Events
May 4, 2023, The Linden Review, ISSUE 3, Launch Party. Sari will read from her essay, “You Know How This Goes.” The event will be held 6:00 to 7:00 PM EST. Register here. FREE
February 25, 2023, Writing Your Way Home, A Virtual Writing Workshop with Sari Fordham, Participants will think about home through multiple media—music, sound, image, and research—and will incorporate these elements into an essay concept. The workshop will include in-class writes, examples, discussion, and submission ideas. The workshop will be held 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. EST. Register here. $75
September 17, 2022, Virtual Conference, Writing from the Heart: Celebrating 25 Years of Story Circle Network, “11:15am-12:15pm: Workshop: Beyond Chronology: From Idea to Published Essay with Sari Fordham.
Register here. $69.
September 10, 2021, 7 p.m. EST: Brattleboro Literary Festival, Literary Cocktail, Memoir Panel: The Lives They Have Lived. Register here. FREE.
March 6, 2021: Deep Valley Book Festival, Panel: Book Clubs, Twitter, Instagram: Networking with Authors FREE.
Podcasts & Radio
December 2021: KVCR, December 16: Lifestyles with Lillian Vasquez
December 2021: The Lives of Writers: Sari Fordham.
October 2021: Curious Navel: Ep. 62-Sari Fordham.
July 2021: The Nordic Mum: My Childhood in Uganda.
Interviews & Reviews
June 2022: Honky Tonks and Driver Ants from The Charlotte News: “The book chronicles the author’s years growing up in an Adventist missionary family in Uganda and Kenya. It begins with a scene in which a giant parade of driver ants marches through the author’s bedroom.”
December 2021: Book Review: Lauren Hough’s ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’ and Sari Fordham’s ‘Wait for God to Notice’ from The Wrath-Bearing Tree: “Perhaps what Hough’s and Fordham’s memoirs make most meaningful is that there doesn’t need to be a strict divide between our past and present lives, or our relations to the people around us. These will never touch up completely anyway. There is only so close we can get to that, ‘you’re just like me.’”
July 2021: Four Minutes Five Questions: Memoirist Sari Fordham On Marshmallows As A Writing Tool, Spending Your Twenties Abroad, Chihuahua Mixes , And Changing the World Through Zoom.
May 2021: Under-the-Radar Books: Selected May Reads for You. "Funny and observant, this unique memoir is a courageous love letter to Sari’s childhood, to her mother, and to her journey to healing."
May 2021: Interview with Amanda Fields at Literary Mama: A Conversation with Sari Fordham.
May 2021: Adroit Journal, Review: "A literary stylist at the sentence level, Fordham’s language is precise, lyrical, and richly detailed. At its center, Wait for God to Notice is less about the particulars of missionary work and the tenets and artifacts of faith—though these are affectionately explored—and more about the adventures (and missteps) of Fordham’s childhood and how her deep love for both place and family have shaped her into the compassionate, intelligent, socially aware woman she has become."
May 2021: Interview with Leslie Pietrzyk on Work-in-Progress.
May 2021: Foreword Reviews: "Its language melodic, Wait for God to Notice is a compelling memoir. This ode to a childhood spent in a foreign country doubles as a exploration of, and reconciliation within, an intricate mother-daughter relationship."
March 2021: Interview with Alita Byrd at Spectrum Magazine: An Adventist Story for a Wider World.
February 2021: Review of Wait for God to Notice in Story Circle "Hers is a story of magical wonder in a foreign land, a sense of belonging to her family and to the shifting lands she inhabits—whether in Finland, America, or Uganda. Reading her memoir is a journey into a young girl’s life as she interprets the world around her and matures into an inquisitive young woman, full of hope, full of questions, and most importantly, full of familial love. I didn’t want her story to end. Neither will you."