Appearances

 

October 14-24, 2024

International Writers Retreat with Sonora Jha, Himalayan Writers’ Retreat, India

April 21-28, 2024

Writing About Love (retreat) with Sonora Jha in Agen, France

February 8-12, 2024

Ceylon Literary Festival, Sri Lanka

February 1-5, 2024

Jaipur Literature Festival, India

Jan 23, 2024

The Craft of Writing Novels, with Jess Walter and Sonora Jha, Spokane Public Library

Nov. 9, 2023

Reading and Talk at CUNY’s Hostos Community College, New York

Nov. 8, 2023

Reading and Talk at The New School, New York

Nov 2, 2023

Conversation with Vauhini Vara, Seattle

Oct 14, 2023

Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri, Seattle

October 6-9, 2023

South Asian Literature and Arts Festival, Bay Area

Sept 29-Oct 1, 2023

Great Minds, Town Hall/Hedgebrook Writers’ Conference, Seattle

Sept, 7-10, 2023

Montana Book Festival, Missoula, Montana

August 3-7, 2023

Sahitya Akademi Literature Festival, Bhopal, India

May 17, 2023

Author Salon, King County Library System, at The Art of the Table. In conversation with Seattle Times journalist Naomi Ishisaka.

March 8 - 11, 2023

At AWP, Seattle. Featured Event - Writing Motherhood in Post-Roe America.

February 15, 2023

Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA. 7 pm (PST). In conversation with Kim Fu

February 16, 2023

Powell’s Books, Portland, OR, 7 pm (PST). In conversation with Omar El Akkad

Febrary 18th, 2023

Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, 4pm (PST). In conversation with Robin McLean

February 20th, 2023

GreenLight Bookstore, NYC, 7:30 pm (EST). In conversation with Rakesh Satyal

March 7, 2023

Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences, 6 pm (PST). In conversation with Nalini Iyer

August 2021

Discovering and Deepening Your Story with Sonora Jha - Hollyhock, August 22 - Sept. 2

July 2021

How to Raise a Feminist Son - Book Talk with Dr. Sonora Jha, July 1

Book “Unbirthday” Party and Author Signing w/ Barnes & Noble, July 18

June 2021

Teaching "Threading Essays into Memoir" for Chuckanut Writers' Conference, June 22, 2021. Register here.

How to Raise a Feminist Son with Sonora Jha - On Boys Podcast, June 24, 2021

Chuckanut Writing Faculty Reading, June 25, 2021

Chuckanut Author Panels, June 26, 2021

CBSJARA Facebook Live w/ Host Firoze Alam, June 28

Fireside Chat and Q&A w/ National President Christian F. Nunes - National Organization for Women (NOW)’s 55th Celebration, June 30. RSVP here.

May 2021

#SayftyChat “Raising Feminist Sons,” May 3, 2021

Writing about People We Love: Balancing Candor with Compassion - Creative Nonfiction, May 6, 2021. Register here.

Brown Motherhood, May 13, 2021

Feminist Parenting with Sonora Jha and Jordan Shapiro, May 18, 2021. Register here.

The Female Quotient - Author Series: How to Raise a Feminist Son, May 21, 2021

Writing Off the Patriarchy: Literature as Love Letters for Change, May 27, 2021. Register here.

April 2021

CALIBA x PNBA Spring Fest West: Authors on the Map, April 5, 2021. Register here.

Virtual Book Launch, Town Hall and Elliott Bay Book Company, April 7, 2021. Conversation Partner Ijeoma Oluo. Get your tickets here.

Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Sarah Ladipo Manyika, April 14, 2021

Book Launch Celebration w/ Director Dr. Theresa Earenfight and Pigott McCone Chair Dr. Nalini Iyer, Seattle University Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, April 19, 2021. Register here.

Book Event w/ Rebecca Solnit, Politics and Prose Live! Washington, D.C., April 20, 2021. Register here.

Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Tasveer author and Associate Teaching Professor Alka Kurian, April 22, 2021. Register here.

Sonora Jha in conversation w/ Dr. Amrita Ghosh, April 23, 2021

Cottage Chats: Honor Moore & Sonora Jha, April 29, 2021. Learn more here.

March 2021

Online Reading, Margin Shift, March 18, 2021

Online Reading w/ Jennifer Haupt and East Coast Library, March 10, 2021

Feb 2021

Prepping to Publish Workshop (for writers of color), Feb. 20 - 21, 2021. Sign up here.

Authors Panel, Get Lit! Festival, Feb. 18, 2021

June 2020

A Call To Mamas (w/ Sonora Jha)

October 2019

Bedtime Stories, Humanities Washington Fundraiser, Oct. 11, 2019

September 2019

Our Future Depends on Feminist Men (w/ Sonora Jha)

June 2019

Keynote Address at Chuckanut Writers’ Conference, June 19 - 21, 2019

Jan 2018

#MeToo has us asking: What's next?

Sonora Jha is teaching a Master Class hosted by Hedgebrook and Niti Sampat Patel in Karjat, India. Apply now for "Crafting Unforgettable Characters in Fiction and Non-fiction." (Jan 19-27, 2019).

Sonora Jha is teaching a Master Class hosted by Hedgebrook and Niti Sampat Patel in Karjat, India. Apply now for "Crafting Unforgettable Characters in Fiction and Non-fiction." (Jan 19-27, 2019).

Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), whose book A Thousand Splendid Suns has been adapted for stage and will be at Seattle Repertory Theater, will be in conversation with Sonora Jha on October 27, 2018, in Seattle. Tickets here.

Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), whose book A Thousand Splendid Suns has been adapted for stage and will be at Seattle Repertory Theater, will be in conversation with Sonora Jha on October 27, 2018, in Seattle. Tickets here.

An evening with South Asian writers of the Pacific Northwest, at Hugo House, Seattle, Sept. 27, 7-9 p.m.

 


Some past appearances -

At Hugo Literary Series, with Solmaz Sharif and Meghan Daum, Sept 2017.Here's the video (Sonora Jha at the 14:54 mark)

At Hugo Literary Series, with Solmaz Sharif and Meghan Daum, Sept 2017.

Here's the video (Sonora Jha at the 14:54 mark)

At Seattle's literary and music series, Lit Fix, December 10, 2014.

At Elliott Bay Book Company as a Guest Bookseller on Indies First/ Small Business Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.

At Lit Crawl Seattle, Oct. 23rd, 2014

The Stranger and Seattle Weekly recommend this event when Sonora Jha joins four other Seattle writers - Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind. September 11 at Office Nomads, Seattle.

At the Write Doe Bay 2017 retreat on Orcas Island, Sonora Jha is a teaching artist.

The Stranger and Seattle Weekly recommend this event when Sonora Jha joins four other Seattle writers - Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind. September 11 at Office Nomads, Seattle.

At The Northwest Folklife Festival, May 24th, 2014, in the JBL Theater at the Experience Music Project (EMP).

At the Annual Convention of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE). June 18-20, 2014. Seattle, Washington, USA. Keynote Speaker. 

At the Annual Fundraiser of the People for Progress in India, April 27th, 2014, Mercer Island, Washington.

At The Times Literary Carnival, Dec. 6-8, 2013. Mumbai, India.

At the Annual Convention of the South Asian Literary Association. Keynote Author Reading. Dec. 8-9, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

At The Hindu Lit For Life Literary Festival, Jan. 11-13, 2014. Chennai, India. Reading and Award Ceremony.

At The Search for Meaning Book Festival, Feb. 15, 2014. Seattle, Washington, USA. 

September 3rd, 2013, 2 p.m. - Interview on Author2Author Blog Talk Radio with Author Magazine's Bill Kenower. 

October 24, 2013 - Lit Crawl, Seattle. At 6 p.m. Von Trapp's on 12th Ave.  

July 21, 2013 - One Up Library & Bookshop, Amritsar

July 18, 2013 - Full Circle Bookstore, New Delhi.

July 6, 2013 - Easy Library, Koramangala, Bangalore.

July 3, 2013 - Crossword Books, Kemp's Corner, Mumbai.

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June 27, 2013, 7-10 p.m., Seattle Asian Art Museum -  Words on Water: Indian Writers in Conversation with  Sudeep Chakravarti, Saikat Majumdar, Sonora Jha & Peter Mountford 

May 26-28, 2013 - Words on Water literary festival, Seattle Asian Art Museum.

May 12, 2013, 12-1 p.m. - Reading/panel at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

April 23, 2013, 12:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion.  "Conversation on 'Conversations'” panel on Tuesday, in STCN 130, Seattle University.