EVents
Available Workshops
Point of View: Who’s Telling Your Story and Why
Technology for Writers
Family Myths and Storytelling
Getting Started, Getting Organized: Beginning Novel Writing
Blogging and Marketing: Are You Ready for the World Wide Web?
Poetry Workshops
2010 Workshops:
Memoir Writing Workshop for Girls Inc Mentors
Poetry Workshop for CA English Teachers
Poetry Pedagogy: How to Use Folsom Lockdown in
English, Bilingual, Memoir, and Poetry classes.
Writing: Getting Started, Words on the Page
Publishing and Marketing Workshop for PEN
Emerging Voices Fellows
Invite Melinda to your event: melindapalacio@gmail.com
The Writing Life
2010
July 30, Poetry Reading with the Hollywood Institute of Poetics at Stories Books, 1716 sunset in Echo Park at 8pm.
August 7, An Evening of Literature and the Arts, a wine, cheese, and tequila tasting at Pan American Bank, 3626 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90030. Tickets $20, ($30.00 for Couples), featuring Book Signings, Author Readings, A Silent Auction, dance performance by Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company, 4pm to 8pm.
September 3, Poets of the American West release party and book signing at Borders, Goleta, 7pm.
Sept. 15-17, Festival de Flor y Canto. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow at University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library.
October 09-10, Latino Book & Family Festival, California State University, Los Angeles, Greenlee Plaza.
2011
May 14, Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum. Poetry reading with Paul Guthrie.
Past Appearances
2009
December 20, Publication Party for Maple Leaf Rag IV
October 10-11, Latino Book & Family Festivl at Cal State L.A.
October 3, Melinda joins Luis Rodriguez and the Latinos in Lotusland authors for a reading at Tia Chucha’s Cultural Cafe, 13197-A Gladstone Avenue, Sylmar, CA 91342, Saturday, Oct. 3 from 1-3:30pm.
August 1-19, Channels 17 & 21 airs June’s Poetry of Science program. Melinda on tv!
July 18-25, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
June 5, Melinda participates in Poetry and Science, original poems at the Fe Bland, Auditorium, SBCC, 8pm.
April 19, Melinda hosts and reads. Chasing the Flying Machine: Poets Respond to Yinka Shonibare’s Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sunday, April 19th at 2pm.
April 3, Melinda performs for the Jazz, Blues, and Langston Hughes Tribute at the Lobero Courtyard, 6pm in Santa Barbara.
February 24, Melinda is a Mardi Gras parade judge in New Roads, Louisiana.
2008
December 13, Melinda hosts the Poetry Zone.
October 4, San Diego City Book Fair,
August 25-31, the Ink Byte Team featured on the Creative Community Channel
August 9: Melinda is the Poetry Zone’s featured reader at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.
June 21-26: Santa Barbara Writers Conference, volunteer
April 18-20: Border Book Festival, volunteer
April 3: Essential Workers:Poetry Reading and Photography Exhibit
February 20-24: Ink Byte Team
at Desert Nights, Rising Stars,
ASU Writers Conference January 6: Featured Poet,
The Maple Leaf Bar, New Orleans
September 27, Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival,
Border Book Festival: Workshop leader, April 2007
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: featured reader, PEN EV Panel, 2007
Casa de la Guerra: Poetry Reading for Art Exhibit: Forged in Iron: The Expressive Art of the Roof Cross Tradition in Chiapas, Mexico, July 5, 2007.
PEN EV Final Reading: Mark Taper Auditorium, July 2007
Carpinteria Arts Center: Black, White, Re[a]d: Featured Poet, along with Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, October 20, 2007
***Named a cultural highlight of 2007 in the SB Independent!
Border Book Festival: Workshop leader, October 11, 2007
