Catholic Literary Arts
October-November, 2024
Class: “The Novelist Historian: Writing  Historical Fiction”

The Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge, LA, November, 2024
Panel: “Women and War”

Legend Haven Conference
October, 2024
Panel: “No Tame Lions: Why Catholic Fiction Shouldn’t Have to be Safe”

Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online
February, 2024
Presentation: “Screenwriting in a Nutshell”

Doxacon Prime
Washington, D.C., November, 2023
Presentation: “Suffocation and Ritual Dismemberment: Speculative Fiction and the Spiritual Life” (with Eleanor Bourg Nicholson)

Catholic Writers Conference Live
Schaumberg, IL, July, 2022
Presentation: “Character-Driven vs. Plot-Driven: False Dichotomy”
Panel: “The Editing Process”

Apocatastasis Institute Podcast
May, 2021
“Vampires, Digital Age Publication, and the Author’s Craft”

St. Benedict Institute at Hope College & Collegium Institute at UPenn
April, 2021
Panel: “On the Making of Books: Crafting Catholic Literature for the 21st Century” 

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online 
February, 2021
“Tension and Conflict in Fiction”

September, 2019
“Thematic Grace: Stories Without Sermons”

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live
Lancaster, PA, July-August, 2019
“Thematic Grace: Stories Without Sermons” and “Horror: The Genre of the Sacred”

The Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge, LA, November, 2018
Panel, “Dark Fantasies: Fairy Tales and Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups”

Doxacon Prime
Washington, D.C., November, 2018
“Sacred Monsters: Horror Stories as Spiritual Parables”

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online
September, 2018
“Beyond Showing: The Art of Immersive Writing”