July 13-26, 2008

Prague Summer Writing Workshops, Prague, Czech Republic

For more information, visit www.praguesummer.com/content/view/1/21/

August 12-14, 2008

Creative Nonfiction Seminar, Bar-Ilan University, Jerusalem, Israel

For more information, contact Judy Labensohn at judylabensohn@gmail.com

September 13, 2008

Council for the Written Word Workshop, Franklin, TN

For more information, visit www.cww-writer.org

September 20, 2008

Turning Trauma into Treasure Writing Workshop, Washington, DC

For more information, visit www.creativenonfiction.org

October 2-4, 2008

Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference 2008: Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information, visit www.creativenonfiction.org

January, 9 2009

Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information, visit www.carlow.edu

February 18-21, 2009

Desert Nights, Rising Stars at Arizona State University

For more information, visit www.asu.edu

June 12-15, 2008

Chatauqua Writers Festival, Chatauqua, NY

For more information, visit http://writers.ciweb.org/writers-festival/

May 10

Awards Ceremony Keynote Speaker, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information, visit www.carnegiesciencecenter.org

May 8, 2008

Anatomy of Baseball Launch with American Shorts, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information, visit www.pittsburghlectures.org

April 24, 2008

Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

For more information, visit www.ship.edu

April 13, 2008

Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

For more information, visit www.brucemuseum.org

April 12, 2008

Keep It Real Workshop, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

For more information, visit www.si.edu

April 2, 2008

University of Akron, Akron, OH

For more information, visit www.uakron.edu

March 10-14, 2008

Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

For more information visit www.scu.org.cn

February 27
through
March 2, 2008

Creative Nonfiction MidSouth Conference in Oxford, Mississippi

For more information visit the Creative Nonfiction website

February 20-23, 2008

Desert Nights, Rising Stars at Arizona State University

For more information, visit www.asu.edu

February 14, 2008

Florida International University--Miami, FL

For more information visit http://www.fiu.edu/

February 12, 2008

Manatee Community College--Bradenton, FL

For more information visit http://www.mccfl.edu/pages/1.asp

February 11, 2008

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

For more information visit http://www.ucf.edu/

January 13, 2008

The Twentieth Century Club

Lee will lead a discussion of his recent book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think.

For more information visit http://www.thetwentiethcenturyclub.com/home.html

January 9, 2008

Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information visit http://www.carlow.edu/

January 5, 2008

Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information visit http://www.carlow.edu/

December 6-7, 2007

Narratizing Nanotech--at the Nanotechnology, Literature and Society Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

For more information visit www.uml.edu

November 13-16, 2007

Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA

For more information visit http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/defaultHome.aspx

October 23, 2007

KGB Bar--Reading for The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. I

For more information visit http://www.kgbbar.com

October 10, 2007

Shippensburg University, Shippenburg, PA

Note: this event has been postponed. For more information visit http://www.ship.edu/

October 8, 2007

Open Discussion, Cafe Scientifique, Pittsburgh, PA

Lee will lead an informal discussion of his new book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think.

From the Café Scientifique website:

"The Café is a place where anyone interested in science can get together in an informal setting to discuss major science issues with the help of an expert in the field. It is free and open to the public. Best of all, it is not a lecture!"

For more information visit: http://www.cafescipgh.org

September 29, 2007

The Five Rs of Creative Nonfiction--Oxford, MS

In this intense, day-long course, Lee Gutkind will define the genre and present all the basic elements of creative nonfiction, including structure, voice, tone, writing in scenes and using background information and descriptions. The course will also include a discussion of ethical issues inherent to nonfiction writing, as well as tips for marketing finished work For more information visit http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/institutes/sept07institute.htm