News & Events
December 9th, 2024: Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana, Visiting Writers Series. 6-7PM EST, Stapleton Lounge LeMan’s Hall. Learn more here!
October 28-30, 2024: The Ball State Writer-in-Residence (in the schools) program with Hena Khan. Check out the public schedule here & come out to support a program that gives books to kids!
Review of Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways
If you haven’t gotten your hands on a copy of the debut memoir of my former student & current friend Brittany Means, I hope you’ll check out my unapologetically biased & totally true review of Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways—and then run to your nearest bookstore.
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Review of Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways
Check out my review of Brittany Means’s Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways.
If This Were Fiction
My new book is out! I’ve been writing essays for over fifteen years, and it’s been a glorious ride, but I’d never put out a collection of just Jill Christman essays between two covers …
“Mr. Cosmos” at New Ohio Review
The title character of “Mr. Cosmos” is my fifth-grade science teacher from Newbury Elementary School in Massachusetts—a man so wonderful he would leap on his desk and do interpretive dances …
Past Events
July 16, 2024 (7:30-9 p.m. EST): “Can I Say This?: Writing the Hard Stuff in Personal Essays & Memoir.” Lafayette Writers Studio.
May 29, 2024: Creative Nonfiction Workshop for the Spalding Naslund-Mann School of Writing Spring Residency. Louisville, KY.
April 25, 2024: Keynote Address for the International Association of Laboratory Schools Conference. Muncie, IN.
October 21, 2023: Workshop & Reading, LitYoungstown Fall Festival, Youngstown
July 22, 2023: Panel & Workshop, Midwest Writers Workshop, Muncie
April 29, 2023: Reading & Workshop, Quill & Ink, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
March 8-11, 2023: AWP Conference & Bookfair, Seattle Convention Center
July 19-22, 2023: 50th Anniversary Midwest Writers Workshop, Ball State Alumni Center
January 27, 2023: English Reading Series, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City
December 3, 2022: Reading with Katy Didden, Indy Reads, Indianapolis
November 30, 2022: Reading, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend
November 17-19, 2022: Words & Music Festival, New Orleans
November 4-6, 2022: Texas Book Festival, Austin
October 27, 2022: The Multiplicity of Voice: Sonya Huber, Jill Christman, & Jody Keisner. A Room of One’s Own bookstore.
September 14th, 2022: A Conversation with Kate Hopper at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis
September 15th, 2022: Reading & Slideshow hosted by Mark Ehling with Mark Neely & others, Location TBD, Minneapolis
November 17th, 2022: If This Were Fiction Reading at the Words & Music Festival, New Orleans
Jill Spends Time at Essay Daily
“Jill Christman: Indelible (Campus Sexual Assault): a class, a podcast, & a conversation “ (April 13, 2020)
“Jill Christman on Writing Sexual Trauma Under Title IX—‘Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter’:
Writing Sexual Trauma Under Title IX” (December 13, 2018)
“What Happened on June 21st 2018” (July 5, 2018)
“Jill Christman on Essays to Pry Open Doors: Ashley C. Ford, Alysia Sawchyn, & Brittany Means” (December 22, 2017)
“Jill Christman on Kathy Winograd’s ‘Bathing’” (January 27, 2014)
“5 Reasons I Can’t Stop Reading & Teaching Jo Ann Beard’s ‘The Fourth State of Matter’” (September 16, 2013)
“Dec 2, Brenda Miller on Jill Christman” (December 2, 2012)
