 June 17-24, 2012. Reading and teaching at the Aspen Summer Words (sponsored by the Aspen Writers' Foundation). Aspen, CO.
April 23-27, 2012. Visiting writer at University of Idaho. Moscow, ID.
April 19, 2012, Reading at Luther College, Decorah, IA.
March 30, 2012. Reading at Agnes Scott Literary Festival, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.
February 6, 2012. Pen/Faulkner Reading Series. With Dagoberto Gilb. 7:30 p.m. in the Elizabethan Theater of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
October 19-23, 2011. Tomales Bay Writers Workshop, hosted by UC-Davis. Tomales Bay, CA.
October 6, 2011. 6-8 PM reading for the Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University. Ames, IA.
September 26-30, 2011. Reading and teaching as the visiting Writer in Residence, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.
September 21, 2011. 6:30 PM reading at the Fall for the Book Festival. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA.
September 15, 2011. Reading at Minnesota State University. Mankato, MN.
July 25-29, 2011. Reading and teaching at the Hamline University Summer Writers' Conference. Northfield, MN.
July 10-July 17, 2011. Teaching at the Tin House Writers' Workshop. Portland, OR.
April 13-17, 2011. Reading at the Get Lit! Festival, hosted by Eastern Washington University. Spokane, WA.
April 7, 2011. Reading at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Stevens Point, WI.
April 6, 2011. Speaking at First Amendment Day breakfast. Iowa State University. Ames, IA.
April 2, 2010. Reading at the Mission Creek Festival. Iowa City, IA.
March 28 - 30, 2011. Reading and teaching at Hope College. Kalamazoo, MI.
March 24-26, 2011. Reading at SMU Litfest, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
March 22, 2011. Reading at Northwestern College. Orange City, IA.
March 3, 2011. Reading at UC-Denver. Denver, CO.
February 24, 2011. Reading at Columbia Basin College. Pasco, WA.
February 23, 2011. Reading at Washington State University. Pullman, WA.
February 21, 2011. Prairie Lights. 7 PM. Iowa City, IA.
February 7, 2011. Barry Hannah Tribute with Tom Franklin and Wells Tower. Barnes & Noble. 86th and Lexington. New York, NY.
Feb. 5, 2011. Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference. A featured reading sponsored by Blue Flower Arts. Also with Rick Moody, Jennifer Egan and Joshua Ferris. 12:00 PM. Washington DC.
Feb. 4, 2011. Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference. Graywolf Press reading with Nick Flynn, Jessica Francis Kane, Stephen Elliot, Thomas Sayer Ellis. Time TBA. Washington DC.
February 3, 2011. Judging the Lit Gong Show at AWP. Washington D.C.
December 6, 2010. Reading at Micawbers bookstore. St. Paul, MN.
November 8, 2010. Reading at the Ames Public Library. 7 PM. Ames, IA.
November 1, 2010. Reading at Beaverdale Books. 7 PM. Des Moines, IA.
October 29 - 30, 2010. Reading at the Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, MT.
October 25, 2010. Reading at 6 PM. 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL. - NOTICE: To be rescheduled at a later date
October 21, 2010. Harvard Bookstore. 7 PM. Cambridge, MA.
October 20, 2010. McNally Jackson Bookstore. With Jessica Francis Kane and Fiona McCrae. 7 PM. New York, NY.
October 19, 2010. 7PM. Reading with Jessica Francis Kane and Mark Slouka at Bookcourt. Brooklyn, NY.
October 12, 2010. Reading at Elliot Bay Book Company. 6 PM. Seattle, WA.
October 11, 2010. 7PM. Reading at the Nature of Words (NOW) Literary Arts Center, 224 NW Oregon Avenue, Bend, OR.
October 9, 2010. Reading at the Wordstock Festival. Portland, OR:
- Oct 9, Saturday, 12 - 1:15 PM, B119 (workshop: meaningful repetition)
- Oct 9, Saturday, 2 PM, Columbia Stage (reading with Anthony Doerr)
- Oct 9, Saturday, 4 PM, Wieden+Kennedy Stage (panel: regional voices)
October 8, 2010. PNBA Booksellers Convention. Author's Feast. Portland, OR.
October 5, 2010. Boswell Books. 7 PM. Milwaukee, WI.
October 4, 2010. A Room of One's Own. 6:30 PM. Madison, WI.
Sep 26-31, 2010. Reading at the "Lettres du Monde" festival. Bordeaux, France.
Sept 23-26, 2010. Reading at the Festival America. Paris, France.
September 12, 2010. Reading at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Reading with Sigrid Nunez and Stewart O'Nan. St. Francis Reading Room 2:00 PM. Brooklyn, NY.
August 30, 2010. Reading for the Iowa Review issue launch. Prairie Lights. 7 PM. Iowa City, IA.
July 25-August 7, 2010. Teaching at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL
June 24-27, 2010. Teaching at the Jackson Hole Writers' Conference. Jackson Hole, WY.
June 12-18, 2010. Teaching and reading at the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference.
May 3 , 2010, reading at Harvard University, Boston, MA
May 1-2, 2010, The Muse and the Marketplace, hosted by Grub Street, The Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
April 22, 2010. 7PM reading at Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, IL.
April 13, 2010. Reading as part of the "Celebration of the Literary Arts" at Des Moines Area Community College. 2:25 PM. West Campus. West Des Moines, IA.
April 7-10, 2010. Tribute to William Kittredge, with Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, Robert Hass and Terry Tempest Williams. AWP Conference. Denver, CO.
April 7-10, 2010. Ecotone magazine reading with Bob Hicok, Cary Holladay, Kathryn Miles, Reg Saner, and Robert Wrigley. AWP Conference. Denver, CO.
March 28-30, 2010. Reading and lecturing at Hope College. Kalamazoo, MI.
March 4, 2010. Reading at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana.
March 2-3, 2010. Reading and teaching as a writer-in-residence at Wabash College. Crawfordsville, IN.
February 25, 2010. Reading at the University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas.
February 8, 2010. Reading at the Gilman School. Baltimore, MD.
January 19th, 2010. Reading at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Edwardsville, IL.
January 18, 2010. River Styx Reading Series, St. Louis, MO.
January 4th, 2010, 7PM. Will interview Carol Sklenicka, author of the Raymond Carver bio, A Writer's Life, as part of the Paris Review writers-on-writers series. Barnes & Noble, 86th & Lexington, NYC
December 11, 2009. Reading with Dean Bakopoulos at the Orpheum Theater. Madison, WI.
November 20, 2009. Teaching and reading at Northwestern Michigan College. Traverse City, MI. November 18-19, 2009, reading and lecturing at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI.
November 4 and 5, 2009, as the Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction, Waldorf College, Forest City, IA.
October 1, 2009. As part of the Prout Chapel Reading Series. Bowling Green State Univeristy. Bowling Green, Ohio.
September 11 - 12, 2009. Spring Green Literary Festival. Spring Green, WI.
September 10, 2009. 7:00 pm. Reading at The Pumphouse Regional Arts Center. LaCrosse, WI.
July 30 - August 2, 2009. Teaching and reading at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. Sponsored by the College of the Redwoods. Mendocino, CA.
June 7 - 13, 2009. Teaching and reading at the Ropewalk Writers Retreat. Hosted by the University of Southern Indiana. Evansville, IN.
March 8, 2009. University of Wyoming. Laramie, WY
Saturday, February 14, 2009. Moderating panel discussion: The "New" MFA with participants Pamela Painter, Laura van den Berg, Geoffery Bock, and Mary Rockcastle. 10:30-11:45am. Chicago Hilton, Private Dining Room 4. AWP Conference.
Friday, February 13, 2009. Reading: "Celebrating the Voices of American Short Fiction" 10:30-11:45am. Chicago Hilton. AWP Conference.
February 5, 2009. University of Missouri-Columbia.
February 4, 2008. Westminster College. Fulton, MO. February 3, 2009. University of Central Missouri. Warrensburg, MO.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008. Reading at the Pumphouse Regional Arts Center. LaCrosse, WI.
November 12, 2008. Reading and Reception at Graywolf Press Fundraiser. The Minneapolis Club. Minneapolis, MN.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Mary Louise White Visiting Writer Series. SUNY-Fredonia.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 . As part of the Wisconsin Book Festival -- readings from the 2008 CWW winners. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008. With Alan Cheuse and Ron Carlson, as part of the Fall for the Book Festival. 7:30. Johson Center Cinema, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
September 10, 2008. Esquire's 75th Anniversary Party (where the 75 most influential people of the 21st century will be unveiled). Gotham Hall. NYC.
June 20, 2008. 8pm. With James Devita. The Alley Stage at Shake Rag Alley. Mineral Point, WI.
May 16, 2008. Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois.
April 8, 2008. 5 pm. As part of the Ropewalk Reading Series at the University of Southern Indiana. Kleymeyer Hall in USI's Liberal Arts Center. RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 14.
April 3, 2008. 12:15-1:30. University of Hartford. Wilde Auditorium. Hartford, CN.
January 30 - February 2, 2008. AWP Conference. Graywolf reading -- with Ron Carlson. NYC.
December 7, 2007. Gist Street Reading Series. Pittsburgh, PA. With David Griffith. To learn more about the reading series click here.
Thursday, November 15, 2007. 7pm. Shaman Drum bookstore. Ann Arbor, MI.
Monday, November 5, 2007. 7 pm. With Ellen Litman. Harry W. Schwartz Bookstores. Downer Ave. Milwaukee, WI.
November 1-4, 2007. The Nature of Words literary festival in Bend, Oregon. Scheduled to read at the Tower Theater and to lead two workshops. To learn more about the festival click here.
Sunday, October 28, 2007. 1:30-3:15. Waukesha Public Library. Waukesha, WI.
Thursday, October 25, 2007. 192 Books--sponsored by Symphony Space. New York. Actor Ted Marcoux will read "Refresh, Refresh" followed by a conversation with Ben.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007. With Roy Kesey, as part of the Happy Ending reading series. At the Happy Ending Bar, 302 Broome Street, NY.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007. Micawbers Bookstore. St. Paul, MN.
Thursday, October 18, 2007. Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Chicago.
October 18-21, 2007. Chippewa Valley Book Festival. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. To learn more about the festival click here.
October 14, 2007. 4-5pm. Wisconsin Book Festival. Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street. Madison, WI. With Danielle Trussoni.
Monday, October 8, 2007. 7pm. Marquette University's Weasler Auditorium, 15th and Wells, Milwaukee, WI. Wisconsin Authors' Night. With Larry Watson and Jane Hamilton.
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 7:30pm. Sponsored by Bookslut. A reading at The Hopleaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark Street, Andersonville, IL.
Saturday, June 12, 2007. 4-6:30 PM. New York Public Library, Periodical Room, Fifth Ave @ 42nd Street. As part of "The Magathon," Laura van den Berg (fiction editor of Redivider) will read from Ben's story, "The Faulty Builder." Sponsored by CLMP.
As part of Symphony Space's "Selected Shorts" series, National Public Radio broadcast actor Ted Marcoux's reading of "Refresh, Refresh" -- followed by an interview with Ben -- on March 10-16, 2007. Click here to download the program.
February 7, 8, 9, 10, 2007. 8pm. Synesthesia. A yearly festival that showcases a unique fusion of art forms in one cohesive two-hour evening performance. The culmination of months of work by musicians, sculptors, actors, writers, directors, photographers, dancers and a multitude of other artists who come together to engage each other in a cross-genre conversation. Harris Lieberman Gallery, 89 Vandam Street (Hudson & Greenwich), NY.
In a special program of the Symphony Space series, "SELECTED SHORTS: A CELEBRATION OF THE SHORT STORY" to be presented in San Antonio on Feb. 3 (1 performance) and at the Dallas Museum of Art on Feb. 5 (2 consecutive peformances). Read by actor Ted Marcoux.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006. The Little Read Book. 6:30 pm. 7603 W State St Wauwatosa, WI.
Sunday, October 22, 2006. Wisconsin Book Festival. 6pm. Promenade Hall/Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St. Madison, WI. Reading with
Dean Bakopoulos and Dan Chaon.
Monday, October 16, 2006. Wisconsin Authors Night. 7pm. Weasler Auditorium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. Reading with Michael Perry, Elizabeth Berg, Liam Callanan, CJ Hribal, Larry Watson, and others.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006. Symphony Space. New York City. 6:30 p.m. The Best American Short Stories 2006 Hosted by Ann Patchett A part of the Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story series.
Ann Arbor Book Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Saturday, May 14, 2006, 2:00 p.m. MainStage West -- Borders Stage. Panel discussion - The Literary Youth Movement , with Steven Gillis, Dean Bakopoulos, Jason Ockert, and Kellie W. Wells. This panel discussion will look at the struggles and successes of new and emerging writers and at the current market for new works. Book signings will follow.
Representing The Paris Review for "Periodically Speaking: Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers" (a reading organized by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses); Tuesday, June 13, 2006, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM in the Dewitt Wallace Periodicals Room, New York Public Library.
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