Upcoming

Jan 13 – Feb 17, 2026, Tuesdays, 10:30am–1:30pm— Mastering Voice and Point of View for Irresistible Fiction (Grub Street on-line course)

April 8 – 19, 2026 — Peru: Ancient Cultures, Natural Wonders (with Amy Bucher and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)

May 26, 2026 — Book Launch, The Gatepost (more tk)

November 14 – 21, 2026 — Oaxaca Writers’ Workshop, Oaxaca Valley, Mexico (more info tk – contact if interested)


Past Events

November 8, 2025, 2-5 pm — Arlington Book Fair, Roasted Granola Cafe, Arlington, MA

November 1, 2025, 10:30am – 1:30pm — How to Write A Love Story (Grub Street on-line seminar)

October 23, 2025 — New England Review Ulysses Reading Series, 115 Franklin Street, Middlebury, VT

October 17, 2025 — Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT

October 14, 2925 — “Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the USA” (a Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau talk), The Residence, Middlebury, VT

October 9, 2025 —Arlington Author Salon, Arlington, MA

October 4, 2025, 2:30pm — New Hampshire Book Festival, Concord, NH

September 30, 2025, 7pm — The Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT

September 17, 2025, 6pm — “Storytelling in a Time of Climate Change: Author Dinner with Tim Weed,” presented by Moira Convey Silva and Vineyard Conservation Society, Lambert’s Cove Inn, Martha’s Vineyard

September 6, 2025, 10:30am – 1:30pm — How to Find Your Voice (Grub Street on-line seminar)

July 24 – August 28, 2025 — Key Elements of Gripping Novels (a six-part online class for working and aspiring novelists at Grub Street)

THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT BOOK TOUR

June 3, 2025 — Launch Party (Next Stage, Putney VT)

June 5, 2025 — Porter Square Books– Boston Edition (The Writers’ Stage at the Center for Creative Writing), 50 Liberty Drive, Boston (in conversation with Charles Coe)

June 7, 2025 — Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT (in conversation with former VT Poet Laureate Chard deNiord)

June 11, 2025  — Gibson’s Bookstore, Concord, NH

June 24, 2025 — Newport MFA Summer Residency (public reading),Young Building, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI

June 27, 2025 — The Toadstool Bookshop, Keene, NH

July 10, 2025 — Belmont Books, Belmont, MA  (in conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton)

July 11, 2025 — Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO)

July 12, 2025  — Mesa Verde Literary Festival (panel & keynote address) Mancos, CO

July 15, 2025 Townie Books, Crested Butte, CO (meet the author & book signing)

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May 20, 2025 Trident Bookstore “Fiction in the Real World (Craft on Draft), Newbury Street, Boston 

April 23 – May 2, 2025 — Friends Trip to Spain 

April 3, 2025, 1pm — A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the USA (Vermont Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) Richmond Free Library, Richmond, Vermont

January 16 – March 27, 2025 — Mastering Voice & Point of View for Irresistible Fiction (a six-part online class for aspiring novelists and short story writers at GrubStreet)

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October 18-20, 2024 — Brattleboro Literary Festival

October 5, 2024 — “How to Write a Novel” (GrubStreet – Zoom)

September 28, 2024 — “Backstory & Flashback” (GrubStreet – Zoom)

August 31, 2024 — “Interiority in Fiction” (GrubStreet – Zoom)

July 5, 2024 — “Novel Revision Series: Image Systems” (GrubStreet – Zoom)

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June 26 – 30, 2024 — Newport MFA, Summer Residency, Newport, RI

May 18, 2024 — “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” (GrubStreet – Zoom)

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May 10 – 12, 2024 — “Storytelling to Save the World: the Fiction of Climate Apocalypse” — Muse & the Marketplace, Boston

April 20, 2024 — “Novel Architecture” (GrubStreet online – Zoom)

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March 8 – 16, 2024 — Cuba Writers Program 

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February 19 – 23, 2024 — San Miguel Writer’s Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

January 26, 2024  — Show and Tell in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)

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January 6 – 14, 2024 — The Newport MFA in Creative Writing, Winter Residency

December 15, 2023 — Point of View in Fiction, Part II: Degrees of Omniscience, GrubStreet (Zoom)

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November 28 – December 6, 2023 — Friends’ Trip to Cuba

November 3, 2023 — Point of View in Fiction, Part I: POV & Psychic Distance, GrubStreet (Zoom)

October 25, 2023 — Climate Change and Our Writing Craft: A Discussion with Drinks (GrubStreet instructor training – Seaport HQ)

October 13-15, 2023 — Brattleboro Literary Festival

October 21, 2023 — Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)

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September 28, 2023 — “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.” Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau (illustrated lecture), Pittsfield Library, Pittsfield, VT

September 16, 2023 — The Divine Specific: Descriptive Writing in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)

August 4, 2023— Fictional Characters II: Heroes & Villains, GrubStreet (Zoom)

July 7, 2023 — Fictional Characters I: Creating Unforgettable Characters, GrubStreet (Zoom)

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June 24 – 28, 2023 — The Newport MFA Summer Residency, Newport, RI

June 24, 2023  — “Finding Inspiration and Creativity in Fly Fishing” (with artist Samantha Aronson), Bookstock: Green Mountain Festival of Words, Woodstock, VT IMG_0343

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June 15, 2023 — In Conversation with Danielle Trussoni, Nantucket Book Festival

June 2, 2923 — Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings, GrubStreet (Zoom)

May 13, 2023 — Novel Architecture, GrubStreet (Zoom)

May 5, 2023 — Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings, GrubStreet (Zoom)

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April 10 – 17, 2023 — The Art & Cuisine of Oaxaca, Mexico (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)

March 25, 2023 — “What’s Your Novel ‘About’?“, GrubStreet (Zoom)

March 4, 2023 — “Finding Your Literary Voice,” GrubStreet (Zoom)

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February 14 – 19, 2023 — San Miguel Writers’ Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

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January 7 – 15, 2023 — Newport Winter Residency in Havana, Cuba

December 10th, 2022, Novel Revision Series: Image Systems — GrubStreet (Zoom)

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November 30 – December 8, 2022 — Private Trip to Cuba: Havana, Cienfuegos, Playa Larga

November 5th, 2022, Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing — GrubStreet (Zoom)

October 13 – 16, 2022 – Brattleboro Literary Festival

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October 7, 2022, Backstory & Flashback — GrubStreet (Zoom)

October 1, 2022, Sentence-Level Music III: Making Sentences that Sing —The Skills (Zoom)

September 24, 2022, Sentence-Level Music II: Sentence-Level Suspense & Cumulative Syntax The Skills (Zoom)

September 17, 2022, Sentence-Level Music I: The Core Qualities of Great Sentences —The Skills (Zoom)

September 10, 2022, Fiction’s Inner Landscape — GrubStreet (Zoom)

August 6th, 2022, Point of View in Fiction, Part II: Degrees of Omniscience — GrubStreet (Zoom) 

July 18 – 22, 2022 — “Heroes & Villains in Fiction,” Grub Street YAWP (Young Adult Writer’s Program) 

July 9, 2022 — Point of View in Fiction, Part I: POV & Psychic Distance — GrubStreet (Zoom)

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June 27 – July 3, 2022 — Newport MFA Summer Residency

June 4, 2022  — Novel Architecture — GrubStreet (Zoom)

June 2, 2022, Groton Public Library: “Cuba: Playground for Empire” – (virtual illustrated lecture)

May 25, 2022, Pangyrus Anthology “Underlying Conditions,” Launch Party & Reading (Zoom)

May 21, 2022  — Scene, Summary, and Dialogue in Fiction — GrubStreet 

May 14, 2022  — Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction — GrubStreet

May 13, 2022 — Brattleboro Literary Festival Literary Cocktail Hour: A Conversation with Ben McGrath (“Riverman”)

April 2, 2022 — Fictional Characters II: Heroes and Villains— GrubStreet 

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March 5, 2022 — Fictional Characters I: Creating Unforgettable Characters — GrubStreet 

February 26, 2022  — “Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings” — GrubStreet 

January 22, 2022 — “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” — GrubStreet 

January 4 – 9, 2022 — Newport MFA Winter Residency — Newport, Rhode Island

December 11, 2021 –  “Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape” – GrubStreet (LIVE at the Seaport)

November 20, 2021  – “Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing” – GrubStreet 

November 13, 2021 – “Technique in Historical Fiction, Part II” – Grub Street 

November 6, 2021 – “Technique in Historical Fiction, Part I” – Grub Street

October 30, 2021  – “Finding Your Literary Voice” – Grub Street

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October 2, 2021 –  “Novel Revision Series: What’s Your Novel ‘About’? – Grub Street 

September 17, 2021 “Omniscience” – Grub Street 

August 14, 2021 — Sentence-Level Music II: Making Sentences That Sing” – Grub Street

July 17, 2021  — Novel Revision Series: Scene, Summary, & Dialogue” – Grub Street 

July 10, 2021 — “Sentence-Level Music I: Core Principles of Great Sentences” – Grub Street

June 5, 2021 — Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Structure” – Grub Street 

May 22, 2021 —Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction” – Grub Street

April 22, 2021 

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“Writing in the Age of the Climate Crisis” (with Julie Carrick Dalton) The Muse and the Marketplace

April 10th, 2021  — “Novel Revision Series: Image Systems” -Grub Street 

March 13th, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: Backstory & Flashback” – Grub Street

March 6th, 2021 — “Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape” – Grub Street

February 13th, 2021 — “Omniscience” – Grub Street

January 29th, 2021 — “Fictional Characters II: Heroes & Villains” – Grub Street

January 23rd, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: POV and Psychic Distance” – Grub Street

January 15th, 2021 — “Fictional Characters I: Creating the Cast” – Grub Street

January 8, 2021

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 Literary Cocktail Hour, a conversation with William Souder, author of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck – sponsored by the Brattleboro Literary Festival 

January 2 – 10, 2021

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 Newport MFA in Creative Writing Winter Residency

December 19, 2020

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 “Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings” Grub Street

November 14, 2020

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Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” Grub Street

October 15 – 18, 2020 

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Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT

October 10, 2020

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 “Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems.” Grub Street

September 19, 2020

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 “Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene.” Grub Street

September 16, 2020, 7pm

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 EVERYWHERE STORIES On the Air (Sponsored by Press 53)

September 15, 2020

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WILL POOLE’S ISLAND reissue: paperback & audio editions

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August 1, 2020 –“Technique in Historical Fiction.” Grub Street(REMOTE)

July 18, 2020

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 “Sentence Level Music.” Grub Street – (REMOTE)

July 11, 2020

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 Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice” (REMOTE)

June 20 – 28, 2020

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The Newport MFA in Creative Writing – Summer Residency (REMOTE)

June 12, 2020

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 Literary Cocktail Hour sponsored by the Brattleboro Literary Festival. A conversation with Danielle Trussoni, author of The Ancestor

May 30, 2020

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority & Backstory” REMOTE!

April 18,  2020

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive” REMOTE!

March 21,  2020

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Concept, Premise, Theme”  REMOTE!

January 25, 2020

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Cast of Characters”

January 22, 2020

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“Thunderbolt: True History of a Scottish Highwayman in 19th Century Vermont” – Putney  Public Library (Sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau) 

January 4 – 12, 2020

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Newport MFA Winter Residency in Cuba: Havana & Playa Larga

December 7,  2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”

November 9, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Fictional Love Stories”

October 25, 2019, 7PM 

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 Belmont Books Writer’s Craft Series: Climate Fiction and Writing the Anthropocene (with Julie Carrick Dalton & Sonya Larson)

October 18 – 20, 2019

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Brattleboro Literary Festival

October 12, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dialogue & the Scene”

September 23 – October 3, 2019

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National Geographic Expeditions: Douro River Cruise, Portugal & Spain 

September 7, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice”

August 1 – 4, 2019

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Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, Hyannis, MA. “Fiction’s Inner Landscape”; “Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive.”

July 27, 2019

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 Grub Street: “Technique in Historical Fiction

July 13, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority & Backstory

June 22 – 30, 2019

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Newport MFA in Creative Writing, June Residency

June 8, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Descriptive Writing & Image Systems

June 6, 2019

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Boston Lit Crawl, “A Little Box of Yes.” (Storymatic)

 

May 18, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive

May 2 – 10, 2019 

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 Cuba Writers Program, Havana & Playa Larga 

April 15 – 23, 2019 

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April 5 – 7, 2019

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 The Muse & The Marketplace, Boston, MA. “Interiority in Fiction”; “Image Systems.”

March 27 – 30, 2019 

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AWP Conference, Portland, Oregon. Cuba Writers Program: Reading. Green Writers Press Book Signing: A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing.

February 23, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Sentence-Level Music

January 26, 2019

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings

January 5 –  13, 2019 

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 Newport MFA in Creative Writing, January residency

  

December 15, 2018 

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dialogue & the Scene

December 13, 2018

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Brattleboro Words Project, 118 Main Street, Brattleboro. “The Round Schoolhouse & the Legend of ‘Thunderbolt’: History, Fiction, & Early Brattleboro Publishing”

December 8, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Fictional Love Stories”

November 7 – 18, 2018 

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National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia

November 2, 2018

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Historical Writers of America Conference, Providence, RI: “Point of View in Historical Fiction”; “World Building in Historical Fiction”

October 27, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Cast of Characters”

October 12 – 14, 2018

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Brattleboro Literary Festival

September 29, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice”

September 7, 2018 

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Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) Colorado Gold Conference, Denver: “Essentials of Voice in Fiction.”

August 27, 2018 

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Cornelia Street Café, New York City: Cuba Writers Program public reading

August 22, 2018

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GrubStreet Open House: Student & Instructor Reading

August 18, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority, Backstory, & Flashback”

July 21, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Descriptive Writing & Image Systems”

June 22 – July 1, 2018

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 Newport MFA inaugural residency

May 14 – 22, 2018

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Cuba Writers Program

May 5, 2018

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Grub Street: “Technique in Historical Fiction”

April 20, 2018

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Green Writers Press Reading & Earth Day Book Launch (launching paperback of A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING). Next Stage Art Project, Putney, VT. 

April 14, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive”

April 6 – 8, 2018

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Muse & the Marketplace, Boston. “Dreams, Visions, & Hallucinations in Fiction.” “Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction.” “Essentials of Backstory & Flashback.” 

March 18 – 27, 2018 

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Cuba Off the Beaten Track (with Brattleboro Museum & Art Center) 

March 3, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Zeroing in on Genre & Theme”

February 17, 2018

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Sentence-Level Music”

January 15 – 25, 2018 

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National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia

December 16, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”

November 26 – December 4, 2017

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Contemporary Art in Cuba (with Eric Aho)

November 6 – 16, 2017

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National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia

November 4, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Minor & Supporting Characters”

October 21, 2017

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Northern Woodlands Conference, Fairlee, Vermont. Discussion of place in fiction & readings from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING

October 19, 2017

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Vermont Humanities Council Lecture, Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, VT: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”

October 12 – 15, 2017

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Brattleboro Literary Festival: Short Story Showcase

October 7, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene

October 1, 2017

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Tattered Cover Bookstore, Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado

September 21 – 24, 2017

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Historical Writers of America Annual Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM

September 19, 2017

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Phoenix Books, Burlington, Vermont: Green Writers Press reading 

September 16, 2017

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 Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont 

August 28, 2017

Cornelia Street Café, New York City: Cuba Writers Program Reading with Ann Hood, Alden Jones, and Michael Ruhlman

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August 26, 2017

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Grub Street: Fictional Love Stories

July 26, 2017

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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center: “Nantucket: Art, Literature, and the Sea.”

July 22, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Point of View & Voice

July 5 – 11, 2017

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Featured Expert, National Geographic Student Expeditions in Cuba: Trinidad, Santa Clara, & the northern coast

July 1, 2017

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New Hampshire’s Toadstool bookstores: Keene (11AM) & Peterborough (2PM)Reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING

June 29, 2017

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 Harvard Book Store, Cambridge. MA. Discussion & reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING (with Crystal King & FEAST OF SORROW)

June 24, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Interiority, Backstory & Flashback

June 22, 2017

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Mitchell’s Book Corner, Nantucket, MA. 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Book signing: A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING & WILL POOLE’S ISLAND

June 14, 2017

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Bixby Library, Vergennes, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”

May 27, 2017

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Orvis Flagship Store, Manchester, VT. A joint Orvis/Northshire Bookstore event, 11AM – 2PM: A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING

May 20, 2017

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems

May 16, 2017

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 The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, VT. Reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING (with Dede Cummings of Green Writers Press)

May 13, 2017

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– Stratton Mountain School, Stratton. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”

May 5 – 7, 2017 

Grub Street’s The Muse and The Marketplace Conference, Boston. Craft Talk: “Essentials of Voice”

April 27 – May 5, 2017

Cuba Writers Program: Havana & Cienfuegos (with Ann Hood, Michael Ruhlman, & Alden Jones)

April 15, 2017 

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Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive

April 7, 2017

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Green Writers Press Spring Book Release Party, Next Stage, Putney, VT

March 10 – 19, 2017

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Green Writers Press Cuba: Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, & The Coast

February 11, 2017

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Sentence-Level Music”

January 15, 2017

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“Writers Resist,” Brattleboro, Vermont

January 10, 2017

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”

December 10, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene” 

November 28 – December 6, 2016

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Art and Culture of Cuba: Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

October 22, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Point of View & Voice”

October 14-16, 2016

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Brattleboro Literary Festival

September 17, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Interiority, Backstory, & Flashback”

September 16, 2016

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Landgrove Historic Association, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba & the USA”

August 27, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems”

July 30, 2016

Bookstock Lit Festival, Woodstock, VT: “Will Poole’s Island: The Making of an Historical Novel.”

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July 21, 2016

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Brattleboro Museum and Art Center: “The Life and Times of Francisco de Goya.”

July 16, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Tension & Narrative Structure”

July 6 – 15, 2016

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National Geographic Student Expeditions: Santa Clara & Havana, Cuba

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June 25, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Zeroing in on Genre & Theme”

May 21, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”

May 10 -18, 2016

First Annual Cuba Writers Program (with Alden Jones & Ann Hood)

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What a great group of writers, and so much fun! Definitely doing this again next year. (If you’re interested, Google the website for details.)

May 8, 2016

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Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”

April 29 – May 1, 2016

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Teaching Scholar, Muse and The Marketplace Conference (GrubStreet), Boston. Lectures: “What’s Your Book ‘About’?” & “Fiction’s Inner Landscape”

April 2, 2016

Rockingham Public Library, Bellows Falls, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.” (Listen to an audio recording of this lecture here.)

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March 26, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene”

March 7 – 15, 2016

Private Cuba Trip (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)

Havana, Trinidad, Playa Larga

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February 26, 2016

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Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Minor & Supporting Characters”

February 25, 2016

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Brattlleboro Museum and Arts Center: 7pm Lecture: “Georgia O’Keeffe: American Visionary”

January 25, 2016

Book and history talks: Will Poole’s Island. The Laurentian Club of Canada (& combined Mont Tremblant book clubs)

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Special thanks to the lovely Beryl Puddifer for orchestrating a most enjoyable mini-book tour in the Laurentians. Thanks also to the well-read members of the Laurentian Club and the Mont Tremblant book clubs. You all are an inspiration! 

December 27, 2015 – January 8, 2016

Featured Expert
National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia

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December 6 – 14, 2015

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Featured Expert
National Geographic Expeditions: Cuba

November 14 – 22

Private Cuba Trip (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)

Havana, Trinidad, Playa Larga

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Thanks to the indefatigable Dede Cummings for putting this group together and helping me share some of what I love about fascinating, contradictory Cuba. Great fun to travel with you all!

November 1 – 9

Private Cuba Trip (Creative Travel Arts)

Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos

Very much enjoyed this trip! Thanks to Cherry, Chris, Suzanne, Dan, Roger, Miriam, Mark, Ellen, Debbie, Julie, and Dayron for being such great traveling companions
Thanks to Cherry, Chris, Suzanne, Dan, Roger, Miriam, Mark, Ellen, Debbie, Julie, Dayron, and Haarlen for being such great traveling companions!

October 17, 2015

Book and writing talk: Will Poole’s Island

Monadnock Writers’ Group Speakers Program

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Really enjoyed meeting this group of writers! Special thanks to Denny Caldwell for making it happen.

September 17 – 27, 2015

Featured Expert

National Geographic Expeditions: Northern Spain by Private Rail

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Saying goodbye to the great crew of the Transcantábrico Gran Lujo in Bilbao. What a journey!

September 3, 2015

Brattlleboro Museum and Arts Center Lecture: “Hemingway in Spain & Cuba”

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Thanks to Danny Lichtenfeld, the staff and volunteers at BMAC, and all the wonderful people who showed up for the talk. A most enjoyable evening!

July 18 – 24, 2015

Guest Author

Writing in Prague program (Putney Student Travel)

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An inspiring travel and writing experience with my colleagues Brenna Casey and Nate MacNamara, and a coterie of highly talented young writers. Look out, world!

July 12 – 17, 2015

“Life Stories: Creative Adventurers, Adventurous Creators” (5-part lecture series)

All-Star 2 Family Conference

Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH

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Special thanks to Gene and Nancy Taylor, to the participants of AS2 for your generous welcome, and to Peter Erickson for showing me the ropes of fly fishing his sublime granite islet . . .

May 1 – 3, 2015

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Talk on “Voice and Dialog in Historical Fiction”
GrubStreet’s Muse & The Marketplace Conference, Boston, MA

April 24 – 26, 2015

Talks on the Jungian Shadow in YA Fiction and Image Systems in Fiction
New England Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Conference. Springfield, MA

Really enjoyed this conference – thanks to Pam Vaughn for the photo and to all those who participated for your attentiveness and great questions!
Really enjoyed this conference – thanks to Pam Vaughn for the photo and to all those who participated for your attentiveness and great questions!

 March 18, 2015

Reading from WILL POOLE’S ISLAND (with Warren Wilson Alumni): Cambridge Boat Club, Cambridge, MA

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Thanks to Tracy Wynn, Helen Fremont, my fellow readers, and all the Wallies that came out on a raw and windy March evening beside the frozen Charles!

March 8, 2015

Book and history talkWillow Dell Historical Association“The Barn.” South Kingstown Land Trust, RI

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What a great event! I forgot to get a picture so this one will have to stand in. My heartfelt thanks to Janet, Dede, and all the wonderful, well-read, and friendly members of WDHA who came out!

November 30, 2014

Reading & Book Talk: Duxbury Free Library, Duxbury, Massachusetts

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Most grateful to Carol Jankowski of the Library and Brooke McDonough of Westwinds Books for the warm welcome, and to Bill Benjes for making the connection!

November 22, 2014

Book Signing: World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield, MA

Special thanks to Mary Mayshark-Staveley and the kind staff at World Eye Bookshop!
Special thanks to Mary Mayshark-Staveley and the kind staff at World Eye Bookshop!

October 25, 2014

Book Talks/Signings: The Toadstool Bookshops in Peterborough and Keene, NH

 

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Nice to be back in New Hampshire. Thanks to all who came out, and to the wonderful folks at Toadstool Peterborough and Toadstool Keene!

October 23, 2014

Signing: Bank Square BooksMystic, Connecticut

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What fun to hang out and talk books with these two scholarly gentlemen, John Francisconi of Bank Square Books and my old friend Ron Samul!

October 4, 2014

Book Talk & Reading: Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, Vermont

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A most enjoyable reading, book talk, and Q & A with the talented fellow Vermont writer Don Bredes – just one episode in a stellar literary weekend

September 20, 2014

Book Talk: Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont

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My sincere thanks to all the wonderful Fletcher and BBF organizers and volunteers!

September 7, 2014

Official Book Launch and Reading, WILL POOLE’S ISLAND
Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, Vermont

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Speaking to the hometown crowd. Very proud to live in such a warm and supportive community! Gratitude to Dede Cummings for the photo and so much more.

August 23, 2014

Signing: Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, Massachusetts

A beautiful morning on the Rock with the wonderful Suzanne Keller and Dick Burns
A sunny morning on the Rock with the wonderful Suzanne Keller and Dick Burns!

August 5, 2014

Reading & Signing: Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut

 

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After the reading, with the talented Jennifer Powers!

June 21, 2014

Signing: Nantucket Book Festival: “Under the Tent: Local and Notable Authors in the Atheneum Garden.”

The Atheneum Garden, downtown Nantucket, MA

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Great day Under the Tent with the indefatigable Dede Cummings

May 2, 2014

Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace 2014, Boston, MA

“Narrative as Time Machine: World-Building in Historical Fiction”

At Muse14 with my wonderful cousin, the author Eleanor Henderson
At Muse14 with my wonderful cousin, the author Eleanor Henderson

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