Please feel free to contact me at tomfate8@gmail.com regarding my visiting your college or library or book group or church this summer or fall. I’ve had the pleasure of doing dozens of readings/talks and workshops in the last year or two. And I always enjoy the learning and conversation.

2023 Events/Readings

Feb. 26 (Sunday).  9:30 a.m. Downers Grove U.C.C.  1047 Curtiss Street. Downers Grove, IL.

March 16 (Thursday). 12:00 noon.  “Writers Read.” SRC 2000. College of DuPage. 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn IL. 

March 18 (Saturday). 1:30-3:00 p.m..  Writing Workshop. Maquoketa Art Experience. 124 S. Main St. Maquoketa, IA.

March 19 (Sunday). 10:00 a.m. Maquoketa U.C.C. Reading followed by signing/coffee. 206 E. Platt St. Maquoketa, IA.

March 19 (Sunday).  5:00 p.m.  Reading/Discussion. Carnegie Stout Public Library.  360 W. 11th St.  Dubuque, Iowa.  

March 21 (Tuesday).  Loras College. 9:30 a.m. “Writing Your Life into Memoir” workshop. 1450 Alta Vista St.  Dubuque, Iowa.

March 27 (Monday). 12:30. (Virtual/Zoom.) Reading/Discussion. Paradise Valley Community College. Phoenix, Arizona.

March 28 (Tuesday). University of Indianapolis and the Indiana Writer’s Center. 6-7:30 Workshop. 8-9 Reading/Discussion. Indianapolis, IN.

April 3 (Monday).  Wheaton College. 7:00 p.m.  Lowell Grabill Contest/Reading.  501 College Ave. Wheaton IL.

April 10-12. Elon University. Reading/Discussion. CNF and Env. Studies classes. Elon, NC.

April 13-14. Catawba College. Reading/Discussion. 2300 W Innes St, Salisbury, NC.

April 24 (Monday): North Hennepin Community College. Reading/Discussion. 1:00 p.m. 7411 85th Avenue North,
Brooklyn Park, MN

April 25 (Tuesday): St. Olaf College. Reading/Discussion. Viking Theater. 7:00 p.m. 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN. 

April 27-28: Luther College. Reading/Discussion. Center for Faith and Life. 6:00 p.m. Recital Hall. 700 College Dr. Decorah, IA.

April 30 (Sunday): First Congregational Church of Dundee. 10:00 a.m. Reading/Discussion. 900 S. 8th St. West Dundee, IL. 

May 25 (Thursday): Glen Ellyn Public Library. 6:30 p.m. No Shush Salon. Featured reader (after open mike). 400 Duane St. Glen Ellyn, IL

June 11 (Sunday): First Cong. Church of Glen Ellyn. 10:00 a.m. 535 Forest Ave., Glen Ellyn IL

June 18 (Sunday/Father’s Day). St. Charles Congregational UCC. 9:30 a.m. 40W451 Fox Mill Boulevard St. Charles, IL.

2022  EVENTS/READINGS

Thursday, Dec. 8. 6:00 p.m. Prairie Path Books. 255 Town Square Wheaton.

Sunday, Nov. 13. 9:45 a.m. Faith Lutheran Church.  41 N. Park Blvd. Glen Ellyn, IL.

Saturday, Nov. 12. Keynote: “The Framed Moment.”  St. Francis Writer’s Conference. 9:00 a.m. University of St. Francis. Joliet, IL.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 12:00/noon. Friends of American Writers reading series. The Fortnightly Club, 120 E. Belleview Place. Chicago.

Sunday, Oct. 9. Reading/Discussion. 9:15 a.m. Iowa City UCC. 30 N. Clinton St. Iowa City, IA.

Thursday, Oct. 6. Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
Kalamazoo MI. 10:00p.m: “The Craft of CNF”; 2:00 p.m.: Public Reading from The Long Way Home.

Sunday, Oct. 2.  9:00 a.m.  Ames UCC. 217 6th St.  Ames, Iowa.

Saturday, Oct. 1st. Reading with John Price and Debra Marquardt and The Bone People. 6:00 pm. C.Y. Stephens Aud, The Goldfinch Room.  Ames, Iowa.

Monday, Sept. 26. Red Dragan Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. Morris Conference Center. SUNY-Oneonta. Oneonta, NY.

Sunday, Sept. 25. Riverstone Books. Squirrel Hill. 5:00 p.m. Pittsburgh PA.

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 7:00 p.m. Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa.

Sunday, Sept. 11. Printers Row Lit Fest. 11:00 a.m. “In conversation with Amity Carruba.” Grace Place.
637 S. Dearborn St. Chicago.

Saturday, Aug, 20. Book signing. The Bookstore.
Glen Ellyn IL. 1-2 p.m.

Sunday, July 31, 2:00 p.m. Maquoketa, Iowa. Iowa
Book Launch: Maquoketa Arts Experience. Reading/Discussion/Signing. 124 S.
Main. (In Person.)

Thursday, July 28. 7:00 p.m.  Reading/Discussion. Glen Ellyn Public Library. 400 Duane Ave. (In Person.)

Wednesday, July 20. 7:00 p.m. College of DuPage:
Reading and Discussion. Live via Zoom. REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT.  

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