2024

Brooklyn, Friday March 22, 1:00 p.m. EST

Center for Black Literature’s 17th Black National Writers Conference. Kalisha is part of a roundtable on “The Healing Power of Literature.” At Medgar Evers College.

2023

Brooklyn, Sunday, October 8, 2:00 p.m. EST

Calabar Imports Brooklyn. Kalisha is a special guest of Atim Oton’s “Sundays at Calabar” Art, Film, Fashion + Talks series. 708 Franklin Avenue.

Kansas City, Saturday August 26, 6:00 p.m. CST

Kalisha is a special guest of the longstanding Mahogany Sisters Book Club in Kansas City for their selections Speaking of Summer and Running to Fall. Location TBA.

Dallas, Saturday, August 19, 1:00 p.m. CST

Tusiloma South Dallas Book Fair. Kalisha in conversation with writers Brentom Jackson and Bianca Pensy Aba moderated by Patrick Oliver. At Dallas’s African American Museum.

Chicago, Saturday, August 5, 2:00 p.m. CST

Black Women’s Expo. Come meet Kalisha and receive autographed copies of her books in partnership with Da Book Joint’s exclusive Literary Cafe at the Expo at McCormick Place. Tickets Here.

Milwaukee, Saturday, June 17, 1:00 p.m. CST

Great Midwest Bookfest presented by Urban Reviews. Kalisha joins author Naleighna Kai to headline the 15th Annual Event. Register Here.

New York City, Saturday, June 3, 3:00 p.m. EST

Thrillerfest Panel and Signing. Kalisha joins the best crime and mystery writers including Lisa Unger and Walter Mosley for the panel “Creating a Believable Protagonist.” Register for Thrillerfest Here.

Evanston, IL, Wednesday, April 26, 6:00 p.m. CST

Evanston’s Family Literacy Night. Kalisha is a special guest of Evanston’s Family Literacy Night at Evanston Township High School.

Cleveland, Thursday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. CST

Upstate at East Technical High School. Kalisha is a special guest of the English Department to discuss her novel with student book clubs and young readers.

Chicago, IL, Saturday, February 25, 4:00 p.m. CST

Bookie’s Bookstore Reading and Signing. All proceeds from sales of Kalisha’s novels to benefit the Beverly/Morgan Park Juneteenth Family Festival. Order from Bookie’s Here.

Evanston, IL, Monday, January 30, 4:00 p.m. CST

Speaking of Summer at Evanston Township High School Book Club. Kalisha joins students to discuss the novel, her work and writing for teens.

2022

Virtual, Monday, November 7, 7 p.m. EST

Running to Fall Book Launch! Kalisha in Conversation with lit activist Ron Kavanaugh to celebrate the release of the novel. Register Here.

Atlanta, weekend of August 4

National Book Club Conference. See Kalisha and tons of other authors live in-person at the rescheduled 2020 affair! Event/Registration details Here.

2021

Virtual, Monday, March 29

UN Women Generation Equality Forum: Empowering words. A feminist perspective of Literature. Kalisha will join women writers to read their works in the cultural program of the annual event. Register Here. 13:00 to 14:00 GMT/CST

Virtual, Saturday, March 20

Creative Conversations with Marita: A Black Women Writer’s Showcase. Kalisha joins black women writers across all formats to discuss creating in these new times. Watch on Facebook Live. 12:00 p.m. EST.

Virtual, Thursday, February 11

John Oliver Killens Virtual Reading Series. Kalisha interviews author Donna Hill on her new novel Confessions in B-Flat. Get tickets Here. 6:30 p.m. EST.

2020

Virtual, Friday, October 16

Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards Opening Reception and Ceremony. Get tickets Here. 6:30 p.m. EST.

Virtual, Thursday, October 15

Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Reading: Fiction. Get tickets from Politics & Prose Here. 6:00 p.m. EST.

Virtual, Wednesday, September 2

Volumes Bookcafe Presents “The Importance of Place in Storytelling” with author of The Second Mother, Jenny Milchman. 7 p.m. CST.

Virtual, Monday, August 31

The Bookshop’s #BetterOffRead Book Club Speaking of Summer discussion. Tickets include the novel’s paperback. Get Tix Here. 7 p.m.

Virtual, starting Thursday, August 27

The AAMBC Literary Awards and Black Writers Festival. Save schedule and Reserve Tix Here. Watch on YouTube and Facebook. 2 p.m.

2019

Brooklyn, Saturday, November 2

Kalisha joins Mahogany Brown, Damaris Hill, Josie Duffy, Aja Hill to speak on mass incarceration and Black women at the Well Read Black Girl Festival, “Reading for Resistance, Reading for Revival.” St. Francis College. 180 Remsen Street. 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Minneapolis, Thursday, September 26

Signing and Conversation w/The Givens Foundation’s Black Market Reads Podcast with Lissa Jones, at Magers and Quinn. 3038 Hennepin Ave. 7 p.m.

St. Louis, Saturday, September 21

Panel: “Did You See That Coming?: Suspense in the City” at Bookfest St. Louis. Central West End. 12 p.m.

Chicago, Wednesday, September 18

Book Reading and Signing at Volumes Bookstore. 1474 N Milwaukee Ave. 7 p.m.

Chicago, Friday, August 23

Book Reading at Loose Chicks’ Reading Series. 1224 W. Wilson Ave. 8 p.m.

Martha’s Vineyard, Wednesday August 21

Book Reading and Signing at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. 23 Main St, Vineyard Haven. 7 p.m.

New York City, Friday August 9

Book Reading and Signing at Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria. Click HERE to get tickets! 2113 Amsterdam Ave. 6:30 p.m.

New York City, Wednesday August 7

New York’s Speaking of Summer Book Launch. Mysterious Bookshop Talk w/BerniceMcFadden. 58 Warren St. 6.30 p.m.

Chicago, Tuesday July 30

Chicago’s Speaking of Summer Book Launch. 57th Street Books/Seminary Co-Op Talk w/Tara Betts. 1301 E 57th St. 7 p.m.

Chicago, Friday July 26

Loose Chicks Reading at Emerald City Coffee, 1220 W. Wilson. 7 p.m.

Chicago, Tuesday July 2

Tuesday Funk Reading Series at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St. 7 p.m.

Washington, D.C., Saturday June 22

"Fiercely Female" Panel, American Library Association Annual, WCC Room 204c. 2:30-3:30 p.m.

New York City, Wednesday May 29

Library Journal “Day of Dialog” at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 524 W 59th St. 11:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.

New York City, Tuesday May 28

Uptown Literary Happy Hour at Word Up Bookstore/Librería Comunitaria, 2113 Amsterdam Ave. 6-8 p.m.

2017-2018

Los Angeles, Wednesday October 24

Kalisha joins moderators Heather Thompson and Rachel Kushner with authors of titles selected for the National Book Award’s “Literature for Justice” program, a new initiative aiming to shine a spotlight on the problem of mass incarceration in America. Los Angeles Public Library. 630 W. 5th Street. 7:00 p.m.

Chicago, Saturday June 17

Kalisha joins editors of Revise the Psalm to discuss Gwendolyn Brooks' impact before the final evening performance of "Among All This You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone". ETA Creative Arts Center, 7558 S. South Chicago Ave. 6:00 p.m.

Chicago, Saturday June 17

Kalisha joins FLOW, playwright Christine Houston (227), novelist Alice Randall via Skype and Marci Rolnik from Lawyers for the Creative Arts in a special community workshop teaching writers about their legal and business rights. BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive. 1:00 p.m.

Chicago, Saturday June 10

Kalisha is in conversation with Quraysh Lansana, Sandra Jackson-Opuku and Patricia Smith at Printer's Row Book Fest. Jones College Prep, Room 4034. 11:45 a.m.

Chicago, Thursday May 18

Kalisha reads with authors and editors in celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks at American Writers Musuem. 180 M. Michigan. 7 p.m.

Aurora, Illinois, Wednesday March 1

Kalisha is a special guest of the English Department and Creative Writing classes for Assistant Professor Dan Portincaso of Waubonsee Community College. Sugar Grove Campus, Rt. 47 at Waubonsee Drive, APC 110 B/C. 11:00 a.m.

New York City, Sunday January 29

Kalisha will be in conversation on the state of the Black family with author Terry McMillan at Margaret Porter-Troupe and Quincy Troupe's Harlem Arts Salon, in benefit to The Gloster Arts Project. 1925 7th Avenue. 2:30 p.m.

2016

Evanston, Illinois, Monday November 28

Kalisha will visit Evanston Township High School and educator Traci Powell's youth and adult book groups, to discuss her first novel Upstate with the school's community. Evanston Township High School. 2:15 p.m.

Brooklyn, New York, Thursday November 10

Kalisha is a special guest of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY in the John O. Killens Reading Series. Edison O. Jackson Auditorium, 1638 Bedford Ave. 6:30 p.m.

New York City, Thursday October 6

Kalisha will be in conversation with moderator Celesti Colds Fechter for the Women Writers of the Diaspora readings and discussion series at Calabar Imports Harlem, co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine. 2504 Frederick Douglas. 6:00 p.m.

Brooklyn, New York, Sunday September 18

Kalisha is an author appearing with Mosaic Literary Magazine and The Literary Freedom Project at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street. 12:00 p.m.

Tuscaloosa, Monday August 29

Kalisha is a special guest of history classes for Dr. Sharony Green of the University of Alabama History Department, to discuss her novels Solemn and Conception. Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center. 620 Greensboro Avenue. 6:00 p.m.

Chicago, Thursday August 18

Kalisha appears with Patrick Oliver on a panel to discuss writing and publishing, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Patrick's debut book Turn the Page and You Don't Stop. The Silver Room. 1506 E. 53rd Street. 6:00 p.m.

Chicago, Wednesday July 20

Kalisha will read from Solemn as a special guest of the summer reading series for Voices of Chicago Literati. Kiddie Kouture Boutique. 10324 S. Western Avenue. 6:30 p.m.

Chicago, Friday July 8

Chicago Book Celebration for Solemn, A Novel. Kalisha gives a talk and reading of her new novel at her neighborhood bookstore 57th Street Books/ Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Hyde Park. Afterwards friends, fans and their guests can enjoy food, wine, music and swag giveaways at Eric Williams' The Silver Room at 1506 E. 53rd Street. Saxophonist David Boykin will play and accompany Kalisha in a special reading of her work.

Online, Friday June 17

Kalisha and Deep South Magazine's Editor Erin Bass will have a Twitterchat to discuss books, writing, and Kalisha's Southern influences in Solemn. Please use hashtag #SolemnBook. Online. 1 p.m. CST.

New York City, Wednesday June 8

Kalisha will read from Solemn as part of Winter Tangerine Review's special presentation of the journal's contributors at Poet's House. 10 River Terrace. 5 p.m.

New York City, Sunday May 15

New York Book Celebration for Solemn, A Novel. Kalisha invites friends, fans and their guests to celebrate Solemn with food, wine and talk at a reception and reading at Calabar Imports Harlem, 2504 Frederick Douglass. 4-7 p.m.

Brooklyn, New York, Sunday May 1

Kalisha is a member of Amanda Shapiro's inaugural Sunday Monthly salon, and will share excerpts of Solemn for the first salon theme of "Human Bodies." Sunday Monthly, 235 Brooklyn Avenue. 5 p.m.

Chicago, Friday January 8

Kalisha reads from her next novel, Speaking of Summer, as part of Loose Chicks' Monologue Series at Uncharted Books, 2620 N. Milwaukee. 7 p.m.

2015

Chicago, Friday June 26

Kalisha gives a monologue from her play "Conjugal Visits" as part of Loose Chicks’ Monologue Series at Emerald City Coffee, 3938 N. Sheridan. 7 p.m.

Chicago, Tuesday June 9

Hear scenes from Kalisha's play "Conjugal Visits" for Dandelion Theatre‘s The Make Ready Series at the Black Rock Bar, 3614 N. Damen. 7 p.m.

New York City, Wednesday May 27

Athena Theatre Play Reading Series reads Kalisha's play "Conjugal Visits" at the Dramatists Guild Fund, 356 W. 40th. 1 p.m.

New York City, Friday May 1

At the Institute of African American Affairs & Black Renaissance Noire: Kalisha joins others to read at New York University, 19 University Place. Reception to follow. 7:00 p.m.