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 3rd7:30pm
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 FestivalSeattle

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

Moleskine Portraits

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

LISTEN HERE

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

December 5
 
P.S. 199, NYC
1:30pm – assembly
 
November 18
Chapin Book Fair, NYC
9am-12pm

October 19

Brooklyn Public Library 10:30am

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