Appearances
October 14-24, 2024
International Writers Retreat with Sonora Jha, Himalayan Writers’ Retreat, India
April 21-28, 2024
Writing About Love (retreat) with Sonora Jha in Agen, France
February 8-12, 2024
Ceylon Literary Festival, Sri Lanka
February 1-5, 2024
Jaipur Literature Festival, India
Jan 23, 2024
The Craft of Writing Novels, with Jess Walter and Sonora Jha, Spokane Public Library
Nov. 9, 2023
Reading and Talk at CUNY’s Hostos Community College, New York
Nov. 8, 2023
Reading and Talk at The New School, New York
Nov 2, 2023
Conversation with Vauhini Vara, Seattle
Oct 14, 2023
Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri, Seattle
October 6-9, 2023
South Asian Literature and Arts Festival, Bay Area
Sept 29-Oct 1, 2023
Great Minds, Town Hall/Hedgebrook Writers’ Conference, Seattle
Sept, 7-10, 2023
Montana Book Festival, Missoula, Montana
August 3-7, 2023
Sahitya Akademi Literature Festival, Bhopal, India
May 17, 2023
Author Salon, King County Library System, at The Art of the Table. In conversation with Seattle Times journalist Naomi Ishisaka.
March 8 - 11, 2023
At AWP, Seattle. Featured Event - Writing Motherhood in Post-Roe America.
February 15, 2023
Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA. 7 pm (PST). In conversation with Kim Fu
February 16, 2023
Powell’s Books, Portland, OR, 7 pm (PST). In conversation with Omar El Akkad
Febrary 18th, 2023
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, 4pm (PST). In conversation with Robin McLean
February 20th, 2023
GreenLight Bookstore, NYC, 7:30 pm (EST). In conversation with Rakesh Satyal
March 7, 2023
Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences, 6 pm (PST). In conversation with Nalini Iyer
August 2021
Discovering and Deepening Your Story with Sonora Jha - Hollyhock, August 22 - Sept. 2
July 2021
How to Raise a Feminist Son - Book Talk with Dr. Sonora Jha, July 1
Book “Unbirthday” Party and Author Signing w/ Barnes & Noble, July 18
June 2021
Teaching "Threading Essays into Memoir" for Chuckanut Writers' Conference, June 22, 2021. Register here.
How to Raise a Feminist Son with Sonora Jha - On Boys Podcast, June 24, 2021
Chuckanut Writing Faculty Reading, June 25, 2021
Chuckanut Author Panels, June 26, 2021
CBSJARA Facebook Live w/ Host Firoze Alam, June 28
Fireside Chat and Q&A w/ National President Christian F. Nunes - National Organization for Women (NOW)’s 55th Celebration, June 30. RSVP here.
May 2021
#SayftyChat “Raising Feminist Sons,” May 3, 2021
Writing about People We Love: Balancing Candor with Compassion - Creative Nonfiction, May 6, 2021. Register here.
Brown Motherhood, May 13, 2021
Feminist Parenting with Sonora Jha and Jordan Shapiro, May 18, 2021. Register here.
The Female Quotient - Author Series: How to Raise a Feminist Son, May 21, 2021
Writing Off the Patriarchy: Literature as Love Letters for Change, May 27, 2021. Register here.
April 2021
CALIBA x PNBA Spring Fest West: Authors on the Map, April 5, 2021. Register here.
Virtual Book Launch, Town Hall and Elliott Bay Book Company, April 7, 2021. Conversation Partner Ijeoma Oluo. Get your tickets here.
Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Sarah Ladipo Manyika, April 14, 2021
Book Launch Celebration w/ Director Dr. Theresa Earenfight and Pigott McCone Chair Dr. Nalini Iyer, Seattle University Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, April 19, 2021. Register here.
Book Event w/ Rebecca Solnit, Politics and Prose Live! Washington, D.C., April 20, 2021. Register here.
Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Tasveer author and Associate Teaching Professor Alka Kurian, April 22, 2021. Register here.
Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Dr. Amrita Ghosh, April 23, 2021
Cottage Chats: Honor Moore & Sonora Jha, April 29, 2021. Learn more here.
March 2021
Online Reading, Margin Shift, March 18, 2021
Online Reading w/ Jennifer Haupt and East Coast Library, March 10, 2021
Feb 2021
Prepping to Publish Workshop (for writers of color), Feb. 20 - 21, 2021. Sign up here.
Authors Panel, Get Lit! Festival, Feb. 18, 2021
June 2020
A Call To Mamas (w/ Sonora Jha)
October 2019
Bedtime Stories, Humanities Washington Fundraiser, Oct. 11, 2019
September 2019
Our Future Depends on Feminist Men (w/ Sonora Jha)
June 2019
Keynote Address at Chuckanut Writers’ Conference, June 19 - 21, 2019
Jan 2018
An evening with South Asian writers of the Pacific Northwest, at Hugo House, Seattle, Sept. 27, 7-9 p.m.
Some past appearances -
At Seattle's literary and music series, Lit Fix, December 10, 2014.
At Elliott Bay Book Company as a Guest Bookseller on Indies First/ Small Business Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.
At Lit Crawl Seattle, Oct. 23rd, 2014
The Stranger and Seattle Weekly recommend this event when Sonora Jha joins four other Seattle writers - Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind. September 11 at Office Nomads, Seattle.
At the Write Doe Bay 2017 retreat on Orcas Island, Sonora Jha is a teaching artist.
The Stranger and Seattle Weekly recommend this event when Sonora Jha joins four other Seattle writers - Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind. September 11 at Office Nomads, Seattle.
At The Northwest Folklife Festival, May 24th, 2014, in the JBL Theater at the Experience Music Project (EMP).
At the Annual Convention of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE). June 18-20, 2014. Seattle, Washington, USA. Keynote Speaker.
At the Annual Fundraiser of the People for Progress in India, April 27th, 2014, Mercer Island, Washington.
At The Times Literary Carnival, Dec. 6-8, 2013. Mumbai, India.
At the Annual Convention of the South Asian Literary Association. Keynote Author Reading. Dec. 8-9, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
At The Hindu Lit For Life Literary Festival, Jan. 11-13, 2014. Chennai, India. Reading and Award Ceremony.
At The Search for Meaning Book Festival, Feb. 15, 2014. Seattle, Washington, USA.
September 3rd, 2013, 2 p.m. - Interview on Author2Author Blog Talk Radio with Author Magazine's Bill Kenower.
October 24, 2013 - Lit Crawl, Seattle. At 6 p.m. Von Trapp's on 12th Ave.
July 21, 2013 - One Up Library & Bookshop, Amritsar
July 18, 2013 - Full Circle Bookstore, New Delhi.
July 6, 2013 - Easy Library, Koramangala, Bangalore.
July 3, 2013 - Crossword Books, Kemp's Corner, Mumbai.
June 27, 2013, 7-10 p.m., Seattle Asian Art Museum - Words on Water: Indian Writers in Conversation with Sudeep Chakravarti, Saikat Majumdar, Sonora Jha & Peter Mountford
May 26-28, 2013 - Words on Water literary festival, Seattle Asian Art Museum.
May 12, 2013, 12-1 p.m. - Reading/panel at the Seattle Asian Art Museum
April 23, 2013, 12:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion. "Conversation on 'Conversations'” panel on Tuesday, in STCN 130, Seattle University.