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Readings, Presentations, Author Talks and more!

Upcoming Events

Stay tuned—Spring 2026: Launch for her new memoir, Your Verdict:  A Judge’s Reckoning with Law and Loss

May 3, 2026 7:15-9 pm Poetry Reading with Art Goodtimes and Robert Cooperman, West Side Books, 3434 W. 32nd Ave., Denver

May 15, 2026, 5-7 pm Open Mic, Denver Women’s Press Club Happy Hour, 1335 Logan Street, Denver

June 12, 2026, 7 pm OFFICIAL LAUNCH of my memoir, Your Verdict at West Side Books, 3434 W. 32nd Ave , Denver

June 15, 2026 Reading and Signing, Little Blue Pigeon Bookstore, Larimer Square, Denver,

June 20, 2026, 5-8:30 pm Reading and Signing, The Spirituals Project Choir, Co-hosted with Rosie and (the other) Jackie, Private Event

June 24, 2026 7-9 Open Mic, Telling Tales at Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine Street, Denver

June 27, 2026, 12:00 pm Reading and Book Signing, Barnes & Noble, 960 S Colorado Blvd, Glendale

June 30, 2026, 5:30 pm Memoir Reunion Party, Co-hosted with Susan Billotte, Private Event

July 2, 2025, 5:30 pm Reading and Book Signing, The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Aspen Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Dr., Littleton CO

July 9, 2029, Reading and Book Signing, co-hosted by Dana Bryson, Katherine Archuleta, Mary Helen Sandoval and Kendra Sandoval, Private Event

July 11, 2026, 7-8:30 Reading and Book Signing, Hearthstone House, co-hosted with Susan Ludwig, Denver

July 21, 2026 6-7 pm Reading and Signing & Conversation with novelist Jeanne Winer, Old Firehouse Bookstore, 232 Walnut St., Ft. Collins, CO

Aug 26, 2026, 1-3 pm: Book Reading & Memoir Workshop, Active Adult Center, 6363 W. 35th Ave., Wheat Ridge, CO

August 27, 2026, 10-2:30 pm, Reading at Stories Luncheon, Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape St., Denver

Sept TBD, 2026, 10:30-12 pm, Book Talk, Highland Recreation Center, W. 20th Ave and Osceola, Denver

September 18-19, 2026 Panelist/Workshop on Memoir, GET LIT! Literary Festival, Trinidad, CO

January 19, 2027, Memoir Poetry at Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder

Selected Past Events

  • April 4, 2025 Denver, CO 11:30-1 pm Windsor Gardens Book Club, 597 S. Clinton St.

  • October 5, 2024 Loveland, CO 9:00 am to noon “Conversations with Authors,” AAUW Fundraiser, 222 4th St. above the Next Door Restaurant

  • November 28, 2023 Denver, CO 7:00 pm Telling Tales at The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St.

  • November 11, 2023: Louisville, CO

  • 9:30-12 Colorado Press Women’s Authors Lunch, 1900 Via Appia Way, Louisville, CO

  • August 17, 2023: Wheat Ridge, CO

  • 1:30 pm at 6363 W. 35th Ave $15 includes food and drink

  • September 19, 2023: Golden CO

  • 6 pm Book Club, contact me for information jackiestjoan@icloud.com

  • October 5, 2023: Washington, D.C.

    7pm, Private Book Party, Arlington, VA, contact me for directions jackiestjoan@icloud.com

  • Indie Author Pavilion

    Tucson Festival of Books

    Monday, March 6, 2023 at 6:30 pm

  • March 6, 2023 Private book party

    Littleton, Colorado (contact me if you would an invitation)

  • Shawl of Midnight Book Reading and Signing

    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 11 am

    Multicultural and Women’s Employee Groups

    Centennial, CO

  • Shawl of Midnight Book Reading and Signing

    Thursday April 13 at 5 to 7pm

    American Association of University Women (AAUW) 

    Santa Maria, CA Chapter

    Public Library 

  • Shawl of Midnight Book Reading and Signing

    Friday April 14 at 2pm

    American Association of University Women (AAUW) 

    Santa Barbara, CA Chapter

  • Shawl of Midnight Book Reading and Signing

    Saturday April 15 at 1:30 pm

    American Association of University Women (AAUW) 

    San Luis Obispo, CA

    Atascadero Branch Library

  • June 8, 2023: Denver, CO

  • June, 2023 1 pm Park Hill United Methodist Church

  • July 5 and 6, 2023: Atlanta GA

    Times and Places TBA

  • July 9, 2023: Asheville, NC

  • 3:30 pm Private book party, contact me for directions