SPEAKING AND TEACHING
TEACHING & SPEAKING
I’ve been teaching craft and publishing workshops for nearly two decades, presenting at numerous conferences, colleges, and literary centers, including:
Portland Book Festival * The Attic Institute * The Muse & the Marketplace * Forest Avenue Press * Lighthouse Writers * Writers Center, Baltimore * Mt Hood Community College * Clackamas Community College * Terroir Creative Writing Festival * Willamette Writers * Corporeal Writing * South Coast Writers Conference* Write on the Sound
MY MOST POPULAR TOPICS:
Down the Rabbit Hole: Research Tips and Hacks for Your Writing
How to Query and Submit Your Writing: Rejection, Acceptance, and Everything In Between
Perfecting Your First Two Pages: How to Keep Agents & Editors Reading
Writing Outside the Box: Exploring Non-Traditional Structures for Your Stories & Essays
SELECT SPEAKING & TEACHING GIGS
Willamette Writers Conference: DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: RESEARCH TOOLS & TIPS FOR CREATIVE WRITERS, August 2025
Terroir Creative Writing Festival: BEYOND WIKIPEDIA: RESEARCHING YOUR CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAYS, April 2023
The Writers Center Baltimore: CRAFT CHAT with Zach Powers, June 2022
Denver Women's Press Club: PLACE & POWER IN PARADISE, with journalist Donna Bryson, May 2019
NonfictioNow Panel: WRITING THE DIFFICULT OTHER: The Craft & Ethics of Putting Problematic People on the Page
AWP, Seattle: Panel: A BAG FULL OF GOD: FEMALE MEMOIRISTS WITH DADDY ISSUES
Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium: BEYOND HOUSEWIVES AND WHORES: THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S LITERATURE, with Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch
NonfictioNow Phoenix: NOT FROM AROUND HERE, panel with Sybil Baker, Sarah Einstein, Aaron Gilbreath & Lawrence Lacambra Ypil,
BookBin, Salem, OR: PUBLISHING PANEL, Indie Bookstore Day 2019
NonfictioNow Panel: NOT FROM AROUND HERE, with Sybil Baker, Sarah Einstein, Aaron Gilbreath & Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, 2018
Corporeal Writing: PERFECT YOUR FIRST TWO PAGES
How to Keep Your Reader Reading, October 2018
POP-UP PUBLISHING CLASSES
