Speaking and Teaching
Engaging talks and classes for writers, Christian creatives, and the mom next door.
As a conference organizer, you want to provide your audience with engaging, impactful sessions that deliver lasting value. Whether you’re planning a writing conference or a women’s event, I’m here to help you make it a success. With over 15 years of teaching and speaking experience, I offer interactive talks and workshops that entertain and inform, empowering audiences to take the next right step.
I’ve had the privilege of serving as a Craft Counselor for SCBWI PA West’s Camp KidLit Compass in 2021, a faculty member for manuscript critique at the Pittsburgh Writing Day Workshop and Pennwriters’ read-and-critique in 2020, and a speaker at the 2015 Pennwriters Annual Conference. From giving the 2024 commencement address at my alma mater to teaching acting classes across a range of disciplines, I am ready to educate and inspire.
Here are some ideas:
Writers
- Successful Queries: The ten elements every query needs to succeed.
- Show, Don’t Tell: The three most common types of telling, and how to remove them from your book.
- The Writing Life: Tips and tricks to keep writing, even when life goes haywire.
Christian Creatives
- Theatre as Church: How to use Biblical principles to develop a company, building the body of Christ in an unlikely way.
- Acting and the Christian Walk: How acting is honesty and sanctification is authenticity.
- Shakespeare!: Practical ways to inspire Gen Alpha to love the Bard.
The Mom Next Door
- Radical Hospitality: Practical tips and inspiration to open your home to friends and neighbors.
- Stories from the City: Lessons learned and miracles lived from an urban missionary wife and mother.
- Created to Create: Pursuing your own creativity in the midst of modern motherhood.