Speaking

Schedule permitting, I am happy to come speak to your class, book club, conference, podcast, radio show, etc., either in person or by video chat.

Selected Previous Engagements

Methodist University Womack Lecture Series
Fayetteville, NC, March, 2025
Guest Lectures: “The Metaphysics of Christian Storytelling” and “Horror: An Exploration of the Sacred”

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”

 

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