APPEARANCES
PODCAST APPEARANCES:
TILT PARENTING, with Debbie Reber
YOU, ME, EMPATHY
THE CREATIVE SUPERHEROES PODCAST
YOUR ANXIOUS CHILD
OTHERPPL with Brad Listi
ANXIETY DIARIES
BUT THAT’S ANOTHER STORY
SELFIE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY RADIO
AT PARENTING SURVIVAL
BMB REPORTS
GET THE FUNK OUT
IN PERSON & ONLINE EVENTS
2021
Pandemica Impossibilus
2020
May 16-17
Zoom
How to Write Complex Emotions Workshop
$50
To register, email amanda@amandastern.com with the subject line EMOTION.
March 3rd
Landmark College
Talk on anxiety & learning disabilities
Vermont
March 9th
Mary McDowell School
Anxiety talk for staff and parents
NYC
March 13th
Mary McDowell School
Anxiety talk for students
NYC
2019
December 4th
ANXIOUSLY YOURS
A night at the Los Angeles Public Library
A gathering of anxious story-telling with:
Chris Kraus, Rumer Willis, Atsuko Okatsuka and others
Los Angeles
November 16th
New School Master Class
How to Write Childhood
The New School
NYC
November 4th
NYU
Class visit
NYU
November 2nd
New School Master Class
How to Write Complex Emotion
The New School
NYC
October 24th
MacDowell Colony Fundraiser
A night with CAROL BURNETT
and Nell Painter
Private event
MacDowell Colony, NYC venue
September 29th
Shift Your Thinking
Featured Speaker
Shift Your Thinking Summit
Toronto, ON
September 18th
The Corlears School
Anxiety talks for 4-10 year olds
and parents and community members.
NYC
June 21-23rd
Deep Water Literary Festival
Theme: Grimm’s Fairy Tales
With Marlon James, Alexander Chee, A.M. Homes, Melissa Gilbert and Debra Winger, among many others.
Narrowsburg, Delaware
June 13th
The Center for Fiction
Changing Our Minds: Three Personal Perspectives
A discussion of the political, social, and financial challenges of mental illness and treatment in America.
with Mary Cregan and Marin Sardy
Moderated by Jacki Lyden
Brooklyn, NY
June 7th, 6pm
Book Passage
in conversation with Meredith Arthur of Beautiful Voyager fame Special appearance from Dan Bern
The Ferry Building
San Francisco, CA
June 3rd, 7:30pm
The Last Bookstore
in conversation with Lisa Edelstein
Get your tickets here
Los Angeles, CA
May 17th
PAPERBACK LAUNCH FOR LITTLE PANIC, 7:30
in conversation with Piper Weiss
Books are Magic
225 Smith Street
Brooklyn NY 11231
USA
May 16th
Keynote at Women’s lunch, Pennsylvania
May 14th
LITTLE PANIC PAPERBACK COMES OUT.
March 31st, 2pm
Woodstock Literary Festival
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
34 Tinker St
Woodstock, NY 12498
March 12th, 7:30
In conversation with Ottessa Moshfegh
Downtown Central Library
630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA
March 7th, 2pm
NYU reading and talk
closed to public
March 7th, 7pm PEN Author Dinner
TICKETS HERE
March 6th
Barnes & Noble Discover Awards Luncheon, 12-2pm
closed event
February 18-24th
Kaien Island, British Columbia
Prince Rupert Literacy Festival
CBC Radio
Community talk
A visit to every school on the island to talk to the students about anxiety.
February 11th
In conversation with Megan Eaton Griswold, 7:00
Talking about The Book of Help
McNally Jackson, Prince Street
January 10th
Open Minds Mental Health Summit
Closing Day Speaker
Topic: Kids and Anxiety
Hartsdale, NY
2018
September 22nd, 4pm
Stockbridge Library Speakers Series
Stockbridge Library
October 8th, 8pm
Franklin Park Reading Series
with R.O Kwon, Ben Marcus, Bram Presser and Dan Sheehan / 618 St. John’s Place, between Franklin and Classon, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
October 26th, 7pm-8:30pm
Hudson Valley Writers Center
An evening with Patti Marx and Amanda Stern
Philipse Manor Station
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
November 13th, 7pm
The Wing Book Club
Closed to members.
December 6th, 3-4pm
Women’s Conference
Boston, Massachussets
Featured Speaker
December 7th, 10am
CLMP Conference
December 15th, 7pm
Book launch for A Velocity of Being
featured reader, NYPL
May 30th
John Jay College
Library Journal Day of Dialog
3:30pm memoirists panel
May 31st
Book Expo America
JAVITS CENTER
Book signing 2:30pm
June 19th
Greenlight Bookstore
Doors @ 7 / Talk @ 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
686 Fulton Street / (718) 246-0200
In conversation with A.M. Homes
Wine reception to follow
June 21st
Appearance on Publisher’s Weekly radio 2pm
June 23rd
Live Facebook event with Beautiful Voyager 3pm
June 27th
Joe’s Pub
The Happy Ending Music & Reading Series
Doors @ 6:30 / show @ 7pm
Theme: Anxiety & Misdiagnosis
Authors:
Alexander Chee
Leslie Jamison
Amanda Stern
Live Artist:
Todd DiCiurcio
Musical Guest:
Amanda Palmer
Tickets include a copy of the book LITTLE PANIC
$30
June 28th
AMA on REDDIT at noon
July 3rd
McNally Jackson
7pm, Manhattan
in Conversation with Cheryl Sucher.
July 10th
LIC Reading Series
8pm
With Allie Rowbottom and Chelsea Hodson
45-58 Vernon Blvd, New York, New York 11101
Thursday, July 12th, 7pm
Barnes & Noble / Upper West Side
In conversation with Maria Popova
of Brain Pickings
Sunday, July 15th
Book Soup, 5pm
Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Sarah Manguso
Monday, July 23rd
Book Passage / 1 Ferry Building, 6pm
San Francisco, CA
In conversation with Pulitzer prize winner
Andrew Sean Greer
2017
Writing…writing…writing.
2016
May 12th
Yabu Pushelberg
Impresario for private event for design firm
May 23rd
One Grand Reading
with Rufus Wainwright & A.M. Homes
May 25th- 28th
Jerusalem Writers Festival
I programmed and hosted two Happy Ending events for the Israeli festival
Article in the Times Of Israel, about the event.
May 26, 7:30
Happy Ending Jerusalem
Authors:
Nell Zink, Etgar Keret, Colum McCann, Anthony Marra
Artist:
Michal Bonano
Musical Guest:
Tamar Eisenman
May 28, 9pm
Happy Ending Jerusalem, closing event
Authors:
Alex Epstein, Gary Shteyngart, Shelley Oria
Artist:
Marina Grechanik
Musical Guest:
Yali Sobol
2015
September 28th
Elena Ferrante event @ Symphony Space
Host.
With John Waters, Zoe Kazan, Amy Ryan, Judith Thurman, Elizabeth Strout, Parul Sehgal and others.
September
The Brooklyn Book Festival.
Moderator.
2014
March 27th, 2014, 7pm
What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
In conversation with the author
Powerhouse Arena 37 Main St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 666-3049 Dumbo, Brooklyn
March 6th, 2014, 7-8pm / Free
The Launch of “Confidence, Or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of The Believer Music Interviews“ Believer Books
In Conversation with Laurie Anderson
The Strand 828 Broadway, NYC
2013
August 31-Sept 2
Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle
with Maggie Estep & Matt Besser
For the anthology: The Marijuana Chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer
March 16th
Arts in Mind Festival
Moderator/Co-curator –– What’s Your Hang-up”
In which a psychologist and a critic investigate the artistic psyches of two artists.
Artists: Shantell Martin & Edwina White Psychologist: M. Gerard Fromm Critic: Ben Greenman Moderator: Amanda Stern
Co-curated with Joshua Wolf-Shenk
Wollman Hall 65 W. 11th Street 4pm / Free
2012
June 9th
24 Hour Read-In
Reader
Brooklyn Public Library The plaza in front of the BPL’s Central Library at Grand Army Plaza 6:30pm
January 30th
Presenter with Nate Sensel
Exit Art – 475 10th Ave 6pm – 9pm
January 11th
WNYC’s Soundcheck
Guest w/John Schaefer
on music and crying
2pm
2011
October 27th
The Brooklyn Public Library Gala Master of Ceremonies Honoring Paul Auster The Brooklyn Bowl August 20th Bard SummerScape Host/The Happy Ending Series with Paul La Farge, Mary Caponegro, Rebecca Wolff. Musical guest, Cynthia Hopkins
2010
November 15
The National Book Awards Interviewer Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
2011
AJ STERN APPEARANCES
October 19
Brooklyn Public Library 10:30am