Readings, Panels, Residencies

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