Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:00 PM
Princeton Public Library
Princeton, NJ
March 1, 2008
Federation for Children with Special Needs
Boston, MA
April 12, 2008
Spring Writers Conference
Rutgers – Camden
Camden, NJ
May 15-19, 2008
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
June 19, 2008
Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference
New York, NY
Past presentations on disability issues:
Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:00 PM Cody's Books,
Berkeley, CA
Collaborative Family Health Care Association
annual conference, Asheville, N.C.
Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival (with Charlotte Glynn)
American Orthopsychiatric Association, 70th Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, CA
Association for the Care of Children's Health, 27th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
County of Burlington, Division of Special Education, Mount
Holly, NJ.
New Jersey Association for Pupil Personnel Administrators, Edison, NJ.
Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium, Marlboro, MA.
National Council of Jewish Women, South Orange, NJ.
Department of Special Services, Waldwick Public Schools, Waldwick, NJ.
Statewide Early Intervention Conference, Department of Education, Division of Special Education, East Windsor, NJ.
76th Annual Dinner, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Rochester, NY.
Interactive Seminar, Birth to Seven Program, Wheelock College, Boston, MA., Keynote Speech. 1989.
Speech and Language Department, Lexington Public Schools, Lexington, MA. 1989.
Livingston Public Schools, Livingston, NJ.
Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected talks on craft:
"Truth in Creative Nonfiction"
“Writing Fiction from Real Life”
“When Only the Truth Will Do: Novelists on Nonfiction”
“Novelists’ Adventures in the Screen Trade”
“The Contract with the Reader”
“Memoir: Art or Therapy”
“It Happened to Me”
“Writing a Life”
“On Memoir”
“The Scene in Creative Nonfiction”
"Dreams as a Road to Character"
"Creative Nonfiction: the Genre of Life"
"Screenwriting -- in and out of Hollywood"
"Investigating my Sister's Murder”
"Contemporary American Fiction”
"From the Academy"
"Becoming a Screenwriter"
"Editors, Agents, and Authors"
“After a Murder”