Session: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Family Secrets and Dynamics in Fiction
with David Francis with Sameer Pandya, Rachel Khong, Jennifer Haigh, Aria Aber
Moderator: Aimee Lui, with Colette Sartor, Toni Ann Johnson and Elle Johnson
Third Friday Salon: Featuring Andrew Nicholls, Janet Fitch, David Francis, and singer Myron Moss
curated and hosted by Elena Secota
Featuring music by Myron Moss
All Hell Breaks Loose: Chaos and Camaraderie in Contemporary Fiction
Fiction Panel with David Francis, Clare Mackintosh, Meg Schaffer, Elle Cosimano and Jennifer Croft.
Reading: “Hollywood Morning,” “Either or Neither,” “Poem for Putin,” “Making Hay”
Reflecting on the Past
Fiction Panel with David Francis, Angie Cruz, Cathleen Schine, Shelby Van Pelt, Adriana Trigiani
Reading poems published in Slow Lightning, Impractical Poetry
Written and performed by writer and equine therapy teacher David Francis
Listen to the recorded reading on ABC Radio Melbourne here.
A collection including four poems by David Francis with: "Abundant thanks to David Francis, whose heart and humor are huge and come with good counsel, and strong poetry. And whose dinner party has provided the sensory banquet on the cover of this anthology."
Here’s something special … a postcard to Tooradin, in beautiful West Gippsland, Victoria.
The PEN America LitFest Gala is a highlight of the Los Angeles literary and social calendars, with over 500 guests and an impressive group of leading writers and creatives who sit among them as Literary Hosts.
Now in its 29th year, PEN America’s LitFest Gala is a celebration of free expression and the literary arts. Each year, the event brings together impassioned tributes, conversation, and levity before an esteemed audience of authors, screenwriters, producers, showrunners, executives, philanthropists, actors, and devotees of the written word who share a commitment to the robust defense of creative freedom in Los Angeles and around the world.
Proceeds from PEN America’s LitFest Gala support initiatives including: advocacy for writers, journalists, and artists threatened or imprisoned worldwide; landmark research that addresses critical free speech issues; and the advancement of literary excellence and cross-cultural exchanges through hallmark initiatives, including the World Voices Festival of International Literature, PEN America’s Literary Awards, and fellowship and grants programs.
Recently honored luminaries and participants include Ai Weiwei, Barry Jenkins, Marti Noxon and Gillian Flynn, Roxane Gay, Isabel Allende, Jose Antonio Vargas, Margaret Atwood, Janet Mock, Norman Lear, Guillermo del Toro, Amber Tamblyn, Aisha Tyler, Amy Poehler, and Cecile Richards.
David is Table Host, Co-chair of PEN America Los Angeles Committee, and a member of the Gala Committee.
Red Hen Press celebrates their 25th anniversary. Join David as he hosts the Author Table.
David will be attending the 85th PEN International Congress as a PEN America Writer-Delegate.
Author David Francis talks about writing and letting-go, guided by The Boon Companions.
MWF19’s Queermotions series looks at six emotional states – anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness and surprise – through an LBGTQI+ lens.
Enter a realm where sadness is kept at bay and happiness held aloft. Jay Bernard, Nayuka Gorrie, David Francis and Jess McGuire will share a story from their golden hearts guaranteed to make you leave giddy and smiling. With music from Mama Alto.
Join David Francis for a guest presentation based around Peter Paul Rubens’s paintingThe Garden of Love
Meet at The Garden of Love, Level 1 Mezzanine at the National Gallery of Victoria.
David Francis hosts a conversation at the Berggruen Institute with Elif Shafak to unpack the “us” versus “them” rhetoric, to reveal what lies beneath, while exploring how to navigate the political and cultural challenges of our turbulent times.
Representative of Los Angeles Committee of PEN America
Fiction Panel: Swept Along by Circumstances with Janet Fitch and Rebecca Makkai, moderated by David Francis
Rebecca Makkai, Janet Fitch and Lydia Fitzpatrick's most recent novels all contain characters struggling to overcome major forces beyond their control. These authors discuss how to find the core of a character that's swept up by chaos.
David Francis hosts the PEN America Emerging Voices Reunion Party and Reading
Guest teaching appointment for Mark Sarvas’s Fiction Workshop at UCLA Extension
Brio invites you to join Robert Dessaix as he chats with David Francis about art, autobiography in fiction, and the writing life.
Join us to celebrate the rerelease of David’s debut novel Agapanthus Tango:
6 for 6.30 pm
Thursday 6 September
Berkelouw Paddington
19 Oxford St, Paddington
Please RSVP to rsvp@briobooks.com.au
‘To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, polymath and horse-adorer, set hearts aflame with this quote. Join similarly besotted writers David Francis, Eliza Henry-Jones, Selina Jenkins and Zoya Patel as they saddle up.
