2025
July 8: Book Talk with SLO Nightwriters
May 3: San Joaquin Valley Bookfest at Fresno City College Talking Eco-horror
May 1: Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Department Horror Talk with Gabino Iglesias on The Deading.
Feb 1: La Quinta Public Library Horror Bookfest
2024
Books, Rhymes & Life: Words for Writers: Ep. 3: Horror Fiction & the Environment. Interview with Chad Rhoad. Listen on Spotify.
Coachella Review: Interview with Daniel J. Collins. Read.
Drinks With Tony (Episode 281): We talk writing, The Deading, MFAs, and more. With UCLA Extension Professor/Writer Tony DuShane. Listen on his website or Spotify.
Kelp Journal: The Deading, eco-horror, the meaning of rasquache, bird talk, and more in this interview with Betty-Jo Tilley. Read.
Old stuff
2021
July 11: The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Special Guest Reading. (Guest faculty teaching on serialized fiction).
June 7: Coachella Review/UCR Palm Desert MFA reading.
2020
June 19: On Valley Public Radio (KVPR) to talk Confederate Imagery in Bakersfield, CA.
2018
Sept. 29: Marathon reading of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in San Luis Obispo, CA. Read “Security Guard” and “the Mexican Girl” segments.
April 21: Fresno LitHop, “No Boundaries: Prose Poems, Flash Fictions, & Other Loose Forms.” Read the Cylinder Fish.
2016
Nov. 1-8: Judge for the “Logitech Very Short Story Challenge” (On Twitter: #logiVSS). Winners received a K780 keyboard!
Oct. 15: Presented paper on magical realism in Central California fiction at CSUB history conference.
Oct. 13: Read intro to essay collection, Ranting Out Loud on “Pakatelas,” 88.1 FM, Fresno, CA.
June: Orlando: A Poetry Reading in Memory of the Dead & Against Violence & Hate, Fresno State University
May 10: Lecture/discussion @ San Luis Obispo, CA. Topic: Voice in fiction, saying the unsayable . . .
April 28: poetry at the Inner Ear Poetry Jam at Full Circle, Fresno, CA
April 23: Fresno LitHop, Giving Up the Ghost, 6:00 p.m. | Mia Cuppa Caffé | feat. Nicholas Belardes, Jane Hawley, Aris Janigian, Michael Medrano
2015
September 18-20: Workshops on experimental fiction/nonfiction/crowd funding, San Luis Obispo, CA
April 9: Lecture @ Bakersfield College, RFK Hall, Delano Campus, Delano, CA
April 4: Random Writers Workshop, Russo’s Books, Bakersfield, CA
March 31: Random Writers Workshop, Russo’s Books, Bakersfield, CA
March 18: Writing On The Air, radio show, Austin, TX
2014
December: @ Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, TX
October 12: @Regis University
June 19: Latino Rebels with Luis Marentes.
June 18: Rainbow Vision with Betsey Lewis. Listen.
June 18: The Jefferson Exchange (NPR/Southern Oregon University). Listen.
June 18: on writer L.C. Gruber’s blog.
June 10: The Marilu Henner Show. If you want to listen, check out her archives.
June 2: The Dr. Carol Francis Show. Listen to strange history.
May 29: New York Times best-selling author Caroline Leavitt blog interview. Read what I have to say about what sparked the idea for A People’s History of the Peculiar.
May 23: Coast to Coast A.M. with George Noory. Listen to the episode.
May 22: KFCF 88.1 on Paketelas with Michael Medrano and David Campos.
Also in 2014:
Talk Radio Europe
Valley Public Radio in Fresno, California. On illiteracy in America.
2013
Dec. 13: Reading @ The Gate, Bakersfield, California. Invisible Memoirs II.
Oct. 25: Reading @ Pinot Wine Bar, Fresno, California. Sponsored by KFCF 88.1.
Oct. 23: Reading @ 1st Annual Litcrawl L.A.: NoHo.
Oct. 10: Reading @ Russo’s Books, Bakersfield, California.
Cup of TNB: Ep. 3
The Nervous Breakdown: Self Interview