Badass Bookworm Poet Cassandra Dallett

·       Founded and still running a generative writing workshop, OnTwoSix creating prompts, leading all levels of writers from all genres, as well as inviting rotating guest facilitators with an emphasis on femme identified and POC leading the group. Making space in my Fruitvale home for the artists to survive and thrive by building a network of connections that nurture each other’s work. 

·       Founding member of the Mills Oakland Writers Workshop, facilitating writing workshops with Mills MFA students, introducing them to the work of local writers and inviting them to Oakland events.

·       Featured lecturer to Creative Writing students at Oakland School of the Arts, Berkeley City College, and Mills College MFA program.

·       Co-Founder of MoonDrop Productions, a quarterly-themed, submission-based reading series. With strong themes of empowerment such as our Black Woman is God show created in conjunction with the art installation at SomaArts in San Francisco. 

Nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize.

First full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless 

(Manic D Press) 2014

Followed by Collapse (Nomadic Press) 2018

-nominated for a California Book Award

 Bad Sandy (Pedestrian Press) 2015

A Pretty Little Wilderness (Be About It Press) 2020

On Sunday, A Finch (Nomadic Press) 2015-

also nominated for a California Book Award, 2015

Punk Rock is Dead (Gorilla Press) 2015

Pearl Tongue(BeAbout It Press) 2015

Armadillo Heart with MK Chavez (Paper Press) 2015

.Dig, If You Will (Paper Press) 2019

          Also Published in: 

The Mylvia Street Journal, 

·       The Beat Museum’s poem of the month, 

·       Street Spirit, 

·       Chiron Review, 

·       Rusty Truck, 

·       Poetry Super-Highway, 

·       Berkeley Daily Planet, 

·       Protest Poems, 

·       Underground Voices, 

·       This Is Poetry Anthology, 

·       Enizagam, 

·       Bicycle Review, 

·       Samizdat, 

·       Red Light Lit Anthology, 

·       Eleven Eleven, 

·       East Bay Review, 

·       Oakland Review, 

·       Sensitive Skin, 

·       River Poets Journal, 

·       The Lummox, 

·       Great Weather for Media

·       Actively engaged in the revision process with the editors of my own manuscripts. Currently editing manuscripts for San Francisco Creative Writing Institute.

·       Self-published three chapbooks, Mud Pond, Every Other Week, The Problem with Text messages 2012.

·       Chosen by blind submission to perform for literary series Quiet Lightning nineteen times and published in their journal sPARKLE and bLINK. 

·       Winner of The Literary Death Match

San Francisco.

·       Creator and host of The Badass Bookworm Podcast, interviewing writers and activists about life, writing processes and experiences in publishing.

·       Host and curator of the monthly reading series 

The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft at the Legionarre Saloon in Oakland. (will return in 2021)

 Regularly featured at:

·        Red Light Lit, 

·       Generations, 

·       Lyrics & Dirges, 

·       Saturday Night Special, 

·       The Naked Bulb, 

·       The Oakland Beast Crawl, 

·       San Francisco Lit Crawl, 

·       Oakland’s First Fridays, 

·       Sacramento Poetry Center, 

·       Get Lit, 

·       Poem Jam at San Francisco Public Library, 

·       The Beat Festival, 

·       100 Thousand Poets for Change, 

·       Berkeley Poetry Festival, 

·       Voz Sin Tinta, 

·       Tourettes Without Regrets, 

·       The Racket, 

·       Writers with Drinks, 

·       Write from The Gut, 

·       Woolsey Heights, 

·       Bird and Beckett, 

·       Literary Speakeasy, 

·       Birds of Paradise, 

·       My Word, 

·       Slam Jam

·       City Lights Bookstore

·       Poetry Express

·       The Word Party

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for upcoming book releases, and appearances.

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& PTSD, Pimped The System Designs. Also known as Pimped The Stimi Designs, a collaboration with Ronnie Chambers. (more info coming soon)