EVENTS


April 27, 2023 | NYC College of Technology, Brooklyn 
— Featured Speaker, City Tech Literary Arts Festival (5PM EST) 

April 8, 2023 | New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans
— Power Shift Convergence: Third Plenary (10AM EST) (Event Link)

January 21, 2023 | MoMA, New York
— Black Power Naps Screening & Conversation (1PM-2:30PM EST) (Event Link)

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December 3, 2022 | Princeton University, Princeton
— A Conversation with Akwaeke Emezi (12:45PM EST) (Event Link)

May 31, 2022 | Dallas Museum Of Art, Virtual
— Akwaeke Emezi In-Conversation with Eva Arreguin for You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty (7PM CST) (Event Link)

May 27, 2022 | Strand Book Store, New York
— Akwaeke Emezi with Tanaïs: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty (7PM EST) (Event Link)

May 26, 2022 | Round Table Books, Virtual 
— Akwaeke Emezi in conversation with Bolu Babalola (7PM BST / 2PM ET) (Event Link)

May 24, 2022 | Brooklyn Public Library x Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn
— Akwaeke Emezi Presents You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty w/Nic Stone (7:30PM EST) (Event Link)

April 23, 2022 | LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles 
— Young Adult Fiction: Identity and Belonging (1:30PM - 2:30PM)

April 21, 2022 | Noname Book Club x Radical Hood Library, Los Angeles 
— Akwaeke Emezi x Bitter

April 5, 2022 | Elliott Bay Book Company x Cave Canem, Virtual
 Akwaeke Emezi presents Content Warning: Everything  with Evie Shockley (5:30PM PDT) 

March 22, 2022 | Swarthmore Writers' Week, Virtual
— Akwaeke Emezi Reads (in conversation with Chinelo Okparanta) (6:05PM EST) 

February 17, 2022 | Brooklyn Museum, New York 
— Brooklyn Reads: Bitter with Akwaeke Emezi & Nic Stone (7PM EST) (Event Link)

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November 13, 2021 | Singapore Writers Festival, Virtual 
— Akwaeke Emezi and Amanda Lee Koe: In Conversation (Event Link)

October 26, 2021 | Brandeis University, Virtual 
— 2021 Roosevelt Lecture: A Conversation with Akwaeke Emezi (6PM EST) (Event Link)

June 23, 2021 | The Salt Eaters Bookshop, Virtual 
— Author Chat: Akwaeke Emezi x Zoé Samudzi (6PM PST/9PM EST) (Event Link)

June 15, 2021 | National Book Foundation, Virtual 
— NBF Presents: Revolutionary Joy with Kacen Callendar, Akwaeke Emezi & Danez Smith (6PM EST) (Event Link)

June 10, 2021 | Cafe con Libros Bookstore, Virtual 
— Dear Senthuran: Akwaeke Emezi in Dialogue with Lisa-Kaindé Diaz of Ibeyi (6PM EST) (Event Link)

June 9, 2021 | Loyalty Bookstore, Virtual 
— Akwaeke Emezi with Senthuran Varatharajah and Ann Daramola for Dear Senthuran (6PM EST) (Event Link)

June 8, 2021 | Schomburg Center, Virtual 
— Spiritfirst: Akwaeke Emezi with Saidiya Hartman (7PM EST) (Event Link)

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September 9, 2020 | Man Repeller Book Club, Virtual 
— Inaugural Book Club Meeting x The Death Of Vivek Oji (7PM EST) (Event Link)

August 21, 2020 | Books & Books, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Event w/Nicole Dennis-Benn (7PM EST) (Event Link)

August 20, 2020 | London Review Bookshop, Virtual 
— Akwaeke Emezi:The Death Of Vivek Oji  (2PM EST) (Event Link)

August 20, 2020 | NYT Books Instagram, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Reading (1PM EST) 

August 14, 2020 | Seattle Public Library x Elliot Bay Book Company, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Reading (9PM EST) (Event Link)

August 13, 2020 | Asian American Writer's Workshop, Virtual 
— The Fire of Love & the Sweat of Truth: A Conversation w/Elizabeth Acevedo & Sophia Hussain (5PM EST) (Event Link)

August 12, 2020 | Vroman's Bookstore, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Reading (9PM EST) (Event Link)

August 6, 2020 | Greenlight Bookstore, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Event w/Rivers Solomon (7:30PM EST) (Event Link)

August 5, 2020 | Loyalty Bookstore, Virtual 
The Death Of Vivek Oji Event w/Jason Reynolds (8PM EST) (Event Link)

August 4, 2020 | BOMB Magazine, Virtual 
— The Death Of Vivek Oji Launch Event (6:30PM EST) (Event Link)

July 29, 2020 | Afropunk Instagram, Virtual
— Afropunk Rock'n'Read Book Club (5PM EST) (Event Link)

January 30, 2020 | Charleston County Public Library, Charleston
— NBF Presents: The Art of Invention (6:00PM) (Event Details)

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November 19, 2019 | Tishman Auditorium, The New School, New York
— National Book Awards Finalists Reading (7:00PM) (Event Details)

November 19, 2019 | 92nd Street Y, New York
— National Book Awards Teen Press Conference (10:00AM - 12:30PM) (Event Details)

November 18, 2019 | Yale Macmillan Center, New Haven
— Queer Africas Reading Event (5:00PM - 6:00PM) (Event Details)

October 20, 2019 | Boston Book Festival, Roxbury, Boston
— YA/Speculative Fiction Keynote: Akwaeke Emezi (3:00PM - 4:00PM) (Event Details)

September 29, 2019 | Skylight Books, Los Angeles
— PET Reading (5:00PM) (Event Details)

September 26, 2019 | Books Inc, Alameda
— PET Reading (7:00PM) (Event Details)

September 22, 2019 | Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn
— You Can’t Look Away: Crafting a Pageturner (4:00PM) (Event Details)

September 21, 2019 | NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City
Se Te Subió El Santo, with Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Akwaeke Emezi (4-5PM) (Event Details)

September 17, 2019 | Politics & Prose, Washington DC
— Book Event w/Christopher Myers (7:00PM) (Event Details)

September 10, 2019 | Books Are Magic, Brooklyn
— PET Launch w/Christopher Myers (7:30PM)

June 21-26, 2019 | ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, Washington DC

May 29-31, 2019 | BookExpo, New York

May 13, 2019 | City of Asylum, Pittsburgh
— Indie Press Series: Akwaeke Emezi (7PM) (Event Details)

February 8, 2019 | Scholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive, New York
— Reading and Conversation with Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi, with Yvette Christiansë (6:30PM) (Event Details)

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October 19, 2018 | KGB Bar & LitMag, New York
— NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series: Akwaeke Emezi (7PM) (Event Details)

October 14, 2018 | Litquake Festival, San Francisco
— Akwaeke Emezi & Esmé Weijun Wang (6PM) (Event Details)

October 11, 2018 | MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
— Akwaeke Emezi & Allison Janae Hamilton (6PM) (Event Details)

September 16, 2018 | Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn
— Multiple Selves/Multiple Views (10AM) (Event Details)

September 8, 2018 | Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Berlin
— Decolonizing Perceptions of Gender & Sexuality (2PM) (Event Details)

September 5, 2018 | Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Berlin
— Akwaeke Emezi (Freshwater) (9PM) (Event Details)

July 19, 2018 | The Center for Fiction x The Greene Space at WNYC, New York
— I Am America: Re-Gendering Power with Roxane Gay and Akwaeke Emezi (7PM) (Event Details)

July 1, 2018 | Africa Writes Festival, London
— African Books To Inspire Panel (15:15 – 16:30) (Event Details)

June 30, 2018 | Africa Writes Festival, British Library, London
— Freshwater Pre-Launch with Irenosen Okojie (15:45 – 16:30) (Event Details)

June 15, 2018 | Outpost Artist Resources, New York
— 'As Above, So Below: Interpretations of Roundness' Exhibition Opening, Curated by Elliot Jerome Brown (7:00 PM)

May 17, 2018 | Susan Eley Fine Art, New York
— Vica Miller Literary Salon: Self and the Other (6:30PM)

April 28, 2018 | OKAY SPACE GALLERY, Brooklyn
— Well Read Black Girl Book Club (1:00PM)

April 26, 2018 | Asian American Writers Workshop, New York
— Fractured Selves, with Mira T. Lee (7:00PM)

April 21, 2018 | PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, New York
— Liminal States (2:30PM-4:00PM) (Event Details)

April 18, 2018 | PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, New York
— Literary Quest: Tenement Museum Edition (6:30PM-9:00PM) (Event Details)

April 16, 2018 | Books Are Magic, Brooklyn
them Book Club with Tyler Ford (7:00PM)

March 6, 2018 | Schomburg Center, New York
— Multiple Black Realities: Akwaeke Emezi x ruby onyinyechi amanze on Freshwater (6:30PM)(Event Details)

March 1, 2018 | Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
Freshwater Event (7:00PM)

February 27, 2018 | East Bay Booksellers, Oakland
Freshwater Discussion (7:00PM) (Event Details)

February 26, 2018 | NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd St, New York
— Mid-Sentence: Writers in Conversation w/Glory Edim of Well Read Black Girl (6:30 PM)

February 20, 2018 | Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn
Freshwater Launch w/Chinelo Okparanta (7:30PM) (Event Details)

February 13, 2018 | Gavin Brown enterprise, New York
— Akwaeke Emezi's The Unblinding with Allison Janae Hamilton (7:00PM) (Event Details)

February 10, 2018 | American Library Association, Midwinter Meeting 2018, Denver
— AAP LibraryReads Best in Debut Authors (3:00-4:00PM)

January 24, 2018 | American Booksellers Association, Winter Institute 2018, Memphis
The Indies Introduce Authors & Booksellers Present...(2:20-3:20PM)

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November 29, 2017 | Gavin Brown enterprise, New York
— Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics (6:00-8:00PM), Panel

September 15, 2017 | Day Of Dialog, Brooklyn Public Library
— New Perspectives (3:00 - 3:45PM), Panel


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