February 6, 2025--Kelly will be the featured poet at The Poetry and Prose Cafe Event at Cafe Murmullo, Calle Ancha de San Antonio 24, Zona Central, 37700 San Miguel de Allende, GTO Mexico.

 

November 3, 2024--Kelly will be reading from The Weeping Degree at the Schiller Fine Art Exposition, by les anciens etudiantes 1977-1980, at Chateau de Pourtales, 161 Rue Melanie, Strasbourg/Robertsau, France.

 

October 20th, 2024--The Sacred Marriage of Poetry and Astrology: A Light Look at the Dark Planets. Sunday 4 - 5:15 pm. A free online Zoom conversation between poet Kelly Watt and astrologer, Michael Zizis. See blog post for Zoom link. Meeting ID: 891 1541 5902 Password: 671169.

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September 21, 2024--2:4:30 pmThe Weeping Degree book party launch with performance, interview and signing at The Staircase Cafe Theatre, 27 Dundurn St N, Hamilton.

 

August 21-25th--The Weeping Degree became an Amazon Best Seller for several days this summer in the categories of poetry/criticism; Canadian biography; and YA Non-Fiction/sexual abuse. 

 

August 21, 2024--The Weeping Degree poetry collection will be available for purchase on Amazon.ca.

 

July 17, 2024-- Join the waiting list and poetry party for The Weeping Degree by signing up for Kelly's newsletter.

 

June 25, 2024--Kelly announces upcoming publication of collection of poetry and prose by Wild Rising Press, Colorado, titled: The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved Me From Suicide.

 

April 2024--Four poems from Kelly Watt's upcoming collection The Weeping Degree are published in the spring issue of HA&L: Hamilton Arts and Letters Magazine. You can read them here.

 

September 2023--Kelly's creative non-fiction piece, "To Tell or Not to Tell," is long listed in Room Magazine's CNF contest.

 

September 2023--Kelly's suite of poems, "Tales of the Faerie #26," have been long listed for the Gwendolyn MacEwan poetry contest with Exile Editions, Toronto.

 

March 27, 2023--Kelly reads from her poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, at the Wild Rising Press and San Miguel de Allende's Poetry Mesa Contest and Finalists reading event. Listen here (she is #4 from the start): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DUgSg5Meaw

 

January 2023--Kelly's astrologically-inspired poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, is a finalist in the Wild Rising Press and San Miguel de Allende's Poetry Mesa chapbook contest.

 

March 21, 2022--Kelly read at Artful Dodgers Poetry Reading, Poems for Ukraine event. Some stellar company and moving tributes. Check it out here or on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/david.dephy/videos/499477044984170/

 

February 5, 2022--Hello book peeps! I will be part of an alumnae arts presentation with WOODSTOCK INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN INDIA this coming Saturday at 10 am. EST. I will be reading from my WIP novel set in India and talking about writing, as part of the Woodstock Artist's Affinity Group along with several other wonderful writers/artists/musicians, including Sarah Hunter from Toronto. 

Register for free  here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woodstock-school-artists-affinity-group-event-tickets-227429958127

 

February 2, 2022--The link for the AMAZING FAIRY TALE READING is now available on youtube. Check it out for free!.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZFKvq8QNX8

 

January 23, 2022--Poetry reading, Inside the Tales. Kelly will be joining other poets, reading a fairy-tale inspired poem through the San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, literary sala.  

 

November 2021--Kelly's short story, The Voice Inside My Head, has just been published in the fall issue #45 of Hamilton Stone Review. Check it out here: http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr45prose.html#watt

 

September 2021--Kelly's poem Venus with Hat is read on Diverse TV's WOW: Writing on the Wall with host

Alexandro Botelho on Youtube. Date 9/17/21. Kelly's poem starts at 1:02. 

 

August 2021--Kelly's poem Venus With Hat has been published in the U.K. @overneathbooks Doorways and Thresholds Anthology. Check it out.

 

November 2019--Kelly's VBT has been extended until the end of the month of November. Look for reviews and interviews on FB and Instagram on Thursdays.

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November 21, 2019--Kelly will be interviewed about her books Mad Dog and Camino Meditations, as well as her personal healing journey, on the blog talk Personal Transformation Radio Show hosted by Stewart Thompson. Stewart is a Gatehouse Volunteer Facilitator and has won a Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers for his work with survivors. For the past several years, he has hosted the Personal Transformation web radio show for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, on Thursday nights, giving a forum for survivors to share their healing journeys with others around the world. Check out Kelly's interview and many others at: www.blogtalkradio.com/personaltransformation

Kelly will be on CFMU The Morning Files with Olivia Fava TBA. 

 

April 11/2020: Kelly will be signing copies of her gothic novel, Mad Dog,  on Saturday, April 11th at Ancaster Chapters Indigo, between 12-4 pm, to honour National Child Abuse Awareness Month.  Chapters Indigo address: 737 Golf Links Road, Ancaster, ON L9K 1L5. 

 

Check this page regularly for details and updates.