2026 EVENTS
Sun, June 7: Courting A Man Who Doesn't Speak
reading, open mic and workshop, Coasesce bookstore, Morro Bay, CA
Sun, May 31: Bay Area Book Festival, Creating Futures, Making Room Together, panel discussion with Adre le Monte Wilson, Kelechi Ubozoh, Kimi Sugioka, and Shizue Seigel, Brower Center, Berkeley
Sat, May 23: Paradise Found...and Lost, Audiovisual talk on Japanese American immigration, incarceration and resettlement with Margaret Cooper, San Luis Obispo County Library
Sun May 17: Civil Liberties United, reading open mic and workshop with Aideed Medina, Adela Najarro, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Kimi Sugioka and Shizue Seigel, Santa Maria County Library
Sat, May 16: Civil Liberties United, reading open mic and workshop with Aideed Medina, Adela Najarro, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Kimi Sugioka and Shizue Seigel, San Luis Obispo County Library
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Fri, May 1, Journal X/Xinachtli Journal #6, reading, Cabrillo College Watsonville Center.
Fri, Mar 20: Berkeley Poetry Festival in partnership with Write Now! SF Bay - Life into Action; Action into Words poetry reading with Tureeda Mikell, André Le Monte Wilson, Christl Rikka Perkins and Shizue Seigel.
Sat, Mar 21: Mexicana by Diosa Xochiqueztalcoatl, Nomadic Bookstore. Oakland book launch with Rosanna Alvarez, Shizue Seigel, Victoria Bañales, and Vianney Gavilanes
Sun, Mar 22: LOCAL COLOR Book Party, San Francisco Main Library with Avoctja, Diosa Xochiqueztalcoatl, Jason Bayani, Jennifer Hasegawa, hector son of hectorm Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Tara dorabji, Shizue Seigel, Antinnette Payne, and Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
Sun Feb 17: Tender Hearts Club book launch, Telegraph Hill Books, San Francisco, featuring anthology editor Ingrid Keir and 14 contributors
Sun, Feb 22: Shizue Seigel featured at Mic Drop! Open Mic, 418 Project, 155 S. River St. Santa Cruz, with DJ Jessie Marie and emcee Gregory Speed. https://www.youtube.com/live/EZi14lkCer8?si=62tHOKMWWAMCwawM (1:47:04 - 2:11:14)
Tues, Feb 17: INTER|ACT Open Mic, Satori Arts, Santa Cruz featuring Shizue Seigel reading from Courting A Man Who Doesn't Talk
Sat, Feb 14: "Build Community and Career, Books at the Source Literary Summit, Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Panelists Margo Perin, Grace Lo Prasad, Shizue Seigel, Linda L. Reid and Katherine Harer.
Wed, Jan 28: Sacred Grounds Open Mic. Shizue Seigel featured at the last virtual open mic hosted by Dan Brady before he retired.
Sat, Jan 10: Moondrop Productions - Bloom.Wilt.Bloom reading featuring Allie Jones, Justin Demeter, Amber Allen-Peirson, and Jelal Huyler, with Nazelah Jamison, Sarah Biel, Richard Loranger, Shizue Seigel and many others.
