- “Rochester Roots” reading, hosted by Writers & Books at the Little Theatre, Rochester, NY, June 2024, featuring Michael Dumanis, Rachel Galvin, Ilya Kaminsky, Sejal Shah, and Erica Cavanagh.
- Brighton High School reading & conversation, Rochester, NY, June 2024, featuring Michael Dumanis, Sejal Shah, and Erica Cavanagh.
- Virginia Festival of the Book, conversation about Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, live at the Jefferson-Madison Central Library, Charlottesville, VA, March 2024, featuring Paul Bogard, Leah Naomi Green, and Erica Cavanagh.
- WMRA’s Books & Brews Conversation about Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, live at Pale Fire Brewing Company, Harrisonburg, VA, April 2023, featuring Paul Bogard, Lauren K. Alleyne, and Erica Cavanagh. Recording available on YouTube.
- “What the Living Do,” published in Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World. (UVA Press, February 2023).
- “Food is Family.” Interview on public radio’s With Good Reason re-cut and re-aired. November 2022.
- Prairie Lights Virtual Reading for the Letter to a Stranger anthology. Facilitated by editor Colleen Kinder and
featuring authors Lia Purpura, Lucas Mann, Maggie Shipstead, Rachel Yoder, and Erica Cavanagh. April 2022.
- “To the Inescapable Teacher” re-published in Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. (Algonquin, March 2022.)
- “Food is Family.” Interview on public radio’s With Good Reason. December 2021.
- James Madison University Creative Writing Program Reading Series, aired and recorded via Zoom, November 2020
- Oasis “Stories on Two Feet” Reading Series, recorded via Zoom, August 2020
- Awarded a Creative Inspiration Grant from the Arts Council of the Valley, Spring 2020
- “The Photographs in the House: How Two Images Opened a Hidden World,” a talk on my current book project, University of Virginia, Brown College, October 2019
- “The Photographs in the House: How Two Images Opened a Hidden World,” James Madison University, October 2019
- “The Great War in Stereo: Documentary Photography on the Western Front,” curated show from inherited WWI slides, James Madison University, September-November 2019
- Awarded the 2016 Martha Martin Fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, June 2017
- Charlottesville Reading Series, Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA, January 2017
- “Empathy, the environment and culture converge at reading series” by Raennah Lorne, C’ville, January 2017.
- “The Telephone Show,” an exhibition of literary and visual arts, Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA, December 2016
- “2006 Editor’s Prize Winner in Nonfiction: Erica Cavanagh.” Interview by Traci Cox, the Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast. October 2016.
- One-month artist residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, June 2016
- “Creating Opportunities: Growing the Local Food Movement,” JMUse Series on Food, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 2016
- “An unforgettable journey: Professor volunteered in West African village for two years” by Julia Nelson for The Breeze. January 2016.
- “Stories & Storytellers” Series, The Artful Dodger, Harrisonburg, VA, December 2015
- “The Menu: A Reading & Discussion of Our Life with Food,” JMuse Café, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2015
- Faculty Reading Series, James Madison University, October 2015
- “Poets, Photographers, and Poet-Photographers (Part Two): Erica Cavanagh” by Karen Risch-Mott for The Fight and the Fiddle. March 2015.
