Maya Williams
COMMISSIONED WORK:
Presumpscot Elementary School, May 2025
Tea Roots, December 2024
Sarah Elkins Consulting, November 2024
Veronica Perez (art exhibit at Speedwell Contemporary), November 2024
Children's Museum & Theatre, July 2024
50 Arrow Gallery, April 2023
Bendable Maine, August 2022
Compagnia de Colombari (Whitman on the Walls), August 2022
Portland Museum of Art, August 2021
Individual Commissions, November 2019-Present
WORKSHOPS:
Trans Poetry Festival, May 2025
Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival, April 2025
Seguinland Institute, March 2025
University of Maine Presque Isle, March 2025
Liberty Tune Co, January 2025
Bates College, January 2025
Maine College of Art & Design, December 2024
Gould School, October 2024
University of Maine Farmington Longfellow Young Writers' Camp, July 2024
University of Southern Maine Seacoast MFA Residency, June 2024
Maine Council for English Language Arts (MCELA), March 2024
Children's Museum & Theater, January 2024
Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), September 2023
Bread & Poetry Project, August 2023
Westbrook Juneteenth, June 2023-June 2024
Interfaith America, June 2023-May 2024
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, June 2023
The Telling Room, June 2023
Friends School of Portland, March 2023
Portland Ovations, January 2023-April 2023
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, Feburary 2022-September 2022
Portland Public Library, January 2022-June 2022
Port Veritas, November 2021-December 2024
Kindle and Connect: an Interfaith Gathering of Women Leaders, June 2021
Androscoggin County Public Schools, April 2021
Voice 2 Voice (Penobscot County Schools), April 2021
Art Amok Slam, March 2021
Maine Coaltion Against Sexual Assault (MECASA), 2021
Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam, December 2020
Poetry Express (Maine Humanities Council), August 2020-April 2023
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, July 2020
Engine, May 2020
University of New England, February 2020-November 2021
GLSEN, December 2019-December 2020
Maine Youth Action Network, November 2019
The Telling Room, July 2019-Present
Cumberland County Public Schools, April 2019-May 2022
EqualityMaine, August 2018-March 2019
Girls Are..., July 2018
Arts in Reach, July 2018-Present
Quill Books & Beverage, July 2018-Present
Port Veritas, December 2017-May 2018
Pitt County Public Schools, October 2014-April 2017
The Boys & Girls Club, April 2015-April 2017
Third Street Education Center, September 2013-November 2016
PUBLIC SPEAKING:
4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, April 2025
Charis Books and More, Janaury 2025
Greene Block + Studios, November 2024
Maine Lit Festiveal, October 2024
Furious Flower Conference, September 2024
Maine Council for English Language Arts (MCELA), March 2024
Fourth Annual Black History Month Wellness Fair (Cross Cultural Community Services), February 2024
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), February 2024
SPACE Gallery, March 2023
Farnsworth Museum, August 2022
TEDxYouth at Cape Elizabeth High School, April 2022
Hearty Girls Healthy Women, February 2022
University of Maine Schools, October 2021
Walker Memorial Library (Maine Humanities Council), July 2020
MaineTransNet, May 2020-Present
The Loft Literary Center (Black Table Arts), February 2020
WMPG Out Cast Radio, December 2019
Portland Shambhala Center, September 2019
The Telling Room, July 2019-Present
Speak About It, July 2019-July 2020
Kennebunk Free Library (Maine Humanities Council), August 2019-June 2020
EqualityMaine, October 2018-August 2019
Interfaith America, August 2016
Mixed Remixed Festival, June 2016
KEYNOTE:
Creative Mornings Portsmouth, August 2024
Maine Council for English Language Arts (MCELA), March 2024
Maine Youth Action Network, November 2021
FEATURES/OPENERS:
Odyssey Bookshop, February 2025
Aymo.Live, December 2024
Providence Poetry Slam, November 2024
Port City Peep Show, June 2024
Bard on the Rocks, May 2024-October 2024
Busking for Reparations (Mechanics' Hall), May 2024
ECHOES (Indigo Arts Alliance & Portland Ovations), May 2024
A Nation in Exile: Heartwood Narratives, February 2024
Slamlandia, December 2023-December 2024
Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), September 2023
Book Soup, July 2023
The Berkeley Poetry Slam, June 2023
Black Table Arts, June 2023
SPACE Gallery, March 2023-June 2023
Payson Park, September 2022
Compagnia de' Colombari, August 2022
St. Lawrence Arts, July 2022
Poetry Express (Maine Humanities Council), April 2022-April 2023
Monday of the Minds, April 2022-October 2023
Sun Tiki Studios, December 2021
Bates College, November 2021-April 2023
Portland Museum of Art, August 2021-December 2021
The University of New England, July 2021-April 2023
The Bangor Theological Seminary (BTS) Center, July 2021-January 2022
Portland Poet Laureate Inauguration, July 2021
University of Central Florida, April 2021-April 2022
New Hampshire Theater Project's Fifth Annual Storytelling Festival, April 2021
Coded by Young Women of Color (CYWOC), February 2021
Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, December 2020
Arts Across America (The Kennedy Center), November 2020
Bowdoin College, November 2020-March 2023
Littoral Books, October 2020-November 2020
Pensive, October 2020
The Cantab Lounge, May 2020-June 2023
The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show, May 2020-June 2023
Indigo Arts Alliance, May 2020-February 2023
Candy's, March 2020 [Canceled Due to COVID-19]
Portland Ballet, February 2020
Mad Horse Theatre Company, December 2019-March 2021
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam, November 2019-June 2023
Dharma House Interfaith Open Mic, November 2019
Bowery Poetry Club, September 2019
Quiet City Books, July 2019-February 2024
PortFringe, June 2019-June 2024
Slam Free or Die, March 2019-October 2023
University of New England, December 2018-April 2023
Quill Books & Beverage, June 2018
Lewiston/Auburn Art Gallery, May 2018-May 2019
Gravity Sessions, April 2018
Beat Night, November 2017-October 2023
East Carolina University, October 2016-November 2023
ARTS OUTREACH/ORGANIZING:
Royal River Community Players, January 2025-Present
Interfaith America, October 2024-Present
Portland Outright, February 2022-February 2023
Portland Public Library, July 2021-July 2024
MaineTransNet, October 2020-Present
Maine Humanities Council, September 2019-Present
Congress Square Park, January 2019-January 2020
Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam, April 2018-October 2019
Port Veritas, September 2017-Present
Maine Inside Out, August 2017-February 2019
Word of Mouth, September 2013-May 2017
RESIDENCIES:
Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, January 2024
Re/Union: Re-Editioning Black + Native Histories, July 2022
The Watering Hole, December 2021-December 2023
Present Tense Creative Retreat, September 2021
Construct, February 2021-May 2021
Sundress Academy for the Arts, October 2020
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, July 2020
Hewnoaks Artist Colony, September 2019-October 2019
Words of Fire (For Us By Us Fund), June 2018-August 2024
COMPETITIVE SLAM:
Slam Free or Die, February 2018-September 2018
Boston Poetry Slam, July 2018
VOX Slam, September 2017-September 2024
College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, April 2015-April 2018
North Carolina Poet Tree Regional Slam, November 2015-November 2016
