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July 14-20, 2026:
“Classical Greek and Indian Approaches to Poetry,
Dramaturgy, and Storytelling” Workshop
July 14-20, 2026 | Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Metaxata, Greece
March 4-7, 2026:
“A Lifetime to Write: 50 Years of the
Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers”
feat. Yanyi, Rita Banerjee, Alix Ohlin,
Chris Castellani, and Nina Swamidoss McConigley
March 6, 2026 * 12:10-1:15 pm EST
Room 316, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201
December 16, 2025:
Manto (dir. Nandita Das, 2018) Screening
Introduction by Dr. Rita Banerjee
December 16, 2025 * 6:00-8:30 pm
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 31, 80539 München, Germany
October 7, 2025:
University of North Dakota
Virtual Speaker Series feat. Rita Banerjee
Department of English, University of North Dakota
October 7, 2025 * 7:00-8:00 pm CDT * Zoom
Register on Zoom here!
September 18, 2025:
Sign & Breath Virtual Launch
feat. Rita Banerjee
September 18, 2025 * 6:30-7:30 pm EDT * Zoom Registration
March 29, 2025:
Our Voices Make a Movement:
Storytelling as Anti-Racist Pedagogy
March 29, 2025 * 3:20-4:25 pm PST
Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015
March 28, 2025:
Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers
& Friends of Writers’s Wally Reception
March 28, 2025 * 7:00-10:00 pm PST
Songbird Café, 900 N Broadway #1050
at Blossom Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90012
February 11, 2025:
What the Universe Is
feat. Rita Banerjee & Amanda Shaw
February 11, 2025 * 7:30-8:30 pm EST
Register on Zoom here!
December 10, 2024:
Haider (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2014) Screening
Introduction by Dr. Rita Banerjee
December 10, 2024 * 6:15-8:45 pm
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 31, 80539 München, Germany
October 26, 2024:
Friends of Writers Fall Fête
feat. Rita Banerjee, Sarah Audsley,
Megan Pinto, Carter Sickels, & Connie Voisine
Hillsborough, NC, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT
Registration Required
August 13, 2024:
Poetry with Rita Banerjee, Kate Gale,
Erica Meitner, & Jason Schneiderman
Bryant Park Reading Room, 6:00 – 7:30 pm EDT
Bryant Park, New York, NY 10018
July 13, 2024:
“Time Capsule” Anthology Launch feat.
Rita Banerjee’s poem “One Night”
Putney Public Library, 1 pm EDT
55 Main Street, Putney, VT 05346
June 15, 2024:
“Time Capsule” Anthology Launch feat.
Rita Banerjee’s poem “One Night”
Putney Public Library, 1 pm EDT
55 Main Street, Putney, VT 05346
June 7, 2024:
Bijou Opening Reception feat.
Rita Banerjee’s poem “Sleep”
Salem Arts Festival | ChagallPAC * 7-9 pm EDT
Artist’s Row, 24 New Derby Street, Salem, MA 01970
May 14, 2024:
Joyland (dir. Saim Sadiq, 2022) Screening
Introduction by Dr. Rita Banerjee
May 14, 2024 * 6:00-8:30 pm
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 31, 80539 München, Germany
May 7, 2024:
Kāhāni (dir. Sujoy Ghosh, 2012) Screening
Introduction by Dr. Rita Banerjee
May 7, 2024 * 6:00-8:30 pm
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 31, 80539 München, Germany
February 21, 2024:
Narrative Forms from World Literature
A Guest Lecture by Dr. Rita Banerjee
February 21, 2024 * 2:30-3:30 pm EST
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
February 8, 2024:
In Praise of Legacy: Writers of Color
and the Challenge of the Canon
feat. Michael Mercurio, Rita Banerjee, Kenzie Allen,
Enzo Silon Surin, & Nathan McClain
February 8, 2024 * 9:00 am – 10:15 am CST
Room 2503AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
AWP 2024 Conference, Kansas City, MO
C&R Press & Steel Toe Books Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee
February 8, 2024 * 7:30 – 9:00 pm CST
Tavernonna Italian Kitchen
106 West 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105
Register for free tickets here.
October 17, 2023:
Narrative Forms from World Literature:
Kishōtenketsu and Rasa Theory
A Craft Workshop with Dr. Rita Banerjee
October 17, 12-1 pm EDT at the Morris Pavilion
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC 28815
Warren Wilson’s Department of Creative Writing presents
A Reading with Visiting Writer Dr. Rita Banerjee
Tuesday, October 17, 7-8 pm pm EDT
Library Loft, Warren Wilson, Swannanoa, NC 28815
Sunday, August 20, 2023:
“Hunger Mountain 25: Art Saves feat. Rita Banerjee”
Sunday, August 20, 2023 * 5-6 pm EDT
Bon Mot, WGDR Radio, Plainfield, Vermont
Sunday, May 7, 2023:
“An Interview & Conversation with Tongass Mist
Writer-in-Residence Rita Banerjee”
Sunday, May 7, 2023 * 10:30-11:00 am Alaska Time
The Library Show, KCAW Radio, Sitka, Alaska
Wednesday, April 12, 2023:
“An Evening of Literature with Rita Banerjee”
Wednesday, April 12, 2032 * 6:30-7:30 pm Alaska Time
Sitka Public Library, Sitka, Alaska
Wednesday, April 12 – Sunday, April 16, 2023:
Tongass Mist Writing Retreat feat.
Writer-in-Residence Rita Banerjee
Wednesday, April 12 – Sunday, April 16, 2023
Sitka Fine Arts Campus, Sitka, Alaska
Friday, May 20, 2022:
Adverse Abstraction Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Virginia Vasquez, and Bonnie Jill Emanuel
Friday, May 20, 2022 * 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern
Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009
Friday, December 3, 2021:
Isele Magazine Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, E.C. Osondu, and Erin Stalcup
Friday, December 3, 2021 * 12:00-1:30 pm EST
Join via Zoom!
Thursday, December 2, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Novelist Torrey Peters
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, December 2, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EST
Thursday, November 18, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Filmmaker and Essayist David Shields
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, November 18, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EST
Thursday, November 11, 2021:
Rutgers Writers House Alumni Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Cassandra Gillig, and Becca Klaver
Thursday, November 11, 2021 * 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Join via Zoom | Meeting ID: 974 2644 6347 | Password: 438370
Thursday, October 18, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Essayist Susanne Paola Antonetta
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, October 18, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Thursday, October 7, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Memoirist Carvell Wallace
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, October 7, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Thursday, September 23, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Neuroscientist David Linden
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, September 23, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Saturday, May 15, 2021:
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2021 Commencement
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Saturday, May 15, 2021 * 3:00-5:00 pm EDT
Friday, May 14, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Final Faculty Reading feat.
Rita Banerjee, Miciah Bay Gault, Rob Spillman, Erin Stalcup,
Ariel Francisco, Tim Horvath, David Heska Wanbli Weiden,
Frances Cannon, James Scott, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, May 14, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Thursday, May 13, 2021:
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2021 Student Reading
Moderators: Sara Stancliffe, Sarah Leamy, & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, May 13, 2021 * 6:00 – 8:00 pm EDT
Friday, April 30, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Tara Skurtu, Jennifer Baumgardner,
Robin MacArthur, and Trinie Dalton
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, April 30, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, April 16, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Erika T. Wurth, Ken Chen, Youmna Chlala,
Megan Fernandes, and Ruben Quesada
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, April 16, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, March 19, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Douglas Kearney,
Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, March 19, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, February 19, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Lizzy Fox, Shin Yu Pai, Prageeta Sharma, and Tim Horvath
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, February 19, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, February 5, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Amahl Khouri, Tim Kirkman, Felicia Rose Chavez,
and Evie Shockley
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, February 5, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Commencement
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December 16, 2020 * 5:00 – 6:00 pm EST
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Student Reading
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December16, 2020 * 6:00-7:00 pm EST
Friday, December 4, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Bianca Stone, Jasmin Darznik,
Koon Woon, and Jennifer Wortman
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December 4, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, November 20, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Shawn Wong, Miciah Bay Gault, and Folio Literary Management
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, November 20, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, October 16, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Tavia Gilbert, Frances Cannon,
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Ukamaka Olisakwe
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, October 16, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, October 2, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
James Scott, Justin Bigos, and Kelly McMahon
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, October 2, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, September 18, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Rita Banerjee, Erin Stalcup, & David Shields
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Stephanie Reich
Friday, September 18, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, June 26, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Benefit Reading
for Black Visions Collective feat. Rita Banerjee
Facebook Live * 8-9 pm EDT
Friday, May 22, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Benefit Reading
for the Boston Resiliency Fund feat. Rita Banerjee
Facebook Live * 8-9 pm EDT
Saturday, May 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Commencement
Moderator: Rita Banerjee
Friday, May 16, 2020 * 3:30 – 5:00 pm EST
Thursday, May 14, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Student Reading
Moderator: Rita Banerjee
Friday, May 14, 2020 * 6:00-8:00 pm EST
Friday, May 1, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Carvell Wallace, Trinie Dalton, and Yi Shun Lai
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, May 1, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, April 17, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Dr. Debotri Dhar, Ann Dávila Cardinal, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, March 27, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Sunday, April 5, 2020:
Genre-Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Author
feat. Rita Banerjee
The Muse & the Marketplace * 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
St. James Room – 4th Floor * Block 10, Lecture with Q&A
Park Plaza Hotel, 50 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116
Friday, March 27, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Kenzie Allen, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Erika T. Wurth
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, March 27, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Saturday, March 7, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop AWP Off-Site Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee
Rosella Coffee on Jones * 5-7 pm
203 E Jones Ave, Suite 101
San Antonio, TX 78215
Saturday, March 7, 2020:
Dismantling the White Imagination:
On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction
feat. Emily Arnason Casey , Rita Banerjee,
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Jericho Parms, David Shields
AWP Conference * 9:00-10:15 am
Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center
900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Friday, March 7, 2020:
Rita Banerjee Author Signing
AWP 2020 Conference Bookfair * 11 am – 12 pm
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table T2164
Henry B. González Convention Center
900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Monday, February 10, 2020:
Representation & Writing:
Who Gets to Tell Whose Story?
feat. Rita Banerjee
Vermont Public Radio, 12-1 pm EST; 7-8 pm EST
Montpelier, VT * 94.1 FM & 107.9 FM
Friday, September 13, 2019:
Finishing Line Press Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats
Poets House * 7:00-9:00 pm
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
Wednesday, September 11, 2019:
VCFA W&P Faculty Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Franky Cannon, and David Shields
Vermont College of Fine Arts * 5:30-7:30 pm
College Hall, Café Anna
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Friday, August 23, 2019:
Antidote Books presents
Rita Banerjee
Antidote Books * 8-10 pm
120 Main Street, Putney, VT 05346
Monday, August 19, 2019:
International MFA in Creative Writing & Literature Translation
presents Rita Banerjee (Reading & Discussion)
Noble Reading Room * 9:30 – 11:00 am
Vermont College of Fine Arts
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Saturday, June 8, 2019:
C&R Press Spontaneous Reading Party
feat. Rita Banerjee
Concrete + Water * 6:30 – 10:00 pm
485 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 1121
Sunday, April 14, 2019:
Ruth Stone Foundation Reading feat.
Rita Banerjee, Seth Wade, & C.A. Conrad
Wishbone Collective * 6:00-9:00 pm
36 Main Street, Winooski, VT 05404
Monday, March 18, 2019:
Judge for the Vermont Poetry Out Loud State Championship
PBS Studios * 5:00-7:00 pm
204 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester, VT 05446
Saturday September 15, 2018:
WORD: A Brooklyn Book Festival Reading
feat. the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
WORD Bookstore * 7:00-8:30 pm
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Friday September 14, 2018:
VCFA W&P Faculty Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Erin Stalcup, & Lizzy Fox
Vermont College of Fine Arts * 5:30-7:30 pm
College Hall, Café Anna
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Thursday July 26, 2018:
Paris Lit Up featuring Rita Banerjee
Culture Rapide * 8:45 – 11:00 pm
103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris, France
Saturday June 2, 2018
The Munich Readery Presents:
Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday June 2, 2018:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading &
CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos Workshop
Grolier Poetry Festival – 90th Anniversary Celebration
Plympton Street, Between Mass Ave & Bow Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA * 2:40 – 4:15 pm
Saturday April 21, 2018:
Fantasy As Reality: Activism and Catharsis
Through Speculative Writing
Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2018 Festival
Saturday, April 21, 2018 * 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Charles Sumner Museum and Archives Gallery G-4
1201 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036
Friday April 20, 2018:
Disobedient Futures
A Split This Rock Off-Site Reading
Colony Club * 5:30-7:30pm
3118 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010
Sunday April 8, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Launch Party
Weehawken Writers and Artists Studio * 6-9 pm
10 Louisa Pl, Weehawken, NJ, 07086
Friday April 7, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats at First Fridays
The Zeitgeist Outpost * 7-8 pm
186 ½ Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tuesday March 27, 2018:
Public Reading & Q&A with Rita Banerjee
New Hampshire Institute of Art * 5:30-8:30 pm
148 Concord St, Manchester, NH 03104
Saturday March 10, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Signing
Finishing Line Press Table (T743) * 1-2 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Friday March 9, 2018:
Spontaneous Reading Party
Celebrating the Pre-Launch of CREDO
Centre for Women * 7:00 – 11:00 pm
305 S Hyde Park Ave, Tampa, FL 33606
Friday March 9, 2018:
CREDO Authors’ Signing
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table (T403) * 2-4 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Friday March 9, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Signing
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table (T403) * 1-2 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Thursday March 8, 2018:
CREDO Editors’ Signing
C&R Press Booth (1036) * 2-3 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Thursday August 17, 2017
A Prose by Any Other:
Dolan Morgan, Rita Banerjee, Eric Nelson
Bessie’s Brooklyn * 6-9 pm
Friday May 5, 2017
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Presents:
A Fertile Ground for Celebration
The Democracy Center * 7-9 pm
45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday March 12, 2017
A Night with Kali:
A Reading by Rita Banerjee
Bluestockings * 7:00 – 9:30 pm
172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
Friday February 10, 2017
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Presents:
Writers in Resistance – An AWP 2017 Reading
Upshur Street Books * 5:00-6:45 pm
NW 20011, 827 Upshur St NW
Washington, DC 20011
Saturday January 14, 2017
“A Night with Kali” by Rita Banerjee
Book Launch & Reading
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday October 22, 2016
Kundiman Reading at the Dodge Poetry Festival
feat. Hossannah Asuncion, Wo Chan, R.A. Villanueva, and Margaret Rhee
Moderated by Joseph O. Legaspi and Rita Banerjee
Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art * 11:00 am – 12:10 pm
591 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Saturday October 1, 2016
PEN America Presents: Litcrawl NYC 2016
“Literary Vaudeville”
A Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading
Bluestockings Bookstore * 8:00-8:45 pm
172 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
Saturday September 17, 2016
“Transformations & Disobedience”
A Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading
Brooklyn Book Festival 2016
Molasses Books * 8:00 – 11:00 pm
770 Hart St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Friday April 1, 2016
Sabor y Cultura: Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
AWP 2016 Reading
Sabor y Cultura * 4:00 – 7:00 pm
5625 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Sunday September 20, 2015
New York’s Exciting New Voices
A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Reading
Muchmore’s * 7:00 – 9:00 pm
2 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Thursday July 23, 2015
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
feat. David Shields & Charles Recoursé
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
Shakespeare & Company * 7:00 – 8:00 pm
37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France
Tuesday June 30, 2015
An Evening with Peter Orner
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Wednesday June 17, 2015
An Evening with Anil Menon
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday February 7, 2015
Echo in Four Beats: An Evening of Poetry
& Fiction by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday September 13, 2014
Literary Masquerade
(A CWW LitCrawl Manhattan Event)
One Mile House * 8:15-9:00 pm
10 Delancey Street, NY, NY 10002
Friday February 28, 2014
A Night at the Victrola
(CWW AWP 2014 Reading)
Victrola Coffee & Art * 8:30-10:00 pm
411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Saturday September 28, 2013
10,000 Poets for Change:
Voices from the Global Majority
The Munich Readery * 7:00 pm
Augustenstr. 24, Munich, Germany
Saturday March 9, 2013:
Performance at the Boston Conservatory, 8:30 pm
featuring Dennis Shafer, Diana Norma Szokolyai, & Rita Banerjee
Theatre Building Room 401
31 Hemenway Street, Boston, MA 02115
Friday March 8, 2013:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop 2013 AWP Reading
Crossroads Pub * 5:00-7:00 pm
495 Beacon St Boston, MA 02215
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Thursday March 7, 2013:
Revival of the Literary Salon with the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
AWP Panel featuring Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Jessica Piazza, Samantha Milowsky, & Jade Sylvan
Hynes Convention Center Room 202, 9:00-10:15 am
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_thurs
Saturday October 6, 2012:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop & ChagallPAC present:
Rita Banerjee, Tara Skurtu & The Feather Merchants
Zeitgeist Outpost, 186 Hampshire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA * 7:30 pm
Saturday May 19, 2012:
Brooklyn Lit Crawl 2012 presents:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Literary Cabaret
Ceol Bar (21+), 191 Smith Street * 6:00 pm
http://litcrawl.org/nyc/
Saturday April 21, 2012
“On Writing and Craft” with the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
Mass Poetry Festival 2012, 2:45-3:45 pm
Salem Community Charter School, Room 4
http://masspoetry2012.crowdvine.com/speakers/21832
Saturday March 3, 2012:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop AWP Reading
Danny’s Tavern * 5:00-7:15 pm
1951 W Dickens Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Friday November 25, 2011:
7:30 pm Reading @ the Opening of
The Cambridge Writers’ Studio
922 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY 11223
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Friday May 6, 2011:
APA Compass, KBOO Radio
Reading from “Cracklers at Night”
Host: Kushlani de Soyza
http://kboo.fm/node/28418
Friday November 18, 2010:
Reading & Soundpainting with the
Chagall Performance Arts Collaborative
The Outpost, 186 Hamsphire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, September 28, 2022:
“On Writing and Publishing:
A Conversation with Rita Banerjee”
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 * 6:30-7:30 pm Eastern
Young Women’s Society of New York
Friday, May 20, 2022:
Adverse Abstraction Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Virginia Vasquez, and Bonnie Jill Emanuel
Friday, May 20, 2022 * 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern
Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009
Friday, December 3, 2021:
Isele Magazine Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, E.C. Osondu, and Erin Stalcup
Friday, December 3, 2021 * 12:00-1:30 pm EST
Join via Zoom!
Thursday, December 2, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Novelist Torrey Peters
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, December 2, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EST
Thursday, November 18, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Filmmaker and Essayist David Shields
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, November 18, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EST
Thursday, November 11, 2021:
Rutgers Writers House Alumni Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Cassandra Gillig, and Becca Klaver
Thursday, November 11, 2021 * 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Join via Zoom | Meeting ID: 974 2644 6347 | Password: 438370
Thursday, October 18, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Essayist Susanne Paola Antonetta
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, October 18, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Thursday, October 7, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Memoirist Carvell Wallace
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, October 7, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Thursday, September 23, 2021:
“How Do I Become You?”
Webinar with Neuroscientist David Linden
Hosts: Robin Hemley & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, September 23, 2021 * 7:00-8:00 pm EDT
Saturday, May 15, 2021:
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2021 Commencement
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Saturday, May 15, 2021 * 3:00-5:00 pm EDT
Friday, May 14, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Final Faculty Reading feat.
Rita Banerjee, Miciah Bay Gault, Rob Spillman, Erin Stalcup,
Ariel Francisco, Tim Horvath, David Heska Wanbli Weiden,
Frances Cannon, James Scott, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, May 14, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Thursday, May 13, 2021:
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2021 Student Reading
Moderators: Sara Stancliffe, Sarah Leamy, & Rita Banerjee
Thursday, May 13, 2021 * 6:00 – 8:00 pm EDT
Friday, April 30, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Tara Skurtu, Jennifer Baumgardner,
Robin MacArthur, and Trinie Dalton
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, April 30, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, April 16, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Erika T. Wurth, Ken Chen, Youmna Chlala,
Megan Fernandes, and Ruben Quesada
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Sarah Leamy
Friday, April 16, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, March 19, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Douglas Kearney,
Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, March 19, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, February 19, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Lizzy Fox, Shin Yu Pai, Prageeta Sharma, and Tim Horvath
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, February 19, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, February 5, 2021:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Amahl Khouri, Tim Kirkman, Felicia Rose Chavez,
and Evie Shockley
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, February 5, 2021 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Commencement
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December 16, 2020 * 5:00 – 6:00 pm EST
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Student Reading
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December16, 2020 * 6:00-7:00 pm EST
Friday, December 4, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Bianca Stone, Jasmin Darznik,
Koon Woon, and Jennifer Wortman
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, December 4, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, November 20, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Shawn Wong, Miciah Bay Gault, and Folio Literary Management
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, November 20, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Friday, October 16, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Tavia Gilbert, Frances Cannon,
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Ukamaka Olisakwe
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, October 16, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, October 2, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
James Scott, Justin Bigos, and Kelly McMahon
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Shin Yu Pai
Friday, October 2, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, September 18, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Rita Banerjee, Erin Stalcup, & David Shields
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Stephanie Reich
Friday, September 18, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, June 26, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Benefit Reading
for Black Visions Collective feat. Rita Banerjee
Facebook Live * 8-9 pm EDT
Friday, May 22, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Benefit Reading
for the Boston Resiliency Fund feat. Rita Banerjee
Facebook Live * 8-9 pm EDT
Saturday, May 16, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Commencement
Moderator: Rita Banerjee
Friday, May 16, 2020 * 3:30 – 5:00 pm EST
Thursday, May 14, 2020
MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Student Reading
Moderator: Rita Banerjee
Friday, May 14, 2020 * 6:00-8:00 pm EST
Friday, May 1, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Carvell Wallace, Trinie Dalton, and Yi Shun Lai
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, May 1, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Friday, April 17, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Dr. Debotri Dhar, Ann Dávila Cardinal, and Sean Prentiss
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, March 27, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EDT
Sunday, April 5, 2020:
Genre-Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Author
feat. Rita Banerjee
The Muse & the Marketplace * 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
St. James Room – 4th Floor * Block 10, Lecture with Q&A
Park Plaza Hotel, 50 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116
Friday, March 27, 2020:
VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing program presents:
Kenzie Allen, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Erika T. Wurth
Moderators: Rita Banerjee & Lizzy Fox
Friday, March 27, 2020 * 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
Saturday, March 7, 2020:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop AWP Off-Site Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee
Rosella Coffee on Jones * 5-7 pm
203 E Jones Ave, Suite 101
San Antonio, TX 78215
Saturday, March 7, 2020:
Dismantling the White Imagination:
On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction
feat. Emily Arnason Casey , Rita Banerjee,
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Jericho Parms, David Shields
AWP Conference * 9:00-10:15 am
Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center
900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Friday, March 7, 2020:
Rita Banerjee Author Signing
AWP 2020 Conference Bookfair * 11 am – 12 pm
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table T2164
Henry B. González Convention Center
900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Monday, February 10, 2020:
Representation & Writing:
Who Gets to Tell Whose Story?
feat. Rita Banerjee
Vermont Public Radio, 12-1 pm EST; 7-8 pm EST
Montpelier, VT * 94.1 FM & 107.9 FM
Friday, September 13, 2019:
Finishing Line Press Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats
Poets House * 7:00-9:00 pm
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
Wednesday, September 11, 2019:
VCFA W&P Faculty Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Franky Cannon, and David Shields
Vermont College of Fine Arts * 5:30-7:30 pm
College Hall, Café Anna
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Friday, August 23, 2019:
Antidote Books presents
Rita Banerjee
Antidote Books * 8-10 pm
120 Main Street, Putney, VT 05346
Monday, August 19, 2019:
International MFA in Creative Writing & Literature Translation
presents Rita Banerjee (Reading & Discussion)
Noble Reading Room * 9:30 – 11:00 am
Vermont College of Fine Arts
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Saturday, June 8, 2019:
C&R Press Spontaneous Reading Party
feat. Rita Banerjee
Concrete + Water * 6:30 – 10:00 pm
485 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 1121
Sunday, April 14, 2019:
Ruth Stone Foundation Reading feat.
Rita Banerjee, Seth Wade, & C.A. Conrad
Wishbone Collective * 6:00-9:00 pm
36 Main Street, Winooski, VT 05404
Monday, March 18, 2019:
Judge for the Vermont Poetry Out Loud State Championship
PBS Studios * 5:00-7:00 pm
204 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester, VT 05446
Saturday September 15, 2018:
WORD: A Brooklyn Book Festival Reading
feat. the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
WORD Bookstore * 7:00-8:30 pm
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Friday September 14, 2018:
VCFA W&P Faculty Reading
feat. Rita Banerjee, Erin Stalcup, & Lizzy Fox
Vermont College of Fine Arts * 5:30-7:30 pm
College Hall, Café Anna
36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602
Thursday July 26, 2018:
Paris Lit Up featuring Rita Banerjee
Culture Rapide * 8:45 – 11:00 pm
103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris, France
Saturday June 2, 2018
The Munich Readery Presents:
Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday June 2, 2018:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading &
CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos Workshop
Grolier Poetry Festival – 90th Anniversary Celebration
Plympton Street, Between Mass Ave & Bow Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA * 2:40 – 4:15 pm
Saturday April 21, 2018:
Fantasy As Reality: Activism and Catharsis
Through Speculative Writing
Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2018 Festival
Saturday, April 21, 2018 * 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Charles Sumner Museum and Archives Gallery G-4
1201 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036
Friday April 20, 2018:
Disobedient Futures
A Split This Rock Off-Site Reading
Colony Club * 5:30-7:30pm
3118 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010
Sunday April 8, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Launch Party
Weehawken Writers and Artists Studio * 6-9 pm
10 Louisa Pl, Weehawken, NJ, 07086
Friday April 7, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats at First Fridays
The Zeitgeist Outpost * 7-8 pm
186 ½ Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tuesday March 27, 2018:
Public Reading & Q&A with Rita Banerjee
New Hampshire Institute of Art * 5:30-8:30 pm
148 Concord St, Manchester, NH 03104
Saturday March 10, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Signing
Finishing Line Press Table (T743) * 1-2 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Friday March 9, 2018:
Spontaneous Reading Party
Celebrating the Pre-Launch of CREDO
Centre for Women * 7:00 – 11:00 pm
305 S Hyde Park Ave, Tampa, FL 33606
Friday March 9, 2018:
CREDO Authors’ Signing
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table (T403) * 2-4 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Friday March 9, 2018:
Echo in Four Beats Signing
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Table (T403) * 1-2 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Thursday March 8, 2018:
CREDO Editors’ Signing
C&R Press Booth (1036) * 2-3 pm
AWP 2018 Bookfair, Tampa Convention Center
333 S Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
Thursday August 17, 2017
A Prose by Any Other:
Dolan Morgan, Rita Banerjee, Eric Nelson
Bessie’s Brooklyn * 6-9 pm
Friday May 5, 2017
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Presents:
A Fertile Ground for Celebration
The Democracy Center * 7-9 pm
45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday March 12, 2017
A Night with Kali:
A Reading by Rita Banerjee
Bluestockings * 7:00 – 9:30 pm
172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
Friday February 10, 2017
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Presents:
Writers in Resistance – An AWP 2017 Reading
Upshur Street Books * 5:00-6:45 pm
NW 20011, 827 Upshur St NW
Washington, DC 20011
Saturday January 14, 2017
“A Night with Kali” by Rita Banerjee
Book Launch & Reading
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday October 22, 2016
Kundiman Reading at the Dodge Poetry Festival
feat. Hossannah Asuncion, Wo Chan, R.A. Villanueva, and Margaret Rhee
Moderated by Joseph O. Legaspi and Rita Banerjee
Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art * 11:00 am – 12:10 pm
591 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Saturday October 1, 2016
PEN America Presents: Litcrawl NYC 2016
“Literary Vaudeville”
A Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading
Bluestockings Bookstore * 8:00-8:45 pm
172 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
Saturday September 17, 2016
“Transformations & Disobedience”
A Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Reading
Brooklyn Book Festival 2016
Molasses Books * 8:00 – 11:00 pm
770 Hart St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Friday April 1, 2016
Sabor y Cultura: Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
AWP 2016 Reading
Sabor y Cultura * 4:00 – 7:00 pm
5625 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Sunday September 20, 2015
New York’s Exciting New Voices
A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Reading
Muchmore’s * 7:00 – 9:00 pm
2 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Thursday July 23, 2015
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
feat. David Shields & Charles Recoursé
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
Shakespeare & Company * 7:00 – 8:00 pm
37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France
Tuesday June 30, 2015
An Evening with Peter Orner
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Wednesday June 17, 2015
An Evening with Anil Menon
Moderated by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday February 7, 2015
Echo in Four Beats: An Evening of Poetry
& Fiction by Rita Banerjee
The Munich Readery * 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Augustenstr. 104, Munich, Germany
Saturday September 13, 2014
Literary Masquerade
(A CWW LitCrawl Manhattan Event)
One Mile House * 8:15-9:00 pm
10 Delancey Street, NY, NY 10002
Friday February 28, 2014
A Night at the Victrola
(CWW AWP 2014 Reading)
Victrola Coffee & Art * 8:30-10:00 pm
411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Saturday September 28, 2013
10,000 Poets for Change:
Voices from the Global Majority
The Munich Readery * 7:00 pm
Augustenstr. 24, Munich, Germany
Saturday March 9, 2013:
Performance at the Boston Conservatory, 8:30 pm
featuring Dennis Shafer, Diana Norma Szokolyai, & Rita Banerjee
Theatre Building Room 401
31 Hemenway Street, Boston, MA 02115
Friday March 8, 2013:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop 2013 AWP Reading
Crossroads Pub * 5:00-7:00 pm
495 Beacon St Boston, MA 02215
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Thursday March 7, 2013:
Revival of the Literary Salon with the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
AWP Panel featuring Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Jessica Piazza, Samantha Milowsky, & Jade Sylvan
Hynes Convention Center Room 202, 9:00-10:15 am
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_thurs
Saturday October 6, 2012:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop & ChagallPAC present:
Rita Banerjee, Tara Skurtu & The Feather Merchants
Zeitgeist Outpost, 186 Hampshire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA * 7:30 pm
Saturday May 19, 2012:
Brooklyn Lit Crawl 2012 presents:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Literary Cabaret
Ceol Bar (21+), 191 Smith Street * 6:00 pm
http://litcrawl.org/nyc/
Saturday April 21, 2012
“On Writing and Craft” with the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
Mass Poetry Festival 2012, 2:45-3:45 pm
Salem Community Charter School, Room 4
http://masspoetry2012.crowdvine.com/speakers/21832
Saturday March 3, 2012:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop AWP Reading
Danny’s Tavern * 5:00-7:15 pm
1951 W Dickens Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Friday November 25, 2011:
7:30 pm Reading @ the Opening of
The Cambridge Writers’ Studio
922 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY 11223
http://www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org/
Friday May 6, 2011:
APA Compass, KBOO Radio
Reading from “Cracklers at Night”
Host: Kushlani de Soyza
http://kboo.fm/node/28418
Friday November 18, 2010:
Reading & Soundpainting with the
Chagall Performance Arts Collaborative
The Outpost, 186 Hamsphire Street
Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
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