UPCOMING

Author of “Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Culture.” Academic essay forthcoming in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Davidson College, Davidson, NC (Visiting appointment, Spring 2024 semester)

RECENT

Writer-in-Residence: Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN (July 2023)

Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence: The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (May – June 2023)

Featured reader: “A Reading with Faith Ellington, Michelle Awad, Teresa Marita McGuire, Michael Ruby, and Rone Shavers.” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA. (April 15, 2023)

Panel Participant: “Reading at 24 Frames per Second,” with Jonathan Penton, David Byron Queen, Rosalyn Spencer, and Tara Stillions Whitehead. AWP Seattle (March 9, 2023)

Invited Guest Lecturer: “Parable of the Economy: Parable of the Sower’s Lauren Olamina as Neo-Liberal Avatar.” The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. (January 27, 2023)

Panel Chair and Moderator: “#GaddisToo: Gaddis Studies in Light of Racial and Socio-Cultural Realignment(s).” William Gaddis Centenary Conference. Washington University in Saint Louis (October 22, 2022)

Guest Artist Talk: Institute for Black Arts, Culture, and Literature, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (October 17, 2022)

Writer-in-Residence: VCCA Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France (August 2022)

Nancy B. Negley Writer-in-Residence: La Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes, France (July 2022)

Visiting Guest Artist: The Walden Project, Bristol, VT (May 10, 2022)

Featured Writer: “Form and (Dis)Content, Volume III: A Reading with Kenning JP Garcia, Daphne Maysonet, and Rone Shavers.” New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA (April 24, 2022)  

Featured Writer: “A Reading with Rone Shavers.” Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (February 7, 2022)

“Cronica of the Hermit” nominated for a 2021 Best of the Net Award (September 2021)

Review of Silverfish, by Matt Holder. In Strange Horizons Magazine (16 August, 2021)

Writer-in-Residence: Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (July - August 2021)

Arnold T. Schwab Poet-in-Residence: MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (June - July 2021)

Subject of author interview: “Conversations: Rone Shavers and Terese Svoboda.” The Critical Flame, Issue 67, June 2021 (July 6, 2021)

Silverfish named finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) 2021 Firecracker Award for Fiction (May 2021).

Published Ten Crônicas: A prose chapbook from The Magnificent Field press (May 2021)

“Form and (Dis)Content, Volume II: Speculative and Experimental Approaches to Language by Authors of Color.” Introduction and editorial work by Rone Shavers. A compilation showcasing work by Krista Franklin, Kenning JP Garcia, Douglas Kearney, and Jennifer Maritza McCauley. In Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Vol 46.1 (Spring 2021)

Featured Writer: “Slow Sparks: A Collaborative Performance (Red Rover Series).” New Orleans Poetry Festival (held virtually April 30, 2021)

Panel Moderator: “Prose/Poetics: Writers on the Line Between Prose and Poem.” New Orleans Poetry Festival (held virtually April 23, 2021)

Subject of author interview: “In the End, It’s All and Always Metaphor: An Interview with Rone Shavers, author of Silverfish.” The Lit Pub (April 6, 2021)

Silverfish named finalist for 2020 Big Other Book Award for Fiction (March 2021)