Reading at Netzwerk Freie Literaturszene Berlin (NFLB) Sommerfest 31 August 2024
Poetry Reading at Kinky Soul #18 Reading Night, 28 May 2024
Open mic storytelling at Smut Slam Berlin, 20 May 2024
Author reading for the “Virginia Festival of the Book” at Rapunzel’s Bookshop, Lovingston, Virginia, 18 March 2023 at 5:30pm
Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst. Virginia March 2023
Poetry reading part of BABYLON: The Event of Many Tongues and Cultures, by Soaring Words at ACUD Theater, Berlin. February 14, 2023
“Watermark” essay reading at interdisciplinary art festival “Sounds of Water” 21 September 2022 at the Kleinen Wasserspeicher in Prenzlauerberg Berlin
Author reading and chapbook launch of “Growing Pains and Bird Feeder.” At the Bewegungsraum Wedding, Berlin. 22 May 2022
Participant: Association of Writing Programs Conference, AWP 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2022
Resident at “Museum of Loss and Renewal” Summer 2021 Individual Residency Program Taking Time/Prendendo Tempo, Molise, Italy
Panel Member: “400 Miles” on Place in Texas: Association of Writing Programs Conference AWP 2020, San Antonio, Texas, March 2020. Read essay: “Homeland”
Presentation: “Female Veteran Memoirs: Reclaiming Our Narratives and Ourselves”
Bridges and Borders Conference, April 2021
Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Bettina has performed her stories live at The Moth Pittsburgh (2017), Smutslam Berlin , where she won third place in November 2020
Member of Poets and Writers