Speaking Engagements
Laura is available to speak on many topics including, but not limited to:
- Closed Adoption
- Climate for unwed mothers in 1960s
- Reunion of Adopted Child and Birth
- Mother
- Manifesting outcomes in our lives
- How secrets color every aspect of our lives
- The writing of my book, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened
Upcoming appearances:
Laura will be speaking at the San Diego Central Library on August 8th as the featured Member of the Month. Discussion on Writing practice and Q&A about my book.
Previous speaking engagements in California:
- Laura spoke at the So Cal Writers Conference on Feb. 18, 2023 – Panel with She Write Press authors – publishing with a hybrid publisher
- Laura spoke at the Julian Library on January 24, 2023 – Class on Writing to Heal and Craft of Memoir.
- Laura spoke on a panel at the San Diego Writers Festival – Oct 1, 2022 – Writing Memoir and Writing about Trauma
- Laura spoke at the San Marcos Library on September 14, 2022 – Class on the Art of Memoir and Writing about Secrets
- Laura spoke at the SDMWA meeting on June 4, 2022 – What I Learned Writing My Memoir
- Women’s Museum of California in San Diego, December 2019
- Book launch of Shaking the Tree 2, Coronado Library: November 6th, 2019
- Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego, CA: March 30, 2019
- Barnes and Noble, Grossmont Center, La Mesa, CA: March 16, 2019
- Podcast: “Family Secrets”, with Dani Shapiro… March 28, 2019, iHeart Radio
- Barnes and Noble, Pt Loma, Feb. 16, 2019
- Lakeside Library: February 2019, San Diego Memoir Writers Association membership and reading of Secret Son from Shaking the Tree anthology
- La Mesa Kiwanis: January 2019, topics Relinquishing my Son for Adoption in 1967 (a reading of Secret Son) from Shaking the Tree anthology
- Alpine Library: January 2019, topics San Diego Memoir Writers Association and reading of Secret Son in Shaking the Tree anthology
- Coronado Library: October 2018, a reading of Secret Son, from San Diego Memoir Writers Association‘s anthology, Shaking the Tree
Check out the video from the Shaking the Tree Vol. 2 Book Launch, November 2019:
Laura signing books for Book Browse readers!