2,100 was donated to charities, including Redeemer Center for Life, Black Lives Matter, Minneapolis Foundation’s Fund for Safe Communities, Division of Indian Work, and Little Earth Residents Association. Watch the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/paquetulosepaslive

June 19, 2020 Lockdown: Noir at the Bar
Watch the replay: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lockdown-noir-at-the-bar

May 21, 2020 Virtual Noir at the Bar – Out of Town 2
Reading with Hector Acosta, Erik Arneson, S.A. Cosby, Nikki Dolson, Ashley Erwin, Richie Narvaez, Anthony Neil Smith, and JB Stevens. Watch the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-noir-at-the-bar–5/1