Speaking Engagements
Nov. 2025 – This was a presentation at the culmination of the Artist Inc. cohort detailing my work and my artist journey thus far.
Jan. 2023 – This presentation is part of the Curious Minds series. This is an exploration of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and ethical questions.
Sept. 2020 – This presentation discusses the role of literature in past pandemics, and what it could in during and beyond the 2020 pandemic.
Performances
October 2025 | What I Would Not Give| Community Artist Collective
August 2025 | Writers Remix Series: Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography | Museum of Fine Arts – Houston
May 2025 | Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Everyday |Inprint
February 2025 | Nuestra Palabra: Black Heritage Month (feature) | Houston, Tx.
Oct. 2024 | Prowl (featured reader) |Houston, Tx.
Sept 2024 | The Unsung Masters Series: Tom Postell (reader) | Kindred Stories, Houston, Tx.
Sept 2024 | Wildfire Reading Series (featured reader) | Torch Literary Arts |Austin, Tx
August 2024| Mystery Reader – Inprint Houston’s First Friday Series | Houston, Tx.
April 2024 | Poetry Comes Alive | Helen Hall Library, League City, Tx.
April 2024 | Houston Book Launch| Tintero Projects | Casa Ramirez, Houston, Tx.
March 2024 |Texas Author Series (reader) | Nuestra Palabra and The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore, San Antonio, Tx.
Jan 2024 | Curious Minds: Icess Fernandez Rojas Presents “The Opposite of Breathing is Cement”| Lone Star College – Kingwood, Houston, Tx.
Jan 2024 | Feature Reader – OpenMic | WriteSpace
Dec 2023 | Book Launch | Four Palaces Publishing |Sammons Center for the Arts, Dallas, Tx.
Oct. 2023 | The Lilt (feature) |All Real Radio | Houston, Tx.
August 2023 | Book launch for Liliana’s Invincible Summer (reader) | Nuestra Palabra, Houston, Tx.
May 2023| Blanton Museum of Art’s New Grounds Grand Opening (reader) | Torch| Austin, Tx.
May 2023 | Final Poet Laureate event (reader) | Museum of Fine Arts – Houston
Workshops And Teaching (includes panels)
Teachers as Writers| Lone Star College – Kingwood | 2025
EducArte Tu Voz (reader/panelist/workshop leader, Alley Theatre)| 2025
Workshop of Unusual Texts: Generating Ideas from Strange Texts| WriteSpace| 2020
Write Your NaNoWriMo Novel| WriteSpace | 2020
Femme Fatales, Sidekicks, and Gumshoes| WriteSpace |2020
Writing Through Trauma | Lone Star College – Kingwood | 2020
How to Write Your Artist Bio and Nail It Every Time | FreshArts | 2020
Poetry Panel | AWP San Antonio, Tx | 2020
Blogger 101 | WriteSpace | 2019
What’s Craft Got To Do With It | AWP Portland | 2019
Who Are You? Using Your Bio and Artist Statement to Announce Your Art | FreshArts | 2019
Writer’s Festival Panel | 2019 |Houston, Tx
- Own Voice: Making Marginalized Narratives Valuable in Honest, Responsible Ways
- Why Online. Journals? What Are The Benefits of Publishing Online?
- Getting the Word Out Through Social Media Megaphones
Using Dialogue to Create A Scene| The Colony | 2019
(Re)Discovering the Magical in the Realism| IcessFernandez.com | 2019
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