I'll be reading from Borrowed Horses (among other things) on Small Business Saturday (November 26, 2016) from 11AM-1PM. I will happily sign copies--for yourself or to give as gifts. Come on out to Booked on 25th, say hello, and help support Ogden's coolest bookstore!
Booked Reading Postponed
Marcy at Booked on 25th messaged me this week to let me know that there's a huge event at Union Station. Not wanting to compete, we've postponed the reading that was to have been Sept 17. I'll keep you posted on when we re-book. Sorry!!
Sept 11-17, 2016
I'm excited to say I have not one but TWO readings coming up:
Sept 14, 7pm I'll be reading with Brenda Sieczkowski in the Salt Lake City Library for the City Arts Reading Series
Sept 17, 11am I'll be reading and signing at Booked on 25th in Ogden
Hope to see you!
August Interview and September Readings
August 25, 2016. Everywhere. My interview with the Stable Scoop horse podcast will be live and available for download. You can find it on iTunes, Google Play, or on the Horse Radio Network website.
September 8, 2016. 7pm. Bluebird Restaurant (upstairs), Logan, UT: I'll be reading at the Helicon West Anthology's book release party. My story "The Most Natural Thing In the World" (first published in Fifth Wednesday Journal) is included in this cool new anthology, which is available for purchase here.
September 14, 2016. 7pm. Salt Lake City Library. I'll be reading as a part of the City Arts Reading series. Come hang out with me in our state capital's beautiful library.
READINGS
I'll be reading at our rad new bookstore BOOKED ON 25th in Ogden on July 30, 2016 at 4:00 with fellow writers Kase Johnston and Shanielle Faith. I'm planning to bring a box of wine and some cups, and I need you all to help drink it. Stick around afterwards for the Ogden Pride Poetry Slam. Hear great poetry, or, if you're feeling spunky, you can enter here to read your own: http://www.ogdenpride.org/events/poetry/
If you can't get out that night and still want to catch up with Kase and me, check out his new podcast LITerally. I was the first guest! (As a devoted podcast nerd, I was beyond excited to get to be on one.) http://www.thebanyancollective.com/literally/2016/6/7/literally-ep-1-sian-griffiths
New Essay
My essay, "The Only Girl in the Known Universe," was selected to be a guest feature in Change Seven magazine. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out: https://changesevenmag.com/2016/07/06/the-only-girl-in-the-known-universe-by-sian-griffiths/
Writer Camp!
I'm thrilled to say I'm going to be joining my fellow editors at Barrelhouse for this year's Writer Camp, July 7-10, 2016. If you're interested in coming to write and (if you want) have your manuscript critiqued, then please apply: https://barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit/58655
Hope to see you there!
New Work in the Georgia Review, So to Speak, and Permafrost
It's been a long-term goal of mine to write something worthy of the Georgia Review, one of my favorite literary journals, and so it makes me especially proud to announce that my story "Sk8r" is published in its current issue.
In the past two weeks, I've also learned that my essay "Nakedness" has been accepted at So to Speak and will be in its spring issue, and my story "Slippers" has been accepted for publication in Permafrost, who published my poem "Persistence of Geese" a few years back.
Hooray for kind editors who give up their time to the slush pile and take a chance on writers!
Reading at the Main Library in Ogden
On September 16th at 7pm, I will join the fantabulous poet Janine Joseph and the stunning fictioneer Eric Howerton, and we will each read our original work.