UPCOMING

Writer-in-Residence: Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy (July - August 2024)

Writer-in-Residence: Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (May - June 2024)

McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Davidson College, Davidson, NC (Visiting appointment, Spring 2024 semester)

RECENT

“A Reading with Rone Shavers.” Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO (May 6, 2024)

Panelist: “Form and Discontent, Vol. 5: The Sound of Prose,” with Amy Alvarez, Rob Arnold, and Kenning JP Garcia. New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA. (April 18-21, 2024) 

Subject of author interview: Need a Good Read? Author and McGee Professor Rone Shavers Defies Convention.” Davidson College news (March 13, 2024)

Visiting Guest Artist: Dr. Matthew Davis’s “Senior Seminar: Black Futurism(s).” Waterford School, Sandy, UT (February 23, 2024)

Panelist: “Draft, Draft, Goose: The Thinking Behind Revising,” with Alan Michael Parker, Sarah Perry, Jon Pineda, and Kevin Prufer. AWP Kansas City, MO. (Feb. 9, 2024)

Guest Editor of winter 2023 issue of Action, Spectacle literary magazine

Writer-in-Residence: Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN (July 2023)

Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence: The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (May – June 2023)

“A Reading with Faith Ellington, Michelle Awad, Teresa Marita McGuire, Michael Ruby, and Rone Shavers.” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA. (April 15, 2023)

Panelist: “Reading at 24 Frames per Second,” with Jonathan Penton, David Byron Queen, Rosalyn Spencer, and Tara Stillions Whitehead. AWP Seattle (March 9, 2023)

Guest Lecture: “Parable of the Economy: Parable of the Sower’s Lauren Olamina as Neo-Liberal Avatar.” The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. (January 27, 2023)

Review of Silverfish, by Phill Provance. In American Book Review, Vol. 43, Number 3 (Fall 2022)

Panel Chair and Moderator: “#GaddisToo: Gaddis Studies in Light of Racial and Socio-Cultural Realignment(s).” William Gaddis Centenary Conference. Washington University in Saint Louis (October 22, 2022)

Guest Artist Talk: Institute for Black Arts, Culture, and Literature, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (October 17, 2022)

Writer-in-Residence: VCCA Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France (August 2022)

Nancy B. Negley Writer-in-Residence: La Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France (July 2022)

Visiting Guest Artist: The Walden Project, Bristol, VT (May 10, 2022)

“Form and (Dis)Content, Volume III: A Reading with Kenning JP Garcia, Daphne Maysonet, and Rone Shavers.” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA (April 24, 2022)  

“A Reading with Rone Shavers.” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (February 7, 2022)

“Cronica of the Hermit” nominated for a 2021 Best of the Net Award (September 2021)

Review of Silverfish, by Matt Holder. In Strange Horizons Magazine (16 August, 2021)

Writer-in-Residence: Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (July - August 2021)

Arnold T. Schwab Poet-in-Residence: MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (June - July 2021)

Subject of author interview: “Conversations: Rone Shavers and Terese Svoboda.” The Critical Flame, Issue 67, June 2021 (July 6, 2021)

Silverfish named finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) 2021 Firecracker Award for Fiction (May 2021).

Published Ten Crônicas: A prose chapbook from The Magnificent Field press (May 2021)

“Form and (Dis)Content, Volume II: Speculative and Experimental Approaches to Language by Authors of Color.” Introduction and editorial work by Rone Shavers. A compilation showcasing work by Krista Franklin, Kenning JP Garcia, Douglas Kearney, and Jennifer Maritza McCauley. In Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Vol 46.1 (Spring 2021)

Featured Writer: “Slow Sparks: A Collaborative Performance (Red Rover Series).” New Orleans Poetry Festival (held virtually April 30, 2021)

Panel Moderator: “Prose/Poetics: Writers on the Line Between Prose and Poem.” New Orleans Poetry Festival (held virtually April 23, 2021)

Subject of author interview: “In the End, It’s All and Always Metaphor: An Interview with Rone Shavers, author of Silverfish.” The Lit Pub (April 6, 2021)

Silverfish named finalist for 2020 Big Other Book Award for Fiction (March 2021)