Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, Burnsville. September 6-7, 2024
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FRIDAY SESSION Sept 6th, 4-4:45PM Location: 1st Baptist Fellowship Hall
Poetry reading session with Q&A Poems from The Animals of My Earth School and new works.
- FRIDAY SESSION SEPT 6th, 5-5:30PM, Book Signing at Town Center.
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SATURDAY WORKSHOP Sept 7th, 2-4:45PM, Workshop in Poetry: The More-than-Human Eye and Ear at Yancey County Library.
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N.C Arboretum: October 4-5, 2024
Friday, October 4, 2024: Reading/Artist talk on Identity and Place at the N.C Arboretum, 5:00-6:30PM
Saturday, October 5, 2024: Workshop on Identity and Place in the Natural World, 11AM-3:00PM
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City Lights Bookstore, Sylva: October 12, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024 Reading at 3:00PM.
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The North Carolina Writers’ Network 2024 Fall Conference: November 1 – 3, 2024
Biltmore Village DoubleTree Asheville, November 1 – 3, 2024 (115 Hendersonville Rd, Asheville)
Saturday, November 2, 2024. Poetry craft class: The More-than-Human World, 9:00 – 10:30AM.
Saturday, November 2nd. Faculty Readings, 4:30 – 5:3oPM.
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Western Carolina University’s annual Spring Literary Festival, April 1-5, 2024
Reading with the Gilbert-Chappell Poetry Mentees, April 1, at 12:00PM.
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OM Sanctuary: December 20, 2023
Solstice Reading begins at 5:30 PM.
Free event but registration is required here
ASLE Spotlight Fall 2023
Youtube: Collaboration and Community
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
The Lee University 2023-2024 Writer’s Series
Thursday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m. in the Edna Minor Conn Lecture Hall, located in the Vest Building on Lee’s campus.
DMQ Review Virtual Salon Reading
Live all month ~ beginning August 01, 2023
Poetry Cabaret: August 03, 2023 @ 6pm
268 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC 28801 (Sovereign KAVA)
Juniper Reading: July 14, 2023 @ 7pm
14 O’Henry Avenue (Citizen Vinyl)
Join us at Story Parlor for a book launch of The Animals of My Earth School, accompanied by music from Jeremias Zunguze.
- Earth Day! Saturday, April 22, 2023
- 5:30 PM 7:00 PM
- Story Parlor 227 Haywood RoadAsheville, NC 28006
Friday April 28, 7pm at Different Wrld, 701 Haywood Rd Asheville NC 28806.
Asheville FM and MadHat are proud to present a new literary event; Voices – A Celebration of Community, Poetry, and Language to benefit Asheville FM’s diverse talk shows and youth programming
Featuring Nathaniel Mackey with musician Vattel Cherry
The evening will also feature a tribute to Kevin McIlvoy, and Asheville FM programs Word Play presenting Mildred Barya; Southern Reckoning presenting Jared Wheatley of the Indigenous Walls Project; and The New Wave Youth Radio presented by Reagan Sizemore.
Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 3:00 PM @ Metro Wines
Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading of The Animals of My Earth School at Metro Wines. Malaprop’s is pleased to partner with Metro Wines to present this event and pairing of select wines and poems. The reading is free and open to the public. Wine and books will be on sale.
Sunday, May 7, 2023 – 4:30pm Poetrio Reading at Malaprop’s bookstore
This poetry event will feature readings by Poetrio host Mildred K Barya, Michael Hettich, and Lee Stockdale.
Jazz Hybrid At Story Parlor
Keynote speaker, Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies Conference (SEACS).
UNC-Charlotte, The College of Education (COED) Building. Saturday, February 18th 2-3 PM.
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Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
555 E. Connecticut Avenue
Southern Pines NC 28387
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Past Reading/Talking Events, some with vids
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 7 p.m. Black Mountain Library.
YouTube channel Recording: https://youtu.be/
Poetry Goes Viral: Jacinta V. White, R. Flowers Rivera, and Mildred K. Barya: Thursday Feb 11, 2021 @ 7 p.m.
Featured Poet on POETRY OPEN MiC ASHEViLLE – August 19, 2020
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 @ 6:00 p.m.
Reading from my award-winning essay Being Here in This Body. 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award, organized by North Carolina Humanities Council in conjunction with the North Carolina Literary Review.
YouTube stream: Click here
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Why There Are Words June 2019 in Sausalito, California: Mildred Barya
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Telling Tales – 6/17/14
Audio version of my short story, Bless the Broken Path on KTOO 104.3, in Juneau, Alaska.
To listen, click here
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Jul 25, 2009 at Amazon publishing, Senegal
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January 26, 2020 Reading at Malaprop’s
Venue: Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe@ 3 p.m.
February 20, 2020 Lecture
Venue: University of Georgia, Athens
March 04-07, 2020 Panel Presentation
Venue: AWP Conference, San Antonio, Texas
March 21, 2020 Poetry Reading @ 7pm
Venue: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 120 College St, Asheville.
January 20, 2020 MLK inspired Reading @ 5pm
Venue: The BLOCK off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St, Asheville.
2019
August 9-11, 2019 Poetry Performance/Reading
Venue: Warren Wilson College, Get off the Grid Fest
September 19-22, 2019 Panel Presentation
Venue: &Now 2019 Points of Convergence, University of Washington, Bothell.
October 6, 2019 Reading at Malaprop’s
Venue: Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe@ 3 p.m.
November 8-10, 2019 North Carolina Writers Network Conference
Venue: Asheville. Details TBA
November 17, 2019 Poetry Reading
Venue: N.C Arboretum
November 24, 2019 Poetry Reading
Venue: Malaprop’s @ 3 p.m.
June-July 2019 Varda Artist Writer in Residence.
Venue: Sausalito.
June 13, 2019. WTAW Reading in Sausalito, California.
Venue: Studio 333
May 19, 2019: Wordplay Radio Show 103.3FM Sunday @ 3 p.m.
April 18, 2019: WTAW Reading (Why There Are Words) 7-9 p.m.
Venue: Trade & Lore Coffee, 37 Wall Street, Downtown Asheville.
April 13, 2019: Asheville Wordfest.
12:30-2:30 p.m. The Geopoetics Appalachia Reading and Panel Discussion.
Venue: Lenoir-Rhyne Boardroom, 36 Montford Ave.
8:00pm: Reading with North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green.
Venue: YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St, Asheville.
March 18, 2019: A Poetry Reading and Discussion of the Animals in Jodie Hollander and Mildred Barya’s Poetry, 6-7 p.m.
Venue: Malaprops Bookstore 55 Haywood St. Asheville, NC
March 22-23, 2019: Deckle Edge South Carolina’s Literary Festival
Venue: Booker T. Washington Auditorium at the University of South Carolina and
Richland Library on Main Street 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC.
Panel: Border Rovers: Women Fabulists Writing in the South
Mildred K Barya, Lindsey Drager, J.C. Sasser, Julia Elliott (Moderator)
Over the past few decades, writers have begun to blur the boundary between “literary” and “genre,” challenging the primacy of “realism” with innovative forms of fabulism. Today, a rich array of women writers use fantasy, fables, fairy tales, horror, and sci-fi tropes to voice complex aspects of gender, sexuality, class, and race. This panel will explore ways that contemporary female writers living in the South invent radical new forms of lyricism and storytelling to contend with the complexities of identity in an increasingly interconnected world.
