News & Events
– 7-16-18 – interview in The Southeast Review
– 6-3-18 – “The Meat Bee” is performed at Word Theatre, The Federal Bar, Los Angeles
– 4-7-18 – “Haboob,” an essay, The Los Angeles Review of Books
– 3-15-18 – “The Meat Bee,” a story, Tin House
– 3-12-18 – Q&A at Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead screening, UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series, Los Angeles Hammer Museum
– February 2018 – “Maps for Storytellers, “The Art of Dialogue,” “Desert Nights, Rising Stars” conference, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
– 2-6-18 – “A Map for Needy People,” The Writer’s Regimen, The Southwest Review
2017 – “For Eloise,” a tribute to Eloise Klein Healy, Lunch Ticket
– December, 2016: Commencement Speaker, Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing program
– June 2016 – “Literary Lingo: A Lexicon,” lecture, University of California Riverside, Palm Desert, MFA in Creative Writing
– 9-9-16 – The Huffington Post lists Ball on “Your Ultimate Feminist Back-to-School Reading List”
– 2-5-2016 – “How To Be A Slut: The Choice and Priorities of a Promiscuous Woman, and No, You Do Not Complete Me,” essay excerpt from Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies, Electric Literature
– 2-2-2016 – Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies, wins the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction
– 1-31-2016 – “‘Too Stupid To Be C*nts': The New Normal of Toxic Male Entitlement on Campus,” essay, on Salon
– 1-27-2016 – reading with Robert Olen Butler at SOMOS, Taos
– 1-26-2016 – BALL selected by O, The Oprah Magazine, in “16 Books to Start 2016 Right!”
– 1-21-2016 – reading with Matt Bell at Changing Hands, Tempe
– 1-06-2016 – “Wild Women” – interview in The Los Angeles Review of Books
– 1-2016 – “If My Book, BALL Were…” on MonkeyBicycle
– 1-2016 – BALL is one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now!” in the January O. The Oprah Magazine
– 12-14-2015 – BALL is one of Electric Literature‘s “Top Story Collections of 2015″
– 11-15-2015 – reading at Skylight Books, Los Angeles
– 11-11-2015 – “Tara Ison Knows How to Make You Squirm For a Purpose”: BALL reviewed in Las Vegas Weekly
– 11-11-2015 – “Boundaries of Choice”: Slant Magazine reviews BALL
– 11-10-2015 – BALL selected by Publishers Weekly as “Review of the Day”!
– 11-9-2015 – “deeply intense and crushing…be prepared to become obsessed.” BALL selected by HelloGiggles as “One of the New Books You Need to Read This November!”
– 11-9-2015 – BALL selected for Publishers Weekly Picks: Books of the Week
– 11-05-2015 – BALL featured in “6 Books You Need to Read This November” in Los Angeles Magazine
– 11-3-2015 – “Mental and Emotional Pretzel-Twisting: an Interview with Tara Ison,” Electric Literature
– 11-2016 – “with her expert writing and willingness to push boundaries, the grotesqueness and horrors are bearable, even beautiful” – BALL reviewed in Marie-Claire
– 10-28-2015 – “Ball,” the story, is featured in Electric Literature as “Recommended Reading,” recommended by Rick Moody
– 10-31-2015 – “Finding The Story, Finding The Form” panel, with Peter Turchi and Michael Martone, at NonfictioNow Conference, Flagstaff
– 10-23-2015 – “How We Learn To Live, Love, and Die at the Movies“: reading and discussion, Mod Phoenix, 7 pm
– 9-25-2015 – “How Not To Lose Your Virginity”: presenting Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High at the Downtown Independent Theater, Los Angeles
– 9-7-2015 – Starred review of Ball in Publishers Weekly
– 8-9-2015 – Ball reviewed in Kirkus: “Elegant, creepy short stories with a horror film sensibility…. Freaky, nasty, highly original and unforgettable”
– 6/30/15 – Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference, Keynote and “The Art of Dialogue”
– 6/14/15 – Reading at The Roar Shack, LA
– 6/13/15 – Reading at Dirty Laundry Lit, LA
– 5/13/15 – Interview with Christi Craig
– 4/17-19/15 – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Panel: “Frame by Frame”
– 3/14-15/15 – Tucson Festival of Books! Panels: “Elasticity Can Give Nonfiction Bounce,” and “Movies and Now Books”
– 3/9/15 – Reading at the Narrow Chimney Reading Series, Flagstaff, AZ
– 2/26/15 – Reading with Pete Turchi at Peregrine Book Company, Prescott, AZ
– 2/24/15 – Reading with Pete Turchi at Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ
– 2/19/15 – Interview with Fourth and Sycamore
– 2/10/15 – Interview with Book Circle Online
– 2/8/15 – an excerpt from “How to Lose Your Virginity” on Salon.com
– 2/7/15 – Pub party for REELING THOUGH LIFE at Skylight Books, LA, 5pm
– 2/28/15 – Interview with Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
– 1/31/15 – Interview for Authorlink
– 1/30/15 – Reeling Through Life named Editor’s Choice in The Chicago Tribune
– 1/22/15 – Reading at Newtonville Books, Newton, MA, 7 pm
– 1/16/15 – Reading at Diesel Books, Oakland, CA, 6:30 pm
– 1/16/15 – “Books by Tara Ison’s Bed” from We Wanted to be Writers
– 1/15/15 – Reading at Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, CA, 7 pm
– 1/14/15 – Interview with The Black Maria
– 1/14/15 – Reading at Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA, 7 pm
– 1/13/15 – Interview with Hallie Ephron for Jungle Red Writers.
– 1/11/15 – Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies is one of February 2015 O Magazine’s “Ten Titles to Pick up Now!”
– 9/16/13 – Reading at Changing Hands bookstore, Tempe, AZ – 7 pm
– 8/2/13 – Reading at Women & Children First bookstore, Chicago – 7 pm
– 7/14/13 – Short Fiction Series at the Federal Bar, North Hollwyood, CA – “Ball: A Night of Short Fiction by Tara Ison” – 7 pm. Buy tix now!
– 6/27/13 – Reading at Books, Inc., Berkeley
– 6/1 through 6/15 – Goodreads Author Q&A and Book Giveaway for Rockaway
– 5/30/13 – Book signing for Rockaway, at Book Expo America 2013, 3-4 pm
– 5/27/13 – Reading at KGB Bar in New York City, 7 pm
– 4/21/13 – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books – Panelist: “Novel Narrators” – 12 noon
– Rockaway, a novel, will be published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press in June 2013
– A Child out of Alcatraz is now available as an ebook on all formats, from Foreverland Press
– Ball, a short story collection, will be published by Red Hen Press in Fall 2015
– AWP 2013, Boston, MA – Panelist: “Taking Back The Creative Capstone”
– 2/1/13 – Reading at Literary Southwest, Yavapi College, Prescott, AZ – 7:30