News and Events
Events
TBD 2021 Interview on Interfaith Voices, public radio’s religion news magazine.
July 18, 2021 interview on “Talking History” for NewsTalk Irish radio
April 16, 2021 interview with Trey Elling “Books on Pod” podcast
April 15, 2021 Rick Moore interview “Sunday Morning Wake-up Call” podcast
March 22, 2021 (and rebroadcast across the country) NPR interview on “Think” with Krys Boyd
Feb. 25, 2021 “Words and Wine” at Chisholm Vineyards – Kristin hosts a virtual wine-tasting and reading.
Feb. 3, 2021 A Most Peculiar Book book talk with the Harvard Club of New York City. 7:00 pm
Feb. 1, 2021 release date for A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford University Press), available wherever books are sold.
Oct. 14-15, 2018 James River Writers Conference in Richmond, VA. I'm looking forward to moderating two panels, each with amazing writers! "Stop Shortchanging Short Stories" features Melanie Bishop, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, and Virginia Pye . "From the Page to the Screen" features Clay McLeod Chapman, Rebekah L. Pierce, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, and Brian Weakland.
April 20, 2018 RVA Lit Crawl, "What the Heck is Nonfiction, Anyway?" panel with Ellen F. Brown, Kristen Green, and Emilie Raymond at Chop Suey Books 7:30-8:30 pm
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Oct. 20-21, 2017 Panelist for "Faith, Politics, and Environmental Racism, 21st Century Solutions" Forum at Virginia Union University; forum begins at 10:00 a.m.
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Sept. 19, 2017 Public Talk "The Misunderstood Bible Project" Virginia Foundation for the Humanities fellows talks series, noon-1:00pm in the conference room.
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March 26, 2017 1:00 UVA Bookstore Virginia Festival of the Book panelist "Religion in America: Seeking Meaning with or without Faith"
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Jan. 6, 2017 "Epiphany's Choice: To Honor in Reverence, or To Kill in Fear?" on Killing the Buddha
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Dec. 25, 2016 Christmas morning 10 a.m. Home Grown podcast listen live !
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Dec. 16, 2016 "Charlottesville Reading Series" at The Bridge, 7-8:30 pm.
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Dec. 11, 2016 "Books and Beer Holiday Brew Ho-Ho!"2-5 pm at Hardywood Brewery in Richmond, VA; sponsored by Chop Suey
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Dec. 11, 2016 Preaching and adult forum at Grace Church Red Hill near Charlottesville, VA.
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Nov. 2, 2016 Book talk and reading for Writer House Literary Salon, (Charlottesville VA)
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Oct. 25, 2016 (Tues) 6-7 pm God of Earth book talk at Chop Suey Tuey in Richmond, VA
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Oct. 19, 2016 release date for God of Earth: Discovering a Radically Ecological Christianity (Westminster John Knox Press)
Oct. 28 - Nov. 2, 2015 Austin Film Festival "the writers' festival"(Austin, TX)
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Oct. 17, 2015 Having judged the nonfiction contest, I look forward to attending the Library of Virginia's annual literary awards (Richmond, VA)
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Oct. 16-17, 2015 James River Writers annual writing conference (Richmond, VA)
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Sept. 16, 2015 New York Women in Film and Television workshop (New York, NY)
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August 26, 2015 I'm looking forward to attending the James River Writers "Writing Show" (Richmond, VA)
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July 15, 2015 Attending public panels at the Virginia Quarterly Review's second annual writing conference (Charlottesville, VA Boars' Head Inn)
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December 7, 2014 Moderating a conversation with Andrew D. Kaufman, author of Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times (Writer House in Cville, 2-4 pm, open to the public)
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December 6, 2014 Participating in an Advent poetry retreat with Lisa Russ Spaar at Grace Church in North Garden, VA
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October 28, 2014 Speaker for the Gustavus Library Associates' Author Day in Edina, MN. A lovely honor!
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October 17-19, 2014 Attending the James River Writers' writing conference in Richmond, VA.
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Sept. 18, 2014 I'll be signing copies of BIBLE BABEL at The Sycamore Tree shop in Charlottesville, VA (6:00-7:30 pm)
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September 12-13, 2014 Attending the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. ... Er, though I am still not from Kentucky...
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August 7-10, 2014 Participating in the first annual Virginia Quarterly Review writers' conference. Charlottesville, VA
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July 27, 2014 Attending Writer House literary salon with writer Josh Weil (Charlottesville, VA)
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April 12, 2014 My interview with the delightful, curious, and ever-so wise Sarah McConnell on the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' "With Good Reason" radio program is still available here.
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April 10 - 30, 2014 (Santa Fe, NM) I'm thrilled to have been awarded a residency fellowship to work on the second novel in my trilogy of ancient Persia among amazing women artists and intellectuals at the Women's International Study Center. It looks like a beautiful place and a wonderful community. Can't wait!~
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February 26 - March 2, 2014 (Seattle, WA) for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). I am excited to discuss "Books on Books" on a panel with Andrea Pitzer, Colin Dickey, Ellen F. Brown, and Brook Wilensky-Lanford.
news
Publishers Weekly named A Most Peculiar Book among its “Best Books 2021.”
Times Higher Education Literary Supplement interview.
Public radio’s Sandy Hausman interviews Kristin. Listen here.
Five minutes on five ways the Bible is strange: Kristin on “The Side Comment” podcast.
Read Jana Riess’s interview of Kristin for the Religion News Service here.
The American Scholar , publication of the Phi Beta Kappa society, features A Most Peculiar Book on its homepage and an excerpt on its “Shelf Life” site.
Kristin’s interview with Meredith Cole on The Writer’s Story podcast is now live.
Publishers Weekly selects A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford) as a “pick of the week.”
See Religion Dispatches for Kristin’s essay, “The Bible May Be Weirder Than You Think… and Why It Matters.”
Kristin’s new book A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible goes on sale Feb. 1, 2021.
Library Journal calls A Most Peculiar Book “insightful and instructive.”
Publishers Weekly awards A Most Peculiar Book a starred review
TIME magazine’s Olivia Waxman quotes Kristin in Christmas magi articl
Feature Review: God of Earth. "Stunningly beautiful," and "with a good deal of humor" "Swenson suggests a subtle shift [concerning the Incarnation]... that reverberates through the entire tradition" - Englewood Review of Books
Kristin's screenplay "Tell Mister Lincoln" about the remarkable Harriet Tubman won the Virginia Screenwriting Competition (2015) and advanced to the second round in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (2015).
Kristin is awarded a residency fellowship to work on fiction set in ancient Babylon and Persia at the Women's International Study Center. (Santa Fe, NM; April, 2014).
Short story award finalist anthologized Is that a word -- "anthologized"? Anyway, I'm thrilled that "The Flood," a lark-ish riff on that, yes capitalized, biblical Flood (and told by Noah's wife) is an award finalist, to appear in an anthology published by Scribes Valley.
