2023 Litfest: Lighthouse Writers (June 2023) will be teaching two workshops (in-person) on writing craft
2023 Writers Heights Writers Conference
2023 Fort Collins Bookfest Featured Author
2022 Colorado College Visiting Author Series, February Visiting Author
2022 Colorado College James Yaffe Prize for Short Fiction: Judge
2022 Northern Colorado Writers: 2022 Writing Heights Writers Conference will be teaching three in-person workshops
2022 Litfest: Lighthouse Writers (June 2022) will be teaching four workshops (2 virtual, 2 in-person) on writing craft
2022 University of Denver English Department featured visiting writer
2022, 2020 City of Englewood Writers Retreat: Teach memoir/CNF and Fiction workshop, participate in the author’s panel, serve as host for the retreat, and help organize in partnership with The City of Englewood to procure a diverse panel of authors
2021 Kenyon Review residency scholarship recipient for CNF with mentor Geeta Kothari
2021 Litfest: Lighthouse Writers taught a workshop on vulnerability in CNF and featured author’s reading
2021 Northern Colorado Writers Conference: Featured instructor: Introduction to Flash Fiction: Dump the Rules and Discover Your Bad Self. Featured author on a panel with Steven Dunn, Tanaya Winder, and Traci L. Jones.
2021 University of Denver English Department featured visiting writer and author panelist
2021 Colorado College featured visiting writer for first-year creative writing students
2021 Arapahoe Community College Literary Festival (Second time) Featured Instructor and panelist. Teaching “Digging Up Your Ghosts” workshop for CNF/Memoir/Hybrid
2020, 2021 The Mile High MFA at Regis University visiting guest instructor, author panelist, and author reading for the summer residencies
Publish Me II, 2020: Publish Me II
The Writer’s Retreat-City of Englewood 2020: The Writer’s Retreat
A 2020 Western Illinois University featured visiting writer for CNF reading and panelist with Tiffany Quay Tyson and Rebecca Roanhorse
A Journey of a Book’s Publication Panel: Taste of an MFA-Regis University Mile High MFA 2020: Mile High MFA Residency
Bending Genres, 2019: Digging Up Your Ghosts Online Workshop
Writers Studio Literary Festival, 2019: Discovering Your Ghosts in Writing
Kathy Fish Fast Flash Guest Teacher Fall, 2018, 2019: Kathy Fish Fast Flash Workshop
Mile High Taste of an MFA Workshop: Flash Fiction and Micro Nonfiction: Taste of an MFA
Flash Fiction Workshop: Colorado Writing School, Louisville, CO 2017: Colorado Writing School (Now Lighthouse Writers)
COMMUNITY
The Neighborhood Arts Collective: Volunteer contributor to help local artists, the community, and those who are at risk: The Neighborhood Arts Collective
Reproductive Justice Reading and Fundraiser: Curated and hosted by Selah Saterstrom and Julia Madsen at Counterpath: Counterpath Reading Event
100 Choices: A Fundraising Project curated by Selah Saterstrom & HR Hegnauer:100 Choices
Night of American Verse
Organized and hosted reading/fundraiser for Minor Disturbance, Denver’s youth slam poetry team, as well as playwright and poet Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson, and an excerpt of the theatrical choreo poem HOW I GOT OVER: a Journey in Verse, featuring slam poet champions Suzi Q. Smith, Jenee Elise, Bianca Mikhan, Toluwanimi Obiwole, and Rolanda Simmons, Syntax Physic Opera-Denver, CO
Standing Rock Reading & Fundraiser
Organized and hosted a reading/fundraiser event for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Featured readers: Erika T. Wurth, Steven Dunn, Kathy Fish, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Charly Fasano, Eric Baus, Zack Kopp, and Crisosto Apache. Syntax Physic Opera-Denver, CO
Hillary Leftwich 