Liz is available for speaking engagements, including teaching classes, book club visits, readings, and lectures, both virtual and in-person. If you would like to inquire about booking her, please fill out the contact form here.
POP-UP PUBLISHING CLASSES
LIZ PRATO & LAURA STANFILL
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TEACHING & SPEAKING
Since 2008, I have taught workshops and presented lectures at numerous conferences, colleges and literary centers, including:
Portland Book Festival * The Attic Institute, Portland * The Muse & the Marketplace, Boston * Lighthouse Writers, Denver * Writers Center, Baltimore * Mount Hood Community College * Clackamas Community College * Terroir Creative Writing Festival * Willamette Writers, Portland & Oregon Coast Chapters * Corporeal Writing, Portland * South Coast Writers Conference, Gold Beach * Write on the Sound, Everett, WA
MY MOST POPULAR TOPICS:
Beyond Wikipedia: Research Hacks for Your Writing
Perfecting Your First Two Pages: How to Keep Agents & Editors Reading
Writing Outside the Box: Exploring Non-Traditional Structures for Your Stories & Essays
The Ins & Outs of Publishing in Lit Journals: Rejection, Acceptance, and Everything In Between
SELECT SPEAKING GIGS
Terroir Creative Writing Festival: Speaker, BEYOND WIKIPEDIA: RESEARCHING YOUR CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAYS, April 2023
Corporeal Writing: FALLING OFF RADAR : An Intimate Conversation about the Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 with Annie Lareau; January 2023
Lewis & Clark Alumni Association: TOTALLY GEN X: Author Chat with Liz Prato '89 and Maria Webster; February 2023
The Writers Center Baltimore: Craft Chat with Zach Powers
Denver Women's Press Club: "Place and Power in Paradise,” with journalist Donna Bryson, May 2019
BookBin, Salem, OR: Indie Bookstore Day: Publishing Panel, April 2019
NonfictioNow Panel: “Not From Around Here,” with Sybil Baker, Sarah Einstein, Aaron Gilbreath & Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, 2018
NonfictioNow Panel: "Writing the Difficult Other: The Craft & Ethics of Putting Problematic People on the Page,” 2015
AWP 2014, Seattle: Panel: "A Bag Full of God: Female Memoirists with Daddy Issues.”
Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium, Panel:“Beyond Housewives and Whores: The Future of Women’s Literature,” with Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch, February 2011
READINGS
KIDS IN AMERICA 2022 TOUR
Portland Book Festival, POP-UP, Portland Art Museum, November 5
Broadway Books, Portland, with Aaron Gilbreath, September 29
PNBA Fall Trade Show, Tacoma, September 18
Coffee Talk; reading with Coffee & Grief, September 1
Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, with Yuvi Zalkow & Jackie Shannon Hollis; August 16
Oldster Magazine, “How the F*#% Did We Get Here?” A conversation with Sari Botton, August 18
Sellwood Community House, July 14
Tattered Cover, Denver, with Wendy J. Fox, June 24
Powell’s City of Books, with Lidia Yuknavitch, June 15
VOLCANOES, PALM TREES,
AND PRIVILEGE TOUR, 2019-20
Kona Bay Books, Kailua-Kona, HI, January 19, 2020
Roundabout Books, Bend, OR: with Jackie Shannon Hollis, October 26th
Broadway Books, Portland: September 12th
Annie Bloom's Books, Portland: with James Eliot Jones, June 12th
Third Street Books, Seattle: with Wendy J. Fox May 21st
Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita: with Jennifer Haupt, April 20th
Powell's City of Books: Launch of Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i, April 16th, with Karen Karbo
Authors on the Map: ABA Spring Forum, April 1st
Micropress Fair, Portland, OR: Book signing with Overcup Press, March 30th
SELECT PAST READINGS
Forest Avenue Press Small Press Showcase: An AWP off-site event, Portland, March 28th; Organizer and reader
Special Edition Unchaste With Zoe Zolbrod, Sarah Einstein, and Ariel Gore; Literary Arts, June 22, 2016
BookBar, Denver: Baby’s on Fire; Reading With Wendy J. Fox, April 24, 2016
Broadway Books: Baby’s on Fire; Reading with Lidia Yuknavitch, September 23, 2015
Diesel Books, Oakland: Baby’s on Fire; Conversation with NYT Best Seller, Ellen Sussman, June 2015
Powell's City of Books Launch of Baby's On Fire, May 5th, 2015
Powell’s City of Books Launch for The Night, and the Rain, and the River, 2014
In Other Words Bookstore “Who’s Your Mama?” (Soft Skull Press), April 25, 2009, Portland