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Lawlor, A. (2025) Invited Speaker. Writers in Camden. Rutgers-Camden, Camden, NJ, April 2025.


Lawlor, A. (2025) Panelist. The Center for Fiction presents Queering Form: Weird Fiction, with Kazim Ali, Henry Hoke, Andrea Lawlor, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2025.


Lawlor, A. (2025) Moderator. In conversation with Emma Donoghue, Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY, March 2025.


Invited guest on the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life, with guest Saraid de Silva (aired June 2024).


Invited to serve as an Advisory Board member of the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2021-present)


Served as a Fiction Mentor for the Periplus Collective in 2023-2024.


Was an invited judge for a number of literary contests or prizes from 2021-2024, including for Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, and the Columbia University's Undergraduate Fiction Prize.


Was an invited presenter at a number of conferences in 2024, including the CUNY Grad Center’s Rainbow Book Fair (New York, 2024), "Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment and the Nonhuman in Trans Narratives" and "Writing the Literary Sex Scene: Dethroning the Male Gaze" at the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Annual Conference. (Kansas City, KS. 2024).


Andrea Lawlor was an invited reader at a number of series in 2023-2024, including the Faculty Reading Series at the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA 2023, 2024); the Visiting Writers Series at the UMass Amherst (Amherst, MA 2023); and T4T: Trans For Texts (Boston, MA 2024).


MacDowell Foundation Fellow, 2025