News & Events
Setpember 18, 2026 – “The Writing Life” Keynote, for Write On! Writing Retreat for Graduate Students at Ball State University in Muncie, IN
September 19, 2026 – “Tacking- & Other Strategies for Writing Difficult Material” at The Gathering of Writers, Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, IN
September 24, 2026 – Reading and Discussion at Center for Literature & Medicine, Hiram College in Hiram, OH
October 19-21, 2026 – Directing the Writer-in-Residence Program: Varian Johnson at Ball State University
October 28-31, 2026 – Louisiana Book Festival & Other Southern Goings On
- Wednesday, October 28th – Baton Rouge Public Library Reading & Conversation with Mark Neely
- Thursday, October 29th – Reading & Conversation at Octavia Books in New Orleans
- Friday, October 30th – WordShops, “Beautiful Things: Writing & Publishing Miniature Essays”
- Saturday, October 31st – Featured Author, Louisiana Book Festival, “The Undertow of Grief: Strength & Healing in the Wake of Loss” with Karen McCord, Peggy Sweeney-McDonald, & moderator Megan Holt.
November 7, 2026 – Featured Author at Kentucky Book Festival
Check back for Spring 2027 visits including Ohio University (January), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham (February), AWP Chicago & Denison University (March), the University of Oregon (April)—plus fingers & toes crossed for NonfictioNow in Dublin (Ireland, not Ohio—in June)!
Indelible
In teaching news, Ball State honored my work with a group of students dedicated to raising awareness and providing resources around the issue of sexual violence on our nation’s campuses with a 2021 Immersive Learning Faculty Award. If you’re a member of a university community, I hope you’ll check out the details of our project at IndeliblePodcast.com …
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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)
