Thursday, April 10, 2025. 5pm.Vashon Bookshop, Vashon. Forty Bouts in the Wilderness Vashon Book Launch! Take a trip across the water to this beautiful island bookshop to hear Katy read alongside Margaret Roncone, Vashon Island’s Poet Laureate.
Saturday, May 3, 2025. 4pm (PST). MoonPath Press Zoom Reading. MoonPath Press’ Managing Editor Lana Hetchman Ayers will host this virtual reading featuring Katy and Susan Landgraf. Register here: MoonPath Reading Invitation: Katy E. Ellis & Susan Landgraf.
Thursday, May 8, 2025. 6pm. It’s About Time. Ballard Public Library, Ballard. Arguably Seattle’s longest-running reading series, It’s About Time events include featured readers, a craft-talk and an open mic session. Something for everyone!
Wednesday, June 11, 2025. 6pm. Three MoonPath Poets. Elliott Bay Book Company. Capital Hill. Join Katy and poets Susan Landgraf and Cindy Veach to celebrate the 2025 publication of their poetry collections by MoonPath Press. Fun fact: These three women are also in the same writing group!
Wednesday, June 18, 2025. 6pm. A Trio of MoonPath Poets. C&P Coffee, West Seattle. Join Katy and poets Susan Landgraf and Cindy Veach to celebrate the 2025 publication of their poetry collections by MoonPath Press. https://www.elliottbaybook.com/
Wednesday, September 3, 2025. 6:30pm. Postmark Center for the Arts. Auburn. Again with A Trio of MoonPath Poets–but this time in the beautifully renovated Auburn post office turned arts center! Join Katy and poets Susan Landgraf and Cindy Veach to celebrate the 2025 publication of their poetry collections by MoonPath Press.
Thursday, November 20, 2025. 6:00pm. Bainbridge Island Library. BOMB (Bainbridge Open Mic at BARN) presents Moonstruck! A Reading by MoonPath Poets Katy Ellis, Susan Landgraf and Cindy Veach.
Recent Events
2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025. 6pm. C&P Coffee, West Seattle. Forty Bouts in the Wilderness book launch at a special WordsWest event! Katy will be joined with readings by fellow WordsWest co-curators Susan Rich and Harold Taw (with a special guest emcee you will not want to miss!)
Monday, March 3, 2025. 5pm. Everett Poetry Night. This weekly Monday night poetry series at The Sisters Restaurant in Everett will feature Katy and Forty Bouts in the Wilderness followed by an open mic. Always a warm and inviting crowd.
2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024. 7 – 9pm. A Celebration of Salmon, with talks from Save our Wild Salmon, the editors of Empty Bowl Press, and former Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, and readings from the anthology I Sing the Salmon Home. Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust Building, Heron Room.
Thursday, May, 23, 2024 5:00pm – 6:00pm. Poetry for the Late Spring Light: A book launch by former Vashon Poet Laureate Sandra Noel with readings by Katy E. Ellis. Vashon Bookshop
May, 1, 2024 7:00pm – 9:00pm WordsWest Reunion: Katy E. Ellis and Harold Taw help Susan Rich launch her new book Blue Atlas. Ari Taw will emcee on this special night! C&P Coffee Co., Seattle, Washington
2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023 6:00pm – 7:00pm Soul Foods Poetry Night. This is a dream come true for me–to read poetry with the extraordinary poet (who is an extraordinary teacher) Bruce Beasley! Bruce Beasley and Katy E. Ellis. Soul Food Coffeehouse, Redmond, WA
Saturday, June 10, 2023 6:00pm – 7:00pm Katy E. Ellis in Conversation with Kami Westhoff, Home Water, Home Land. Kami Westoff and I were together in our WWU English Masters program and it is an honor to get to read with her in those old stomping grounds.. Village Books, Bellingham, WA
Monday, April 3, 2023, 5pm – 8pm. Everett Poetry Night. Sisters Restaurant, Everett, WA. Honored to be the featured poet at this long-running community event up north.
Sunday, March 19, 2023, 4pm – 5pm. Snapdragon’s Black Cat Cabaret, Vashon, WA. Spring Tides: Four Vashon poets will read from their new books. Sandra Noel, Ann Spiers, Margaret Rancone and Katy E. Ellis
Friday, March 10, 2023, 7pm – 9pm AWP off site reading with Tolsun Authors. Cherry Street Coffee–First & Clay location (2719 1st Ave) Seattle, WA. Twelve Tolsun authors share their work in what will certainly be a memorable night in Seattle!
Thursday, March 8, 2023 2:30pm – 4:00pm AWP Book Signing at Tolsun Books’ booth. If you will be attending the conference, please stop by and say hello to the Jackalope and all their friends!
2022
December 8, 2022 It’s About Time Reading Series, Ballard Library
December 3, 2022 3pm Open Books and Cherry Street Coffee–reading and book signing with Sati Mookherjee! Seattle, Washington
October 15, 2022, 2pm Double the fun! A joint Vashon book launch of Home Water, Home Land and Hawkland by Vashon’s Poet Laureate Sandra Noel. Vashon Coffee Roasterie & Minglement Vashon, Washington
September 28, 2022, 7pm WordsWest Re-Reunion: Home Water, Home Land Book Launch! Also featuring Susan Rich & Harold Taw. C&P Coffee Co., Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 7pm One Night Only! Bring WordsWest Back Together Again(to launch Susan Rich’s new book Gallery of Postcards and Maps!) C&P Coffee Co., Seattle, Washington