Patrick Thomas Henry

Readings & Presentations

PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST EVENTS

Saturday, October 4, 2025: High Plains International Book Award, in Billings, MT. (More info coming soon!)

Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 1:00–4:00 PM CT: Grand Forks Public Library Author Fair, at the Grand Forks Public Library in Grand Forks, ND.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7:00 PM CT: Reading & Book Signing, room 406 of the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND. Also livestreamed on Instagram @Patrick_T_Henry.

Monday, November 18, 2024, at 6:30 PM: “Everyday Magic: Real Life and the Impossible in Magic Realism,” at the Grand Forks Public Library in Grand Forks, ND.

Monday, November 4, 2024, at 6:30 PM: “Frames and Snapshots: Writing Microfictions,” at the Grand Forks Public Library in Grand Forks, ND.

Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 5:00 PM: Susquehanna University Press Launch Party, at the Downtown Center in Selinsgrove, PA

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM: “Making Public: A Celebration of Publications and Literary Projects,” at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA

PAST READINGS

  • Montclair State University, Live Literature Series, in Montclair, NJ. 29 March 2016.
  • “Death, if You Don’t Mind, Please Come to the Front of the Class,” on the Sugar House Review blog. 11 May 2013. Web.
  • “Takeoff.” Reading at KGB Literary Bar in New York City, NY. 17 September 2011.
  • “Lucky Strikes.” Reading at the Coffee Cave in Newark, NJ. 18 January 2011.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Bad Readers and Broken Affects: Metafictional Manipulation in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus.” Paper presented at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 7–10 March 2024 in Boston, MA.
  • “Survivors, Driftwood, and Giant Frogs: Navigating Calamity in Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake.” Paper presented at the 2023 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 2–4 November 2023 in Cincinnati, OH.
  • “Fragments, Episodes, Gaps: The Novella-in-Flash and Narrative Time.” Paper presented at the 2022 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 17-20 November 2022 in Minneapolis, MN.
  • “Challenging Fate: Fire Emblem Awakening and the Trial of History.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, 10–12 November 2022. Virtual Conference.
  • “Poetry as Critique, Critique as Poetry: Creative Writing as Public Humanities Work.” Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 10-13 March 2022 in Baltimore, MD.
  • “Dungeons [& Workshops] & Dragons: Role-Playing Games, Creative Play, and the Creative Writing Workshop.” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, 10-13 November 2021. Virtual Conference.
  • “The Short Story, the Workshop, and the Community of Writers.” Paper presented at the 2021 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 4-7 November 2021 in Milwaukee, WI.
  • “A Love for the Dead: Historical Fiction, A.S. Byatt’s Ventriloquism, and Narrative Voice.” Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 11-14 March 2021. Virtual Convention.
  • “Polaroid Snapshots: Life Is Strange as Ekphrastic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.” Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 11-14 March 2021. Virtual Convention.
  • “Disenchanting the Literary: Genre and Craft in the Creative Writing Workshop.” Paper presented at the 51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 5-8 March 2020 in Boston, MA.
  • “W.B. Yeats and the Tale: Folklore, Nationalism, and Lessons for Today’s Artist-Critics.” Paper presented at the 2019 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, 14-17 November 2019 in Chicago, IL.
  • “‘Where War and Grace Are Closest Linked’: Rebecca West’s Journalism and Wartime Feminism.” Paper presented at the 47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 17-20 March 2016, in Hartford, CT.
  • “Aesthetics, Nationalism, and Colonial Critique in the Critical Nonfiction of Hugh MacDiarmid.” Paper presented at the 46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 30 April-3 May 2015 in Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • “Redeeming Richard III: Blurring Historicism & Nationalism in Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time” at the 45th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 3-6 April 2014, in Harrisburg, PA.
  • “Stories of the Dead: Narrative, Temporality, and the Spectral Past in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway” at the 2014 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, 20-22 February 2014, in Louisville, KY.
  • “Irish Nationalism, Memory, and Counter-Memory in Yeats’s Cathleen ni Houlihan and Joyce’s ‘The Dead’” at the 44th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 21-24 March 2013, in Boston, MA.
  • “Fearing (and Adoring) Virginia Woolf: Bridging Modernism and Postmodernism in Ian McEwan’s Atonement” at the 43rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, 15-18 March 2012, in Rochester, NY.