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!

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