Events
To book an event, interview, writing workshop, or other engagement, please contact Kenzie at getkenzieallen(at)gmail(dot)com
2025
January 8 » Visiting writer at Carlow University’s low-residency MFA program — reading and craft talk, “Literary Cartography: the writer’s map, the reader’s compass”
January 26 » Reading at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY. 2pm EST.
March 14 » Helen S. Lanier reading series, hosted by Chigozie Obioma and University of Georgia. 6-7PM ET at Ciné (234 W Hancock Ave, Athens, GA)
March 19 – 21 » Featured author at University of North Dakota Writers Conference 2025: Makers & Machines.
March 26 – 29 » AWP 2025, Los Angeles.
April 9 – 10 » Visiting writer to Michigan State University’s Residential College of Arts & Humanities Poetry Center. Wednesday April 9, 7PM; reading and conversation
May 7 – 28 » “Place Poetics” online workshop with Miami Book Festival. Wednesday nights 7pm EST.
May 8 » Reading at Poets House with Elise Paschen. 7PM ET; New York, NY.
May 15 – 31 » Norway
June 2 » guest reader, Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) & Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA) with Another Story Bookshop Proudly Present: Gathering Space 2025, An evening of Indigenous joy, books, food and community. It’s Ok* Studios (468 Queen St. W, Toronto); 7pm. RSVP here.
June 7 – 8 » Sundress Academy for the Arts annual retreat workshop leader, “Intertextualities, Multimodalities, and Expanded Field Poetics,” via zoom.
June 11 – 15 » Visiting workshop leader at Stetson U.’s low-res MFA.
June 24 » #LanguageBack virtual writing workshop leader; Indigenous Nations Poets; 7PM CT.
July 2 – 6 » Oxbelly Retreat guest author; Costa Navarino, Greece.
July 26 » Silo City Reading Series; Buffalo, NY.
October 28 » Featured reading at Smith College; Northampton, MA.
November 13 – 17 » Tin House Autumn Writers Workshop faculty; Portland, OR.
November 25 – 29 » Wereld Museum; Amsterdam, Netherlands. “Rethinking the Restitutionary” conference.
December 3 » Reading with Brenda Cárdenas for Words With You, via zoom.
December 6 – 14 » Atlantic Center for the Arts; Smyrna Beach, FL.
2026
March 4 – 7 » Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference; Baltimore, MD. Accepted panel: “Shapeshifting: Visions of Resurgence in Indigenous Art-Poetry”
November 4-10 » Vermont Studio Center Visiting Writer; reading (11/5 @ 8PM); craft talk (11/6 @ 10am); Johnson, VT.