2026
- June: Reading from “On Love and Cats: A Tale in Parts,” Hoʻolana 1, Summer Lit Jam & Poetry Grill, da Shop, Honolulu
- April: “Curating Diverse Voices: Podcasting,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) panel discussion, Honolulu
2025
- October: Reading from Revolution in the Blood and “Other People’s Blood,” M.I.A. revival reading, cosponsored by Kundiman, a reading with Amanda Huynh, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Misty Sanico, Hub Coworking Hawaiʻi, Honolulu
- October: “Speculative Nonfiction and Ancestral Haunting: Writing with a Great-Grandfather I Never Met,” Brown Bag #868 for The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2024, April: Launch party for The Mana of Salt by D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, reading with Donovan Kūhiō Colleps, Noʻu Revilla, and Lyz Soto, da Shop: books + curiosities, Honolulu
2023, March: “The Chronic: Medicine and the Body in Writing,” virtual reading and discussion with Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Rajiv Mohabir, A. H. Reaume, and Heidi Andrea Rhodes, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Seattle
2022
- October: Class visit for Kim Compoc, University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu, 300-level course for humanities majors, on Haunani-Kay Trask’s “Lovely Hula Hands,” radio shows + podcasting, and the texts that change our lives
- October: Emcee for Rajiv Mohabir and Punahou Students Present Original Poetry
- September: Emcee for Noʻu Revilla’s book launch party for Ask the Brindled
- July: Class visit for Rajiv Mohabir, Orion Magazine summer creative nonfiction course
- June: da Shop presents Joseph Han in conversation with Anjoli Roy
2021
- November: Eng 253 virtual class visit + joint reading and Q&A, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writing Series, Hope College
- May: Guest reading from Enter the Navel for Susan Clark’s Joy of Reading course, Punahou School
- April: “So, You Have a Degree in English?: Ways to Use Your Degree Outside the Tenure Track,” Careers Workshop, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- March: “On Writing Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction, An Abecedarian Apologia for the Genre,” Brown Bag #774 for The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2020
- December: Guest reading from Enter the Navel for Susan Clark’s Joy of Reading course, Punahou School
- December: Enter the Navel Reading & Launch Party, with special guest readers Hari Alluri & Neelanjana Banerjee, hosted by Rajiv Mohabir
- November: A Reading & Craft Talk on Creative Nonfiction with Anjoli Roy, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Words@Mānoa Series
- November: Reading from Enter the Navel and discussion, Stephanie Han’s Women’s Creative Writing Workshop
- October: “Exploring Hawaiʻi’s Literary Landscape,” Bamboo Ridge’s Virtual Writers Institute
- October, “Growing Magic in the Sidewalk: Podcasts and Community in Hawaiʻi,” Moʻolelo Matters interview
- March: “In Defense of Navel-Gazing: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction,” Pushing Past Page 70: Reaching Creative Nonfiction Readers, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), San Antonio
- March: “Beyond the Page: Podcasting to Reach New Audiences,” To Boldly Go: Unconventional Publishing Opportunities from Radio and Beyond, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), San Antonio
2019
- October: “Beyond the Page: Podcasting and Body Transformations to Reach New Audiences” (workshop co-lead with Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng), Words@Mānoa, Honolulu
- October: “Grandpa Was a Skin Diver,” Mixing Innovative Arts Tenth Anniversary Reading, Honolulu
- August: It’s Lit M.I.A Takeover (cohosted with Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng), Honolulu
- May: “Deep Research for World-Building in Narrative Nonfiction: Writing Workshop and Q&A with Author Gilbert King” (interviewer moderator), Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival, Honolulu
- March: “What Waits on Beadon Street,” True Story: Revolutionary Creative Nonfiction, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Portland
2018
- November: “Little Red BMW,” Every Voice Matters: Poetry, Prose, and Inclusion, Honolulu
- March: It’s Lit M.I.A. Takeover (cohosted with Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng), Honolulu
- March: “What Waits on Beadon Street: Fighting Diaspora’s Erasing Impulses,” Roundtable on South Asian American, Association of Asian American Studies, San Francisco (paper accepted)
2017: April: Kundiman reading, Mixing Innovative Arts, Honolulu
2016
- April: “What Waits at Beadon Street,” Crossing Genres, Crossing Seas: Writing the South Asian Diaspora, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Los Angeles
- August: “This Part of the Body” and “Un-love Letter,” Mixing Innovative Arts Seventh Anniversary Reading, Honolulu
- May: “Love Letter to Kurseong,” The 2016 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards, Honolulu
2015
- April: “Where the Water Is” (excerpt) & “From Bani Roy’s Recipes for Excellent Bengali Meals,” Mana Wahine Reading, Honolulu
- April: “In Bones We Carry” (with Donovan Kūhiō Colleps; unpublished) & “When the Mouth Closes,” Decolonial Solidarities, Honolulu
- April: “How We Define Our Stories, How Our Stories Define Us: A Pre-1965 India-to-U.S. Immigration Story,” Decolonial Futures in South Asia and Beyond, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for South Asian Studies, 32nd Annual Symposium, Honolulu
2014
- February: “Finding Family in the Archives: Storytelling in Delhi, Kurseong, and Kolkata,” Brown Bag Biography, cosponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Biographical Research, Honolulu
- August: “Where the Water Is” (excerpt), Mixing Innovative Arts, Honolulu
February: “Stroke” and “The Last Thing Left,” The New Oceania Literary Series featuring Sudesh Mishra, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu
2013
- October: “Eat the Garden,” A Pacific Poetry Feast, Kokua Market, Honolulu
- September: “Clamoring for Whiteness or Struggling for Survival?: A Pre-1965 India-to-US Immigration Story,” Second Annual Asians in the Americas Symposium, Pepperdine University, Malibu
- May: BYOW: Build Your Own Workshop, Mixing Innovative Arts, Mixing Innovative Arts, Honolulu
& earlier
- April 2011: “Told You So,” M.I.A. Art & Literary Series, Fresh Cafe, Honolulu
- April 2010: “What Babas Are For,” Fathers’ Day: Readings in Creative Writing, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu
- October 2009: “Walls,” The Mānoa Experience, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu
- 2003: “Reconcile,” INI, New York City
- 2001: “Reconcile,” Da Poetry Lounge, Los Angeles
ANJOLI ROY 
