UPCOMING EVENTS

• On THURSDAY, July 8 2010 at 7:30 pm at The 2nd Draft Reading Series with ERIN BRADLEY. The reading series is currently running through the seven deadly sins. Our topic: PRIDE!

  at the Roots & Vines Café
  409 Grand Street at Clinton
  Manhattan
  (212) 260-2363
  J, M, Z, F to Delancey & Essex
  -free-

Ongoing

• M. M. De Voe leads private online workshops for short fiction through her editorial position at Our Stories Journal. For more information, click here:
  http://www.ourstories.us/Workshops/workshops.html

• On SECOND TUESDAYS of each month September through May,  M. M. De Voe hosts the Pen Parentis Reading Series with colleague Arlaina Tibensky at the beautiful Libertine Library at Gild Hall in lower Manhattan. Notable authors read from their works and answer Q&A about how they balance successful writing careers with the demands of parenting. These events are FREE and open to the public. Visit www.penparentis.org for more information.

Past Events

• May 16, 2010. Along with Phillip Lopate, Ron Drummond, and Jack Coulehan, De Voe read from her recently published story at the Bellevue Literary Review launch party in the Bellevue Hospital Rotunda in Manhattan. Was later informed that many copies of BLR sold based on her reading alone!

• November 8, 2009. M. M. De Voe read at the legendary KGB bar along with other prize winners of the 2009 Literal Latte short-short fiction competition. One of the two stories she read is available at www.literal-latte.com.  

• October 20- 24th, 2008. Featured Author at the SNIPLITS website. To find short story podcasts read by talented actors and actresses, featuring M. M. De Voe’s Pushcart-nominated story "ANTS." www.sniplits.com

• June 28, 2008, 7:00pm. Public reading in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the bar The Office, featuring a new M.M. DeVoe story.

• Thursday, July 24th, 2007, 7:00 p.m. Reading at KGB Bar the famous literary East Village location, featuring M. M. De Voe’s prize-winning and Pushcart nominated story "Ducle Domum," as well as stories by fellow New York area authors Matt McHugh and Mary Robinette Kowal. They read from the anthology The Best of The First Line: Editors’ Picks: 2002-2006. KGB BAR: 85 E. 4th St., 2nd fl, New York, NY 10003

• Friday, August 24th, 2007, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Fiction Reader at the release Party for 20th annual Sojourn issue, featuring readings, awards, wine & hors d’oeuvres, and copies of the new issue for everyone! McDermott Suite, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas . (N.B. “Keep Watch” was awarded an Editor’s Choice Award in recognition of Work in Fiction.)

• February 19th, 2007, 9:00 am – 2 pm. Keynote Speaker at the Creative Writing Colloquium at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. M. M. De Voe is honored to present a story at the beautiful luncheon. Prior to the event, she attends inspiring, student-run workshops. Post lunch, she meets with various conference attendees. Hosted by The College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Sigma Tau Delta.

• September 22, 2006 2 pm – 4 pm. Guest of Honor at Writers’ Tea in Baltimore, MD. Author alumnae of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland assemble to meet M. M. De Voe and discuss their own writing endeavors. Prior to the event, public reading and Q&A for the wonderful freshmen in Dr. Bill Davis’ Writing 101 class.

• Sunday, September 10, 2006. CBS Radio Interview airs on CBS News Weekend Round-up. Three interview segments downloadable as mp3 on the PRESS page of this website.

• December 4th, 2005. Reading at KGB bar from the erotica anthology STIRRING UP A STORM M. M. De Voe with Lauren Henderson, Lynda Schor, and Rachel Kramer Bussel read excerpts from their stories to a full house, despite a blizzard that keeps editor Marilyn Jaye Lewis stuck in Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, every book sold!

• November 3, 2005. Reading at Bluestocking Books in New York from STIRRING UP A STORM: tales of the sensual, the sexual and the erotic. M. M. De Voe reads from her Pushcart Prize nominated story “Overheard.” She shares the stage with her wonderful editor, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, as well as international pop star Max Sharam, and well-known erotica authors Rachel Kramer Bussell and Iris N. Schwartz.

• Saturday, April 8th, 2006 at 7pm. Reading at National Passion, a Lithuanian Erotica Event; a history of Lithuanian erotica from 1200 through Today. (ironically, I was three months pregnant when I did this reading!) Event occurs at Our Lady of Vilnius Church (basement level) on Broome Street in SoHo, NYC. This reading and theater event is hosted by the New York Lithuanian Cultural Club. Beer & Wine served.