Previous Events
November 5, 2022 – PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL 1:00-1:20pm PDT at the Portland Art Museum. Buy your Portland Book Festival General Admission Pass here. Cai Emmons pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her works, Livid and Unleashed. She is paired with the artwork For the Love by Isaka Shamsud-Din; found in the Northwest Art gallery, on the 3rd floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map or the Portland Book Festival print program to find this location. View the PDF Pop Up Readings Map and Schedule here.
October 6, 2022 — Live reading at ANNIE BLOOMS BOOKS in Portland at 7 pm with Kate Gale and Yuvi Zalkow. I will be there with Whitney Otto as my surrogate reader.
Sept. 25 2022 — BOOK PARTY in celebration of the publication of my two new novels, UNLEASHED and LIVID. 5pm at the Oregon Contemporary Theater on Broadway (near Charnelton) in Eugene, Oregon. It’s FREE and open to the public! There will be food, drink, books for sale from J. Michaels Books, general conviviality, and readings by stellar local actresses Laura Robinson, Rebecca Nachison, and Ellen Chace. If you already have a book of mine, bring it for signing! This is probably the last time my hands will be strong enough to sign! Come and bring friends—I look forward to seeing you all!
Sept. 27, 2022 — LIVID pub date
Sept. 28, 2022 — appearance on A MIGHTY BLAZE with novelist Caroline Leavitt
Sept. 6, 2022 — UNLEASHED pub date!
Sept. 6, 2022 — Virtual Book Launch for UNLEASHED at 4 pm Pacific time (5pm Mountain, 7pm Eastern) courtesy of the awesome TATTERED COVER Bookstore in Denver. Four wonderful writer-friends—Miriam Gershow, Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, and Sands Hall—will be helping me out by reading short selections of the book. I will be there smiling, cheering them on, and answering questions on my text-to-voice computer (think: Stephen Hawking as a woman). The event is free and you may register at the link below.
Sept. 8, 2022 – Interview with KBOO Radio in Portland (I’ll be speaking with my computer voice).
Sept. 20, 2022 — Pacific Northwest Booksellers Tradeshow in Tacoma, Washington
August 12, 2022 — Book Reading at Third Place Books in Seattle (Ravenna location) at 7 pm (live), with Jennie Shortridge as my surrogate reader. I will be there to sign alongside Ra Malika and the inimitable Kate Gale, a force of nature, founder and owner of Red Hen Press.
Sept. 14, 2021 — SINKING ISLANDS Zoom Book Launch through THE TATTERED COVER BOOKSTORE in Denver
I will honor the event with a Zoom book launch on Sept. 14 (pub day) at 4 pm Pacific time, 7 pm Eastern, sponsored by The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colorado where I have read a number of times in the past. I have family in Denver so it is dear to my heart. But of course you don’t need to be in Denver to attend. You can REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE. And if you buy a book from them it will be sent to you with no shipping charges. I think it will be a lively occasion as there will be six other wonderful writers present who will read short sections of my novel.
Sept. 19 — Live Signing at J. Michaels Bookstore in Eugene, OR, 4-5:30 pm, refreshments, books for sale, and signingea Prieto at Virtual Red Hen Press Event
Oct. 4 — PNBA Conference in Portland, Oregon – Nightcapper from 8:30-10pm
Aug. 25 — Reading and Book Talk with Thea Prieto at Virtual Red Hen Press Event
July 2021 — SINKING ISLANDS is the RUMPUS BOOK CLUB choice. https://therumpus.net/
July 23 — Interview with Ken Jones airs on KBOO Radio (link available on Links Page)
Aug. 17 — Writers Corner Live TV Show, Broadcast from South Africa
July 6-13 — Squaw Valley, CA — Community of Writers, CANCELED
June 25 — Radio Interview, OPB’s “Think Out Loud” Dave Miller
May 29 — Radio Interview, KBOO Radio with Ken Jones
Apr. 19 — Zoom Launch Party for Vanishing, 4 pm (PST) Vanishing Zoom Book Launch Party – New
May 6 — Belmont, MA — Reading with Ellen Meeropol at Belmont Books, CANCELED –but stay tuned for a possible streaming event!
Apr. 25 — Eugene, OR — Reading/talk for National Library Week, Eugene Public Library, CANCELED
Apr. 4 — Denver, CO — Book party, CANCELED
Mar. 23 — Portland, OR — Reading, Annie Blooms Books, CANCELED
Mar. 22 — Eugene, OR — VANISHING launch party– OCT Theater 4-6 pm, CANCELED
Mar. 4 — Pub date for VANISHING (short story collection)
Mar. 4-7 — San Antonio, TX — AWP Conference, CANCELED
Dec. 5 — Portland, OR — Authors Guild meet-and-greet
Dec. 12 — Sausalito, CA — “Why There Are Words” reading series
Nov. 1 — Portland, OR — Reading at Another Read Through Bookstore, with Jim Tilley
Sept. 4 — Eugene, OR — “The Evolution of a Novel”, talk at Willamette Writers
Aug. 31-Sept. 2 — Decatur, Georgia, Decatur Book Festival
July 5-6 — Eugene, OR — Art in the Vineyard, from 3-5 pm
June 22, 2019 — Eugene, OR — Book talk and reading at Eugene Public Library
May 4-5, 2019 — Berkeley, CA — Bay Area Book Festival–on a panel moderated by David Wallace-Wells, with Charlie Jane Anders and Brenda Shaughnessy
April 24-25 — Geneva, NY — Visiting Writer at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
April 6 — Eugene, OR — Library Foundation fundraiser
April 2-5, 2019 — Reno, NV — Visiting Writer at University of Nevada MFA Program
March 27-30, 2019 — Portland, OR — AWP Conference–“What I Wish I’d Known Before I Applied to Grad School”–Thurs. 4:30-5:45
March 20, 2019 — Charlottesville, VA — Virginia Festival of the Book, on a panel with Jessica Handler, moderated by Cliff Garstang
February 15, 2019 — Seattle, WA — Reading at Third Place Books (with Brittany Ackerman and Sarah Cannon)
February 2, 2019 — Austin, TX — Book Party
Jan. 17, 2019 — Colorado Springs–Reading/talk at Colorado College
Jan. 2, 2019 –Portland, OR–Yale Club reading/talk, 12:00 pm
Dec. 15–Sunriver, OR–Reading at Sunriver Books and Music, 5:00 pm
Dec. 8th– Eugene, OR–Authors and Artists Sale (Fairgrounds)
Nov. 15–Portland, OR–Reading at Powells (3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd), 7:30 pm
Nov. 9–Eugene, OR — reading at J. Michaels Books, 5:00 pm
Nov. 6—Northampton, MA–reading/talk with Straw Dogs, 21 Center St.
Nov. 2–Boulder, CO–book party
Nov. 1–Denver, CO–reading at the Tattered Cover (Colfax), 7:00 pm
Oct. 27–New Haven, CT–Reading at Yale Bookstore, 2:00 pm
Oct. 26–Cambridge, MA–Porter Square Books (25 White Street), reading/talk, 7:00 pm
Oct. 25–Lincoln, MA–reading/talk at Lincoln Public Library, 7:00 pm
Oct. 23–Interview with Aspen Public Radio
Oct. 17–Eugene, OR--Kidd talk to UO students, 2:00 pm
Oct. 15–Portland, OR–Interview with Ken Jones, KBOO radio
Oct. 14—Eugene, OR–launch party at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 W. Broadway, 5-7:00 pm (details to follow)
Oct. 11–Seattle, WA–Reading and conversation with Maria Mudd Ruth, author of A Sideways Look at Clouds, Third Place Books (Ravenna), 7:00 pm
Oct. 9–PUBLICATION DATE
Oct. 6-8–Baltimore, MD–NAIBA Fall Conference (Independent Booksellers)
Sept. 28— Tacoma, WA–Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
Sept. 27–Long Beach, CA, Cal State University. Reading/talk, 7:00 pm
Sept. 25— Santa Monica, CA–Reading at Annenberg Beach House with other Red Hen authors, 6:30 pm
Sept. 21–Interview with Scott Jones Podcast “Give and Take”
Sept. 20–Interview with Shelagh Shapiro of “Write the Book”
Sept. 13—New York City–Reading at Cornelia Street Cafe with other Red Hen authors, 6:00 pm
Sept. 7–interview with Iowa Public Radio
Sept. 4–Missoula, MT–interview with The Write Question, Montana Public Radio
July 8-28—Transit van tour, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado (follow me on FB @WeatherWomanNovel and Instagram and Twitter @caiemmons)
June 17-24—Transit van tour to booksellers in Western Washington (follow me on FB @WeatherWomanNovel and Instagram and Twitter @caiemmons)
June 11-15—Transit van tour to booksellers in Western Oregon (follow me on FB @WeatherWomanNovel and Instagram and Twitter @caiemmons)