Join me in 2025.

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Saturday, July 19, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Rivers Teach Me to Write: a craft workshop on the natural flow of words
Finley Center, 2060 West College Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA

Open to all: a writing workshop hosted by Redwood Writers.
Join me for close readings of great water words to inspire our own lives & craft now.

Writers of all genres will be inspired by this conversation about how we can learn wisdom and writing lessons from rivers and water. With award-winning author Rebecca Lawton, we’ll look at examples of water- and nature-driven prose, discuss what works about them, and try our own hands at applying principles of flow to our writing-in-progress. Attendees are encouraged to bring burning questions about form and process, as well as writing tools so we can spend much of the time in creating, shaping, and optional sharing. This will be a safe space to explore roadblocks to progress, potential paths forward, and the wellsprings of our inspiration—this amazing, incomparable world where we live.

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Wednesday, September 10, 6 to 7 p.m.
Writing at the Root, Readers’ Books, Sonoma, CA

I’ll be in conversation with Jordan Rosenfeld, best-selling author, gifted instructor, and longtime friend. (Order her new novel Fallout now!)

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Saturday, September 27, 5 to 10:30 p.m.
Stepping Out Gala, To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation
Marin Exhibit Hall, San Rafael, CA

Step out with me as I volunteer as a fashion model to support people facing new breast cancer diagnoses. The early days of diagnosis are the least certain; come be part of the cure.

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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Reading by the River (details TBA)
Grange Hall, Coloma, CA

Pencil in the date and come to historical Coloma for readings by some bona fide river people. Very excited to read previews from Boatwoman: A River Memoir (Bison/U of Nebraska, 2027).