Events

Book Passage

Corte Madera, CA
Sun., Sept. 13th, 2026 • 1:00 PM

Please join me Book Passage for an author event celebrating Mark Nepo and his compelling new book, The Language of the Soul: How the Words You Choose Shape the Life You Live. I will be Mark’s conversation partner for this event.  

For Mark Nepo—a New York Times-bestselling author, poet, and spiritual teacher—words are vessels of meaning and medicine for the soul. In The Language of the Soul, he explores the roots of 228 words across thirty-one languages and traditions, revealing their power to awaken, connect, and heal.

Tasting Wine, Unearthing Memories, Writing Stories

Sept 18, 5-7pm
Location: Vintage Wine on Vine Street in Berkeley, CA
$15 ($5 for Club Members)

Every wine is a story about time—where something grew, what the weather did, what survived the journey from vine to glass. Every life is the same. Wine holds memory the way memoir does—in layers, in fragments, in the unexpected wafts of something you thought you’d forgotten.
 
Join Memoir Nation’s Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner for an evening that pairs the ancient art of wine tasting with the art of personal storytelling. A single sip can conjure a season, a person, a loss—and that conjuring is exactly where your memoir lives.
 
We’ll guide you through a curated tasting, using color, fragrance, texture, and taste as prompts to unearth the stories your ordinary memory keeps buried. No wine expertise required. No writing experience necessary. Just your senses, your stories, and a glass of something worth paying attention to. The vocabulary of wine—earthy, bright, layered, long—is also the vocabulary of a life well examined.
 
Come discover what your palate already knows about your life.
 
Wine tasting included. Nonalcoholic options available.

Book Passage

Corte Madera, CA
Sun., November 8, 2026 • 1:00 PM

Please join me Book Passage to celebrate She Writes Press authors Robin Rosenbluth, Georgine Hodgkinson, and Rosanne Annoni

Book Passage

Corte Madera, CA
Sun., January 10, 2027 • 1:00 PM

Please join me Book Passage to celebrate She Writes Press authors Teri Drobnick, Eve Sprunt, Katie Trexler, and Beth Ricanati

2027 AWP Conference & Bookfair

March 17–20, 2027
Chicago, Illinois
McCormick Place Lakeside Center

She Writes Press will have a booth at AWP and I will be there most of the time—would love to see you there.

The Story You Are Meant to Tell - The Art and Craft of Memoir Retreat (in France)

Eymet, Dordogne, France
June 5 – 12, 20
8 days
Max. 15 guests

 

Our home for the week will be a beautiful countryside estate in the Dordogne region of southwestern France—25 acres tucked along the banks of the River Dropt, surrounded by ancient woodlands and vineyards that have been producing wine for centuries. In between our craft sessions, we’ll wander cobbled village streets, visit a dramatic hilltop castle, and browse a lively local market. The landscape itself will feed your writing.