Press and Events

Readings:

(An interview with the author by Tom Hall of Public Radio, including a short reading can be heard here.)

February 4th, 2011, a reading to celebrate the publication of Confessions: Fact or Fiction, an anthology including Susan's short story "The End of the Season," will be held at 7pm in the Books-a-Million bookstore on Dupont in Washington DC.

February 5th, 2011, Entasis Press and Waywiser Press will host a reading and party at All Souls Episcopal Church, 2300 Cathedral Avenue, Washington DC., presenting 11 poets and two fiction writers (Susan and Margaret Meyers) between 5-7.30pm.

Events / Panels / Workshops:

November 5th, 2010
NonfictioNow Conference (Nov.4-6, 2010)
Susan will participate in the panel, The Writer in Foreign Territory, along with Bob Shacochis, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Jacki Lyden, Josh McCall and Jennifer McClanaghan. (1.45-3.15pm, The University of Iowa.)

November 20th, 2010
Baltimore Writers' Conference
Susan will be offering one-on-one critiques during this one day event of workshops and panels held at Towson University. The keynote speaker is Chimamanda Adichie.

February 2nd-5th, 2011
AWP Conference in Washington D.C.
Susan will participate in the panel Status Update: The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook, to be held at 4.15-5.30pm on Thursday 4th February. There will also be a book-signng (time tbc) and books available for sale at the Entasis Press exhibit at the Bookfair.

April 16th, 2011
Conversations and Connections Conference
Susan will be a presenter at this one day conference of practical advice on writing, held on the Washington D.C. campus of Johns Hopkins University.

May 12th, 2011
Kaleidoscope Workshop
Susan will present an informal workshop, Reading Like a Reviewer, between 6.30-8pm at the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore. For tickets and information click here.

Press:

Slipping the Moorings was reviewed by James Srodes in the Washington Times. "Comparisons don't do Ms. McCallum-Smith justice, behind the dark atmostphere of her plots, laughter waits to break out..."

A review of Slipping the Moorings appears in the Spring 2009 issue of the literary journal jmww. "It's not conjecture to say that if McCallum-Smith wrote a story about ice-cubes melting, I would probably read it..." writes reviewer Jen Michalski.

On Books, Inq - The Epilogue blog, Frank Wilson, former book editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, commented on December 4th on the first, and then on December 24th on the second of the short stories in Slipping the Moorings.

Aimee Liu writes, "the stories in this collection vibrate with a kind of perfection that is beyond rare in literature today," in her review of Slipping the Moorings.