Invite me to read, do a workshop, visit a class (from kindergarten through college), etc. Locally, I am happy to do presentations and/or readings that benefit the sponsors with book sales for a good cause; feel free to ask about that. See CONTACT on this website to request more information.
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 12, 3 PM
Sunday with Friends: Reading & Book Signing Celebrating Trail Magic
Washington County Public Library, Abingdon (VA)
PAST EVENTS
November 3: Book Launch for Black River: The Death Poems (Nature/Culture Press)
1 PM, Zoom
June 15: Poetry Reading with Terri Kirby Erickson
2 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Book Ferret Books & Gifts
3354 Robinhood Rd, Sherwood Shopping Center
Winston-Salem, NC
https://www.bookferret.com/
April 27: 1000 Words: A Celebration of National Poetry Month
1-4 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Featuring Jim Minick and Felicia Mitchell, with other community poets
The Arts Depot
314 Depot Square
Abingdon, VA
April 20, Celebration of Waves: A Confluence of Women's Voices
11-1 Eastern Daylight Savings Time
ZOOM (Virtual Event)
November 9-10, 2023
Residence, UVA-Wise
Poetry Reading, Lecture, Mini-Workshop on the Haiku
November 4-5, 2023
Rewilding Authors and Artists Festival & Concurrent Poetry Retreat (Online)
Link to sign up: www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival
My participation, representing poets the Virginia Land Trust project, will be November 5, 2:30-3:30.
November 9-10, 2023
UVA-Wise (Haiku Workshop, Reading, Lecture and Book Signing)
October 23, 2023, 7 PM (Zoom via Facebook Link)
Celebration of A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Redheaded Stepchild Magazine
August 23, 2023, 1-4 PM
Creating Poetry from a Symbolic Memory Jug
Virginia Highlands Festival Immersive Poetry Workshop (Abingdon, VA)
April 27, 2023, 6-7:30 PM
Poetry Reading | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia
The Library of Virginia Virtual Event
See the video by clicking HERE.
April 18, 2023, 2 PM
Poetry for the Dementia Journey: Group Reading with AlzAuthors Poets
See the video by clicking HERE.
April 12, 2023
National Poetry Month Book Launch & Book Club Selection: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
AlzAuthors
April 6, 2023
Guest Speaker: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Lost State Writers Guild (TN)
February 28, 2023, 7 PM
Mary Sue Dean Poetry Reading: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Railroad Section Foreman's House Cultural Center
1542 Front Street, Richlands (VA)
Winter Honey Festival
March 24, 2023
Guest Speaker: Health Psychology Class
D. Kim Baranowsky, Host
Emory & Henry College (VA)
February 19, 2023
Book Group Visit & Discussion: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Private Community Book Group
February 12, 2023, 5 PM EST
Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Well-Versed Words: A Monthly Poetry Reading Hosted by Alison Hurwitz
January 29, 2023, 3 PM
Friends of the Library: Reading from A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Washington County Public Library
205 Oak Hill St NE, Abingdon, VA
January 12, 2023, 6 PM
Behind the Book: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Kingsport Public Library
400 Broad St, Kingsport, TN
November 15, 2022
A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Virtual Conversation with Students in Regional and Ethnic Literature
Dr. Jamkhandi Sudhakar, Host
Bluefield State College (Bluefield, WV)
October 25, 2022
Book Group Visit & Discussion: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Private Community Book Group
October 2, 2022
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
Reading from A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
With Special Attention to Spiritual Connections and Compassion
October 1, 2022
Book-Signing with Emory & Henry Authors
Benefiting E&H Student Chapter of Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology
Emory & Henry College Homecoming Event
August 23, 2022, 6-6:30 PM EDT, WEHC Radio
August 28, 2022, 12:30-1:00 PM EDT, WEHC Radio (rerun)
Listen live at 90.7 FM locally or online via link at https://www.ehc.edu/wehc/
Available via podcast from Spotify and/or iTunes after airing
Poets & Writers with Henry McCarthy: Poetry Reading & Discussion with Felicia Mitchell
January 16, 2022
Embroidering on the Family Tree: Reading and Reflection
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
August 2020
Embroidering on the Family Tree: Writing Workshop (Series)
Press 53
September 20, 2019
Voices of the Mountains: Reading
Bluefield Stage College (Bluefield, WV)
Celebration of Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVU Press, 2019), with editor Jessica Cory, Katie Fallon, Jeanne Larson, Felicia Mitchell, and Michael Smith.
July 26, 2019
Virginia Highlands Community College (Abingdon, VA)
Virginia Highlands Festival: Creative Writing Day
Embroidering on the Family Tree—Felicia Mitchell
It is fun to work through a family tree with its many branches, either on paper or online with an ancestry app. More interesting than finding out who is related to whom is discovering family stories from oral sources as well as stories that are difficult to tell for one reason or another. In this workshop, participants will look at a few models of poems that have grown out of family stories, brainstorm topics, and craft a draft of a poem based on a family story that is challenging to recount. The key lesson will grow from instruction on how to be true to a story while embroidering on it to make it work better as a poem for others.
Woodworking a Rough Poem—Felicia Mitchell
It is easy to be proud of a new poem as it falls on the page, words aligned to share a story or feeling. One of the tasks of a poet is to work past the first thrill of a new poem to decide if it works as well for readers as it does for the author. In this workshop, we will examine how a poem that tries to do too much in one place can be crafted like fine wood as the poet finds its heartwood and works from there. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem that feels like something worth studying, scraping and sculpting to get at its core beauty, or they can take one from the morning workshop to work on further. There will be time for sharing with others.
May 17, 2019
Word Stream: The Weekly Writers's Voice at Visit Knoxville
Reading with Edison Jennings and Felicia Mitchell
301 S. Gay Street
Knoxville, TN
January 21, 2019
Emory & Henry College MLK Breakout Session: Dream On (A Writing Workshop)
This workshop for students at Emory & Henry College will build on inspiration from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech as students free-write and compose a poem in a form with roots in western Africa to open a dialogue about how to continue supporting the dream.
May 9, 2018
Felicia Mitchell: Mary Sue Dean Series Poetry Reading
Appalachian Arts Center, Southwest Virginia Community College
Cedar Bluff, VA
April 21, 2018
"Women Speak" Gala Reading
Baker University Center, Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701
October 13, 2017
Women Speak Reading
Women of Appalachia
Ohio University Southern
1804 Liberty Ave.
Irontown, Ohio
September 30, 2017
Women Speak Reading
Women of Appalachia
WVU Libraries
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
March 11, 2017
Extreme Appalachia! 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference (Blacksburg, VA)
Convener: Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University
Kevin O'Donnell, East Tennessee State University: "High Adventure in a New World: Reading Contemporary Environmental Issues in Appalachia through the Lens of Gilded Age Travel Writing”
Stewart Plein, West Virginia University: “A Sense of Place: The Rhododendron as Regional Identification on the Covers of Appalachian Local Color Literature”
Felicia Mitchel, Emory & Henry College: “Another Eden: Eco-questioning Poems from Southwest Virginia”
Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University: “Merging Appalachia and Ecocriticism: The Examination of a Sub-genre”
January 28, 2017
"Poetry from Images." Roanoke Regional Writers' Conference
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
February 11, 2016
Discussion about Waltzing with Horses
College Community Club (Emory, VA)
October 25, 2016
"Why We Talk to Cats (and Caterpillars): Reflection and Dialogue"
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
April 16, 2015 10-11:15
Reading from Waltzing with Horses
THE EXAMINED LIFE CONFERENCE: Writing, the Humanities, and Arts of Medicine
University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine
April 12, 2015, 3:00 PM
CELEBRATION OF REGIONAL POETRY featuring Felicia Mitchell
Washington County Public Library "Sunday with Friends" (Abingdon, VA)
April 5, 2015, 2-3 PM
Five Press 53 Poets: Wordsominia Reading
Scuppernong Books (Greensboro, NC)
December 7, 2014, 3:00 PM
Poetrio Reading & Book Signing at Malaprop's (Asheville, NC)
Malaprop's Bookstore Cafe (Asheville, NC)
December 3, 2014, 2014, 7:30 PM
Reading & Book Signing at Emory & Henry College (Emory, VA)
Emory & Henry College Lyceum Series
BOV Lounge, Van Dyke Center (Emory, VA)
November 22, 2014, 7 PM
Reading & Book Signing with Terri Kirby Erickson & Felicia Mitchell at Scuppernong Books (Greensboro, NC)
Scuppernong Books
304 S. Elm St. (Greensboro, NC
November 9, 2014, 10:30 AM
"Happy Wandering" (A Spiritual Reflection on Poetry and Hiking in Wilderness Areas)
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
October 30, 2014, 7:30 PM
ARTEMIS Poetry Reading at Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
Green Drawing Room, Main Building, Hollins University
October 26, 2014, 3 PM
Reading with Felicia Mitchell, Susan O'Dell Underwood, and Rita Quillen
Union Avenue Books (Knoxville, TN),
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 12, 3 PM
Sunday with Friends: Reading & Book Signing Celebrating Trail Magic
Washington County Public Library, Abingdon (VA)
PAST EVENTS
November 3: Book Launch for Black River: The Death Poems (Nature/Culture Press)
1 PM, Zoom
June 15: Poetry Reading with Terri Kirby Erickson
2 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Book Ferret Books & Gifts
3354 Robinhood Rd, Sherwood Shopping Center
Winston-Salem, NC
https://www.bookferret.com/
April 27: 1000 Words: A Celebration of National Poetry Month
1-4 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Featuring Jim Minick and Felicia Mitchell, with other community poets
The Arts Depot
314 Depot Square
Abingdon, VA
April 20, Celebration of Waves: A Confluence of Women's Voices
11-1 Eastern Daylight Savings Time
ZOOM (Virtual Event)
November 9-10, 2023
Residence, UVA-Wise
Poetry Reading, Lecture, Mini-Workshop on the Haiku
November 4-5, 2023
Rewilding Authors and Artists Festival & Concurrent Poetry Retreat (Online)
Link to sign up: www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival
My participation, representing poets the Virginia Land Trust project, will be November 5, 2:30-3:30.
November 9-10, 2023
UVA-Wise (Haiku Workshop, Reading, Lecture and Book Signing)
October 23, 2023, 7 PM (Zoom via Facebook Link)
Celebration of A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Redheaded Stepchild Magazine
August 23, 2023, 1-4 PM
Creating Poetry from a Symbolic Memory Jug
Virginia Highlands Festival Immersive Poetry Workshop (Abingdon, VA)
April 27, 2023, 6-7:30 PM
Poetry Reading | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia
The Library of Virginia Virtual Event
See the video by clicking HERE.
April 18, 2023, 2 PM
Poetry for the Dementia Journey: Group Reading with AlzAuthors Poets
See the video by clicking HERE.
April 12, 2023
National Poetry Month Book Launch & Book Club Selection: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
AlzAuthors
April 6, 2023
Guest Speaker: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Lost State Writers Guild (TN)
February 28, 2023, 7 PM
Mary Sue Dean Poetry Reading: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Railroad Section Foreman's House Cultural Center
1542 Front Street, Richlands (VA)
Winter Honey Festival
March 24, 2023
Guest Speaker: Health Psychology Class
D. Kim Baranowsky, Host
Emory & Henry College (VA)
February 19, 2023
Book Group Visit & Discussion: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Private Community Book Group
February 12, 2023, 5 PM EST
Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Well-Versed Words: A Monthly Poetry Reading Hosted by Alison Hurwitz
January 29, 2023, 3 PM
Friends of the Library: Reading from A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Washington County Public Library
205 Oak Hill St NE, Abingdon, VA
January 12, 2023, 6 PM
Behind the Book: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Kingsport Public Library
400 Broad St, Kingsport, TN
November 15, 2022
A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Virtual Conversation with Students in Regional and Ethnic Literature
Dr. Jamkhandi Sudhakar, Host
Bluefield State College (Bluefield, WV)
October 25, 2022
Book Group Visit & Discussion: A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
Private Community Book Group
October 2, 2022
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
Reading from A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens
With Special Attention to Spiritual Connections and Compassion
October 1, 2022
Book-Signing with Emory & Henry Authors
Benefiting E&H Student Chapter of Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology
Emory & Henry College Homecoming Event
August 23, 2022, 6-6:30 PM EDT, WEHC Radio
August 28, 2022, 12:30-1:00 PM EDT, WEHC Radio (rerun)
Listen live at 90.7 FM locally or online via link at https://www.ehc.edu/wehc/
Available via podcast from Spotify and/or iTunes after airing
Poets & Writers with Henry McCarthy: Poetry Reading & Discussion with Felicia Mitchell
January 16, 2022
Embroidering on the Family Tree: Reading and Reflection
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
August 2020
Embroidering on the Family Tree: Writing Workshop (Series)
Press 53
September 20, 2019
Voices of the Mountains: Reading
Bluefield Stage College (Bluefield, WV)
Celebration of Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVU Press, 2019), with editor Jessica Cory, Katie Fallon, Jeanne Larson, Felicia Mitchell, and Michael Smith.
July 26, 2019
Virginia Highlands Community College (Abingdon, VA)
Virginia Highlands Festival: Creative Writing Day
Embroidering on the Family Tree—Felicia Mitchell
It is fun to work through a family tree with its many branches, either on paper or online with an ancestry app. More interesting than finding out who is related to whom is discovering family stories from oral sources as well as stories that are difficult to tell for one reason or another. In this workshop, participants will look at a few models of poems that have grown out of family stories, brainstorm topics, and craft a draft of a poem based on a family story that is challenging to recount. The key lesson will grow from instruction on how to be true to a story while embroidering on it to make it work better as a poem for others.
Woodworking a Rough Poem—Felicia Mitchell
It is easy to be proud of a new poem as it falls on the page, words aligned to share a story or feeling. One of the tasks of a poet is to work past the first thrill of a new poem to decide if it works as well for readers as it does for the author. In this workshop, we will examine how a poem that tries to do too much in one place can be crafted like fine wood as the poet finds its heartwood and works from there. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem that feels like something worth studying, scraping and sculpting to get at its core beauty, or they can take one from the morning workshop to work on further. There will be time for sharing with others.
May 17, 2019
Word Stream: The Weekly Writers's Voice at Visit Knoxville
Reading with Edison Jennings and Felicia Mitchell
301 S. Gay Street
Knoxville, TN
January 21, 2019
Emory & Henry College MLK Breakout Session: Dream On (A Writing Workshop)
This workshop for students at Emory & Henry College will build on inspiration from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech as students free-write and compose a poem in a form with roots in western Africa to open a dialogue about how to continue supporting the dream.
May 9, 2018
Felicia Mitchell: Mary Sue Dean Series Poetry Reading
Appalachian Arts Center, Southwest Virginia Community College
Cedar Bluff, VA
April 21, 2018
"Women Speak" Gala Reading
Baker University Center, Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701
October 13, 2017
Women Speak Reading
Women of Appalachia
Ohio University Southern
1804 Liberty Ave.
Irontown, Ohio
September 30, 2017
Women Speak Reading
Women of Appalachia
WVU Libraries
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
March 11, 2017
Extreme Appalachia! 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference (Blacksburg, VA)
Convener: Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University
Kevin O'Donnell, East Tennessee State University: "High Adventure in a New World: Reading Contemporary Environmental Issues in Appalachia through the Lens of Gilded Age Travel Writing”
Stewart Plein, West Virginia University: “A Sense of Place: The Rhododendron as Regional Identification on the Covers of Appalachian Local Color Literature”
Felicia Mitchel, Emory & Henry College: “Another Eden: Eco-questioning Poems from Southwest Virginia”
Jessica Cory, Western Carolina University: “Merging Appalachia and Ecocriticism: The Examination of a Sub-genre”
January 28, 2017
"Poetry from Images." Roanoke Regional Writers' Conference
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
February 11, 2016
Discussion about Waltzing with Horses
College Community Club (Emory, VA)
October 25, 2016
"Why We Talk to Cats (and Caterpillars): Reflection and Dialogue"
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
April 16, 2015 10-11:15
Reading from Waltzing with Horses
THE EXAMINED LIFE CONFERENCE: Writing, the Humanities, and Arts of Medicine
University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine
April 12, 2015, 3:00 PM
CELEBRATION OF REGIONAL POETRY featuring Felicia Mitchell
Washington County Public Library "Sunday with Friends" (Abingdon, VA)
April 5, 2015, 2-3 PM
Five Press 53 Poets: Wordsominia Reading
Scuppernong Books (Greensboro, NC)
December 7, 2014, 3:00 PM
Poetrio Reading & Book Signing at Malaprop's (Asheville, NC)
Malaprop's Bookstore Cafe (Asheville, NC)
December 3, 2014, 2014, 7:30 PM
Reading & Book Signing at Emory & Henry College (Emory, VA)
Emory & Henry College Lyceum Series
BOV Lounge, Van Dyke Center (Emory, VA)
November 22, 2014, 7 PM
Reading & Book Signing with Terri Kirby Erickson & Felicia Mitchell at Scuppernong Books (Greensboro, NC)
Scuppernong Books
304 S. Elm St. (Greensboro, NC
November 9, 2014, 10:30 AM
"Happy Wandering" (A Spiritual Reflection on Poetry and Hiking in Wilderness Areas)
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Highlands (Abingdon, VA)
October 30, 2014, 7:30 PM
ARTEMIS Poetry Reading at Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
Green Drawing Room, Main Building, Hollins University
October 26, 2014, 3 PM
Reading with Felicia Mitchell, Susan O'Dell Underwood, and Rita Quillen
Union Avenue Books (Knoxville, TN),